Administrative Science Quarterly articles from September 1991

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from September 1991

Institutional change and the transformation of interorganizational fields: an organizational history of the U.S. radio broadcasting industry. (includes appendices)
September 1, 1991... The research reported here explores how institutional practices change ver time in an interorganizational field, in the historical context of the U.S. radio broadcasting industry. It identifies three endogenous mechanisms of change: analogies...

Personality and charisma in the U.S. presidency: a psychological theory of leader effectiveness. (includes appendix)
September 1, 1991... We argue in this paper that in an age of complexity, change, large enterprises, and nation states, leaders are more important than ever. However, their effectiveness depends on their personality and charisma and not solely on their control over...

Random walks and organizational mortality.
September 1, 1991... A simple model is developed here that relates organizational age and mortality rates. The critical insight of the analysis is that surviving organizations will tend to be organizations that were, in prior periods, successful, and this prior...

Assessing construct validity in organizational research. (includes appendices)
September 1, 1991... Classic and contemporary methods for analyzing construct validity are compared and contrasted through reanalyses of data from the organizational research literature to establish a basis for assessing the validity of measures used in...

Matching people and organizations: selection and socialization in public accounting firms.
September 1, 1991... To investigate how the fit of an employee with his or her organization a a whole is established and maintained and what the consequences are in organizations, this study tracked the early careers of 171 entry-level auditors in eight of the...