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*Weber, Michels — rationalization (formalization) | *Weber, Michels — rationalization (formalization) | ||
*Simon — satisficing (by individuals?) | *Simon — satisficing (by individuals?) | ||
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*Merton, Podolny — accumulative advantage | *Merton, Podolny — accumulative advantage | ||
==== Choosing Formal Architecture ==== | ==== Choosing Formal Architecture ==== | ||
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*Hart — allocating control | *Hart — allocating control | ||
*McNollgast — designing contestation procedures | *McNollgast — designing contestation procedures | ||
==== Managing Informal Architecture ==== | |||
*March - coalition building | |||
*Ostrom — building collaboration | |||
*Granovetter — reciprocation + trust | |||
*Kellogg — negotiating institutional change | |||
*Gibbons — relational contracting | |||
*David — path dependence | *David — path dependence |
Revision as of 15:49, 8 July 2016
Periodic table of mechanisms
- Weber, Michels — rationalization (formalization)
- Simon — satisficing (by individuals?)
- Blau, Emerson, Cook — social exchange
- Meyer and Rowan — adopting and decoupling
- DiMaggio and Powell — convergent change
- Tolbert and Zucker — institutionalization
- Dara Cohen, Jeffrey Checkel — socialization
- Kellogg — negotiating institutional change
- Schelling — coercion and influence
- Pfeffer and Salancik — coercion
- Stinchcombe — imprinting
- Freeman and Hannan — inertia + selection
- Padgett and Powell — emerging & evolving (novelty, innovate/invent)
- Tilly — state formation
- Brian Arthur—evolving technologies
- Stinchcombe — imprinting
- Merton, Podolny — accumulative advantage
Choosing Formal Architecture
- Coase — choosing market vs firm
- Simon — decomposing problem
- Williamson — choosing auction vs regulation, choosing U-form vs M-form
- Hart — allocating control
- McNollgast — designing contestation procedures
Managing Informal Architecture
- March - coalition building
- Ostrom — building collaboration
- Granovetter — reciprocation + trust
- Kellogg — negotiating institutional change
- Gibbons — relational contracting
- David — path dependence
- James Mahoney — colonial legacies and development
- Orlikowski — knowing in practice
- Soule — diffusion through social movements
- Edelman — symbolically structure / comply
- Goffman — managing impressions
- Zuckerman — categorize
- Dobbin — inventing equal opportunity
More verbs
- Differentiate
- Incentivize
- Burawoy — game
- March, Cohen, Levinthal — search
- Work (or provide effort)
- Vote
- Hirschman — voice
- Mashaw — delegate
- Kaufman — select individuals
- Carpenter — capture
Periodic table of elements
(Generic dimensions/elements of organizations that we might also find a way to include:)
- Boundaries
- Participation/joining costs/benefits
- Networks
- Incentives
- Relational contracts
- Turnover
- Hierarchy
- resources
- reputation
- constituencies/audiences
- credibility
- goldbricking / shirking
- Coalitions
- Elections
- Identity
- Ideology
- culture