12 Research on Organizations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. INTRODUCTION
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Ideas as Art 11
7. PART I EXPLORATIONS IN THEORIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL ACTION
8. Introduction 24
9. 2 Introduction to the Second Edition 34
10. 3 An Epilogue 52
11. 4 Learning and the Theory of the Firm 79
12. PART II EXPLORATIONS IN THE ROLE OF NOVELTY IN ORGANIZATIONAL ADAPTATION
13. Introduction 98
14. 5 Understanding Organizational Adaptation 106
15. 6 Adaptation as Information Restriction 116
16. 7 Schumpeter, Winter, and the Sources of Novelty 147
17. 8 Rationality, Foolishness, and Adaptive Intelligence 167
18. PART III EXPLORATIONS IN INSTITUTIONS AND LOGICS OF APPROPRIATENESS
19. Introduction 192
20. 9 The New Institutionalism 203
21. 10 The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders 234
22. 11 A Learning Perspective on the Network Dynamics of Institutional Integration 273
23. PART IV EXPLORATIONS IN THE MODERN HISTORY OF ORGANIZATION STUDIES
24. Introduction 298
25. 12 Research on Organizations 310
26. 13 Parochialism in the Evolution of a Research Community 325
27. 14 Notes on the Evolution of a Research Community 345
28. 15 The Study of Organizations and Organizing since 1945 367
29. 16 Scholarship, Scholarly Institutions, and Scholarly Communities 380
30. 17 The Pursuit of Relevance in Management Education 393
31. PART V EXPLORATIONS IN ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH LITERATURE
32. Introduction 413
33. 18 Literature and Leadership (French: Littérature et leadership) 434
34. 19 Poetry and the Rhetoric of Management 441
35. 20 Ibsen, Ideals, and the Subornation of Lies 445
36. Contributors 455
37. Index 457