Administrative Science Quarterly articles from March 1998

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from March 1998

Power and conflicts of interest in professional firms: evidence from investment banking.
March 1, 1998... We sit on opposite sides of the table, like a law firm representing both sides of a divorce. When corporate finance and research clash, it's a real problem. - Paul Leming, a former equity analyst Conflicts of interest arise in two main ways...

Out on a limb: the role of context impression management in selling gender-equity issues.
March 1, 1998... Managerial time and attention are scarce resources in organizations (Pfeffer, 1992). Both managers and non-managers compete to gain the attention of top policy makers for issues that they believe are important to the organization. To do so, they...

Performance, aspirations, and risky organizational change.
March 1, 1998... A central assumption in learning perspectives on organizations is that organizations learn from their experience by making the probability of changes conditional on their history (Cyert and March, 1963; Levitt and March, 1988). This has led to an...

Organizational adaptation to institutional change: a comparative study of first-order change in prospector and defender banks.
March 1, 1998... Do organizations exhibit different processes of change in response to a pressing institutional issue, and if so, how and why does this occur? In spite of the ubiquity of research on change, the when, how, and why aspects are not at all clear. Van...

The symbolic management of stockholders: corporate governance reforms and shareholder reactions.
March 1, 1998... In recent years, scholarly and popular concern about corporate governance arrangements in large corporations has increased in intensity. Institutional investors and the popular business press have decried the apparent absence in many corporations...

When excuses don't work: the persistent injustice effect among Black managers.
March 1, 1998... There has been a growing recognition of the impact of social accounts - explanations for negative actions - on organizational justice. Beginning with the work of Bies and Shapiro (Bies and Moag, 1986; Bies, 1987; Shapiro, 1991), a...

Psychological Contracts in Organizations: Understanding Written and Unwritten Agreements.
March 1, 1998... Many hundreds of scholarly books are published in the fields that compose organizational science every year, yet only a handful make it onto our bookshelves, and only a miniscule proportion of these show up on required reading lists for our...

Trust in Organizations: Frontiers of Theory and Research.
March 1, 1998... Trust in Organizations is the product of a two-day conference at Stanford, and after reading this book, I came away envious: what a terrific intellectual experience those two days must have been. These authors have pushed the edge of the envelope...

Diversity in Organizations: New Perspectives for a Changing Workplace.
March 1, 1998... Scholars studying workforce diversity are just beginning to recognize its theoretical complexity. Research on diversity has lagged behind practice for the most part. The fact that this volume resulted from a symposium underscores the infancy of...

Managing Gender: Affirmative Action and Organizational Power in Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Sport.
March 1, 1998... For those familiar with the work of Jim McKay, an anthropologist at the University of Queensland, Australia, there is not much news here. Much of this book has been published in varying formats in other locations. Even for those unfamiliar with...

Broken Ladders: Managerial Careers in the New Economy.
March 1, 1998... The conception of this book is interesting. Osterman, perhaps the leading authority on internal labor markets, organizes a conference on their apparent demise. The result is a book in which "thinking in terms of internal labor markets" is no...

Segmented Labor, Fractured Politics: Labor Politics in American Life.
March 1, 1998... William Form has written the most comprehensive account to date of the contemporary U.S. labor movement's political work and its effectiveness. He amasses data from approximately 100 interviews of labor and political activists and experts, a...

Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris from 1848 to the Commune.
March 1, 1998... Ever since Marx depicted the French insurgency of 1848 and the Paris Commune of 1871 as the incubator of proletarian revolution, these two events have occupied a center stage in Western ideology and social science. Those of a Marxian persuasion...

Representation in Ethnography.
March 1, 1998... In this volume, Van Maanen continues a theme raised in earlier works, including Tales of the Field and a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, namely, the textual analysis of ethnography. In introducing the diverse array of...

Sensemaking in Organizations.
March 1, 1998... Sensemaking in Organizations is about words in action. Located in Sage's Foundations of Organizational Science series, it actually crosses and knits through (rather than together) a plethora of fields - social psychology, communication studies,...

Organizational Learning.
March 1, 1998... In the 35 years since publication of Cyert and March's (1963) seminal work and Simon's (1969) initial definition of organizational learning, there has been an increase in intellectual excitement and debate about the learning view, as well as a...

Research in the Sociology of Organization: Studies of Organizations in the European Tradition, vol. 13.
March 1, 1998... In their introduction, the editors set out at great length why they feel a special volume dedicated to the alleged chasm between an American and an European intellectual tradition in the study of organizations makes sense. They also supply a lot...

How Organizations Act Together: Interorganizational Coordination in Theory and Practice.
March 1, 1998... From being seen, as in classical conceptions, as a type of socio-economic structure firmly subordinated to the influences of society, or, more recently, as an entity that is highly adapted to a distinct external environment, the organization...

Self and Interperonal Insight: How People Gain Understanding of Themselves and Others in Organizations.
March 1, 1998... What is insight? What is epiphany? For many, these words bring to mind images, representations, or understandings of moments of great, and apparently sudden, learning. Whether you view insight as the moments of such learning or the more complex...

Reinventing the Workplace: How Business and Employees Can Both Win.
March 1, 1998... Reinventing the Workplace makes the case for a national policy on employee involvement. Levine argues that workplace reforms depend on market conditions and that governments play a major role in defining those market conditions. By attempting to...