Administrative Science Quarterly articles from September 1998

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from September 1998

Board games: how CEOs adapt to increases in structural board independence from management.
September 1, 1998... Over the past decade, institutional investors and other stakeholders have strongly criticized corporate boards of directors for failing to meet their perceived legal responsibility to monitor and control management decision making on behalf of...

The employment of women managers and professionals in an emerging economy: gender inequality as an organizational practice.
September 1, 1998... The proportion of women in higher status positions is a key indicator of equity for those interested in social stratification. Because the position of the employer in the economy (Baron and Bielby, 1980) and the nature of internal labor markets...

Organizational evolution in the interorganizational environment: incentives and constraints on international expansion strategy.
September 1, 1998... Though corporate expansion into a new market is one of the fundamental forms of strategic variation among business organizations (Aldrich, 1979: 24, 39), it is also among the least understood outcomes of the interorganizational environment,...

The rhetoric and reality of total quality management.
September 1, 1998... [W]e are absolutely convinced that TQM is a fundamentally better way to conduct business and is necessary for the economic well-being of America. TQM results in higher-quality, lower cost products and services that respond faster to the needs...

Organizational demography and culture: insights from a formal model and simulation.
September 1, 1998... An active line of contemporary research on organizations investigates the effects of demography on organizational outcomes. Inspired by Pfeffer's (1983) arguments, researchers have examined the consequences of demographic distributions in...

Network positions and propensities to collaborate: an investigation of strategic alliance formation in a high-technology industry.
September 1, 1998... To gain insight into corporate behavior and performance, organization theorists have begun to apply models of social structure to the analysis of economic markets. For example, White (1981) proposed a typology of markets as role structures,...

The Modern Corporation and American Political Thought: Law, Power, and Ideology.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Scott R. Bowman. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1996. 436 pp. $55.00, cloth; $18.95, paper. Scott Bowman's focus is on theories of the corporation and of corporate power. He sees the corporation as the dominant institution of our...

Pattern in Corporate Evolution.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Neil M. Kay. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 319 pp. $65.00. Neil Kay attempts to produce a general theory of the firm, one inspired by Oliver Williamson's transaction cost analysis but ultimately critical of it. Kay's ambitious...

Socializing Capital: The Rise of Large Industrial Corporations in America.(Review)
September 1, 1998... William G. Roy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 338 pp. $35.00. Bigger may not be better, but it is fundamentally different. At a moment when already massive firms are eagerly merging and economic life is increasingly...

Technological Innovation: Oversights and Foresights.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Raghu Garud, Praveen R. Nayyar, and Zur B. Shapira, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 388 pp. $54.95. Some reviewers of edited volumes use metaphors to describe the coherence of chapters that make up an anthology. A volume...

Anthropology of Organizations.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Susan Wright, ed. London: Routledge, 1994. 217 pp. $16.95. This edited volume emerged from a 1991 conference organized by the Group for Anthropology in Policy and Practice, a British organization committed to bringing together academic and...

Organizational Ethics and the Good Life.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Edwin M. Hartman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 214 pp. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper. With a growing consensus that businesses need to be ethical, society turns to educators and consultants to help improve ethical behavior in...

Ethical Dimensions of Leadership.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Rabindra N. Kanungo and Manuel Mendonca. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996. 152 pp. $36.00, cloth; $17.95, paper. With a growing consensus that businesses need to be ethical, society turns to educators and consultants to help improve ethical...

Race, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship in Urban America.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Ivan Light and Carolyn Rosenstein. Hawthorne, NY: de Gruyter, 1995. 255 pp. $47.95, cloth; $23.95, paper. It could be regarded as a sign of maturity in an area of research when it finds itself being broken down into ever decreasing...

Management of Knowledge-Intensive Companies.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Mats Alvesson. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1995. 367 pp. $109.00. This broad and ambitious book offers the reader two guided tours. One is a tour of Enator, a young, innovative Swedish systems consulting firm. For those interested in consulting...

Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in U.S. Settings.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Stephen R. Barley and Julian E. Orr, eds. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. 264 pp. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper. Some years ago I spotted in the New York Times Business Section a picture Roland Barthes would have loved. Behind a...

Risk Taking: A Managerial Perspective.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Zur Shapira. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1995. 160 pp. $24.95. This is a scholarly masterpiece - combining the best of classic and current research and theory on risk taking and applying it to real problems in the complex world of...

Handbook of Organization Studies.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia Hardy, and Walter R. Nord, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996. 730 pp. $115.50. The editors of the Handbook of Organization Studies had two objectives in mind when they conceived this book. One was fulfilling the...

The Boundaryless Career: A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Michael Arthur and Denise Rousseau, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 394 pp. $45.00. Boundaryless careers are occupational paths that are not bounded within specific organizations but grow through project-based competency...

The Quest for Justice on the Job: Essays and Experiments.(Review)
September 1, 1998... Jerald Greenberg. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996. 428 pp. $58.00, cloth; $26.95, paper. The Quest for Justice on the Job is a collection of influential, previously published writings by one of the pioneers of the organizational justice...