Organizations and their Effectiveness (2017): Difference between revisions

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This is a page to collect resources, links, and supplementary information related to the Summer Institute on Organizations and their Effectiveness 2017 held at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University.

Please create an account (reload the page if it gives you a hard time), be bold, and add/organize/discuss as you see fit.

If you'd like to create your own etherpad for collaborative note-taking, simply create a new pad and share the URL: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org.

The workshop website has more detailed information about (note that a login is required to access some resources).

Questions for clarification or debate, e.g. "what do sociologists mean by legitimacy?"
How can we reconcile relational contract theory with network theory? What are the primary differences between relational contracts and embedded relations?

Collectively record research questions, open issues and "low-hanging fruit" for future projects
Another etherpad to record your notes and questions

For supplementary readings we'd like to share with the group. This is a random selection (for illustrative purposes).

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 * ''Collectively record research questions, open issues and "low-hanging fruit" for future projects''
-* Which types of ties can be assembled and which ones can't? Can a social tie be converted into an economic tie? Does the social tie lose something if it is imbued with economic motives and used for the pursuit of economic objectives?
-* How do cohesive networks unravel?
-* When and how does the choice of a network structure/type depend on the environment?
-* What are the qualities/mechanisms that enable network repair and resiliency?
-* What do networks do?
-* What is "flowing" in networks?
-* Where is space, context, and geography in network analysis? In relational contract theory?
-* What is economics missing if the network is only specifying existing or potential ties?
-* What external circumstances shape how relational contracts evolve?
-* Where do we draw organizational boundaries -- how/why/when do internal organizational elements move outside the organizational boundary? How/why/when do external elements to the organization move inside the organizational boundary?
 * Another [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/treasure_chest_casbs_2017 etherpad] to record your notes and questions