Administrative Science Quarterly articles from September 2001

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from September 2001

From the editor.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
September 1, 2001... It gives me the greatest pleasure to announce this year's winner of the ASQ Award for Scholarly Contribution. Each year, the Administrative Science Quarterly provides an award to the author(s) of the paper published five years previously that...

Social comparisons in boundary-spanning work: Effects of community outreach on members' organizational identity and identification.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... ********** This research investigated how experiences in a particular boundary-spanning context (community outreach) affected members' organizational identity and identification. Multimethod panel data from 219 participants showed that...

Getting to know you: The influence of personality on impressions and performance of demographically different people in organizations.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... ********** This paper extends social categorization theory to understand how personality traits related to information sharing may correspond with positive perceptions of demographically different people, thereby enhancing their experience...

Uncertainty, imitation, and plant location: Japanese multinational corporations, 1990-1996.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... In a study of a sample of 2,705 international plant location decisions by listed Japanese multinational corporations across a possible set of 155 countries in the 1990-1996 period, we use neoinstitutional theory and research on political...

When innovations meet institutions: Edison and the design of the electric light.
September 1, 2001... ********** This paper considers the role of design, as the emergent arrangement of concrete details that embodies a new idea, in mediating between innovations and established institutional fields as entrepreneurs attempt to introduce...

Fool's gold: Social proof in the initiation and abandonment of coverage by Wall Street analysts.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... ********** This paper examines the dynamics of social influence in the choices of securities analysts to initiate and abandon coverage of firms listed on the NASDAQ national market. We show that social proof--using the actions of others to...

Images in words: Presidential rhetoric, charisma, and greatness.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... ********** We analyzed two sets of U.S. presidents' speeches to determine whether their propensities to convey images in words were linked to perceptions of their charisma and greatness. As predicted, presidents who engaged in more...

The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action. (Book Reviews).
September 1, 2001... The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000. 314 pp. $27.50. Why do companies fail to perform well even after pouring funds into...

Knowledge-driven Work: Unexpected Lessons from Japanese and United States Work Practices. (Book Reviews).
September 1, 2001... Knowledge-driven Work: Unexpected Lessons from Japanese and United States Work Practices. Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Michio Nitta, Betty J. Barrett, Nejib Belhedi, Simon Sai-Chung Chow, Takashi Inaba, lwao Ishino, Wen-Jeng Lin, Michael L. Moore,...

Career Frontiers: New Conceptions of Working Lives. (Other Reviews).
September 1, 2001... Career Frontiers: New Conceptions of Working Lives. Maury Peiperl, Michael Arthur, Rob Goffee, and Tim Morris, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 290 pp. $74.00, cloth; $24.95, paper. Career Frontiers continues the discussion of...

Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices. (Other Reviews).
September 1, 2001... Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices. Leslie A. Perlow. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. 156 pp. $37.50, cloth; $14.95, paper. Finding Time sets out with a remarkable...

Erratum. (News and Notes).(Correction Notice)
September 1, 2001... On page 301 of "Metaphors and Meaning: An Intercultural Analysis of the Concept of Teamwork," by Cristina B. Gibson and Mary E. Zellmer-Bruhn, the correct bibliographical information for C. B. Gibson's 1994 article is "The implications of...

Creative Industries: Contracts between Art and Commerce. (Other Reviews).
September 1, 2001... Creative Industries: Contracts between Art and Commerce. Richard E. Caves. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. 368 pp. $45.00. Creative Industries is aimed at scholars interested in the economics of culture, cultural industries,...

Management and Cultural Values: The Indigenization of Organizations in Asia. (Other Reviews).
September 1, 2001... Management and Cultural Values: The Indigenization of Organizations in Asia. Henry S. R. Kao, Durangand Sinha, and Bernhard Wilpert, eds. New Delhi: Sage, 1999. 332 pp. $49.95. Here we are in the twenty-first century and we are still...

Values at Work: Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragon. (Other Reviews).
September 1, 2001... Values at Work: Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragon. George Cheney. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 1999. 190 pp. $35.00. Drastic changes in competition and technology have changed the way most...

The Innovation Journey. (Other Reviews).
September 1, 2001... The Innovation Journey. Andrew H. Van de Ven, Douglas E. Polley, Raghu Garud, and Sankaran Venkataraman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 423 pp. $35.00. Over a period of more than 17 years, the Minnesota Innovation Research...

Big Business and the State: Historical Transitions and Corporate Transformation, 1880s-1990s. (Other Reviews).
September 1, 2001... Big Business and the State: Historical Transitions and Corporate Transformation, 1880s-1990s. Harland Prechel. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000. 317 pp. $25.95, paper. For the last decade or so, the "new economic...

Inter-Firm Alliances: Analysis and Design. (Other Reviews).
September 1, 2001... Inter-Firm Alliances: Analysis and Design. Bart Nooteboom. New York: Routledge, 1999. 239 pp. $90.00, cloth; $29.99, paper. Inter-Firm Alliances: Analysis and Design undertakes the heroic task of using a multidisciplinary perspective,...

International Conference. (News and Notes).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), Griffith University, and the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) are sponsoring the ANZAM/IFSAM VIth World Congress, to be held in Queensland,...