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==== Choosing Formal Architecture ====
==== Choosing Formal Architecture ====
*Coase — choosing control structure
*Coase — choosing market vs firm
*Williamson — designing governance structure
*Williamson — choosing auction vs regulation, choosing U-form vs M-form
*Hart — allocating control
*Hart — allocating control
*McNollgast — designing contestation procedures
*McNollgast — designing contestation procedures

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Periodic table of mechanisms

  • Gibbons — relational contracting
  • 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
  • March - coalition building
  • Granovetter — reciprocate + trust
  • Ostrom — building collaboration
  • Kellogg — negotiating institutional change
  • March — coalition building

Choosing Formal Architecture

  • Coase — choosing market vs firm
  • Williamson — choosing auction vs regulation, choosing U-form vs M-form
  • Hart — allocating control
  • McNollgast — designing contestation procedures
  • 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