Organizations and their effectiveness-2016/Mechanisms: Difference between revisions
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==== Knowledge and Learning ==== | ==== Knowledge and Learning ==== | ||
*Simon, March & Simon | *Simon, March & Simon | ||
*Nelson & Winter — routines | *Nelson & Winter — routines | ||
**Feldman — dynamics of routines | |||
*Cohen & Levinthal — absorptive capacity | *Cohen & Levinthal — absorptive capacity | ||
*Orlikowski — knowing in practice | *Orlikowski — knowing in practice | ||
*Padgett & Powell — innovation & invention | |||
==== beyond this domain ==== | |||
*unmanaged processes between organizations | |||
**competition | |||
**other? | |||
*individual-level processes | |||
**Simon — satisficing | |||
**Goffman — impression management | |||
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*Edelman — symbolically structure / comply | *Edelman — symbolically structure / comply | ||
*Zuckerman — categorize | *Zuckerman — categorize | ||
==More verbs== | ==More verbs== |
Revision as of 17:28, 8 July 2016
Periodic table of processes within organized activities
Choosing Formal Architecture
- Weber — formalization
- Michels —fluid democratic process become formal oligarchy?
- Simon — decomposing problem
- Coase — choosing market vs firm
- Williamson — choosing regulation vs auction, choosing U-form vs M-form, ...
- Hart — allocating control
- McNollgast — designing contestation procedures
- Mashaw — delegation
- Holmstrom — incentives
- 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
- Soule — incorporating critics
- Kalev — bias and formalization
Managing Informal Architecture
- Kaufman — socialization
- March - coalition building
- Ostrom — building collaboration
- Granovetter — reciprocation + trust
- Schein — leading culture and narrative
- Gibbons & Henderson — managing relational contracting
- Kellogg — negotiating institutional change
Power and Politics
- March, Cyert & March
- Pfeffer & Salancik
- Blau, Emerson, Cook — exchange, dependence
- Schelling — strategy of conflict
- Merton — accumulative advantage
- Podolny — status dynamics
- Hirschman — exit, voice, loyalty
- 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
- other?
- individual-level processes
- Simon — satisficing
- Goffman — impression management
not elsewhere classified
- Edelman — symbolically structure / comply
- Zuckerman — categorize
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