Organization Science articles from September 2003

Organization Science archives from September 2003

Cascading organizational change.
September 1, 2003... Abstract This article develops a formal theory of the structural aspects of organizational change. It concentrates on changes in an organization's architecture, depicted as a code system. It models the common process whereby an initial...

When is more better? The effects of racial composition on voluntary turnover.
September 1, 2003... Abstract This study examines the relationship between racial composition and individual, voluntary turnover for minorities (i.e., Asians, blacks, and Hispanics) in a large organization. We present a critical test for two sets of...

Learning about failure: bankruptcy, firm age, and the resource-based view.
September 1, 2003... Abstract Systematic differences in the determinants of firm failure between firms that fail early in their life and those that fail after having successfully negotiated the early liabilities of newness and adolescence are identified....

From issues to actions: the importance of individual concerns and organizational values in responding to natural environmental issues.
September 1, 2003... Abstract In this research, we traced the development of natural environmental issues in two organizations in real time over the period of a year. Participant observations, discussions with organizational members, and corporate documents...

Sequential variety in work processes.
September 1, 2003... Abstract This paper introduces the concept of sequential variety as a way to measure variability in the sequence of steps used to perform a work process. There is reason to expect that such variability may influence a range of outcomes,...

Interaction value analysis: when structured communication benefits organizations.
September 1, 2003... Abstract We present a mathematical model that predicts and explains the circumstances under which a management-defined communication structure can add value to an organization. This model provides a game-theoretical basis for contingent...

Making a difference: organization as design.
September 1, 2003... Abstract Mainstream organizational research is based on science and the humanities. Science helps us to understand organized systems, from an outsider position, as empirical objects. The humanities contribute to understanding, and...

Constructing the Olympic dream: a future perfect strategy of project management.
September 1, 2003... Abstract In this paper we investigate a uniquely complex organizational context--that of the fast-tracked large-scale project management of a significant piece of Sydney 2000 Olympic infrastructure, which we researched in terms of its...

Developing the professional self-concept: role model construals in early, middle, and late career stages.
September 1, 2003... Abstract While previous literature tends to focus on role models as significant other people, particularly in one's early life, this study finds that individuals tend to construe their role models as a selection process of attributes from...