Publications

There is an old nursery rhyme about a little girl: When she was good, she was very, very good, and when she was bad, she was horrid. Collaborative relationships between faculty members and doctoral students can also be very good or they can be—…

Within organizational theory, the term intergroup relations refers to individual interactions involving members from different groups, as well as the collective behavior of groups in interaction with other groups at either the intra- or inter-…

Organizational change can be usefully conceptualized in terms of both its process and its content. Process refers to how change occurs. Content describes what actually changes in the organization. Theories and analyses of organizational change…

Organizational culture is embedded in the everyday working lives of all cultural members. Manifestations of cultures in organizations include formal practices (such as pay levels, structure of the hierarchy, job descriptions, and other…

This chapter analyzes the ways some organizational theories reflect the viewpoints of the relatively prosperous, while ignoring the perspectives of the less advantaged. For example, research on institutional theory, internal labor markets, and…

For the first time, prominent scholars of the major disciplines in organization studies come together to search for common ground. Economists, sociologists and psychologists put aside their disciplinary, their language and paradigm barriers, in…

Those of us who have uncooperative political convictions and a commitment to doing empirical organization research have a problem: Empirical research in our field trends to be inherently conservative. Presuming that we confine our data collection…