Administrative Science Quarterly articles from December 1996

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from December 1996

An appreciation of social context: one legacy of Gerald Salancik.
December 1, 1996... The first sentence of Jerry Salancik's very first professional publication (co-authored with Eugene Webb), written while he was completing his master's degree in journalism, is an epigram: "The contest is readily recognizable as a recurrent theme...

Trust and breach of the psychological contract.
December 1, 1996... In light of trends toward globalization, restructuring, and downsizing, psychological contracts are playing an increasingly important role in contemporary employment relationships. Organizations, under pressure to make rapid and constant changes,...

From fiefs to clans and network capitalism: explaining China's emerging economic order.
December 1, 1996... China has sustained a rapid rate of economic growth since the inauguration of its economic reform in 1979, with only short-lived interruptions. This success contrasts favorably with most other developing countries (Economist, 1995b) and prompts...

Institutions, intergroup competition, and the evolution of hotel populations around Niagara Falls.
December 1, 1996... The simple but powerful idea that institutions form the constraints that shape human interaction has had a dramatic impact on economics and political science and is gaining influence in sociology (Eggertsson, 1990; Alt and Shepsle, 1990; Brinton...

The influence of top management team heterogeneity on firms' competitive moves.
December 1, 1996... In recent years, strategy researchers have directed attention to the specific moves and countermoves made by rivals within industries (e.g., Chen and MacMillan, 1992; Smith, Grimm, and Gannon, 1992), recognizing that organizational vitality may...

Brainstorming groups in context: effectiveness in a product design firm.
December 1, 1996... Osborn's (1957) book Applied Imagination fueled the spread of group brainstorming as a tool for increasing creativity in organizations. He proposed four rules for these sessions: don't criticize, quantity is wanted, combine and improve suggested...

What Planners Do: Power, Politics, and Persuasion.
December 1, 1996... What Planners Do is an important book for students of public administration, urban studies, and planning. Its virtues include its thoughtfulness and sensitivity, its respect for the narratives of practitioners, and its engagement with broader...

Governing the White House: From Hoover Through LBJ.
December 1, 1996... Governing and Politicizing, to use convenient labels, constitute a singular double-play. The products of the same university press, in the same year, they add substantially - even prodigiously - to the stock of conveniently available information...

The Politicizing Presidency: The White House Personnel Office, 1948-1994.
December 1, 1996... Governing and Politicizing, to use convenient labels, constitute a singular double-play. The products of the same university press, in the same year, they add substantially - even prodigiously - to the stock of conveniently available information...

Careers in City Politics: The Case for Urban Democracy.
December 1, 1996... I looked forward to reviewing this book. Careers, in my view, were the business of all social scientists, and our understanding should improve through dialogue among the disciplines. City politics was an arena I had not explored before. Perhaps...

Copper Crucible: How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America.
December 1, 1996... Readers of Copper Crucible, Jonathan Rosenblum's gripping account of a bitter struggle between unionized copper mine workers and the Phelps Dodge Corporation will likely find it no easier to sit on the fence and remain "neutral" than did the...

The School that Refused to Die: Continuity and Change at Thomas Jefferson High School.
December 1, 1996... Over the last four decades, Thomas Jefferson (Tee-Jay) High School has been both an icon of resistance to school integration and a symbol of Richmond, Virginia's best attempts to offer excellent, desegregated public education. Daniel Duke's story...

Improving Organizational Surveys: New Directions, Methods and Applications.
December 1, 1996... The goal of this book is to improve the survey process through linking science with practice. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 focuses on discussion of the survey process, how to ask sensitive questions, and the definition and...

Good Novels, Better Management: Reading Organizational Realities in Fiction.
December 1, 1996... For better and worse, most edited volumes escape their editors' intentions. This collection of 11 essays, sandwiched between an introduction and epilogue by the editors, by 12 authors from 10 nations of Europe and the United States is no...