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作者：Goodrick, E; Salancik, GR
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：While others have tried to accommodate agency and interests within institutional theory by directly incorporating a strategic choice perspective, we propose here that institutions are primary and exist as the context within which interests operate. We argue that uncertainty provides discretion, implying that organizational influence on practice will be greatest when institutional standards are most uncertain. We examine these arguments in the context of cesarean section surgeries in hospitals ...
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作者：Golembiewski, RT
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作者：Lundberg, CC
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作者：Zaid, MN
摘要：Although administrative science (organizational studies) has made much progress since the founding of ASQ, it continues to be a fragmented field of study. This essay explores one source of the continuing and possibly increasing fragmentation of administrative science-the extensive but partial rapprochement with the humanities that has occurred in recent decades. I argue that the opening to the humanities is useful because it helps us understand processes and phenomena that are not well explore...
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作者：Zajac, EJ; Westphal, JD
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：This study advances research on CEO-board relationships, interlocking directorates, and director reputation by examining how contests for intraorganizational power can affect interorganizational ties. We propose that powerful top managers seek to maintain their control by selecting and retaining board members with experience on other, passive boards and excluding individuals with experience on more active boards. We also propose that powerful boards similarly seek to maintain their control by ...
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作者：Barley, SR
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作者：Barley, SR
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作者：Schein, EH
摘要：Inattention to social systems in organizations has led researchers to underestimate the importance of culture-shared norms, values, and assumptions-in how organizations function. Concepts for understanding culture in organizations have value only when they derive from observation of real behavior in organizations, when they make sense of organizational data, and when they are definable enough to generate further study. The attempt to explain what happened to ''brainwashed'' American prisoners ...
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作者：Adler, PS; Borys, B
摘要：This article proposes a conceptualization of workflow formalization that helps reconcile the contrasting assessments of;bureaucracy as alienating to employees or as enabling them to perform their tasks better. Interpreting formalization as an organizational technology, we ruse recent research on the design of equipment technology to identify two types of formalization-enabling and coercive. Whether the impact of formalization on employees' attitudes is positive or negative is, we argue, a func...
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作者：Lundberg, CC
