Organization Science articles from July 2005

Organization Science archives from July 2005

Pushing back the Frontiers of Organization Science.
July 1, 2005... Key words: theory; National Science Foundation; seismic theoretical shifts ********** It gives us great pleasure to present the two-part special issue "Frontiers of Organization Science." The keystone for this special issue is a grant...

Prospects for organization theory in the early twenty-first century: institutional fields and mechanisms.
July 1, 2005... This paper argues that research in organization theory has seen a shift in orientation from paradigm-driven work to problem-driven work since the late 1980s. A number of paradigms for the study of organizations were elaborated during the...

Regional industrial identity: cluster configurations and economic development.
July 1, 2005... We explore the concept of regional industrial identity as an important missing component in our understanding of the development of metropolitan regions and the spatial arrangements of industries. While economists and sociologists have...

Zooming in and out: connecting individuals and collectivities at the frontiers of organizational network research.
July 1, 2005... The role of individual action in the enactment of structures of constraint and opportunity has proved to be particularly elusive for network researchers. We propose three frontiers for future network research that zoom back and forth between...

Building organization theory from first principles: the self-enhancement motive and understanding power and influence.
July 1, 2005... In developing and advancing organization theory, it is useful if we can uncover fundamental constructs that can then be used to integrate larger areas of inquiry, even as we continue to accumulate more knowledge, evidence, and concepts....

Designing work within and between organizations.
July 1, 2005... The design of work has been and will continue to be a central problem challenging organization theory and practice. The system of arrangements and procedures for doing work affects all workers every day throughout the world. Work is changing...

Organizing and the process of sensemaking.
July 1, 2005... Sensemaking involves turning circumstances into a situation that is comprehended explicitly in words and that serves as a springboard into action. In this paper we take the position that the concept of sensemaking fills important gaps in...

Identifying situated cognition in organizations.
July 1, 2005... Using the established definition of situated cognition in organizations as "the interaction of cognitive schemas and organizational context" (Lant 2002), we examine empirical case studies from the last 15 years to illustrate what situated...

Full-cycle micro-organizational behavior research.
July 1, 2005... We advocate a full-cycle approach to conducting organizational behavior research. Full-cycle research begins with the observation of naturally occurring phenomena and proceeds by traveling back and forth between observation and...