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

• White boards

How to study environmental regulation

• White boards
• Some open questions in etherpad #2.

Lawyered-lobbying in executive rule making

• White boards

Culture & behavioral spillovers

• Cognitive repertoires and their interaction with local environments in development
• Role of leader in configuring a culture of inequality

Papers

Some papers that came up in our discussions:

Allocative vs. X-efficiency

• Leibenstein on X-efficiency

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.
• 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

Negative spill-overs of manufacturing

• Wenar, Leif. 2015. Blood oil: Tyrants, violence, and the rules that run the world. Oxford University Press.

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.

Bureaucratic autonomy

• White's Railroaded
• NYT review of White's Railroaded

Organizational forms

• Coase, R. & Wang, N. How China Became Capitalist.

From 2016, for inspiration

"Hackathon" Projects (one project from 2016)

• Coffee supply chains (Ameet, Christof, Consuelo, Aaron)

Definitions

• Key concept definitions.

Lists of mechanisms (from 2016)

• Periodic tables of common mechanisms
• The etherpad where we generated the lists.