Administrative Science Quarterly articles from September 1997

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from September 1997

Impetus for action: a cultural analysis of justice and organizational citizenship behavior in Chinese society.
September 1, 1997... Although an organization may increase its competitiveness through a multitude of means, Western scholars have increasingly emphasized the importance of employee actions that are not specifically designated in their formal job duties, or...

An urban grants economy revisited: corporate charitable contributions in the Twin Cities, 1979-81, 1987-89.
September 1, 1997... I heard so much about the City of Minneapolis, about its Chamber of Commerce, about the public spirit of its business community, about your remarkable Five Percent Club -- that I feel a bit like Dorothy in the Land of Oz. I had to come to the...

Modes of interorganizational imitation: the effects of outcome salience and uncertainty.
September 1, 1997... Many early theories emphasizing the importance of organizational context portrayed organizational environments as broad, static entities, characterized by stable properties such as turbulence or munificence (e.g., Lawrence and Lorsch, 1967). In...

How policy shapes competition: early railroad foundings in Massachusetts.
September 1, 1997... What factors influence industry competition in ways that affect the establishment of new firms? Organizational ecologists point to the environmental resources at hand and the level of competition for those resources. Industrial organization...

A quantitative analysis of conflict types and dimensions in organizational groups.
September 1, 1997... In much of the previous literature conflict is generally deemed detrimental to performance and satisfaction (March and Simon, 1958; Pondy, 1967; Blake and Mouton, 1984). Thus, it is no surprise that today's managers and employees still...

When trust matters: the moderating effect of outcome favorability.
September 1, 1997... Although the topic of trust has long been of interest to organizational scholars, a variety of workplace trends has led to a renewed focus on its nature, antecedents, and consequences (Whitney, 1994; Kramer and Tyler, 1995; Mayer, Davis, and...

Accounts, Excuses, and Apologies: A Theory of Image Restoration Strategies.
September 1, 1997... Over the past decade, image management has become one of the hottest research topics in the social sciences (cf. Giacalone and Rosenfeld, 1989, 1991). Yet general models of image management have been informed primarily by social psychology, to...

Front Stage, Backstage: The Democratic Structure of Labor Negotiations.
September 1, 1997... Those of us who are perpetual students of negotiation and the negotiation process are often struck by the dramatic discrepancy between what problems we choose to study in the laboratory and the dynamics of the process so easily noticed in "real...

Negotiations as a Social Process.
September 1, 1997... Not so long ago, negotiation was viewed as a rather sordid affair, associated with haggling, dickering, bartering, niggling, swapping, and back room deal making. It is now recognized as a widespread and serious social activity that is promoted as...

Launching Europe: An Ethnography of European Cooperation in Space Science.
September 1, 1997... Anthropologist Stacia Zabusky spent a year in Noordwijk, Holland doing ethnography in the Space Science Department of the European Space Research and Technology Center - itself part of the European Space Agency (ESA) - and came back with a...

Organizational Linkages: Understanding the Productivity Paradox.
September 1, 1997... The "productivity paradox" that is the subject of this book is twofold. First, why have enormous investments in information technology produced so little measurable improvement in productivity, especially in the United States? Second, why don't...

Contemporary Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector.
September 1, 1997... For social scientists, the glamorous workplace subjects of the 1980s and 1990s include employee involvement, information sharing, self-managed work teams, pay for performance, and a host of other high-performance/high-commitment human resource...

Research in Organizational Behavior, vol. 17.
September 1, 1997... In their preface to this volume, Cummings and Staw praise the contribution of the chapters for their promotion of "multi- and cross-level constructs in theory building and the incorporation of time as a central concept in explanations of...

American Anti-Management Theories of Organization: A Critique of Paradigm Proliferation.
September 1, 1997... In an earlier book (1985), Lex Donaldson, who teaches at the Australian School of Management, had defended structural contingency theory from the attacks by critical, radical, or Marxist organization theories developed on European shores. In this...

The New Modern Times: Factors Reshaping the World of Work.
September 1, 1997... There is a striking resemblance between the act of planning a menu and planning an edited volume. One can adopt either a "prix fixe" or a "pot luck" approach to the endeavor. A host or editor adopting the first approach delineates a theme or...