Organizations and their Effectiveness (2017)

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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).

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

Papers

Some papers that came up in our discussions:

International Relations

Routines

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

Leadership

Bureaucratic autonomy

From 2016, for inspiration

"Hackathon" Projects (one project from 2016)

Definitions

Lists of mechanisms (from 2016)