Administrative Science Quarterly articles from March 2001

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from March 2001

Competing for Attention in Knowledge Markets: Electronic Document Dissemination in a Management Consulting Company.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... The relatively recent explosion of information available in electronic forms makes attention, rather than information, the scarce resource in organizations. In this paper, we theorize about how suppliers of electronic information compete for...

Institutional Sources of Practice Variation: Staffing College and University Recycling Programs.
March 1, 2001... In this paper, I examine how variation arises in the staffing of recycling programs at colleges and universities. Through initial fieldwork, I identified two basic recycling program forms. Some schools adopted recycling programs that entailed...

Institutions, Exchange Relations, and the Emergence of New Fields: Regulatory Policies and Independent Power Production in America, 1978-1992.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... This paper analyzes how a new field, independent (or non-utility) power production, was created by a federal mandate that electric utilities purchase power from private generating sources and how the field was populated. Results show that key...

Challengers, Elites, and Owning Families: A Social Class Theory of Corporate Acquisitions in the 1960s.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... This paper analyzes data on 461 large U.S. industrial corporations to determine the factors that led large firms to participate in the wave of diversifying acquisitions that peaked in the late 1960s. We elaborate and test a class theory of...

The Social Networks of High and Low Self-monitors: Implications for Workplace Performance.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... This article examines how different personality types create and benefit from social networks in organizations. Using data from a 116-member high-technology firm, we tested how self-monitoring orientation and network position related to work...

Friendly Fire: The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Scott A. Snook. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 2000. 257 pp. $35.00. "Friendly fire" is a military term that refers to casualties unintentionally inflicted on one's own forces. The incidence of this glaring organizational failure is...

Mission Improbable: Using Fantasy Documents to Tame Disaster.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Lee Clarke. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 229 pp. $25.00. Organizations are powerful tools, however recalcitrant, but they can also be very presumptuous and overconfident. Even those that deal with highly dangerous...

Mentoring Dilemmas: Developmental Relationships Within Multicultural Organizations.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Audrey J. Murrell, Faye J. Crosby, and Robin J. Ely, eds. Mahwah, NJ: LEA, 1999. 265 pp. $29.95, paper. It's become an assumption in business and academe that mentoring is important to both organizations and their members. It's not clear,...

Business Strategies in Transition Economies.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Michael W. Peng, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000. 322 pp. $37.95, cloth; $29.95, paper. In the opening sentence of this book, Peng establishes the work's tone by writing, "strategy is about competing and winning" (p. 1). Peng's book is very...

Moral Imagination and Management Decision Making.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Patricia H. Werhane. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 146 pages. $35.00. The most recent addition to the Ruffin Series in Business Ethics, edited by R. Edward Freeman, is this significant contribution on moral imagination by...

The Customer's Victory: From Corporation to Cooperation.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Lecturer in Organization Studies Department of Sociology & Anthropology Haifa University Mount Carmel, Haifa 3 1905 Israel Francois Dupuy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999. 157 pp. $39.95, cloth; $18.95,...

Charismatic Leadership in Organizations.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Donald S. Carmichael Professor of Organization and Human Jay A. Conger and Rabindra N. Kanungo. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998. 288 pp. $59.00, paper. Many consider charismatic leadership to be the most important area of inquiry within...

Research in the Sociology of Organizations, vol. 16: Networks In and Around Organizations.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Steven B. Andrews and David Knoke, eds. Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 1999. 287 pp. $78.50. Research annuals of this kind occupy a precarious niche. Besides trying to overcome the usual difficulties involved in editing a collected volume, they...