Administrative Science Quarterly articles from September 2002

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from September 2002

From the editor.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... It is my great pleasure to announce the names of this year's winner of the Administrative Science Quarterly Award for Scholarly Contribution. This award is given to the author(s) of the best paper published five years previously in ASO, and it...

Disconnects and consequences in organization theory? (ASQ Forum).
September 1, 2002... If we look at the historical roots of the study of organizations, a central concern, a defining question, or theme was "What are the consequences of the existence of organizations?" This concern was deeply embedded in the work of a founding...

The proper place of organizational scholarship: A comment on Hinings and Greenwood. (ASQ Forum).
September 1, 2002... Appearing as it does at the end of 2002, the Hinings and Greenwood ASQ forum is very timely. This has been a tumultuous, scandalous year for business organizations, especially in North America. Some firms' financial statements have been found...

"Lives in the balance": A comment on Hinings and Greenwood's "Disconnects and Consequences in Organization Theory"? (ASQ Forum).
September 1, 2002... Hinings and Greenwood's Proposition In "Disconnects and Consequences in Organization Theory?" Hinings and Greenwood ask what is the point of organization theory today? They establish, early on in their essay, that when it was conceived as...

Improvisation and the logic of exchange in socially embedded transactions.
September 1, 2002... We use a sensemaking lens to illuminate the micro-processes underlying socially embedded transactions, investigating how social ties affect the logic of exchange governing the transaction. In transcripts of 87 two-party negotiations, we find...

A genealogical approach to organizational life chances: the parent-progeny transfer among Silicon Valley law firms, 1946-1996.
September 1, 2002... Data on Silicon Valley law firms over a 50-year period were used to study the genealogy of organizational populations and its consequences for organizational life chances when a member of an existing firm leaves to found a new firm. Hypotheses...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: the impact of organizational identification, identity, and image on the cooperative behaviors of physicians.
September 1, 2002... We use an established model of organizational identification to try to understand the voluntary cooperative behavior of professionals in organizations. We examined the relationships among physicians' assessments of the attractiveness of a...

The effects of contracts on interpersonal trust.
September 1, 2002... This paper uses two laboratory experiments to investigate the effects of contracts on interpersonal trust. We predict that the use of binding contracts to promote or mandate cooperation will lead interacting parties to attribute others'...

Civil Society and the Professions in Eastern Europe: Social Change and Organizational Innovation in Poland.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... S. Wojciech Sokolowski. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2001. 259 PP. $65.00. In the last two decades, there has been an enormous growth of interest in the study of the nonprofit sector. The growth of interest has several sources, but...

The Politics of Social Networks: Interpersonal Trust and Institutional Change in Post-Communist East Germany.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Astrid Hedin. Lund, Sweden: Lund University, Department of Political Science, 2001. 288 pp. $18.00 (SEK 200). The Politics of Social Networks is a recent dissertation in the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden....

Managing Organizational Change in Transition Economies.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Daniel R. Denison, ed. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001. 563 pp. $45.00, paper. This book, like so many other edited volumes, is a hors d'oeuvre sampler rather than a coherent intellectual contribution. Yet, given the topic this work...

Greening the Firm: The Politics of Corporate Environmentalism.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Aseem Prakash. Port Chester, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 181 pages. $58.75. This book is aimed at a general audience of scholars interested in the theory of the firm. It will appeal more, however, to organizational theorists,...

The Psychology of Legitimacy: Emerging Perspectives on Ideology, Justice, and Intergroup Relations.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... John T. Jost and Brenda Major, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 477 pp. $75.00, cloth; $27.95, paper. The psychology of legitimacy is increasingly central to organizations. More and more, firms are characterized by...

Decision Making: Social and Creative Dimensions.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Carl Martin Allwood and Marcus Selart, eds. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic, 2001. 320 PP. $1 19.00. Decision making has been a classic topic of academic research and applied practice. This edited volume by Allwood and Selart continues...

Shared Cognition in Organizations: The Management of Knowledge.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Leigh L. Thompson, John M. Levine, and David M. Messick, eds. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999. 364 pp. $39.95, paper. Cognitive science has focused on the study of the workings of the individual mind. As the emphasis is on how an...

Social Influences on Ethical Behavior in Organizations.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... John M. Darley, David M. Messick, and Tom R. Tyler, eds. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001. 246 pp. $49.95. For too long, organizational scientists have not attended adequately to the problems of unethical behavior in and of...

Kimono in the Boardroom: The Invisible Evolution of Japanese Women Managers.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Jean R. Renshaw. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 291 pp. $3500. Kimono in the Boardroom is based on Renshaw's interviews with over 150 successful women in Japan. The primary goal of the book is to illustrate that women are not...

The Demography of Corporations and Industries.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Glenn R. Carroll and Michael T. Hannan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 490 pp. $55.00. This volume is both a systematic restatement and extension of organizational ecology. The title signals Carroll and Hannan's emphasis...

Management Gurus and Management Fashions.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Brad Jackson. New York: Routledge, 2001. 208 pp. $29.95, paper. Why would bright, well-educated managers under intense pressure to "get it right" line up like lemmings to jump on one sure-fire, can't-miss panacea after the other? The list...

Demographic Differences in Organizations: Current Research and Future Directions.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Anne S. Tsui and Barbara A. Gutek. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 1999. 204 pp. $45.00. Consistent with its title, Demographic Differences in Organizations aims to analyze the social psychology of demographic differences by drawing on...

Management Education in Historical Perspective.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Lars Engwall and Vera Zamagni, eds. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1998. 177 pp. $59.95. Management practice and theory development are not typically examined in historical and international contexts simultaneously....

National Labour Relations in Internalized Markets: A Comparative Study of Institutions, Change, and Performance.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Franz Traxler, Sabine Blaschke, and Bernhard Kittel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 339 pp. $60.00. This book is the result of research conducted under an Austrian research grant on "internationalization, labour relations, and...

The Dynamics of Rules: Change in Written Organizational Codes.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... James G. March, Martin Schulz, and Xueguang Zhou. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. 228 pp. $49.50, cloth; $24.95, paper. This is a book about rules, not just any rules, but the academic and administrative rules that have...

Publications received: selected books from this list will be reviewed in future issues.(Bibliography)
September 1, 2002... Agresti, A. Categorical Data Analysis, 2d ed. New York: Wiley, 2002. 714 pp. $89.95. Ashkanasy, N. M., W. J. Zerbe, and C. E. J. Hartel, eds. Managing Emotions in the Workplace. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. 358 pp. $34.95, paper. ...

Calls for papers. (News and Notes).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... IEMS Conference Organizers are issuing a call for papers and 200-word abstracts for presentations at the Ninth International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems to be held in Cocoa Beach, Florida, March 17-19, 2003....