Organization - Bibliography

Organization - Bibliography

Comparative Approaches: Organizations Embedded in Cultures

Mauro F. Guillen. 1994. "Comparative Study of Organizational Paradigms," in Models of Management, 1-20 (portion). U. of Chicago Press.

Geert Hofstede. 1984. Culture’s Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values. Abridged Edition. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. (excerpt)

Back into Organizations: Social and Cultural Approaches

Social Processes and Social Networks in Organizations

Jeffrey Pfeffer, "Conditions for the Use of Power," Power in Organizations

Stephen Barley, "Technology as an Occasion for Structuring: Evidence from Observations of CT Scanners and the Social Order of Radiology Departments," Administrative Science Quarterly, v. 31 (1986), pp. 78-108.

Culture in Organizations
Gideon Kunda. 1992. Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Organizations and Their Environments

Jeffrey Pfeffer and Gerald Salancik, "The Social Control of Organizations," from The External Control of Organizations, pp. 39-54.

Organizations in Networks

Walter Powell, "Neither Market Nor Hierarchy," Research in Organizational Behavior, v. 12 (1990), pp. 295-336.

Brian Uzzi. "Social Structure and Competition." Administrative Science Quarterly, 42,1:35-67, 1997.

Karl Weick. "Educational Organizations as Loosely-Coupled Systems," Administrative Science Quarterly, v. 21 (1978), excerpt from article, pp. 1-9.

Population Ecology

Michael Hannan and Glenn R. Carroll. "An Introduction to Organizational Ecology," Pp. 17-31 from Organizations in Industry. New York: Oxford, 1995.

Michael Hannan and John Freeman. "The Population Ecology of Organizations." American Journal of Sociology, v. 82 (1977), pp. 929-964.

Community Ecology

W. Graham Astley, "The Two Ecologies: Population and Community Perspectives on Organizational Evolution," Administrative Science Quarterly, v. 30 (1985), pp. 224-241.

Institutional Approaches I: Rationality Revisited

John Meyer and Brian Rowan, "Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony," American Journal of Sociology, v. 83 (1977), pp. 340-363.

Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell. 1983. "The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields, American Sociological Review, 48: 147-60.

Institutional Approaches II: Applications

Lauren Edelman. 1992. "Legal ambiguity and symbolic structures: Organizational Mediation of Civil Rights law," American Journal of Sociology 97: 1531-76.

Brian Rowan. 1982. "Organizational Structure and the Institutional Environment: The Case of Public Schools," Administrative Science Quarterly, 27: 259-79.