Recently added articles from Administrative Science Quarterly:
Getting by with the advice of their friends: CEOs' advice networks and firms' strategic responses to poor performance.
Mar 01, 2003; ... A number of interconnected literatures have sought to explain the robust finding from research in organization studies and strategic management that top executives often do not initiate significant changes in corporate strategy in response to poor firm performance and, paradoxically, may ...
It's all in the name: failure-induced learning by multiunit chains.
Mar 01, 2003; ... Multiunit chains are a conspicuous feature of the modern economy. Chains are collections of service organizations that produce similar goods and services in several markets and are linked together under common ownership into larger superorganizations that make considerable effort to ...
In the bud? Disk array producers as a (possibly) emergent organizational form.
Mar 01, 2003; ... In 1986, a little-known Dutch company named Twincom introduced a software product designed to manage "disk drive arrays," which are data storage subsystems linking several (or many) hard disk drives. In the following year, disk array products were introduced by an additional seven ...
Reconceptualizing organizational routines as a source of flexibility and change.
Mar 01, 2003; ... In this paper, we challenge the traditional understanding of organizational routines as creating inertia in organizations. We adapt Latour's distinction between ostensive and performative to build a theory that explains why routines are a source of change as well as stability. The ...
The Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... The Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate. Neal Ashkanasy, Celeste Wilderom, and Mark Peterson, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000.627 pp. $99.95. The International Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate. Cary L. Cooper, Sue Cartwright, and R Christopher Earley, ...