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G. Tomas M. Hult - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Toward greater integration of insights from Organization Theory and supply chain management
Journal of Operations Management, 2006Co-Authors: David J. Ketchen, G. Tomas M. HultAbstract:Abstract Organization Theory (OT) has the potential to offer provocative and helpful wisdom to the field of supply chain management, yet OT's potential has remained largely underdeveloped in the supply chain arena. As a result, enormous opportunities exist to integrate insights from Organization Theory and supply chain management in order to build understanding of why some supply chains excel while others do not. We preview the contributions toward developing such a synthesis offered by each of the articles contained in this special issue. Collectively, the articles take a significant step toward closing the gap between ‘what we know’ and ‘what we need to know’ about supply chain management.
David J. Ketchen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Toward greater integration of insights from Organization Theory and supply chain management
Journal of Operations Management, 2006Co-Authors: David J. Ketchen, G. Tomas M. HultAbstract:Abstract Organization Theory (OT) has the potential to offer provocative and helpful wisdom to the field of supply chain management, yet OT's potential has remained largely underdeveloped in the supply chain arena. As a result, enormous opportunities exist to integrate insights from Organization Theory and supply chain management in order to build understanding of why some supply chains excel while others do not. We preview the contributions toward developing such a synthesis offered by each of the articles contained in this special issue. Collectively, the articles take a significant step toward closing the gap between ‘what we know’ and ‘what we need to know’ about supply chain management.
Gerald F Davis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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celebrating Organization Theory the after party
Journal of Management Studies, 2015Co-Authors: Gerald F DavisAbstract:Organization and management Theory as a field faces criticisms from several scholars that it has an unhealthy obsession with ‘Theory’, while at the same time seeing very little cumulative theoretical progress. Some have even accused the field of being mired in the 1970s. Lounsbury and Beckman counter with an expansive review of several thriving domains of contemporary Organizational research that demonstrate the theoretical vibrancy of the field. This article responds by seeking to define ‘theoretical progress’ in ways that extend beyond just the volume of articles produced. It finds that 1970s-era classics have seen a surge of citations since the turn of the twenty-first century, consistent with a view of limited progress. It concludes by outlining three areas of problem-driven research eminently worthy of attention from Organizational researchers.
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prospects for Organization Theory in the early twenty first century institutional fields and mechanisms
Organization Science, 2005Co-Authors: Gerald F Davis, Christopher MarquisAbstract:This paper argues that research in Organization Theory has seen a shift in orientation from paradigm-driven work to problem-driven work since the late 1980s. A number of paradigms for the study of Organizations were elaborated during the mid-1970s, including transaction cost economics, resource dependence Theory, Organizational ecology, new institutional Theory, and agency Theory in financial economics. These approaches reflected the dominant trends of the large corporations of their time: increasing concentration, diversification, and bureaucratization. However, subsequent shifts in Organizational boundaries, the increased use of alliances and network forms, and the expanding role of financial markets in shaping Organizational decision making all make normal science driven by the internally derived questions from these paradigms less fruitful. Instead, we argue that problem-driven work that uses mechanism-based theorizing and research that takes the field rather than the Organization as the unit of analysis are the most appropriate styles of Organizational research under conditions of major economic change-such as our own era. This sort of work is best exemplified by various studies under the rubric of institutional Theory in the past 15 years, which are reviewed here.
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social movements and Organization Theory
2005Co-Authors: Gerald F DavisAbstract:Part I. Creating a Common Framework: 1. Organizations and movements Doug McAdam and W. Richard Scott 2. Where do we stand? Common mechanisms in Organizations and social movements research John L. Campbell Part II. Political and Mobilization Context: 3. Institutional variation in the evolution of social movements: competing logics and the spread of recycling advocacy groups Michael Lounsbury 4. Elite mobilizations for antitakeover legislation, 1982-1990 Timothy Vogus and Gerald F. Davis 5. Institutionalization as a contested, multilevel process: the case of rate regulation in American fire insurance Marc Schneiberg and Sarah A. Soule 6. From struggle to settlement: the crystallization of a field of lesbian/gay Organizations in San Francisco, 1969-1973 Elizabeth Armstrong Part III. Social Movement Organizations: Form and Structure: 7. Persistence and change among federated social movement Organizations John McCarthy 8. Globalization and transnational social movement Organizations Jackie Smith Part IV. Movements Penetrating Organizations: 9. How do social movements penetrate Organizations? Environmental impact and Organizational response Mayer N. Zald, Calvin Morrill, and Hayagreeva Rao 10. Organizational change as an orchestrated social movement: recruitment to a corporate quality initiative David Strang and Dong-Il Jung 11. Subventing our stories of subversion Maureen A. Scully and W. E. Douglas Creed Part V. Conclusion: 12. Social change, social Theory, and the convergence of movements and Organizations Gerald F. Davis and Mayer N. Zald 12. Two kinds of stuff: the current encounter of social movements and Organizations Elizabeth Clemens.
Haridimos Tsoukas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Introduction: why philosophy matters to Organization Theory
Philosophy and Organization Theory, 2011Co-Authors: Haridimos Tsoukas, Robert ChiaAbstract:This chapter is the introduction to Philosophy and Organization Theory and discusses why philosophy matters to Organization Theory.
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Philosophy and Organization Theory - Philosophy and Organization Theory
Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 2011Co-Authors: Haridimos Tsoukas, Robert ChiaAbstract:What is the relationship between philosophy and Organization Theory (OT)? While at first glance there might appear to be little, a closer look reveals a rich pattern of connections. More than any other type of human inquiry, philosophy helps make us self-aware of critical assumptions we tacitly incorporate in our Organizational theorizing; it creates a deeper awareness of the 'unconscious metaphysics' underpinning our efforts to understand Organizations. This volume includes papers that explore connections between several streams in philosophy and OT. As the titles of the papers suggest, most authors write about a particular philosopher or group of philosophers that make up a distinct school of thought, summarize important aspects of his/their work, and tease out the implications for OT. The central question authors explore is: 'what does a particular philosophy contribute to OT?' Either addressing this question in historical or exploratory terms, or in a combination of both, the end result is similar: particular philosophical issues, properly explained, are discussed in relation to important questions in OT.
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The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory - The Oxford handbook of Organization Theory
2005Co-Authors: Haridimos Tsoukas, Christian KnudsenAbstract:PART I: Organization Theory AS SCIENCE PART II: THE CONSTRUCTION OF Organization Theory PART III: META-THEORETICAL CONTROVERSIES IN Organization Theory PART IV: Organization Theory AS A POLICY SCIENCE PART V: THE FUTURE OF Organization Theory
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the oxford handbook of Organization Theory
2005Co-Authors: Haridimos Tsoukas, Christian KnudsenAbstract:PART I: Organization Theory AS SCIENCE PART II: THE CONSTRUCTION OF Organization Theory PART III: META-THEORETICAL CONTROVERSIES IN Organization Theory PART IV: Organization Theory AS A POLICY SCIENCE PART V: THE FUTURE OF Organization Theory
Huseyin Leblebici - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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New Directions for Organization Theory: Problems and Prospects
Academy of Management Review, 1999Co-Authors: Huseyin LeblebiciAbstract:The article reviews the book “New Directions for Organization Theory: Problems and Prospects,” by Jeffrey Pfeffer.