Administrative Science Quarterly articles from December 2000

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from December 2000

Agency and Social Networks: Strategies of Action in a Social Structure of Position, Opposition, and Opportunity.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... This study uses social movement concepts to explain the success and failure of actors in a network of relationships trying to influence policies on environmental issues in a small city. Results show that strategies to take action and mobilize...

The Role of Institutional and Market Forces in Divergent Organizational Change.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... This paper focuses on a radical change, in which organizations abandon an institutionalized template for arranging their core activities, that is likely to occur in organizational fields that have strong, local market forces and strong but...

Boundary Management Tactics and Logics of Action: The Case of Peer-Support Providers.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... From a qualitative study of flight attendants volunteering as support providers in a peer-based employee assistance program, we derive a typology of the boundary management tactics used by peer-support providers to maintain a comfortable...

The Lessons We (Don't) Learn: Counterfactual Thinking and Organizational Accountability after a Close Call.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... We investigate how individuals learn from imagined might-have-been scenarios. We hypothesize that individuals are more likely to learn when they have responded to an event with upward-directed, self-focused counterfactual thoughts, and,...

Making the Next Move: How Experiential and Vicarious Learning Shape the Locations of Chains' Acquisitions.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... We examine acquisitions by multiunit chain organizations to determine why they acquire a particular target rather than others that are available to them and thus better understand chain growth. We advance experiential and vicarious learning...

To Your Heart's Content: A Model of Affective Diversity in Top Management Teams.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... In this study we develop a model of how diversity in positive affect (PA) among group members influences individual attitudes, group processes, and group performance. We test the model on a sample of 62 U.S. top management teams. Greater...

Corporate Social Capital and Liability.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Roger Th. A. J. Leenders and Shaul M. Gabbay, eds. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1999. 576 pp. $139.95. Over the past two decades, social capital has emerged as an important concept of interest to a wide variety of researchers in sociology,...

Environmental Regulations and Corporate Strategy: A NAFTA Perspective.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Alan Rugman, John Kirton, and Julie Soloway. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 258 pp. $75.00. What can proponents of liberalized international trade do about barriers to trade erected in the name of environmental protection? What...

Charting Chicago School Reform: Democratic Localism as a Lever for Change.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Anthony S. Bryk et al. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. 383 pp. $69.00, cloth; $25.00, paper. Charting Chicago School Reform is a landmark book. It is a synthesis of what researchers have learned from four years of Chicago's historic...

Exporting the American Model: The Postwar Transformation of European Business.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Marie-Laure Djelic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 306 pp. $65.00. Far from being just another book on the post-World-War-II economic conditions in Europe, Exporting the American Model offers an insightful, unbiased, and...

Organizational Report Cards.(Review)
December 1, 2000... William T. Gormley, Jr., and David L. Weimer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. 272 pp. $39.95. The anxiety of waiting for your grades in high school and taking them home to show your parents has been replaced for many of us by...