Administrative Science Quarterly articles from December 2001

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from December 2001

Knowledge specialization, organizational coupling, and the boundaries of the firm: Why do firms know more than they make?
December 1, 2001... ********** Since the Industrial Revolution, the production of useful knowledge, like the production of artifacts, has become increasingly specialized and professionalized, with the continuous emergence of new and useful disciplines and...

Safety in numbers: Downsizing and the deinstitutionalization of permanent employment in Japan.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... ********** While population-level change has long been a central concern of organizational theory, most theory and research focuses on the adoption and diffusion of new practices, with few studies examining how organizational practices are...

Enriching or depleting? The dynamics of engagement in work and family roles.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... ********** Motivating people to engage in their work is a classic problem in organizations, complicated by the existence of multiple roles, because the attitudes, behaviors, and emotions associated with one role may spill over to another...

Disrupted routines: Team learning and new technology implementation in hospitals.
December 1, 2001... ********** Adopting new technologies is essential to sustained competitiveness for many organizations. In both manufacturing and service industries, new technology can lead to product and process improvements that produce tangible market...

Second-order limitation: Uncovering latent effects of board network ties.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... ********** A long tradition of research in organization theory has examined the diffusion of technology, policy, and strategy through social networks (Burt, 1987; Mizruchi, 1996). One of the most important propositions in this literature...

From the bottom up? Technical committee activity and alliance formation.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... ********** Recent studies have made substantial headway linking numerous network contexts to alliance formation. These network contexts include such determinants as previous alliances (Gulati and Gargiulo, 1999; Ahuja, 2000; Chung, Singh,...

Governance and Performance: New Perspectives.
December 1, 2001... Carolyn J. Heinrich and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., eds. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000. 349 pp. $65.00, cloth: $23.95. paper. While the term "public management" has been used in the field of public administration for a long...

Performance-Driven Organizational Change: The Organizational Portfolio.
December 1, 2001... Lex Donaldson. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1999. 231 pp. $24.95, paper. Performance-Driven Organizational Change is a curious book. It is a theory of the causes and effects of organizational performance but is written from an unusual...

Role Transitions in Organizational Life: An Identity-based Perspective.
December 1, 2001... Blake E. Ashforth, ed. Mahwah, NJ: LEA, 2001. 353 pp. $89.95, cloth; $39.95, paper. This book is a very thorough presentation of the role-theory literature, similar in quality to what one would expect in a handbook. Its audience will be...

Manufacturing Advantage: Why High-Performance Work Systems Pay Off.
December 1, 2001... Eileen Appelbaum, Thomas Bailey, Peter Berg, and Arne L. Kalleberg. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. 259 pp. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper. The prominence in the United States over the past three decades of various Campaigns to...

Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Pushkala Prasad, Albert J. Mills, Michael Elmes, and Anshuman Prasad, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997. 395 pp. $27.95, paper. Research on workplace diversity is characterized by a curious contradiction. On one hand, the field has...

Justice in the Workplace: From Theory to Practice, vol. 2. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Russell Cropanzano, ed. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2001. 320 pp. $69.95, cloth; $37.50, paper. Before writing this review, I set the current volume on my desk alongside its older sibling, volume 1, from 1993, Justice in the Workplace:...

The Flexible Firm: Capability Management in Network Organizations. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Julian Birkinshaw and Peter Hagstrom, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 248 pp. $65.00. The overarching thesis of The Flexible Firm is that valuable capabilities are built at multiple levels inside the firm and in firms'...

Remade in America: Transplanting and Transforming Japanese Management Systems. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Jeffrey K. Liker, W. Mark Fruin, and Paul S. Adler, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 418 pp. $39.95. One question a potential reader may raise when considering this book is Why should I read another book on the Japanese...

From Silicon Valley to Singapore: Location and Competitive Advantage in the Hard Disk Drive Industry. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... David G. McKendrick, Richard F. Doner, and Stephan Haggard. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. 352 pp. $49.50, cloth; $22.95, paper. Based on an analysis of the disk drive industry's movement into Southeast Asia during the...

Breaking the Code of Change. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria, eds. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000, 507 pp. $45.00. Breaking the Code of Change is the published outcome of a research conference by the same name held at Harvard Business School during 1998....