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Who Killed the Inner Circle? The Decline of the American Corporate Interlock Network
(2015-10)
U.S. corporations shared members of their boards of directors since the early 1900s, creating a dense interlock network in which nearly every major corporation and director was connected through short paths and elevating ...
Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment: Research in (and on) the Anthropocene
(2015-01)
This review article summarizes the main tenets of institutional theory as they apply to the topic of the Anthropocene in the domain of organization and the natural environment (O&NE). But our review is distinctive for two ...
Celebrating Organization Theory: The After‐Party
(Harvard University PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015-03)
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 ...
Reading the wind: how middle managers assess the context for selling issues to top managers
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1997-05)
Issue selling is an important mechanism for creating change initiatives in organizations. This paper presents two studies that examine what middle managers think about as they decide whether or not to sell strategic issues ...
Communicating About Climate Change with Corporate Leaders and Stakeholders
(2016-02)
Within the corporate sector, climate change represents an unfolding market shift; one that is driven by policy, but also by pressures from a variety of market constituents such as consumers, suppliers, buyers, insurance ...
Empowering Middle Managers to be Transformational Leaders
(Sage Publications, 1996)
The article describes a field study of a large-scale management development program designed to stimulate middle managerial change. The development of a change typology suggests that middle managers are capable of making ...
Ranks and Rivals: A Theory of Competition
(Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2006)
Social comparison theories typically assume a comparable degree of competition between commensurate rivals on a mutually important dimension. In contrast, however, the following set of studies reveals that the degree of ...
Organizational Fields Past, Present and Future
(2016-01)
The central construct of neo- institutional theory has been the organizational field. Strictly speaking, the field is ‘a community of organizations that partakes of a common meaning system and whose participants interact ...
Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment: Building Research Through Tensions and Paradoxes
(2016-02)
The focus of institutional theory is directed towards an understanding of situations where context is strong and binding, yet subtly experienced; where agency is often diffuse, embodied in an arrangement or system of actors ...
Climate Change in the Era of the Anthropocene - an Institutional Analysis
(2015-06)
Recently, many geoscientists have re-conceptualized and re-labelled our current Holocene Era as “the Anthropocene,” a less stable era with biophysical characteristics and processes strongly influenced by human activity. ...