Editing Organizations and their Effectiveness (2017)

This is a page to collect resources, links, and supplementary information related to the [https://www-casbs.stanford.edu/local/workshops/2017-casbs-summer-institute/ Summer Institute on Organizations and their Effectiveness 2017] held at the [http://casbs.stanford.edu Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)] at Stanford University. 
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== Workshop Information ==

* The [https://www-casbs.stanford.edu/local/workshops/2017-casbs-summer-institute/ workshop website] has more detailed information about  (note that a login is required to access some resources).

==Questions and lists==

=== Lists of mechanisms, concepts, lenses ===
* ''A venue for continuously reflecting on new insights from the workshop''
* '''[https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/casbs_2017_elements Etherpad #1] to record processes, mechanisms, and elements of organizing.'''

=== Treasure chest with open questions ===
* ''Questions for clarification or debate, e.g. "what do sociologists mean by legitimacy?"''
* ''Collectively record research questions, open issues and "low-hanging fruit" for future projects''
* '''[https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/treasure_chest_casbs_2017 Etherpad #2] to record open questions of clarification, research questions, frontiers, etc.'''

=== Feedback questions after week 1 ===

* What did we omit/distort in ethnography/polisci?
* What seem to be limitations of the econ/soc approaches?
* Likes/wishes about this week (for next week, for this week next year)?

== Group activities ==

=== Maps ===

* [[Maps of organizational inquiry]] by discipline

=== Ezra Pound @ cross-talk 2 ===

* [https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0cswtdj9fuo1gbp/AAC8gjZLGt0OEylysihk8cVta?dl=0 White boards]

=== How to study environmental regulation ===

* [https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wkkgqgy62g7pudb/AACZk66JBUgXddyApoZbMihha?dl=0 White boards]
* Some open questions in etherpad #2.

=== Lawyered-lobbying in executive rule making===

* [https://www.dropbox.com/sh/00hnlankd85e5ah/AAAv5wTbNiVZDhOsFv9q40WOa?dl=0 White boards]

===Culture & behavioral spillovers===

* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/a2w3u05e7522g5y/LocalContext.jpg?dl=0 Cognitive repertoires and their interaction with local environments in development]
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/q9nk1btjbz7a010/UnequalLeaders.JPG?dl=0 Role of leader in configuring a culture of inequality]

== Papers ==

Some papers that came up in our discussions:

===Allocative vs. X-efficiency===

* [https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~lebelp/LeibensteinXEffAER1966.pdf Leibenstein on X-efficiency]

===International Relations===

* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2706525?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Keohane, 1982. "The Demand for International Regimes"] [Keohane applying Coase to IR, starts Liberal Internationalism]
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2706858?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Wendt, 1992. "Anarchy is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power."] [Article version of the core portion of "A Social Theory of International Politics, the core constructivist IR text]

===Routines===

* Howard-Grenville, J., Golden-Biddle, K., Irwin, J. and Mao, J. (2011) "Liminality as cultural process for cultural change." ''Organization Science'', 22(2): 522-539.
* [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1ad4/de50369c16f76b0f72613d38e3812686d8c0.pdf Zbaracki and Bergen: When Truces Collapse: A Longitudinal Study of Price-Adjustment Routines. ''Organization Science'' 21(5), pp. 95-972]
* [https://www.researchgate.net/deref/http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1287%2Forsc.2015.1031 Sele and Grand (2016) Unpacking the Dynamics of Ecologies of Routines: Mediators and Their Generative Effects. ''Organization Science'']
* [http://openarchive.cbs.dk/bitstream/handle/10398/8401/Teppo_Felin_SMG_WP_423.pdf?sequence=1 Felin, T. et al (2016) MICROFOUNDATIONS OF ROUTINES AND CAPABILITIES:  INDIVIDUALS, PROCESSES, AND STRUCTURE]

===Peformativity===
* Orlikowski & Scott (2008) What happens when evaluation goes online? ''Organization Science'', Vol. 25, No. 3, May–June 2014, pp. 868–891.
:Paper examining a phenomenon in terms of performativity

===Negative spill-overs of manufacturing===

* [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/blood-oil-9780190262921?cc=us&lang=en& Wenar, Leif. 2015. Blood oil: Tyrants, violence, and the rules that run the world. Oxford University Press.]

===Ethnographic methodology===

* [http://burawoy.berkeley.edu/Methodology/ECM.ST.pdf Burawoy, Michael. "The extended case method." ''Sociological Theory'' 16.1 (1998): 4-33.]

* [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54282b13e4b0e88c57a39d51/t/542838f8e4b0c3466d9719de/1411922168377/Tavory+and+Timmermans_Two+cases+of+ethnography.pdf Tavory, Iddo, and Stefan Timmermans. "Two cases of ethnography: Grounded theory and the extended case method." ''Ethnography'' 10.3 (2009): 243-263.]' 
:A comparison of extended case and grounded theory ethnographic approaches in sociology... written by two (sort-of) grounded theorists.

* [https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mariosmall/files/small_ethnography_2009.pdf Small, Mario Luis. "How many cases do I need?" ''Ethnography'' 10(1) (2009): 5–38]'
:A nice review of ethnographic "casing."

* [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9898.html Goertz, Gary, and James Mahoney. ''A tale of two cultures: Qualitative and quantitative research in the social sciences.'' Princeton University Press, 2012.]
:About quantitive and qualitative methodological cultures.

===Leadership===

*[http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-polisci-042409-152654 Ahlquist, J. S., & Levi, M. (2011). Leadership: What it means, what it does, and what we want to know about it. ''Annual Review of Political Science'', 14, 1-24.]

===Bureaucratic autonomy===
* [https://www.amazon.com/Railroaded-Transcontinentals-Making-Modern-America/dp/0393342379 White's ''Railroaded'']
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/books/review/book-review-railroaded-by-richard-white.html NYT review of White's ''Railroaded'']

===Organizational forms===
*[http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137019363 Coase, R. & Wang, N. How China Became Capitalist.]

== From 2016, for inspiration ==

=== "Hackathon" Projects (one project from 2016) ===
* [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/coffeechains Coffee supply chains] (Ameet, Christof, Consuelo, Aaron)

=== Definitions ===

* [[Organizations_and_their_effectiveness-2016/Key_concept_definitions|Key concept definitions]].

=== Lists of mechanisms (from 2016) ===
* [[Organizations_and_their_effectiveness-2016/Mechanisms|Periodic tables of common mechanisms]]
* The [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/casbs_list etherpad] where we generated the lists.