The pervasive spread of rationalizing trends in society, such as the growing influence of
managerial sciences and increasing emphases on accountability and transparency, has …

Decoupling—the creation of gaps between formal policies and actual practices—is
ubiquitous in organizations. Yet little research has examined how decoupling unfolds over …

In a recent AMR article, Frank Wijen (2014) discussed discrepancies of decoupling in the
context of socioenvironmental governance, drawing on the distinction between “policy …

Executive Overview This article provides a tool for creating change that produces
observable results in complex organizations. Linkage analysis helps managers map …

We clarify that management scholars do not have a shared conceptualization of what the
terms micro and macro mean. Therefore, there is not one, but rather there are multiple micro …

abstract The 1990s witnessed significant changes in organizational design philosophy.
Unique to the 1990s were prescriptions for restructuring involving delayering (the planned …

We advance a multilevel argument that challenges and qualifies existing explanations of
firms' responses to institutional pressures. In an in-depth study of 17 multinational …

I owe the title to Jackson Browne (1985). The lyric was written nearly twenty years ago, when
the issue was US policy in Latin America, especially in Nicaragua, but it is remarkably …

The idea that interdependent and persistent tensions are intrinsic to organizing is now well
accepted. Organizational paradox theory has further stressed the importance of accepting …

One of the lessons America's mythologized cowboys supposedly learned in the rough and
tumble days of the American frontier was that paranoia was smart psychology. You couldn't …