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**Hart — allocating control
**Hart — allocating control
**McNollgast — designing contestation procedures
**McNollgast — designing contestation procedures
**Mashaw — delegation




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*DiMaggio & Powell — normative influence (e.g., from professions)
*DiMaggio & Powell — normative influence (e.g., from professions)
*Tolbert & Zucker — mimetic diffusion
*Tolbert & Zucker — mimetic diffusion
*Padgett and Powell — emerging & evolving (novelty, innovate/invent)


==== Managing Informal Architecture ====
==== Managing Informal Architecture ====
*Kaufman — socialization
*March - coalition building
*March - coalition building
*Ostrom — building collaboration
*Ostrom — building collaboration
*Granovetter — reciprocation + trust
*Granovetter — reciprocation + trust
*Schein — leading culture and narrative
*Schein — leading culture and narrative
*Gibbons and Henderson — managing relational contracting
*Gibbons & Henderson — managing relational contracting
*Kellogg — negotiating institutional change
*Kellogg — negotiating institutional change


==== Power and Politics ====
==== Power and Politics ====
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*Merton — accumulative advantage
*Merton — accumulative advantage
**Podolny — status dynamics
**Podolny — status dynamics
*Hirschman — exit, voice, loyalty
*Hirschman — exit, voice, loyalty
*Mashaw — delegation
*Carpenter — capture
*Carpenter — capture


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==== Knowledge and Learning ====
==== Knowledge and Learning ====
*Simon, March & Simon
*Simon, March & Simon
*Padgett & Powell — innovation & invention





Revision as of 19:04, 8 July 2016

Periodic table of processes within organized activities

  • Simon — satisficing (by individuals?)


    • Dara Cohen, Jeffrey Checkel — socialization
    • Tilly — state formation
    • Brian Arthur—evolving technologies


Choosing Formal Architecture

  • Weber — formalization
    • Michels —fluid democratic process become formal oligarchy?
  • Simon — decomposing problem
  • Coase — choosing market vs firm
    • Williamson — choosing regulation vs auction, choosing U-form vs M-form, ...
    • Hart — allocating control
    • McNollgast — designing contestation procedures
    • Mashaw — delegation


Other Determinants of Formal Architecture

  • Stinchcombe — imprinting
  • Freeman & Hannan — inertia
  • Meyer & Rowan — symbolic adoption
  • DiMaggio & Powell — normative influence (e.g., from professions)
  • Tolbert & Zucker — mimetic diffusion

Managing Informal Architecture

  • Kaufman — socialization
  • March - coalition building
  • Ostrom — building collaboration
  • Granovetter — reciprocation + trust
  • Schein — leading culture and narrative
  • Gibbons & Henderson — managing relational contracting
  • Kellogg — negotiating institutional change

Power and Politics

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


Knowledge and Learning

  • Simon, March & Simon
  • Padgett & Powell — innovation & invention


  • Cohen & Levinthal — absorptive capacity
  • Orlikowski — knowing in practice
  • 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