Administrative Science Quarterly articles from June 2000

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from June 2000

Friends in High Places: The Effects of Social Networks on Discrimination in Salary Negotiations.
June 1, 2000... This article tests hypotheses about the effects of social networks on inequitable salary negotiation outcomes using a U.S. high-technology company's salary negotiation data for 1985-1995. Analyzing results of 3,062 actual salary negotiations,...

State Formation, ideological Competition, and the Ecology of Israeli Workers' Cooperatives, 1920-1992.
June 1, 2000... We investigate the effect of community-wide political and ideological interests on the failure rate of Israeli workers' cooperatives. Political order may be provided by the state or through membership in a federation. Independently, both...

Innovations as Catalysts for Organizational Change: Shifts in Organizational Cognition and Search.
June 1, 2000... This paper uses data on radio format changes to test hypotheses on innovations as catalysts for nonmimetic change in organizations. Innovations are difficult to interpret using existing schemata, causing organizations to search for information...

Aging, Obsolescence, and Organizational Innovation.
June 1, 2000... This paper investigates the relationship between organizational aging and innovation processes to illuminate the dynamics of high-technology industries, as well to resolve debates in organizational theory about the effects of aging on...

Looking Forward and Looking Backward: Cognitive and Experiential Search.
June 1, 2000... We used computer simulations to examine the role and interrelationship between search processes that are forward-looking, based on actors' cognitive map of action-outcome linkages, and those that are backward-looking, or experience based....

Culture and Procedural Fairness: When the Effects of What You Do Depend on How You Do It.
June 1, 2000... Previous research has shown that procedural fairness and outcome favorability interactively combine to influence people's reactions to their social exchanges. The tendency for people to respond more positively when outcomes are more favorable...

Power and Influence in Organizations.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Roderick M. Kramer and Margaret A. Neale, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998. 398 pp. $52.00, cloth; $24.95, paper. This edited volume is the result of the Power and Influence in Organizations conference held at the Stanford University...

A Structural Theory of Social Influence.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Noah E. Friedkin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 231 Pp. $59.95. In A Structural Theory of Social Influence, Friedkin develops a formal theoretical approach to influence as a network process. The data in the study come from...

Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Yuko Ogasawara. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991. 221 pp. $45.00, cloth; $15.95, paper. This book provides a detailed and compelling account of the relationships between two groups that are critical to the operation of...

The Entrepreneurial Process: Economic Growth, Men, Women, and Minorities.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Paul D. Reynolds and Sammis B. White. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1997. 256 pp. $59.95. The primary focus of The Entrepreneurial Process is on issues related to the formation of new firms and economic growth. Densely packed with...

Tacit Knowledge in Professional Practice: Researcher and Practitioner Perspectives.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Robert J. Steinberg and Joseph A. Horvath, eds. Mahwah, NJ: LEA, 1999. 253 pp. $59.95, cloth, $27.50, paper. The importance of tacit knowledge for effectively completing tasks is readily apparent through our own experiences. Last year I...

The Formation of Inter-Organizational Networks.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Mark Ebers, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 295 pp. $78.00. This anthology is the result of a workshop organized by the editor, Mark Ebers, and funded by the European Science Foundation. Ebers and some of the other authors state...

Legitimacy in Public Administration: A Discourse Analysis.(Review)
June 1, 2000... O. C. McSwite. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997. 306 pp. $49.95, cloth; $21.50, paper. It was a McSwite Christmas, as my husband Gilbert put it as we packed our bags to return home to Canada after our annual week-long Christmas break with my...

Inside the Kaisha: Demystifying Japanese Business Behavior.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Noboru Yashimura and Philip Anderson. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997. 259 pp. $24.95. This book attempts to uncover the fundamental drivers of Japanese business behavior. The focus is on explanation and not merely description,...

Narrating the Organization: Dramas of Institutional Identity.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Barbara Czarniawska. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 234 pp. $45.00, cloth; $1 5.95, paper. The argument of this book is that organizational studies can be greatly enriched by taking narrative more seriously. This means not only...

Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Shona L. Brown and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998. 299 pp. $27.95. It is becoming increasingly clear that we need to develop more dynamic models of strategy (Porter, 1991). A few recent books (D'Aveni,...