Administrative Science Quarterly articles from December 1998

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from December 1998

Being different yet feeling similar: the influence of demographic composition and organizational culture on work processes and outcomes.
December 1, 1998... Research generated from a variety of fields predicts that important benefits will accrue from demographic heterogeneity in organizations by increasing the variance in perspectives and approaches to work that members of different identity groups...

The architecture of cooperation: managing coordination costs and appropriation concerns in strategic alliances.
December 1, 1998... Corporations have increasingly seen alliances as attractive vehicles through which they can grow and expand their scope, and the rate at which interfirm alliances have been formed in the last two decades has been unprecedented (Harrigan, 1986;...

When do interlocks matter?: alternate sources of information and interlock influence.
December 1, 1998... One of the most-studied forms of interorganizational influence is the director interlock, and several theories on their effects have been proposed, including (1) interlocks act as a mechanism for interfirm collusion and cooperation (e.g.,...

Limits to bureaucratic growth: the density dependence of organizational rule births.
December 1, 1998... Bureaucratization - the increasing prevalence of formal rules in organizations and society, has been a main theme in theories of bureaucracies and organizations. Max Weber, the founding father of bureaucracy theory, regarded the expansion of...

A multidimensional model of organizational legitimacy: hospital survival in changing institutional environments.
December 1, 1998... Max Weber was among the first great social theorists to stress the importance of legitimacy. In his definitional foundations of the types of social action, he gave particular attention to those forms of action that were guided by a belief in...

Normative and resource flow consequences of local regulations in American brewing industry, 1845-1918.
December 1, 1998... Since its emergence, ecological theory has become influential in shifting the focus from adaptation to selection processes in organizational populations, arguing that most change occurs through the founding and failure of organizations rather...