Editing Organizations and their Effectiveness (2016)

This is a page to collect resources, links, and supplementary information related to the [https://www-casbs.stanford.edu/local/workshops/2016-casbs-summer-institute-organizations-and-their-effectiveness/ 2016 Summer Institute on Organizations and their Effectiveness] held at the [http://casbs.stanford.edu Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)] at Stanford University. 

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== Workshop Information ==




* The [https://www-casbs.stanford.edu/local/workshops/2016-casbs-summer-institute-organizations-and-their-effectiveness/ workshop website] has more detailed information about  (note that a login is required to access some resources).

Our esteemed leaders

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== Papers ==

=== Rules Versus Statutes and Type I versus Type II Incomplete Law ===

This is a random selection. More of the important ones coming.

* [[Media:Baier_sjms_1986.pdf|Baier, Vicki Eaton, James G. March, and Harald Saetren. "Implementation and ambiguity." Scandinavian Journal of Management Studies 2, no. 3 (1986): 197-212.]]
* [[Media:SSRN-id1160987.pdf|Pistor, Katharina, and Chenggang Xu. "Law enforcement under incomplete law: Theory and evidence from financial market regulation." LSE STICERD Research Paper No. TE442 (2002).]]

=== Standards and Standard-Setting Organizations ===

* Bonatti and Rantakari (2016) on [https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20140316 Standard-Setting Organizations], ''The Politics of Compromise'' (from Bob)
* Timmermans and Epstein's (2010) [http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.soc.012809.102629 review article] on sociological research on standards: ''A World of Standards but not a Standard World''
* Ahrne and Brunsson's (2008) theory of [https://www.amazon.com/Meta-organizations-Goran-Ahrne/dp/1847209505 Meta-Organizations], an organization with organizations as members
* Bromley and Meyer's (2015) book on [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/hyper-organization-9780199689866?cc=us&lang=en& hyper-organization], and an [http://stx.sagepub.com/content/31/4/366.abstract article] (2013) that summarizes the main argument

=== Cooperation ===
* Kollock (1998) [http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.soc.24.1.183?journalCode=soc "Social Dilemmas: The Anatomy of Cooperation"]

=== Exploiting Cogntive Biases ===
* Gabaix & Laibson (2006) [https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/4554333/Laibson_ShroudedAttributes.pdf "SHROUDED ATTRIBUTES, CONSUMER MYOPIA, AND INFORMATION SUPPRESSION IN COMPETITIVE MARKETS"]. They model a set-up in which sophisticated firms exploit myopic consumers (potentially similar to the interaction between regulated firms and regulators in Kwak's cultural capture model).

=== Choosing the right N ===

* March et al. 2003: [http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~maccoun/LearningfromSamplesofOne.pdf Learning from Samples of One or Fewer]
* Mahoney and Goertz 2006: [https://public.wsu.edu/~tnridout/mahoney_goertz20061.pdf A Tale of Two Cultures: Contrasting Qualitative and Quantitative Research]
* Small 2009: [http://eth.sagepub.com/content/10/1/5.short How Many Cases Do I Need?]

== Definitions ==

* [[Organizations_and_their_effectiveness-2016/Key_concept_definitions|Key concept definitions]].

== Lists of mechanisms ==
* [[Organizations_and_their_effectiveness-2016/Mechanisms|Periodic tables of common mechanisms]]
* The [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/casbs_list etherpad] where we generated the lists.

== "Hackathon" Projects ==
* [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/coffeechains Coffee supply chains] (Ameet, Christof, Consuelo, Aaron)