Organizations and their Effectiveness (2017)

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.

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Workshop Information

The 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
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
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

Link to image library

Papers

Some papers that came up in our discussions:

International Relations

Keohane, 1982. "The Demand for International Regimes" [Keohane applying Coase to IR, starts Liberal Internationalism]
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 (DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0554)
Zbaracki and Bergen: When Truces Collapse: A Longitudinal Study of Price-Adjustment Routines. Organization Science 21(5), pp. 95-972
Sele and Grand (2016) Unpacking the Dynamics of Ecologies of Routines: Mediators and Their Generative Effects. Organization Science
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]

Ethnographic methodology

Burawoy, Michael. "The extended case method." Sociological theory 16.1 (1998): 4-33.'

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.

Small, Mario Luis. "How many cases do I need?" Ethnography 10(1) (2009): 5–38'

A nice review of ethnographic "casing."

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

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.

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