Organizations and their effectiveness-2016/Mechanisms
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Periodic table of processes within organized activities[edit]
Choosing Formal Architecture[edit]
- Weber — formalization
- Michels —fluid democratic process becomes formal oligarchy?
- Simon — decomposing the problem
- Coase — choosing market vs firm
- Williamson — choosing regulation vs auction, choosing U-form vs M-form, ...
- Hart — allocating control
- analog of Coase for design of government?
- McNollgast — designing contestation procedures
- Mashaw — delegation
- Holmstrom — incentive contract
- White — agency vs. control
Other Determinants of Formal Architecture[edit]
- Tilly — wars make states
- Skocopol — state capacity
- Stinchcombe — imprinting
- Freeman & Hannan — inertia
- Meyer & Rowan — symbolic adoption
- DiMaggio & Powell — normative influence (e.g., from professions)
- Tolbert & Zucker — mimetic diffusion
- Edelman — law & symbolic structure
- Kalev — bias and formalization
- Soule — incorporating critics
Managing Informal Architecture[edit]
- Kaufman — selection, socialization
- March — managing coalition
- Ostrom — building collaboration
- Schein — leading culture and narrative
- Edmondson — building psychological safety
- Gibbons & Henderson — managing relational contracting
- Kellogg — negotiating institutional change
Networks[edit]
- Granovetter — reciprocation + trust
- Powell — know-how & hybrids
- Burt, Uzzi — resource access
Power and Politics[edit]
- March, Cyert & March
- Pfeffer & Salancik — resource dependence
- Blau, Emerson, Cook — exchange, dependence
- Schelling — strategy of conflict
- Merton — accumulative advantage
- Podolny — status dynamics
- Hirschman — exit, voice, loyalty
- Roy, Burawoy — informal resistance
- Carpenter — capture
Knowledge and Learning[edit]
- Simon, March & Simon
- Nelson & Winter — routines
- Feldman — dynamics of routines
- Cohen & Levinthal — absorptive capacity
- Orlikowski — knowing in practice
- Padgett & Powell — innovation & invention
beyond this domain[edit]
- unmanaged processes between organizations
- competition (& selection)
- Zuckerman — categorization
- individual-level processes
- Simon — satisficing
- Goffman — impression management
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More verbs[edit]
- Differentiate
- Incentivize
- March, Cohen, Levinthal — search
- Work (or provide effort)
- Vote
Periodic table of elements[edit]
(Generic dimensions/elements of organizations that we might also find a way to include:)
- Boundaries
- Participation/joining costs/benefits
- Networks
- Incentives
- Relational contracts
- Turnover
- Hierarchy
- resources
- reputation
- constituencies/audiences
- credibility
- goldbricking / shirking
- Coalitions
- Elections
- Identity
- Ideology
- culture
