Administrative Science Quarterly articles from June 2001

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from June 2001

IN MEMORIAM.(Robert N. Stern, Cornell University)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
June 1, 2001... Robert N. Stern, Professor in the New York State School of Industrial Relations at Cornell University and Book Review Editor of the Administrative Science Quarterly, died on April 21, 2001 of complications from diabetes. When began work as...

Antecedents and Consequences of Personal Attachment in Cross-cultural Cooperative Ventures.
June 1, 2001... This study examines how personal attachments between boundary spanners within cross-cultural international cooperative ventures (ICVs) are established and their association with venture performance. Results of analysis of 282 ICVs in an...

Decoupling Policy from Practice: The Case of Stock Repurchase Programs.
June 1, 2001... This study examines firms' decoupling of informal practices from formally adopted policies through analysis of the implementation of stock repurchase programs by large U.S. corporations in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when firms were...

Cultural Diversity at Work: The Effects of Diversity Perspectives on Work Group Processes and Outcomes.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... This paper develops theory about the conditions under which cultural diversity enhances or detracts from work group functioning. From qualitative research in three culturally diverse organizations, we identified three different perspectives on...

Metaphors and Meaning: An Intercultural Analysis of the Concept of Teamwork.
June 1, 2001... This paper develops a conceptual framework to explain different understandings of the concept of teamwork across national and organizational cultures. Five different metaphors for teamwork (military, sports, community, family, and associates)...

Organizational Improvisation and Learning: A Field Study.
June 1, 2001... An inductive study of improvisation in new product development activities in two firms uncovered a variety of improvisational forms and the factors that shaped them. Embedded in the observations were two important linkages between...

The European Corporation: Strategy, Structure, and Social Science.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Richard Whittington and Michael Mayer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 271 pp. $60.00. From the early 1950s through the 1990s, the multidivisional form of organization, long championed by Alfred Chandler and his students, has...

The Basic Features of Postcommunist Capitalism in Eastern Europe: Firms in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Lawrence Peter King. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. 168 pp. $59.50. It has been more than a decade since the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and even longer that these and the other communist societies around the world have been...

Transforming Management in Central and Eastern Europe.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Roderick Martin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 211 pp. $65.00, cloth; $29.95, paper. The fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the political and social changes sweeping through central and eastern Europe presaged a new era in...

Creating Safety in Air Traffic Control.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Johan M. Sanne. Lund, Sweden: Arkiv Forlag, 1999. 334 pp. No price given. Organizational reliability, as a distinctive property and challenge of modern organizations, has come into its own recently as a focus for analysis (LaPorte and...

Handbook of Entrepreneurship.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Donald L. Sexton and Hans Landstrom, eds. Oxford: Blackwell Business, 2000, 468 pp. $99.95. The Handbook of Entrepreneurship is an excellent volume that attests to the maturity of entrepreneurship research and the growing stature of the...

Small Firms, Large Concerns.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Konosuke Okada and Minoru Sawai, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 314 pp. $70.00. Since the 1980s, there has been a growing interest in small firms. One of the critical unanswered questions in this field is whether small firms...

Organizational Dimensions of Global Change: No Limits to Cooperation.(Review)
June 1, 2001... David L. Cooperrider and Jane E. Dutton, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1999, 404 PP. $34.95, paper. This is the first in a new series by Sage Publications devoted to the topic of human dimensions of global change, a worldwide movement to...

Private Funds, Public Purpose: Philanthropic Foundations in International Perspective.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Helmut K. Anheier and Stefan Toepler, eds. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 1999. 264 pp. $85.00, cloth; $37.50, paper. This edited volume presents a range of scholarly articles on foundations in the United States and Europe. The editors'...

Manufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Yehouda Shenhav. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 247 pp. $49.95. Manufacturing Rationality begins by asking, What are the ideological roots of modern management? This is an important question for those interested in the social,...

Systemic Choices: Nonlinear Dynamics and Practical Management.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Gregory A. Daneke. Ann Arbor, Ml: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 277 pp. $42.50. Like the field of medicine, management is often thought of as at least equal parts art and science. Both disciplines attempt to understand the...

Information Management: The Organizational Dimension.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Michael J. Earl, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 514 Pp. $35.00, paper. This book, a sequel to the editor's earlier volume (Earl, 1988), is a welcome addition to the literature of organization theory (OT), information systems...

Nonprofit Organizations in an Age of Uncertainty: A Study of Organizational Change.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Joseph Galaskiewicz and Wolfgang Bielefeld. New York: de Gruyter, 1998. 290 pp. $49.95, cloth; $23.95, paper. This monograph applies sociological theories of organizations to nonprofit organizations. It develops and tests a three-legged...

ERRATA.(correction to "The Social Networks of High and Low Self-monitors: Implications for Workplace Performance," March 2001 issue)(Correction Notice)
June 1, 2001... On page 139 of "The Social Networks of High and Low Self-monitors: Implications for Workplace Performance," by Ajay Mehra, Martin Kilduff, and Daniel J. Brass (March 2001 issue), figures 2 and 3 were misprinted. The corrected figures are as...