Organization Science articles from September 2005

Organization Science archives from September 2005

Moving beyond the Frontiers of Organization Science.
September 1, 2005... Key words: new theory; pioneering research; call to action ********** This is the second installment of a two-part special issue intended to map out and advance the "Frontiers of Organization Science." We approached this project in the...

Organizing far from equilibrium: nonlinear change in organizational fields.
September 1, 2005... Organizational fields undergo upheavals. Shifting industry boundaries, new network forms, emerging sectors, and volatile ecosystems have become the stuff of everyday organizational life. Curiously, profound changes of this sort receive scant...

Identities, genres, and organizational forms.
September 1, 2005... In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis within organizational ecology on identity as a fundamental basis for the conceptualization and identification of organizational forms. This paper highlights the benefits of an...

Organizational boundaries and theories of organization.
September 1, 2005... Organizational boundaries are a central phenomenon, yet despite their significance, research is dominated by transaction cost economics and related exchange-efficiency perspectives. While useful, it is time to engage in a broader view. Our...

Inertia and incentives: bridging organizational economics and organizational theory.
September 1, 2005... Organizational theorists have long acknowledged the importance of the formal and informal incentives facing a firm's employees, stressing that the political economy of a firm plays a major role in shaping organizational life and firm behavior....

Managing strategic contradictions: a top management model for managing innovation streams.
September 1, 2005... Sustained organizational performance depends on top management teams effectively exploring and exploiting. These strategic agendas are, however, associated with contradictory organizational architectures. Using the literature on paradox,...

A socially embedded model of thriving at work.
September 1, 2005... Thriving describes an individual's experience of vitality and learning. The primary goal of this paper is to develop a model that illuminates the social embeddedness of employees' thriving at work. First, we explain why thriving is a useful...

Organizational science and the NSF: funding for mutual benefit.
September 1, 2005... The National Science Foundation (NSF) is the primary federal agency funding nonmedical research in the United States. However, relatively few organizational researchers consider approaching the agency, despite the funds it has available. It is...