Administrative Science Quarterly articles from September 2000

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from September 2000

FROM THE EDITOR.(Brief Article)(Transcript)
September 1, 2000... It is my pleasure to announce this year's winner of the ASQ Award for Scholarly Contribution. The award goes to the authors of the best paper published five years previously in the Administrative Science Quarterly, and it is determined by a...

Collaboration Networks, Structural Holes, and Innovation: A Longitudinal Study.
September 1, 2000... To assess the effects of a firm's network of relations on innovation, this paper elaborates a theoretical framework that relates three aspects of a firm's ego network--direct ties, indirect ties, and structural holes (disconnections between a...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ambivalent: Managing Identification among Amway Distributors.
September 1, 2000... An ethnographic study of distributors for Amway, a network marketing organization, examines the practices and processes involved in managing members' organizational identification. It shows that this organization manages identification by using...

Presenting Structural Innovation in an Institutional Environment: Hospitals' Use of Impression Management.
September 1, 2000... This research examines how the first organizations to abandon an institutionalized, taken-for-granted structure and adopt a radically different form presented the innovation to important stakeholders. A content analysis of hospitals' annual...

What Bandwagons Bring: Effects of Popular Management Techniques on Corporate Performance, Reputation, and CEO Pay.
September 1, 2000... This paper examines some of the important organizational consequences of popular management techniques. Using informational reports on quality, empowerment, and teams, as well as a measure of the implementation of total quality management...

The Winding Road from Employee to Complainant: Situational and Psychological Determinants of Wrongful-Termination Claims.
September 1, 2000... Structured interviews with 996 recently fired or laid-off workers provided data for analyses of the situational and psychological antecedents of both thinking about filing a wrongful-termination claim and actually filing such a claim. Potential...

Focusing the Corporate Product: Securities Analysts and De-diversification.
September 1, 2000... The issue of corporate control is examined through an analysis of the de-diversification activity of publicly held American firms from 1985 to 1994. Prominent accounts of such behavior depict newly powerful shareholders as having demanded a...

Management Learning: Integrating Perspectives in Theory and Practice.(Review)
September 1, 2000... John Burgoyne and Michael Reynolds, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998. 342 pp. $85.00, cloth; $35.00, paper. Burgoyne and Reynolds tackle several challenges simultaneously in their edited volume on management learning. They take on the...

Organizational Learning: Creating, Retaining, and Transferring Knowledge.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Linda Argote. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1999. 212 pp. $89.95. Research on organizational learning has been plagued by widely varying theoretical and operational definitions and a lack of empirical study. Argote's book goes a long way toward...

Identity in Organizations: Building Theory Through Conversations.(Review)
September 1, 2000... David A. Whetten and Paul C. Godfrey, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998. 308 pp. $61.50, cloth; $31.95, paper. The concept of identity cuts to the core of an individual, group, or organization. Searching for one's identity often triggers...

Organizational Participation: Myth and Reality.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Frank Heller, Eugen Pusic, George Strauss, and Bernhard Wilpert. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 294 pp. $24.95. This book, the product of four scholars who have devoted much of their careers to the study of organizational...

Challenges for Work and Family in the Twenty-First Century.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Dana Vannoy and Paula J. Dubeck, eds. New York: de Gruyter, 1998. 234 PP. $21.95, paper. Challenges for Work and Family is a compilation of papers drawn from a conference sponsored by the Kunz Center for the Study of Work and Family. The...

Advances in Applied Business Strategy, vol. 5: Turnaround Research: Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Lawrence W. Foster, ed. Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 1998. 280 pp. $78.50. The editor of this volume justifiably notes at the beginning that turnaround research has been neglected in the general strategy literature and that this volume reveals...

Theory and Research on Small Groups.(Review)
September 1, 2000... R. Scott Tindale et al., eds. New York: Plenum, 1998. 277 pp. $55.00. A former colleague called me recently to ask what was happening in group research these days. Were people still studying groups using experiments or field research? In...

Using Conflict in Organizations.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Carsten De Dreu and Evert Van De Vliert, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997. 229 pp. $74.50, cloth; $26.50, paper. The history of research on organizational conflict could be said to be dominated by two questions: How can conflict be...

Theories of Organizational Stress.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Cary L. Cooper, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 268 pp. $65.00. Theories of Organizational Stress addresses a problem with serious economic and social stakes. Organizational stress undermines worker morale and physical health,...