Administrative Science Quarterly articles from March 1997

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from March 1997

The art of continuous change: linking complexity theory and time-paced evolution in relentlessly shifting organizations.
March 1, 1997... The punctuated equilibrium model of change assumes that long periods of small, incremental change are interrupted by brief periods of discontinuous, radical change (Abernathy and Utterback, 1978; Tushman and Anderson, 1986; Rosenkopf and Tushman,...

Social structure and competition in interfirm networks: the paradox of embeddedness.
March 1, 1997... Research on embeddedness is an exciting area in sociology and economics because it advances our understanding of how social structure affects economic life. Polanyi (1957) used the concept of embeddedness to describe the social structure of...

Chain affiliation and the failure of Manhattan hotels, 1898-1980.
March 1, 1997... For comments on an earlier version of this paper, we are grateful to Linda Argote, John Freeman, Crist Inman, Jerry Salancik, ASO's Associate Editor Mark Mizruchi and anonymous reviewers, and seminar participants at the Hebrew University of...

Explaining the premiums paid for large acquisitions: evidence of CEO hubris.
March 1, 1997... The famed investor, Warren Buffett, once said that many corporate acquirors think of themselves as beautiful princesses, sure that their kisses can turn toads into handsome princes. The acquirors pay substantial premiums over market value,...

The dynamics of competitive intensity.
March 1, 1997... Industries typically end up populated by only a few large institutions that prevail where thousands of smaller organizations have tried but failed. Organization theory offers various explanations for this fact, drawing on diverse rationales but...

Defections from the inner circle: social exchange, reciprocity, and the diffusion of board independence in U.S. corporations.
March 1, 1997... With few exceptions, organizational researchers and corporate governance experts have historically viewed corporate boards of directors as "rubber stamps" for management initiatives (Herman, 1981) or as "tools" of top management (Pfeffer, 1972:...

Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age.
March 1, 1997... That we have come a long way in our understanding of why states behave as they do is powerfully demonstrated in these two books on industrial policy. Even more, they show how our understanding of the very nature and meaning of the state has...

Comparing Policy Networks: Labor Politics in the U.S., Germany, and Japan.
March 1, 1997... That we have come a long way in our understanding of why states behave as they do is powerfully demonstrated in these two books on industrial policy. Even more, they show how our understanding of the very nature and meaning of the state has...

Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation.
March 1, 1997... Peter Evans boldly advances a sociological theory on how economically underdeveloped states successfully industrialize. To clear the turf, he felt that it was first necessary to demolish neo-utilitarian market theory as an alternative approach....

University-Business Partnerships: An Assessment.
March 1, 1997... During the 1980s the changing relationships between universities and business firms were increasingly recognized as a significant sociopolitical issue. Many social scientists and other observers began to anticipate that university-industry...

Downscoping: How to Tame the Diversified Firm.
March 1, 1997... Taking a cue from Sutton and Staw (1995), it may be useful to state what this book is not. Despite its rather dramatic subtitle, the book is not a polemic for one more fashionable change program designed to permit top managers to display their...

In Search of Management: Culture, Chaos, and Control in Managerial Work.
March 1, 1997... Tony Watson's In Search of Management is as notable for its method of inquiry and exposition as it is for the insights it offers into the dilemmas and activities associated with being a manager and doing a manager's job. The managers through...

Catching the Wave: Workplace Reform in Australia.
March 1, 1997... The interest for U.S. readers in Australian experiences of successful reorganization of work patterns and practices lies in a country with a similar culture within the Asia-Pacific region putting in place an industrial framework to realize and...

Women and Technology.
March 1, 1997... This book is the fourth volume of the series, Technological Innovation and Human Resources, which aims to provide a cross-disciplinary synthesis of research on technological innovation and human resources that informs scholarship, policy, and...