Administrative Science Quarterly articles from June 1999

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from June 1999

The money center cannot hold: commercial banks in the U.S. system of corporate governance.
June 1, 1999... In corporate governance, the economic and the social are inextricably linked. Board members are typically recruited from among friends and acquaintances of current directors. Conversely, relations that begin as economic ties often become...

Managing maternity leave: a qualitative analysis of temporary executive succession.
June 1, 1999... Abandoning the familiar is rarely a simple process. Nearly 40 years of research confirm the challenge of leadership change. With its capacity to cause disruption and affect performance, executive succession remains a topic of lively scholarly...

Firm strategy and age dependence: a contingent view of the liabilities of newness, adolescence, and obsolescence.
June 1, 1999... How does firm performance vary with age? Organizational ecologists have addressed this question, primarily in terms of failure rates. Their research has used several labels to describe the relationship between age and failure, including (1) the...

Interorganizational endorsements and the performance of entrepreneurial ventures.
June 1, 1999... Mobilizing resources to build a new organization is an undertaking laden with uncertainty and unforeseeable hazards (Stinchcombe, 1965; Aldrich and Auster, 1986; Freeman, 1997). It is also inherently a social process, because entrepreneurs must...

Psychological safety and learning behavior in work teams.
June 1, 1999... A growing reliance on teams in changing and uncertain organizational environments creates a managerial imperative to understand the factors that enable team learning. Although much has been written about teams and about learning in...

Institutionalized action and corporate governance: the reliance on rules of CEO succession.
June 1, 1999... The centrality of both formal and informal rules in guiding organizational actions is an idea with a long history and theoretical tradition (e.g., Gouldner, 1954; Weber, 1978; Jackall, 1988; March and Olsen, 1989; Zhou, 1993). According to this...

The Structure of Women's Nonprofit Organizations.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Rebecca L. Bordt. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998. 114 pp. $24.95. This slender volume addresses a significant and still understudied issue, namely, the relationship between form and function in women's social change...

Museums and Money: The Impact of Funding on Exhibitions, Scholarship, and Management.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Victoria D. Alexander. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996. 167 pp. $24.95. Museums and Money is an examination of the impact of changes in funding on museum exhibitions, missions, and management. Analyzing changes over the...

Managing Strategic Innovation and Change.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Michael L. Tushman and Philip Anderson, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 672 pp. $69.95, cloth; $41.95, paper. Innovation, Tushman and Anderson argue, is the linchpin of economic growth and lies behind improvements in every...

Constituting Management: Markets, Meanings and Identities.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Gill Palmer and Steward R. Clegg, eds. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1996. 356 pp. DM 153.00. Perhaps the index gives the best idea of this collection. Foucault gets fifteen citations, Giddens ten, Bourdieu eight, Weber no less than eighteen, and...

Power Plays: Critical Events in the Institutionalization of the Tennessee Valley Authority.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Richard A. Colignon, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997. 367 pp. $24.95. Timely books are often those that find something new in something old and thoroughly studied. Dozens of authors have written about the history and...

Public Spirit in the Thrift Tragedy.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Mark Carl Rom. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. 326 pp. $49.95, cloth; $22.95, paper. This ambitious book autopsies a disaster that has been subjected to numerous exposes by scholars and journalists alike - the savings and...

Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Julian E. Orr. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1996. 172 pp. $32.50, cloth; $13.95, paper. How ironic, at an historic moment when technology has assumed a taken-for-granted status in the workplace, that scholarship on organizations, work, and...

Public Policy and Program Evaluation.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Evert Vedung. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1997. 336 pp. $34.95. In Public Policy and Program Evaluation, Swedish political scientist Evert Vedung positions program evaluation as a highly significant, even essential tool of Western...

Communication, Organization, and Performance.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Tom Dixon. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1996. 308 pp. $73.25 cloth; $39.50 paper. The relationship between the fields of management science and organizational communication is tenuous and often contentious. The few recent scholarly works that have...

Rethinking Management Education.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Robert French and Christopher Grey, eds. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1996. 206 pp. $65.00, cloth; $26.95, paper. When asked to undertake this review, I said yes. It was late July. "Sounds like a book to take to the boat and review at sea," I...