BUSINESS B791
Field Surveys: Organizational Behaviour and Organizational Theory
Fall 2021
Topics
- surveys
- organizational behaviour
- organizational theory
- decision making
- organizational change
- organizational behavior
- innovation
- institutional theory
- strategic management
- ecology
- trust
Readings
- Cyert, R. M., & March, J. G. 1992 (Originally published 1963). A behavioural theory of the firm. Oxford: Blackwell publishers. Chapters 2-3.
- March, J. 1977. Bounded rationality, ambiguity, and the engineering of choice. Bell Journal of Economics, Vol. 9 no.2.
- Weick, Sutcliffe & Obstfeld (2005) Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking. Org. Sci. 16, 4: 409-421.
- Powell, Walter W. 1990. Neither Market Nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization.” Research in Organizational Behavior 12: 295-336.
- Hargadon, A., & Douglass, Y. 2001. When innovations meet institutions: Edison and the design of the electric light. Administrative Science Quarterly, 46 (3): 476-501.
- Lounsbury, M. 2011. Institutional Complexity and Organizational Responses. Academy of Management Annals, 5: 317-371.(40 pp)
- DiMaggio, P., & Powell, W. 1983. The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields. American Sociological Review, 48, April: 147-160.
- Meyer, J., & Rowan, B. 1977. Institutionalized organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony. American Journal of Sociology, 83: 340-363.
- Oliver, C. 1991. Strategic responses to institutional processes. Academy of Management Review 16 (1), 145-179.
- Steinbach, A. L., Holcomb, T. R., Holmes Jr, R. M., Devers, C. E., & Cannella Jr, A. A. (2017). Top management team incentive heterogeneity, strategic investment behavior, and performance: A contingency theory of incentive alignment. Strategic Management Journal, 38(8), 1701-1720.
- Suddaby, R. and R. Greenwood. 2005. Rhetorical strategies of legitimacy. Administrative Science Quarterly. 50 (March):35-67
- Morin, J. F. (2020). Concentration despite competition: The organizational ecology of technical assistance providers. The Review of International Organizations, 15(1), 75-107.
- Sorensen, J. "The Ecology of Organizational Demography: Managerial Tenure Distributions and Organizational Competition." Industrial and Corporate Change 8 (1999): 713-744.
- Schminke, M., & Ambrose, M. (2014). Retraction statement for ‘Ethics and Integrity of the Publishing Process: Myths, Facts, and a Roadmap’by Marshall Schminke and Maureen L. Ambrose. Management and Organization Review, 10(1), 157-162.
- Schminke, M. 2009. Editor’s comments: The better angels of our nature – Ethics and integrity in publishing process. Academy of Management Review, 34(4): 586–591.
- Schminke, M., & Ambrose, M. L. 2011. Ethics and integrity in the publishing process: Myths, facts, and a roadmap. Management and Organization Review, 7(3): 397–406. (Retracted) (above two articles can be found here): twww.iacmr.org/v2en/Publications/MOR/Schminke_AMR_2009.pdf
- Gulati, Ranjay and Martin Gargiulo. 1999. "Where Do Interorganizational Networks Come From?" The American Journal of Sociology 104:1439 - 1493.
- Nahapiet, J., Ghoshal, S., 1998. Social capital, intellectual capital, and the organizational advantage. Academy of Management Review 23(2):242-266.
- Coleman, J., 1988. Social capital in the creation of human capital. American Journal of Sociology 94(S):S95-S120.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027