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Administrative Science Quarterly is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal publishing theoretical and empirical work aimed at advancing the study of organizational behavior and theory. Administrative Science Quarterly publishes both qualitative and quantitative work, in addition to purely theoretical papers.
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Rivalry and the industry model of Scottish knitwear producers.
June 1, 1995... In this paper we argue that market boundaries are socially constructed around a collective cognitive model that summarizes typical organizational forms within an industry. This model is produced when firms observe each other's actions and define...
Organizational and professional commitment in professional and nonprofessional organizations.
June 1, 1995... This study of lawyers examines the degree to which professionals in general and lawyers in particular are committed to their profession and the organizations that employ them. I examine how the different structural arrangements of professional...
A multimethod examination of the benefits and detriments of intragroup conflict.
June 1, 1995... This study examines the structure of 105 work groups and management teams to address the question of whether conflict can be beneficial. Multiple methods were used to examine the effects of conflict on both individual- and group-level variables...
Accounting for explanations of CEO compensation: substance and symbolism.
June 1, 1995... While current debates about CEO compensation have generally been dominated by economic and political perspectives on CEO/board relations, we argue in this paper that CEO compensation may be driven by symbolic as well as substantive...
Total quality management: empirical, conceptual, and practical issues.
June 1, 1995... In recent years, total quality management (TQM) has become something of a social movement in the United States. This commentary returns to the writings of the movement's founders--W. Edwards Deming, Joseph Juran, and Kaoru Ishikawa--to assess the...
Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition.
June 1, 1995... Network analysis corrects a tendency in organizational theory to focus on the trees rather than the forest, on the actions of individual organizations rather than on the organization of their actions. Since it is fitting that organizational...
Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition.
June 1, 1995... Ronald S. Burt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. 323 pp. $47.50.
A good theory of organizations builds on existing literature and yet provides new insight into otherwise confusing or contradictory phenomena. It must be...
Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition.
June 1, 1995... Burt has two goals in Structural Holes: to delineate a structural approach to competitive social processes such as exchange and to show how this approach can tie together many different research agendas. These range from development of theories...