Administrative Science Quarterly articles from December 1997

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from December 1997

For love or money? Commodification and the construction of an occupational mandate.
December 1, 1997... Shifts in the occupational structure of society are potentially the most telling indicators of significant junctures in economic history. It would be hard to speak of the Second Industrial Revolution, for example, had not the modal form of work...

The external ties of top executives: implications for strategic choice and performance.
December 1, 1997... The ability of executives to formulate and implement strategic initiatives that capitalize on environmental opportunities, while mitigating external threats, is vital to organizational success. The factors that affect strategic choice are...

Scientific management's lost aesthetic: architecture, organization, and the taylorized beauty of the mechanical.
December 1, 1997... Recent years have witnessed a flourishing interest in the social, political, and cultural origins of organizational studies as an area of inquiry (Yates, 1989; Barley and Kunda, 1992; Guillen, 1994; Shenhav, 1995; Abrahamson, 1997). Little...

Technology brokering and innovation in a product development firm.
December 1, 1997... Knowledge is imperfectly shared over time and across people, organizations, and industries. Ideas from one group might solve the problems of another, but only if connections between existing solutions and problems can be made across the...

Survival of the fittest? Entrepreneurial human capital and the persistence of underperforming firms.
December 1, 1997... It has been frequently argued that, at least in the long run, well-performing organizations survive while poorly performing ones disappear (Alchian, 1950; Friedman, 1953; Winter, 1964; Williamson, 1991). Penrose (1952: 810) summarized this...

Organization and ideology: kibbutzim and hired labor, 1951-1965.
December 1, 1997... Ideology is a set of beliefs about how the social world operates, including ideas about what outcomes are desirable and how they can best be achieved. Organizations are infused with ideology, but in organizational theory the role of ideology in...

The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America.
December 1, 1997... Kathryn Dudley's The End of the Line analyzes both the process and effect of the 1988 closing of the Chrysler assembly plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin. More important than the actual story of a plant shutdown, however, is her insight into community...

Sizing Down: Chronicle of a Plant Closing.
December 1, 1997... In the boom years of the late 1990s it is easy to forget the decimation of the managerial and blue-collar workforce in the earlier part of the decade. In the U.S. between 1990 and 1992 many thousands of managers and professionals lost their jobs....

On the Line at Subaru-Isuzu: The Japanese Model and the American Worker.
December 1, 1997... Laurie Graham's On the Line at Subaru-Isuzu provides a detailed account of the hiring and training process and of factory life on the assembly line at the Subaru-Isuzu Automotive (SIA) plant near Lafayette, Indiana. In an effort to better...

Institutions and Organizations.
December 1, 1997... Interest in institutional theory has generated an impressive volume of work, and this book is a wonderful addition to the organizations literature. Scott's effort reflects a careful and informative representation of the evolution of the study of...

Resistance and Power in Organizations.
December 1, 1997... The organizational literature is largely centered on the concerns of the powerful. In contrast, this edited volume focuses on those who resist power. Over nine chapters, the authors cover a variety of resistance strategies and settings, including...

Creative Action in Organizations: Ivory Tower Visions and Real World Voices.
December 1, 1997... Among the multiple objectives of this book, two of the more important are (1) to provide the most comprehensive review to date of the empirical studies on creativity in professional and organizational contexts and (2) to lower the boundaries...

Utopia in Zion: The Israeli Experience with Worker Cooperatives.
December 1, 1997... Utopia in Zion presents a theoretically grounded, multimethod analysis of the rise and fall of worker cooperatives in Palestine and Israel. These organizations are the (typically) urban, nonagricultural counterparts to Israel's more prominent...

Making the Majors: The Transformation of Team Sports in America.
December 1, 1997... For those of us who have examined sport as a serious object of social and organizational research, Making the Majors brings the excitement of fresh ideas, the kind of information that keeps us engaged in the examination of sports as social...

The Dynamics of Service: Reflections on the Changing Nature of Customer/Provider Interactions.
December 1, 1997... Barbara Gutek notes that "volumes have been written about customer service, customer orientation, and the like" (p. 133), but she nonetheless wrote another volume to add to this collection. The thesis she advances in this book is that modern...

Longitudinal Field Research Methods: Studying Processes of Organizational Change.
December 1, 1997... INFORMS (the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science) has joined forces with Sage Publications to publish expanded special issues of the journal Organization Science. The resulting books will, according to the series editor Arie...

Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women's Movement.
December 1, 1997... Feminists and formal organizations are often not easily combined. In the United States, politically active women have a long history of suspicion toward the hierarchical authority structures and specialized divisions of labor that are hallmarks...