Organization Science articles from March 2001

Organization Science archives from March 2001

Agency relationships in family firms: theory and evidence.
March 1, 2001... The authors have conducted the kind of research here that we all reach for but too often fail to grasp. That is, this study of the governance of family firms is theoretically rich and practically relevant. Our colleagues have pressed the limits...

The assimilation of knowledge platforms in organizations: an empirical investigation.
March 1, 2001... Abstract The ability to integrate dispersed pockets of expertise and institute an organizational repository of knowledge is considered to be vital for sustained effectiveness in contemporary business environments. Information technologies...

Organizational incentives and organizational mortality.
March 1, 2001... Abstract Despite a long tradition of research on organizational mortality, organizational theorists have not examined the effect of incentive contracting on firm survival. This paper fills this gap by examining the effect of incentive...

Social identities in an international joint venture: an exploratory case study.
March 1, 2001... Abstract International joint venture (IJV) research largely omits social and cognitive processes and, hence, overlooks their potentially Important implications. This paper presents a four-year longitudinal investigation into the social...

The dynamics of alignment: insights from a punctuated equilibrium model.
March 1, 2001... Although there is much emphasis on the importance of achieving alignment, or synergy, between information systems and the organization as a whole, there is relatively little close study of how alignment is actually achieved. In three case...

Knowledge and organization: a social-practice perspective. (Perspective).
March 1, 2001... Abstract While the recent focus on knowledge has undoubtedly benefited organizational studies, the literature still presents a sharply contrasting and even contradictory view of knowledge, which at times is described as "sticky" and at...

Crossroads.
March 1, 2001... This issue of Crossroads continues the founding vision of Peter Frost to create a forum, within Organization Science, for exchanging ideas, insights, and opinions from different disciplinary fields, management ideologies, and theoretical...

Market, hierarchy, and trust: the knowledge economy and the future of capitalism.
March 1, 2001... Abstract Recent conceptualizations of trends in the structure of U.S. industry have focused on the relative importance of markets, hierarchies, and hybrid intermediate forms. This paper advances the discussion by distinguishing three...

Response to Adler, "market, hierarchy, and trust".
March 1, 2001... The core elements of Adler's argument--the limits of markets and hierarchies in a knowledge-based economy, the need for greater trust, and the transformative consequences of this shift--seem to me powerful and illuminating. However, the nature...

The ontology of trust and the transformation of capitalism in a knowledge economy--a commentary on Paul Adler's "Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism".
March 1, 2001... In Alan Wolfe's (1999, p. 42) words, Whether expressed in the vocabulary of Marx, Durkheim, or Weber, [classical] sociology posited a strong relationship between the economic changes introduced by large-scale manufacturing and the moral...

Trust as a change agent for capitalism or as ideology? A commentary.
March 1, 2001... Adler develops the following lines of argument. (1) The present economies are characterized by a trend towards trust and communities. (2) The main cause of this trend towards trust is that hierarchies and markets are illsuited to coordinate...