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).

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

Ezra Pound @ cross-talk 2

How to study environmental regulation

Papers

Some papers that came up in our discussions:

Allocative vs. X-efficiency

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

Negative spill-overs of manufacturing

Ethnographic methodology

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

Bureaucratic autonomy

Organizational forms

From 2016, for inspiration

"Hackathon" Projects (one project from 2016)

Definitions

Lists of mechanisms (from 2016)