Administrative Science Quarterly articles from December 1999

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from December 1999

FROM THE EDITOR.
December 1, 1999... I am delighted to announce that Professor Joseph F. Porac will be joining the Administrative Science Quarterly as an associate editor in January 2000. Joe's outstanding academic credentials, his extremely high standards of scholarship, his...

The Social Construction of Organizational Knowledge: A Study of the Uses of Coercive, Mimetic, and Normative Isomorphism.
December 1, 1999... Arguing that knowledge in the social sciences is socially constructed through the selective interpretation of major works, we examine the fate of a classic article in organizational theory, DiMaggio and Powell's 1983 essay on institutional...

Sanctioning Systems, Decision Frames, and Cooperation.
December 1, 1999... Three studies are used to examine how surveillance and sanctioning systems affect cooperative behavior in dilemma situations. The first two studies demonstrate that a weak sanctioning system results in less cooperation than no sanctioning...

Management Fashion: Lifecycles, Triggers, and Collective Learning Processes.
December 1, 1999... This theory-development case study of the quality circle management fashion focuses on three features of management-knowledge entrepreneurs' discourse promoting or discrediting such fashions: its lifecycle, forces triggering stages in its...

Why Differences Make a Difference: A Field Study of Diversity, Conflict, and Performance in Workgroups.
December 1, 1999... A multimethod field study of 92 workgroups explored the influence of three types of workgroup diversity (social category diversity, value diversity, and informational diversity) and two moderators (task type and task interdependence) on...

Provisional Selves: Experimenting with Image and Identity in Professional Adaptation.
December 1, 1999... This article describes how people adapt to new roles by experimenting with provisional selves that serve as trials for possible but not yet fully elaborated professional identities. Qualitative data collected from professionals in transition to...

The Formation of Breakaway Organizations: Observations and a Process Model.
December 1, 1999... Two qualitative studies examined the processes leading to the formation of breakaway organizations, which result when groups leave existing organizations to form new organizations. In the first study, analysis of interviews at 11 organizations...

Managed Care: Made in America.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Managed Care: Made in America. Arnold Birenbaum. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. 193 pp. $39.95. In Managed Care, Birenbaum chronicles the transformation of traditional, indemnity-style health insurance plans and the retrospective,...

Contracting for Change: Contracts in Health, Social Care, and Other Local Government Services.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Contracting for Change: Contracts in Health, Social Care, and Other Local Government Services. Kieron Walsh, Nicholas Deakin, Paula Smith, Peter Spurgeon, and Neil Thomas. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1997. 228 pp. $65.00. This...

Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal. Sanford M. Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 345 pp. $35.00. In Modern Manors, Jacoby sets out to amend our understanding of welfare capitalism and succeeds...

Advancement in Organizational Behaviour: Essays in Honour of Derek S. Pugh.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Advancement in Organizational Behaviour: Essays in Honour of Derek S. Pugh. Timothy Clark, ed. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997. 377 pp. $76.95. This collection of essays celebrates the career achievements, research interests, and...

Debating Rationality: Non-rational Aspects of Organizational Decision Making.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Debating Rationality: Non-rational Aspects of Organizational Decision Making. Jennifer Halpern and Robert Stern, eds. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 295 pp. $39.95. It is rare for a book to be dedicated to an inanimate...

Cooperative Strategies, vols. 1-3.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Cooperative Strategies: North American Perspectives. Cooperative Strategies: European Perspectives. Cooperative Strategies: Asian Pacific Perspectives. Paul W. Beamish and J. Peter Killing, eds. San Francisco: New Lexington Press,...

Social Justice in a Diverse Society.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Social Justice in a Diverse Society. Tom R. Tyler, Robert J. Boeckmann, Heather J. Smith, and Yuen J. Huo. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. 317 pp. $60.00, cloth; $21.00, paper. Three editions of the Handbook of Social Psychology...

Organizations in America: Analyzing Their Structures and Human Resource Practices.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Organizations in America: Analyzing Their Structures and Human Resource Practices. Arne L. Kalleberg, David Knoke, Peter V. Marsden, and Joe L. Spaeth. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996. 382 pp. $66.00, cloth; $32.00, paper. Kalleberg and...

The Quest for Responsibility: Accountability and Citizenship in Complex Organisations.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Quest for Responsibility: Accountability and Citizenship in Complex Organisations. Mark Bovens. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 252 pp. $59.25, cloth; $22.95, paper. In The Quest for Responsibility, Bovens has...