Organization Science articles from July 2001

Organization Science archives from July 2001

Defining Who You Are By What You're Not: Organizational Disidentification and The National Rifle Association.
July 1, 2001... Abstract Through two exploratory studies, we develop and test an introductory framework of "organizational disidentification." Our first study explores the concept of organizational disidentification through a qualitative investigation of...

Not All Events Are Attended Equally: Toward a Middle-Range Theory of Industry Attention to External Events.
July 1, 2001... Abstract This paper builds on prior theory and research on attention and identity to examine whether and how industries publicly attend to external events. Events are critical triggers of institutional transformation and industry...

Teamwork Quality and the Success of Innovative Projects: A Theoretical Concept and Empirical Evidence.
July 1, 2001... Abstract An extensive body of literature indicates the importance of teamwork to the success of innovative projects. This growing awareness, that "good teamwork" increases the success of innovative projects, raises new questions: What is...

The Role of Trust in Organizational Settings.
July 1, 2001... Abstract Numerous researchers from various disciplines seem to agree that trust has a number of important benefits for organizations, although they have not necessarily come to agreement on how these benefits occur. In this article, we...

Supervisory Span, Relational Coordination and Flight Departure Performance: A Reassessment of Post-Bureaucracy Theory.
July 1, 2001... Abstract There is a rich debate in organizational theory about the contribution of supervisors to group process and performance, and about the span of control needed to make that contribution. In this paper, I summarize the debate and...

Controlling Decision Making Practice in Organizations.
July 1, 2001... Abstract How are decision practices fostered in organizations and how are they linked to decision outcomes? This study addresses these questions by examining one financial institution's efforts to standardize and control decision making...

Networks, Diversity, and Productivity: The Social Capacity of Corporate R&D Teams.
July 1, 2001... Abstract We argue that the debate regarding the performance implications of demographic diversity can be usefully reframed in terms of the network variables that reflect distinct forms of social capital. Scholars who are pessimistic about...