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
*Padgett & Powell — innovation & invention
*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
*Simon — satisficing (by individuals?)


==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