Organization Science articles from November 2000

Organization Science archives from November 2000

Dynamics and dilemmas of women leading women.
November 1, 2000... While empowerment is an issue of our time, it has been particularly important in the feminist movement. This paper reports a longitudinal study of leadership successions in six-year evolution of a group designed to empower women. It...

Organizational routines as a source of continuous change.
November 1, 2000... Abstract In this paper I claim that organizational routines have a great potential for change even though they are often perceived, even defined, as unchanging. I present descriptions of routines that change as participants respond to...

Organizational learning and the transfer of knowledge: an investigation of quality improvement.
November 1, 2000... Abstract Whereas most prior research on the learning curve has focused on improvements in efficiency, this paper deals with the impact of learning on product quality. The key data are measures of automobile reliability published in...

Dyadic communication relationships in organizations: an attribution/expectancy approach.
November 1, 2000... Abstract Research in organizational communication has examined the structure and content of interaction, but has paid little attention to research traditions outside the organizational sciences that explore the social-psychological...

Dealing with time in social inquiry: a tension between method and lived experience.
November 1, 2000... Abstract In a series of interviews, organizational researchers acknowledged the key role of time in social inquiry, and their tendency to exclude it in practice. The discrepancy between what researchers think about the incorporation of...

The optimal performance of the global firm: formalizing and extending the integration-responsiveness framework.
November 1, 2000... Abstract With the increasing globalization of business, there has been growing interest in how to create and manage a successful international enterprise. Although researchers and practitioners have grappled with the issue of globalization...

Conventions: an interpretation of deep structure in organizations. (Cross Roads).
November 1, 2000... Abstract To describe human action as purely the product of rational calculation leaves unanswered the question of how human beings can act in the absence of any structure for calculating the likely outcome of their actions. If the answer...

Taking science out of organization science: how would postmodernism reconstruct the analysis of organizations? (Cross Roads).
November 1, 2000... Since at least the mid-1980s, the paradigm wars have raged throughout organization studies, as they have in most of the social sciences. Normally the dichotomy is framed as one of postmodernism versus positivism--and the debate has, in my...

Putting the community into organizational science: exploring the construction of knowledge claims.
November 1, 2000... Perhaps, said the Marchioness, Nature has reserved the Merit of demonstrating Truth to the English prisms; that is, to those by whose means she at first discovered herself. Francescon Algarotti, 1742 Abstract Like Weiss, I too...

Postmodernism's challenge to Organization Science: self-refuting, self-indulgent, or good medicine? An editorial essay.
November 1, 2000... It is customary for the accepting editor of a Crossroads article to write a brief essay commenting on the piece. However, because Richard Weiss's paper and Stanley Deetz's rebuttal constitute distinct opinions--and because I accepted both...