Administrative Science Quarterly articles from June 2002

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from June 2002

Global competition, institutions, and the diffusion of organizational practices: The International Spread of ISO 9000 Quality Certificates.
June 1, 2002... Organizational practices tend to diffuse unevenly throughout the world. Using comparative case studies of a small number of countries, researchers have found that national institutions shape processes of diffusion above and beyond the technical...

The evolution of organizational niches: U.S. automobile manufacturers, 1885-1981.
June 1, 2002... Many analysts' accounts of the U.S. automobile industry's development, including conjectured reasons for particular firms succeeding and failing, can be readily interpreted from the perspective of the organizational niche. For instance, General...

Capability traps and self-confirming attribution errors in the dynamics of process improvement.
June 1, 2002... Few ideas are more central to organizational theory than the notion that with time and experience organizations improve their existing capabilities. Theories ranging from those of March and colleagues (e.g., Cyert and March, 1992; March and...

Capitalizing on diversity: interpersonal congruence in small work groups.
June 1, 2002... Diversity has recently captured the attention of those interested in group performance. Group members can differ in functional specialization and demographic or cultural identities, such as age, race, sex, and citizenship (e.g., Pfeffer, 1983;...

Strategy as vector and the inertia of coevolutionary lock-in.
June 1, 2002... There is a vast literature ascribing the success of a company to the vision, strategy, and leadership approach of its chief executive officer (CEO). Some of these accounts put the CEO at center stage (e.g., Welch, 2001); others put him or her...

Review of three books on work and family. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... Putting Work in Its Place: A Quiet Revolution. Peter Meiksins and Peter Whalley. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002. 208 pp. $25.00. Gender and Home-Based Employment. Charles B. Hennon, Suzanne Loker, and Rosemary Walker,...

Economics Meets Sociology in Strategic Management. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... Joel A. C. Baum and Frank Dobbin, eds. Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 2000. 410 pp. $82.50. Sometimes it seems as if the field of strategic management is like a county that has no foreign policy or standing army and yet is periodically overrun...

Multilevel Theory, Research, and Methods in Organizations: Foundations, Extensions, and New Directions. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... Katherine Klein and Steve W. Kozlowski, eds. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000. 605 PP. $50.00. The dust jacket of this book states the issue, a long-standing one, precisely: Although quick to acknowledge organizations as multilevel...

The Seam Line: Arab Workers and Jewish Managers in the Israeli Textile Industry. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... Israel Drori. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. 278 PP. $18.95, paper. The Seam Line reports on an organizational ethnography set in the sewing plants of a large Israeli textile company located in Arab and Druse communities in...

Stories Employers Tell: Race, Skill, and Hiring in America. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... Philip Moss and Chris Tilly. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001. 317 pp. $29.95. A vast amount of research has examined the causes of persistent racial inequality in access to employment and other labor market outcomes (see...

Emotions in the Workplace: Research, Theory, and Practice. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... Neal M. Ashkanasy, Charmine E. J. Hartel, and Wilfred J. Zerbe, eds. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 2000. 313 pp. $75.00. Emotions in the Workplace is a compilation of papers presented at the First Conference on Emotion in Organization Life,...

Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... C. Fred Alford. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. 170 pp. $25.00. Alford's book about whistleblowers is written for people who are interested in examining the dark side of organizations and society. Although it appears to...

Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... W. Richard Scott, Martin Ruef, Peter J. Mendel, and Carol A. Caronna. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 427 pp. $58.00 cloth, $25.00 paper. Scott et al.'s book is a sophisticated and ambitious attempt to understand the...

A Theory of the Firm: Governance, Residual Claims, and Organizational Forms. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... Michael C. Jensen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. 311 pp. $47.50. This book is a collection of eight previously published papers by Michael Jensen of the Harvard Business School and his coauthors in a stream of research...

Organizations Evolving. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... Howard Aldrich. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1999. 413 pp. $29.95, paper. Organizations Evolving is the long-awaited sequel to Aldrich's (1979) influential Organizations and Environments. Like its predecessor, this book draws from research in...

On the Job: Is Long-Term Employment a Thing of the Past? (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... David Neumark, ed. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000. 527 pp. $59.95. On the Job, edited by David Neumark, provides the best available answers to the frequently asked question of whether the restructuring and resizing of American...

The Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2002... Mauro F. Guillen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. 282 pp. $35.00. Once again, Mauro Guillen has written an excellent book. A few years ago, he produced a thorough comparative analysis of models of management across five...

Publications received.
June 1, 2002... Selected books from this list will be reviewed in future issues. Agochiya, D. Every Trainer's Handbook. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2002. 341 pp. $21.00, paper. Alveson, M. Understanding Organizational Culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage,...