Editing Organizations and their Effectiveness (2019)

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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 (2019)''' held at the [http://casbs.stanford.edu Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)] at Stanford University. 

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== Workshop Information ==

* [https://atcasbs.stanford.edu/workshops/sample-page/2019-summer-institute-organizations-and-their-effectiveness/ The workshop website] has more detailed information about  (note that a login is required to access some resources).
* [https://www.zotero.org/groups/2341086/casbs_summer_institute_2019 Zotero group]: Repository with the full text of everything. Participants should all be invited already but [[Mako]] or Clark can add you if you're not on  it.

== Previous sessions ==

There are pages in this wiki created in previous sessions:

* [[Organizations and their Effectiveness (2016)]]
* [[Organizations and their Effectiveness (2017)]]

== Papers and Links ==

Some papers that came up in our discussions include....

=== Visit from Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (Tuesday July, 9th) ===

* [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3230377 From Doctrine to Safeguards in American Constitutional Democracy] - Forthcoming UCLA Law Review paper by Cuéllar that we "might be interested in their picks up on some of yesterday’s themes."

Other potentially useful links:

* [https://law.stanford.edu/directory/mariano-florentino-cuellar/ Tino Cuéllar's website]
* [https://ourpublicservice.org/ Partnership for Public Service] is the non-profit organization arguing for increased civil service that Cuéllar thought did not do enough to emphasize the benefits that come from political appointments coming in

=== Bob's Round 2 (Wednesday July, 10th) ===

* [https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Future-Organizational-Behavior-Processes/dp/0324055757 Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes] — OB book with the "three lenses:" (1) organizations as machines' (2) organizations as politics; and (3) organizations as culture

=== Organizational Ethnography (Thursday July 11th) ===

Things that came up:

* [https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520224803/saints-scholars-and-schizophrenics Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics Mental Illness in Rural Ireland]: A founding book in medical anthropology. Includes an afterward of the way that the book brought shame to village and led to the rejection of the anthropologist.
* [http://ww.w.jthomasniu.org/class/377a/Readings/roy-bananatime.pdf Banana Time: Job satisfaction and informal interaction]: Another classic by Roy that it was suggested might be seen as "more ethnographic."
* [https://doi.org/10.1086/696137 Counting Clicks: Quantification and Variation in Web Journalism in the United States and France]: paper by Angèle Christin described in depth by Woody
* [Down and Out in the New Economy]: Ethnography of how job seekers look for work and "self brand" as businesses in the new economy

=== Rethinking Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (Thursday July 11th) ===

* Examples of the "[https://medium.com/swlh/the-very-best-company-culture-decks-on-the-web-5a3de60c0bb9 the very best company culture decks]"
* [https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/262063 Formal and Real Authority in Organizations] by Philippe Aghion and Jean Tirole in the ''Journal of Political Economy''
* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674986930 The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945–1975] by Michael Schudson [Book]
* [https://www.amazon.com/Audit-Society-Rituals-Verification/dp/0198296037 The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification] by Michael Power [Book]

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=== Sara Singer Debrief (Friday July 12th) ===

* [https://medium.com/@cmpbl/why-one-startup-turned-away-from-medical-record-portability-9a8cacf49794 A Medium article about medical data portability startups including [https://www.ciitizen.com/ Ciitizen] (the startup that [[User:JohnA]] mentioned) and [https://citizenhealth.io/ Citizen Health] (a different startup doing the same thing!).

'''Papers about Emotions (Friday July 12th)''':

* Sigal Barsade, [https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1101&context=mgmt_papers Emotional Contagion]
* Hilary Elfenbein, [https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt2bn0n9mv/qt2bn0n9mv.pdf 7 Emotions in Organization]
* Mandy O'Neil, [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0001839214538636 Creating Emotional Cultures]

=== Bob on Culture (Friday July 13th) ===

* Amy Edmondson's done a bunch of work on psychological safety. Places to start might include:
** "[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2307/2666999 Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams]" paper in ASQ
** "[https://hbr.org/ideacast/2019/01/creating-psychological-safety-in-the-workplace Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace] is a transcript of an interview with Edmondson on psychological safety published in HBR
** "[https://www.businessinsider.com/amy-edmondson-on-psychological-safety-2015-11 Google considers this to be the most critical trait of successful teams]" is a Business Insider piece on psychological safety

== Ideas for Monday Morning White Space (Monday July 15th) ==

* Woody and Bob's intellectual journey as scholars
* Our biggest research "failure"
* Stigmergy
* How should we conceptualize approach organizational "openness"?
* Under what conditions might delegation might work? In absence of resources, in high stress, etc.?
* Emotions and/in Organizations

== Questions and Answers ==

If you have a question, add one below. If you've got an answer to a question that's been asked, you should add it too!

=== What's the Weberian bureaucracy? ===

There's a section on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy#Max_Weber section on Weber's theory in the Wikipedia article about bureaucracy]. According to that summary, key features include: 

* hierarchical organization
* formal lines of authority (chain of command)
* fixed area of activity
* rigid division of labor
* regular and continuous execution of assigned tasks
* all decisions and powers specified and restricted by regulations
* officials with expert training in their fields
* career advancement dependent on technical qualifications
* qualifications evaluated by organizational rules, not individuals

=== Autocatalysis, stigmergy, and multiple-networks, oh my! ===

Jon, Clark, and Bob had a brief conversation trying to unpack the autocatalysis argument and draw on Jon's expertise with modeling autocatalytic cycles.  Clark's thrown together a [[Organizations and their Effectiveness (2019)/Autocatalysis|strawman sketch]] of his understanding of the argument for correction, critique, and additional questions.

=== How are people OK with the IP transfer issue in an NASA-style open innovatoin? ===

This [https://www.innocentive.com/offering-overview/seeker-faqs/ Innocentive FAQ] provides the firms answers. Here's [https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/10878570410547643/full/html an interview with the CEO of Innocentive] that discusses this in some depth.  There's [https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=36046 a great HBS case by Karim Lakhani] that goes into quite a lot of detail on this.

== Key for colors in Bob's slides ==

Round 1 (SpPs/UpPs):

* <span style="color: orange;">'''Orange'''</span>: ''Unsolved political problems (UpPs)'' — invisible hand not working
* <span style="color: purple;">'''Purple'''</span>: "there is a boss"; e.g., firms, formal organizations
* <span style="color: darkgreen;">'''Green'''</span>: organized (but not an organization) — communities, etc.
* <span style="color: black;">'''Black'''</span> (sometimes): Solved political Problems (SpP) — solved by a market

Round 2 (formal/informal governance):

* <span style="color: darkblue;">'''Blue'''</span>: ''formal'' governance instruments (contracts, algorithms)
* <span style="color: red;">'''Red'''</span>: ''informal'' governance
* <span style="color: grey;">'''Grey'''</span>: shared understanding (→culture)`

Round 3:

* <span style="color: magenta;">'''Pink'''</span>: Building an equilibrium