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.

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.

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Workshop Information

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

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.

Maps

• Maps of organizational inquiry by discipline

Papers

A topic

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

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

Some papers that came up in our discussions:

• 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
• 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
• 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

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.