Administrative Science Quarterly articles from June 1997

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from June 1997

Executive migration and strategic change: the effect of top manager movement on product-market entry.
June 1, 1997... How do organizations make decisions about what businesses to compete in? This question has been a central topic of concern for strategy researchers (Burgelman, 1994; Rumelt, Schendel, and Teece, 1994) as well as a primary issue for organization...

Problems and paradoxes in a model of punctuated organizational change.
June 1, 1997... To extend our understanding of organizational change, I take an alternative approach: I examine an existing theory in detail, formalizing it to investigate how well the theory accounts for the phenomena its authors set out to explain. My focus is...

Love thy neighbor? Differentiation and agglomeration in the Manhattan hotel industry: 1898-1990. (Manhattan, New York)
June 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION When entrepreneurs found organizations, they make two key decisions: what products to sell and where to locate. First, they decide how similar their products should be to those of established competitors. If their products...

The contingent value of social capital.
June 1, 1997... Some people enjoy higher incomes than others. Some are promoted faster. Some are leaders on more important projects. The human capital explanation is that inequality results from differences in individual ability. The usual evidence is on general...

Customization or conformity? An institutional and network perspective on the content and consequences of TQM adoption. (total quality management)
June 1, 1997... Researchers in a variety of disciplines have long been interested in identifying conditions that facilitate the spread of technological and administrative innovations. Early studies in this area sought to identify economic and organizational...

The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA.
June 1, 1997... The Launch of STS-51L As a social scientist who has spent the last several years doing research with an engineer, I have a significant appreciation for Diane Vaughan's tenacity in taking on an engineer's story, because engineering and social...

The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA.
June 1, 1997... Diane Vaughan's The Challenger Launch Decision is a brilliant and disturbing book. It is brilliant in both conception and execution; it is disturbing because of the pessimistic lesson provided to all organizations that operate with hazardous...

The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA.
June 1, 1997... "All of the paper shuffling and all of the other extraneous activity that was going on in that room with 14 people in it came to a screeching halt, and there was a big quiet" (p. 320). That "big quiet," described by Robert Ebling, occurred after...