Organizations and their effectiveness-2016/Mechanisms
From CommunityData
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 control structure
- Williamson — designing governance structure
- 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
