Administrative Science Quarterly articles from March 2002

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from March 2002

Disaster dynamics: understanding the role of quantity in organizational collapse.
March 1, 2002... Major disasters have long interested organization theorists (Perrow, 1984; Shrivastava, 1987; Weick, 1993b; Vaughan, 1996), and their causes continue to be an active area of inquiry. Accidents like the nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl or Union...

Emotional balancing of organizational continuity and radical change: the contribution of middle managers.
March 1, 2002... Competitive pressures caused by globalization, deregulation, and discontinuous technological changes seem to have forced many organizations into considering radical change as a way of surviving and growing. A radical change is a qualitative...

The strength of corporate culture and the reliability of firm performance.
March 1, 2002... Much popular and scholarly attention has been focused on the hypothesis that strong cultures, defined as "a set of norms and values that are widely shared and strongly held throughout the organization" (O'Reilly and Chatman, 1996: 166), enhance...

Network learning: the effects of partners' heterogeneity of experience on corporate acquisitions.
March 1, 2002... A substantial body of research shows that firms tend to be influenced by their network partners in decisions about and adoptions of various practices and structures. The experience of network partners is communicated in various forums and tends...

Evolution toward fit.(organizational development)
March 1, 2002... Scholars in a variety of literatures have conceptualized firms as systems of highly interdependent elements (e.g., Miller, 1981; Milgrom and Roberts, 1990; Porter, 1996; Levinthal, 1997; Whittington et al., 1999). In these analyses,...

Crossing the Great Divide: Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Vicki Smith. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press/ILR press, 2001. 240 pp. $29.95. The question that Vicki Smith attempts to answer in Crossing the Great Divide is "Why don't workers, in the face of unsettling and sometimes transparently...

Rewarding Excellence: Pay Strategies for the New Economy. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Edward E. Lawler Ill. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000. 327 pp. $34.00. Designing and administering compensation systems are formidable tasks. Compensation systems are not only complex, but they also permeate the organization's entire...

After the Cure: Managing AIDS and Other Public Health Crises. (Other Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Martin A. Levin and Mary Bryna Sanger. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000. 254 pp. $35.00, cloth; $16.95, pa per. Levin and Sanger have given us a thoughtful, important, and interesting book in After the Cure: Managing AIDS and...

Storytelling in Organizations, Facts, Fictions, and Fantasies. (Other Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Yiannis Gabriel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 266 pp. $65.00, cloth; $24.95, paper. Storytelling as an academic research concept has been associated mainly with the postmodern turn in organization studies (see Boje, 1995; Boje,...

The Emergent Organization: Communication as its Site and Surface. (Other Reviews).
March 1, 2002... James R. Taylor and Elizabeth J. Van Every. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2000. 351 pp. $79.95, cloth; $39.95, paper. Taylor and Van Every have written a most seductive tome. Chapter 1 emits the siren call that entices the reader into the...

Perspectives on Organizational Communication: Finding Common Ground. (Other Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Steven R. Corman and Marshall Scott Poole, eds. New York: Guilford, 2000. 265 pp. $25.00, paper. This edited book is the product of a panel discussion from the 1997 National Communication Association convention. As Corman, the first editor...

The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence. (Other Reviews).
March 1, 2002... James G. March. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999. 397 pp. $34.95. Like a set of nested Russian dolls, March's The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence layers multiple insights and stimuli beneath its surface, making it a must-read for...

Groups at Work: Theory and Research. (Other Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Marlene E. Turner, ed. Mahwah, NJ: LEA, 2001. 552 pp. $9.95, paper. Edited volumes in the social sciences often suffer from two interrelated problems: lack of thematic coherence and lapses of quality control. These weaknesses, we are...

Cooperative Strategy: Economic, Business, and Organizational Issues. (Other Reviews).
March 1, 2002... David Faulkner and Mark de Rond, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 397 pp. $74.00. This edited volume brings together original contributions from several leading scholars of interorganizational cooperation. The chapters are an...

Organizational Participation: Myth and Reality. (Other Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Frank Heller, Eugen Pusic, George Strauss, and Bernhard Wilpert. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 294 pp. $24.95, paper. Organizational Participation: Myth and Reality is a self-described "valedictory" by four of the Western...

Management and Organizations in the Chinese Context. (Other Reviews).
March 1, 2002... J. T. Li, Anne S. Tsui, and Elizabeth Weldon, eds. New York: Macmillan, 2000. 272 pp. $69.95. There is no question that research on management and organizations in China has grown nearly as rapidly as the Chinese economy in recent decades....

The Arts of Leadership. (Other Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Keith Grint. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 440 pp. $80.00. This book provides case-based analyses of leadership across business, political, military, and social contexts. Its rich historical detail and arts-of-leadership...

Intellectual Property in the Information Age. (Other Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Debora J. Halbert. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1999. 186 pp. $59.95. Intellectual Property in the Information Age is a welcome attempt to mount a radical challenge to the aggressive assertions of copyright protection that have greeted the...

Changing Organizations: Business Networks in the New Political Economy. (Other Reviews).
March 1, 2002... David Knoke. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. 474 pp. $28.00, paper. According to the dust jacket, this book was written for advanced undergraduate students in sociology, public policy, and business management courses. It also targets...