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

Choosing Formal Architecture

• Coase — choosing market vs firm
• Williamson — choosing auction vs regulation, choosing U-form vs M-form
• 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