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 …

This paper surveys two related pieces of the labor-economics literature: incentive pay and
careers in organizations. In the discussion of incentives, I first summarize theory and …

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 …

Although the pyramid headed by an all-powerful individual has been a symbol of
organizations, such omnipotence is possible only in simple situations where perfected …

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 …

Social network analysis is an approach and set of techniques used to study the exchange of
resources among actors (ie, individuals, groups, or organizations). One such resource is …

Bourdieu's analysis of class and culture errs in neglecting two important aspects of social
structure: social networks and class relations at work. He expects high-status culture to be …

Experimental research indicates that people in face-to-face brainstorming meetings are less
efficient at generating ideas than when working alone. This so-called productivity loss has …

Recombinant property is a form of organizational hedging in which actors respond to
uncertainty by deversifying assets, redefining and recombining resources. It is an attempt to …

Email is one of the most successful computer applications yet devised. Our empirical data
show however, that although email was originally designed as a communications …