Organizations and their effectiveness-2016/Mechanisms

Choosing Formal Architecture

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * Granovetter — reciprocation + trust
 * Powell — know-how & hybrids
 * Burt, Uzzi — resource access

Power and Politics

 * 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

 * 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

 * unmanaged processes between organizations
 * competition (& selection)
 * Zuckerman — categorization
 * individual-level processes
 * Simon — satisficing
 * Goffman — impression management

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More verbs

 * Differentiate
 * Incentivize
 * March, Cohen, Levinthal — search
 * Work (or provide effort)
 * Vote

Periodic table of elements
(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