Research on interlocking directorates has gained increasing prominence within the field of
organizations, but it has come under increasing criticism as well. This chapter presents an in …

Based on the findings of The National Organizations Study, Organizations in America
provides a comprehensive review of the first national survey of organizations in the United …

In this paper, I attempt to advance the concept of embeddedness beyond the level of a
programmatic statement by developing a formulation that specifies how embeddedness and …

The complexity of political, regulatory, and technological changes confronting most
organizations has made radical organizational change and adaptation a central research …

The book opens with a discussion of why top executives need to be studied, by arguing that
who makes the decisions matters. The authors invoke John Child's now classic formulation …

An organization uses information strategically in three areas: to make sense of change in its
environment; to create new knowledge for innovation; and to make decisions about courses …

Management fashion setters disseminate management fashions, transitory collective beliefs
that certain management techniques are at the forefront of management progress. These …

This study investigates how top management teams in higher education institutions make
sense of important issues that affect strategic change in modern academia. We used a two …

This study tests a central proposition of institutional theory, that organizational isomorphism
increases organizational legitimacy. Results show that isomorphism in the strategies of …

Creative and habitual actions represent competing behavioral options that may be
simultaneously influenced by multiple domains of social action. This article integrates …