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* The [https://www-casbs.stanford.edu/local/workshops/2017-casbs-summer-institute/ workshop website] has more detailed information about  (note that a login is required to access some resources).
* The [https://www-casbs.stanford.edu/local/workshops/2017-casbs-summer-institute/ workshop website] has more detailed information about  (note that a login is required to access some resources).


== Lists of mechanisms, concepts, lenses ==
==Questions and lists==
 
=== Lists of mechanisms, concepts, lenses ===
* ''A venue for continuously reflecting on new insights from the workshop''
* ''A venue for continuously reflecting on new insights from the workshop''
* '''[https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/casbs_2017_elements Etherpad #1] to record processes, mechanisms, and elements of organizing.'''
* '''[https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/casbs_2017_elements Etherpad #1] to record processes, mechanisms, and elements of organizing.'''


== Treasure chest with open questions ==
=== Treasure chest with open questions ===
* ''Questions for clarification or debate, e.g. "what do sociologists mean by legitimacy?"''
* ''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''
* ''Collectively record research questions, open issues and "low-hanging fruit" for future projects''
* '''[https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/treasure_chest_casbs_2017 Etherpad #2] to record open questions of clarification, research questions, frontiers, etc.'''
* '''[https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/treasure_chest_casbs_2017 Etherpad #2] to record open questions of clarification, research questions, frontiers, etc.'''


== Maps ==
=== 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
* [[Maps of organizational inquiry]] by discipline
=== Ezra Pound @ cross-talk 2 ===
* [https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0cswtdj9fuo1gbp/AAC8gjZLGt0OEylysihk8cVta?dl=0 White boards]
=== How to study environmental regulation ===
* [https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wkkgqgy62g7pudb/AACZk66JBUgXddyApoZbMihha?dl=0 White boards]
* Some open questions in etherpad #2.
=== Lawyered-lobbying in executive rule making===
* [https://www.dropbox.com/sh/00hnlankd85e5ah/AAAv5wTbNiVZDhOsFv9q40WOa?dl=0 White boards]
===Culture & behavioral spillovers===
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/a2w3u05e7522g5y/LocalContext.jpg?dl=0 Cognitive repertoires and their interaction with local environments in development]
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/q9nk1btjbz7a010/UnequalLeaders.JPG?dl=0 Role of leader in configuring a culture of inequality]


== Papers ==
== Papers ==


Some papers that came up in our discussions:
Some papers that came up in our discussions:
===Allocative vs. X-efficiency===
* [https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~lebelp/LeibensteinXEffAER1966.pdf Leibenstein on X-efficiency]


===International Relations===
===International Relations===


* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2706525?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Keohane, 1982. "The Demand for International Regimes"] [Keohane applying Coase to IR, starts Liberal Internationalism]
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2706525?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Keohane, 1982. "The Demand for International Regimes"]
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2706858?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents 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]
:Keohane applying Coase to IR, starts Liberal Internationalism
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2706858?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents 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===
===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)
* 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.
* [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1ad4/de50369c16f76b0f72613d38e3812686d8c0.pdf Zbaracki and Bergen: When Truces Collapse: A Longitudinal Study of Price-Adjustment Routines. ''Organization Science'' 21(5), pp. 95-972]
* [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1ad4/de50369c16f76b0f72613d38e3812686d8c0.pdf Zbaracki and Bergen: When Truces Collapse: A Longitudinal Study of Price-Adjustment Routines. ''Organization Science'' 21(5), pp. 95-972]
* [https://www.researchgate.net/deref/http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1287%2Forsc.2015.1031 Sele and Grand (2016) Unpacking the Dynamics of Ecologies of Routines: Mediators and Their Generative Effects. ''Organization Science'']
* [https://www.researchgate.net/deref/http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1287%2Forsc.2015.1031 Sele and Grand (2016) Unpacking the Dynamics of Ecologies of Routines: Mediators and Their Generative Effects. ''Organization Science'']
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===Peformativity===
===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]
* 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===
 
* [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/blood-oil-9780190262921?cc=us&lang=en& Wenar, Leif. 2015. Blood oil: Tyrants, violence, and the rules that run the world. Oxford University Press.]


===Ethnographic methodology===
===Ethnographic methodology===


* [http://burawoy.berkeley.edu/Methodology/ECM.ST.pdf Burawoy, Michael. "The extended case method." Sociological theory 16.1 (1998): 4-33.]
* [http://burawoy.berkeley.edu/Methodology/ECM.ST.pdf Burawoy, Michael. "The extended case method." ''Sociological Theory'' 16.1 (1998): 4-33.]
 
* [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54282b13e4b0e88c57a39d51/t/542838f8e4b0c3466d9719de/1411922168377/Tavory+and+Timmermans_Two+cases+of+ethnography.pdf 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.
 
* [https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mariosmall/files/small_ethnography_2009.pdf Small, Mario Luis. "How many cases do I need?" ''Ethnography'' 10(1) (2009): 5–38]'
:A nice review of ethnographic "casing."
 
* [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9898.html 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===
===Leadership===
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===Bureaucratic autonomy===
===Bureaucratic autonomy===
* [https://www.amazon.com/Railroaded-Transcontinentals-Making-Modern-America/dp/0393342379 White's ''Railroaded'']
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/books/review/book-review-railroaded-by-richard-white.html NYT review of White's ''Railroaded'']


* [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/books/review/book-review-railroaded-by-richard-white.html NYT review of White's ''Railroaded'']
===Organizational forms===
*[http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137019363 Coase, R. & Wang, N. How China Became Capitalist.]


== From 2016, for inspiration ==
== From 2016, for inspiration ==

Latest revision as of 18:35, 10 July 2019

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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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 need help with wiki-markup or anything else, check out the help documentation or feel free to email Christof for anything trivial or email Aaron for fundamental concerns about the wiki.

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.

Workshop Information[edit]

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

Questions and lists[edit]

Lists of mechanisms, concepts, lenses[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Maps[edit]

Ezra Pound @ cross-talk 2[edit]

How to study environmental regulation[edit]

Lawyered-lobbying in executive rule making[edit]

Culture & behavioral spillovers[edit]

Papers[edit]

Some papers that came up in our discussions:

Allocative vs. X-efficiency[edit]

International Relations[edit]

Keohane applying Coase to IR, starts Liberal Internationalism
Article version of the core portion of "A Social Theory of International Politics, the core constructivist IR text

Routines[edit]

Peformativity[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Ethnographic methodology[edit]

A comparison of extended case and grounded theory ethnographic approaches in sociology... written by two (sort-of) grounded theorists.
A nice review of ethnographic "casing."
About quantitive and qualitative methodological cultures.

Leadership[edit]

Bureaucratic autonomy[edit]

Organizational forms[edit]

From 2016, for inspiration[edit]

"Hackathon" Projects (one project from 2016)[edit]

Definitions[edit]

Lists of mechanisms (from 2016)[edit]