Administrative Science Quarterly articles from March 1 2003

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from March 1 2003

Getting by with the advice of their friends: CEOs' advice networks and firms' strategic responses to poor performance.
March 1, 2003... A number of interconnected literatures have sought to explain the robust finding from research in organization studies and strategic management that top executives often do not initiate significant changes in corporate strategy in response to...

It's all in the name: failure-induced learning by multiunit chains.
March 1, 2003... Multiunit chains are a conspicuous feature of the modern economy. Chains are collections of service organizations that produce similar goods and services in several markets and are linked together under common ownership into larger...

In the bud? Disk array producers as a (possibly) emergent organizational form.
March 1, 2003... In 1986, a little-known Dutch company named Twincom introduced a software product designed to manage "disk drive arrays," which are data storage subsystems linking several (or many) hard disk drives. In the following year, disk array products...

Reconceptualizing organizational routines as a source of flexibility and change.
March 1, 2003... In this paper, we challenge the traditional understanding of organizational routines as creating inertia in organizations. We adapt Latour's distinction between ostensive and performative to build a theory that explains why routines are a...

The Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... The Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate. Neal Ashkanasy, Celeste Wilderom, and Mark Peterson, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000.627 pp. $99.95. The International Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate. Cary L. Cooper,...

Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions, and Organizations Across Nations, 2d ed.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... 2d ed Geert Hofstede. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2001. 596 pp. $97.95. The second edition of Hofstede's book about culture dimensions, Culture's Consequences, covers a tremendous amount of new literature and adds a modest amount of new data...

Organizational Culture: Mapping the Terrain.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Joanne Martin. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2002. 402 pp. $88.95, cloth; $39.95, paper. Over a decade ago, Joanne Martin published a landmark book aimed at bringing some coherency to the sprawling terrain of organizational culture research....

Understanding Organizational Culture.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Mats Alvesson. London: Sage, 2002. 214 pp. $31.00, paper. This book is the most recent and most authoritative attempt to furnish an overall and systematic picture of the study of organizations as cultures. It warrants attention because the...

Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Thomas D. Beamish. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. 232 pp. $21.95. Silent Spill provides a penetrating account of how environmental problems are socially organized, investigating how Unocal oil field leakages and spills in the Guadalupe...

Dynamics of Organizations: Computational Modeling and Organization Theories.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Alessandro Lomi and Erik R. Larsen, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. 502 pp. $39.95. In this book, Lomi and Larsen present original chapters that collectively demonstrate the value of using computer simulation and other computational...

The Triumph of Ethernet: Technological Communities and the Battle for the LAN Standard.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Urs von Burg. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. 300 pp. $55.00, cloth; $24.95, paper. Von Burg presents a refreshing focus on innovation in his historical account of the emergence and development of LAN technologies and the...

Inside Organizations: Anthropologists at Work.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... David N. Gellner and Eric Hirsch, eds. Oxford: Berg, 2001. 271 pp. $68.00, cloth; $23.00, paper. In recent years, the field of organization studies has shown increasing interest in an anthropological approach to the study of organizations....

Mutual Aid and Union Renewal: Cycles of Logics of Action.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Samuel B. Bacharach, Peter A. Bamberger, and William J. Sonnenstuhl. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University press, 2001. 200 pp. $42.50, cloth; $16.95, paper. The study presented in this book is a challenge to the widely diffused notion of the...

Invisible Management: The Social Construction of Leadership.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Sven-Erik Sjostrand, Jorgen Sandberg, and Mats Tyrstrup, eds. London: Thomson Learning, 2001. 263 pp. $33.99. Leadership has been a subject of interest to society and scholars at least since the golden age of Greek philosophy. Although...

Path Dependence and Creation.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Raghu Garud and Peter Karnoe, eds. Mahwah, NJ' LEA, 2001. 399 pp. $55.00. Path Dependence and Creation is a thematic volume intended to remind us that even when path dependence seems to lock human or organizational actors into suboptimal...

The Globalizing Learning Economy.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... The Globalizing Learning Economy. Daniel Archibugi and Bengt-Ake Lundvall, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 307 pp. $60.00. Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Peter Hall and David...

Publications received.(Bibliography)
March 1, 2003... Selected books from this list will be reviewed in future issues. Alkhafaji, A. F. Strategic Management: Formulation, Implementation, and Control in a Dynamic Environment. Binghamton, NY: Haworth, 2003. 318 pp. $69.95, cloth; $39.95, paper....

From the outoing editor, Christine Oliver.(News and Notes)
March 1, 2003... After six years as editor of the Administrative Science Quarterly, and three years prior to that as associate editor, the decision to step down as editor has been a remarkably easy one, untainted by thoughts of loss or sadness. Where are those...