Administrative Science Quarterly articles from December 2002

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from December 2002

Learning from complexity: effects of prior accidents and incidents on airlines' learning.
December 1, 2002... For all the scientific pizzazz [involved in airline accident investigations], unraveling the subtle, complex chain of events leading to aviation deaths is proving more elusive than ever. --"Why more plane-crash probes end in doubt," Wall...

The ripple effect: emotional contagion and its influence on group behavior.
December 1, 2002... Understanding shared social processes in groups is becoming increasingly important as firms move toward a greater team orientation. These shared social processes can serve as a conduit for a variety of group interactions and dynamics important...

Process management and technological innovation: a longitudinal study of the photography and paint industries.
December 1, 2002... Process management and its associated set of managerial practices and programs (e.g., total quality management, Six Sigma, ISO 9000) is perhaps the most important managerial innovation of the last 20 years (Cole and Scott, 2000), so much so...

New CEOs and corporate strategic refocusing: how experience as heir apparent influences the use of power.
December 1, 2002... Chief executive officers (CEOs) have long been recognized as the principal architects of corporate strategy and major catalysts of organizational change (Andrews, 1971; Child, 1972), and the extent to which CEOs can effect change in corporate...

The Architecture of Markets: an Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Neil Fligstein. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. 274 pp. $35.00. Since its revival in the early 1980s, the sociology of markets has stood in the long shadow of economics, especially the subfield of industrial organization....

The Twenty-First-Century Firm: Changing Economic Organization in International Perspective.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Paul DiMaggio, ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. 275 pp. $35.00. Predicting the emergence and nature of novel organizational forms, structures, and strategies has proven to be a challenging task in administrative...

Ivory Bridges: Connecting Science and Society.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Gerhard Sonnert, with Gerald Holton. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. 225 pp. $30.00. Whilst scientific discoveries and their application are amongst the most fundamental features shaping modern societies, scientists themselves are often...

The Entrepreneurship Dynamic: Origins of Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Industries.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Claudia Bird Schoonhoven and Elaine Romanelli, eds. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. 451 pp. $55.00, cloth; $29.95, paper. The Entrepreneurship Dynamic comprises twelve original chapters, plus introduction and summary chapters...

A Cooperative Approach to Local Economic Development.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Christopher D. Merrett and Norman Walzer, eds. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 2001. 197 pp. $63.50. This thin book with 11 chapters is a well-integrated and useful overview of new-generation cooperative enterprise organizations (hereafter,...

Rethinking Strategy.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Henk W. Volberda and Tom Elfring, eds. London: Sage, 2001. 285 pp. $99.00, cloth; $33.00, paper. The goal of this book is to provide "... a structured effort to show new directions in strategy." Most of the twenty-one chapters in the...

Organization and Management in the Embrace of Government.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Jone L. Pearce. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001. 162 pp. $75.00, cloth; $39.95, paper. Governments not only shape their country's economy but also their culture and penetrate deeply into the dynamics of organizations. Organizations must...

Improving Governance: A New Logic for Empirical Research.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Lawrence E. Lynn, Jr., Carolyn J. Heinrich, and Carolyn J. Hill. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001. 212 pp. $60.00. The subtitle of this book is an important signal about its contents. Although the authors are concerned with...

Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Kenneth Warren. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. 320 pp. $32.00. We live in an age obsessed with the birth of new industries, new companies, and new business strategies. At the same time, the legacies of past decisions,...

Making Sense of the Organization.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Karl E. Weick. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001, 483 pp. $44.95. Simon (1991: 275) once proposed that the aim of science is to find "meaningful simplicity in the midst of disorderly complexity." Simon's sentiment finds considerable resonance in...

Learning and Innovation in Organizations and Economies.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Bart Nooteboom. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 343 pp. $74.00. Nooteboom's book undertakes to answer one key central question: How does novelty emerge in organizations? The author also restates his question as How can continuity...

Dignity at Work.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Randy Hodson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 320 pp. $64.95, cloth; $22.95, paper. Everyone loves a good story. What better, then, than a book based on 84 good stories? Randy Hodson has taken 84 book-length ethnographies of...

The Paradox of Empowerment: Suspended Power and the Possibility of Resistance.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Ronald F. Wendt. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001. 192 pp. $58.00. If we pause for a moment and consider the recent proliferation of material that takes empowerment as its subject matter, we are confronted with a bewildering choice of...

Distributed Work.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Pamela J. Hinds and Sara Kiesler, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. 475 pp. $50.00. Despite the increasing prevalence of organizations staffing important projects with team members from across the nation and around the globe, academic...

Headhunters: Matchmaking in the Labor Market.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... William Finlay and James E. Coverdill. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002. 203 pp. $29.95. Finlay and Coverdill provide an engaging and intriguing glimpse into the relationships among headhunting firms, their client firms, and...

Publications received.(Bibliography)
December 1, 2002... Selected books from this list will be reviewed in future issues. Armstrong, E. A. Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. 272 pp. $22.50, paper. Augier, M.,...