Macro OB

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Contents 1 Articles 1.1 Introduction and Organizing Session 1.2 What is Good Organizational Theory? 1.3 Population Ecology 1.4 Population Ecology 1.5 Organizational Learning and Knowledge Transfer 1.6 Organizational Learning 1.7 Institutional Theory 1.8 Transaction Cost Economics 1.9 Embeddedness and Social Capital 1.10 Social Network and Structural Advantage 1.11 Behavioral Theory of the Firm

Articles

(from the Fall 2007 Syllabus)

Introduction and Organizing Session

• Leavitt, H. J. (1996). “The old days, hot groups and managers' lib,” Administrative Science Quarterly, 41, 288-300.

What is Good Organizational Theory?

• Van de Ven, A.H. (1989). “Nothing is quite so practical as a good theory,” Academy of Management Review, 14(4), 486-489.
• Whetten, D. A. (1989). “What constitutes a theoretical contribution?” Academy of Management Review, 14(4), 490-495.
• Bacharach, S. B. (1989). “Organizational theories: Some criteria for evaluation,” Academy of Management Review, 14(4), 499-515.
• Sutton, R. I & Staw, B. M. (1995). “What theory is Not,” Administrative Science Quarterly, 40(3), 371-384.

Population Ecology

• Carroll, G. R., & Hannan, M. T. (2000). The demography of corporations and industries. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (pp 1-57).
• Carroll, G. R. (1985). “Concentration and specialization: Dynamics of Niche Width in populations of organizations.” American Journal of Sociology, 90, 1262-1283.

Population Ecology

• Carroll, G. R. & Swaminathan (2000). “Why the microbrewery movement? Organizational dynamics of resource partitioning in the U.S. brewing industry,” American Journal of Sociology, 106, 715-762.
• McKendrick, D. G., Jaffee, J., Carroll, G. R., & Khessina, O. M. (2003). “In the bud? Disk array producers as a (possibly) emergent organizational form. Administrative Science Quarterly, 48, 60-93.

Organizational Learning and Knowledge Transfer

• Levitt, B., & March, J. G. (1988). “Organizational learning,” Annual Review of Sociology, 14, 319-340.
• Kane, A. A., Argote, L., & Levine, J. M. (2005). “Knowledge transfer between groups via personnel rotation: Effects of social identity and knowledge quality.” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 96, 56-71.
• Darr, E. D., Argote, L., & Epple, D. (1995). “The acquisition, transfer and depreciation of knowledge in service organizations: Productivity in franchises,”Management Science, 41, 1750-1762.

Organizational Learning

• Reagans, R., Argote, L., & Brooks, D. (2005). Individual experience and experience working together: Predicting learning rates from knowing what to do and knowing who knows what. Management Science, 51, 869-881
• Argote, L., & Ophir, R. (2002). Intraorganizational learning. In J. Baum (Ed.), Companion to organizations. Blackwell.
• Schulz, M. (2002). Organizational learning. In J. Baum (Ed.), Companion to organizations. Blackwell.
• Ingram, P. (2002). Interorganizational learning. In J. Baum (Ed.), Companion to organizations. Blackwell.

Institutional Theory

• DiMaggio , P. J. & Powell, W. W. (1991). “The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality,” in DiMaggio, P. J. & Powell, W. W. (Eds.), The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis.
• Tolbert, P. & Zucker, L. (1983). “Institutional sources of change in the formal structure of organizations: The diffusion of civil service reform, 1880-1935.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 28, 22-39.
• Ingram, P. & Inman, C. (1996). “Institutions, intergroup competition, and the evolution of hotel populations around Niagara Falls.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 41(4), 629-658.

Transaction Cost Economics

• Williamson, O. E. (1979). “Transaction-cost economics: The governance of contractual relations,” Journal of Law and Economics, 22: 233-261.
• Santos, F. M. & Eisenhardt, K. M. (2005). “Organizational boundaries and theories of organization,” Organization Science.
• Gulati, R. & Nickerson, J.A. (in press). “Interorganizational trust, governance choice and exchange performance,” Organization Science.

Embeddedness and Social Capital

• Granovetter, M. (1985) “Economic action and social structure: The problem of embeddedness,” American Journal of Sociology, 91, 481-510.
• Coleman, J. S. (1988) “Social capital in the creation of human capital,” American Journal of Sociology, 94, S95-S120

Social Network and Structural Advantage

• Reagans, R. and B. McEvily (2003). “Network structure and knowledge transfer: The effects of cohesion and range.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 48, 240-267.
• Granovetter, M. (1973). “The strength of weak ties,” American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360-1380.
• Burt, R.S. (2004). “Structural holes and good ideas,” American Journal of Sociology, 110, 349-399.

Behavioral Theory of the Firm

• Cyert, R. M., & March, J. G. (1992). A behavioral theory of the firm 2nd edition. Blackwell Publishers. (Chapter 3, 7, 9)
• March, J.G. (2007). “Perspective—Scholarship, Scholarly Institutions, and Scholarly Communities.” Organization Science, 18, 537 - 542.
• Desai, V. (in press). “Constrained Growth: How Experience, Legitimacy and Age Influence Risk Taking in Organizations,” Organization Science.
• Argote, L., & Greve, H. R. (2007). “A Behavioral Theory of the Firm-40 years and counting: Introduction and impact.” Organization Science, 18, 337-349.
• Gavetti, G., Levinthal, D.,and Ocasio. W. (2007). "Neo-Carnegie: The Carnegie School's Past, Present, and econstructing for the Future." Organization Science, 18, 523-536.