Administrative Science Quarterly articles from March 1992

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from March 1992

Organizational dynamics of market transition: hybrid forms, property rights, and mixed economy in China.
March 1, 1992... This paper underscores the importance of hybrid forms in the current market transitions in state socialism through an examination of the emergence of marketized firms and cadre-entrepreneurs in China. The paper develops a new-institutionalist...

Differentiation of boundary spanning roles: labor negotiations and implications for role conflict.
March 1, 1992... In this paper we test the hypothesis that boundary spanning is a differentiated function that is not necessarily performed by one person, as assumed in much previous research. Using longitudinal network data collected during labor negotiations,...

Between a rock and a hard place: organizational change and performance under conditions of fundamental environmental transformation.
March 1, 1992... This paper examines the proposition that change is detrimental to organizational performance and survival chances. I propose that organizational change may benefit organizational performance and survival chances if it occurs in response to...

Network dyads in entrepreneurial settings: a study of the governance of exchange relationships. (includes appendix)
March 1, 1992... Social control in network organizational forms is examined through an inductive field study of a sample of dyadic relationships established by high-growth entrepreneurial firms. The social dimensions of the transactions are central in...

The Japanese corporate network: a blockmodel analysis.
March 1, 1992... Japanese intercorporate relationships are considered in terms of three different structures of interaction: corporate groupings, financial centrality, and industrial interdependency. The significance of each of these structures is tested with a...

Culture and subcultures: an analysis of organizational knowledge. (includes appendices)
March 1, 1992... This study investigated the potential existence and formation of subcultures in organizations, using an inductive research methodology to study the extent to which four different types of knowledge were shared by organization members. Fifty-two...