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== Periodic table of processes within organized activities ==
== Periodic table of processes within organized activities ==


==== Choosing Formal Architecture ====
==== ''Choosing'' Formal Architecture ====
*Weber — formalization
*Weber — formalization
** Michels —fluid democratic process become formal oligarchy?
** Michels —fluid democratic process becomes formal oligarchy?
*Simon — decomposing the problem
*Simon — decomposing the problem
* Coase — choosing market vs firm
* Coase — choosing market vs firm
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**McNollgast — designing contestation procedures
**McNollgast — designing contestation procedures
**Mashaw — delegation
**Mashaw — delegation
*Holmstrom — incentives
*Holmstrom — incentive ''contract''
*White — agency vs. control
*White — agency vs. control


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==== Managing Informal Architecture ====
==== Managing Informal Architecture ====
*Kaufman — socialization
*Kaufman — selection, socialization
*March — coalition building
*March — managing coalition
*Ostrom — building collaboration
*Ostrom — building collaboration
*Schein — leading culture and narrative
*Schein — leading culture and narrative
*Edmondson — building psychological safety
*Gibbons & Henderson — managing relational contracting
*Gibbons & Henderson — managing relational contracting
*Kellogg — negotiating institutional change
*Kellogg — negotiating institutional change
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**Simon — satisficing
**Simon — satisficing
**Goffman — impression management
**Goffman — impression management
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==More verbs==
==More verbs==
*Differentiate
*Differentiate
*Incentivize
*Incentivize
**Burawoy — game
*March, Cohen, Levinthal — search
*March, Cohen, Levinthal — search
*Work (or provide effort)
*Work (or provide effort)
*Vote
*Vote
*Hirschman — voice
*Mashaw — delegate
*Kaufman — select individuals
*Carpenter — capture


== Periodic table of elements ==
== Periodic table of elements ==

Latest revision as of 19:06, 8 July 2016

Periodic table of processes within organized activities[edit]

Choosing Formal Architecture[edit]

  • Weber — formalization
    • Michels —fluid democratic process becomes formal oligarchy?
  • Simon — decomposing the problem
  • Coase — choosing market vs firm
    • Williamson — choosing regulation vs auction, choosing U-form vs M-form, ...
    • Hart — allocating control
  • analog of Coase for design of government?
    • McNollgast — designing contestation procedures
    • Mashaw — delegation
  • Holmstrom — incentive contract
  • White — agency vs. control

Other Determinants of Formal Architecture[edit]

  • Tilly — wars make states
    • Skocopol — state capacity
  • Stinchcombe — imprinting
    • Freeman & Hannan — inertia
  • Meyer & Rowan — symbolic adoption
  • DiMaggio & Powell — normative influence (e.g., from professions)
  • Tolbert & Zucker — mimetic diffusion
    • Edelman — law & symbolic structure
    • Kalev — bias and formalization
  • Soule — incorporating critics

Managing Informal Architecture[edit]

  • Kaufman — selection, socialization
  • March — managing coalition
  • Ostrom — building collaboration
  • Schein — leading culture and narrative
  • Edmondson — building psychological safety
  • Gibbons & Henderson — managing relational contracting
  • Kellogg — negotiating institutional change

Networks[edit]

  • Granovetter — reciprocation + trust
  • Powell — know-how & hybrids
  • Burt, Uzzi — resource access

Power and Politics[edit]

  • March, Cyert & March
    • Pfeffer & Salancik — resource dependence
  • Blau, Emerson, Cook — exchange, dependence
  • Schelling — strategy of conflict
  • Merton — accumulative advantage
    • Podolny — status dynamics
  • Hirschman — exit, voice, loyalty
    • Roy, Burawoy — informal resistance
  • Carpenter — capture

Knowledge and Learning[edit]

  • Simon, March & Simon
  • Nelson & Winter — routines
    • Feldman — dynamics of routines
  • Cohen & Levinthal — absorptive capacity
  • Orlikowski — knowing in practice
  • Padgett & Powell — innovation & invention


beyond this domain[edit]

  • unmanaged processes between organizations
    • competition (& selection)
    • Zuckerman — categorization
  • individual-level processes
    • Simon — satisficing
    • Goffman — impression management







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More verbs[edit]

  • Differentiate
  • Incentivize
  • March, Cohen, Levinthal — search
  • Work (or provide effort)
  • Vote

Periodic table of elements[edit]

(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