Organizations and their effectiveness-2016/Mechanisms

Periodic table of mechanisms

 * Gibbons — relational contracting
 * Weber, Michels — rationalization (formalization)
 * Simon — satisficing (by individuals?)


 * Blau, Emerson, Cook — social exchange


 * Meyer and Rowan — adopting and decoupling
 * DiMaggio and Powell — convergent change
 * Tolbert and Zucker — institutionalization
 * Dara Cohen, Jeffrey Checkel — socialization
 * Kellogg — negotiating institutional change
 * Schelling — coercion and influence
 * Pfeffer and Salancik — coercion
 * Stinchcombe — imprinting
 * Freeman and Hannan — inertia + selection
 * Padgett and Powell — emerging & evolving (novelty, innovate/invent)
 * Tilly — state formation
 * Brian Arthur—evolving technologies
 * Stinchcombe — imprinting
 * Merton, Podolny — accumulative advantage


 * March - coalition building
 * Granovetter — reciprocate + trust
 * Ostrom — building collaboration
 * Kellogg — negotiating institutional change


 * March — coalition building


 * Coase — choosing control structure
 * Williamson — designing governance structure
 * Hart — allocating control
 * McNollgast — designing contestation procedures


 * David — path dependence
 * James Mahoney — colonial legacies and development
 * Orlikowski — knowing in practice
 * Soule — diffusion through social movements
 * Edelman — symbolically structure / comply
 * Goffman — managing impressions
 * Zuckerman — categorize
 * Dobbin — inventing equal opportunity

More verbs

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


 * Hirschman — voice
 * Mashaw — delegate
 * Kaufman — select individuals
 * Carpenter — capture

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