Based on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 US businesses, this book
broadens the definition of control and establishes a critical bridge between the disciplines of …

New organizations are always vulnerable to the liabilities of newness, but such pressures
are especially severe when an industry is in its formative years. We focus on one set of …

Three types of trust in economic exchanges are identified: weak form trust, semi‐strong form
trust, and strong form trust. It is shown that weak form trust can only be a source of …

International new ventures (INVs) represent a growing and important type of start-up. An INV
is defined as a business organization that, from inception, seeks to derive significant …

Why have the established institutional forms of schooling been so stable and why did most
challenges fade or become marginalized? We approach these questions by probing a few …

When a firm's chief executive officer is also the chairperson of its board, directors have
opposing objectives. According to organization theory, such CEO duality establishes strong …

We introduce this theory-development forum by comparing total quality and management
theory at both global and topic-specific levels. Our analysis suggests that management …

Despite widespread agreement among organizational researchers that intangible resources
underlie performance differences among organizations, little empirical evidence exists in the …

Through a series of three inductive and deductive studies, I describe how spokespersons
from the California cattle industry constructed and effectively used verbal accounts to …

The author, using data on 694 US manufacturing establishments from a 1992 survey,
examines the incidence of innovative work practices (teams, job rotation, quality circles, and …