Stanford's organization theory renaissance,1970-2000 / edited by Claudia Bird Schoonhoven, Frank Dobbin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schoonhoven, Claudia Bird.

Dobbin, Frank.

Series:

Research in the sociology of organizations ; v. 28.

Research in the sociology of organizations, 0733-558X ; v. 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stanford University.

Organizational sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (510 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between 1970 and 2000, Stanford University enabled and supported a vigorous interdisciplinary community of organizations training, research, and theory building. Important breakthroughs occurred in theory development, and a couple of generations of doctoral and post-doctoral students received enhanced training and an extraordinary opportunity to build collegial networks. The model spread to other universities and work done at that time and place continues to exercise influence up to the present time. This volume both summarizes the contributions of the main paradigms that emerged at Stanford in those three decades, and describes the sociological conditions under which this remarkable, generative, environment came about. A series of chapters by some of the key contributors to these paradigms, who studied at Stanford between 1970 and 2000, are followed by brief comments on the conditions that fostered the development of these different paradigms, and on the development of the paradigms themselves.

Contents:

An organizational sociology of Standford's organization theory renaissance / Frank Dobbin, Claudia Bird Schoonhoven

ch. 1. Organizational institutionalism at Stanford : reflections on the founding of a 30-year theoretical research program / Brian Rowan

ch. 2. Resource dependence theory : past and future / Gerald F. Davis, J. Adam Cobb

ch. 3. Population ecology / Terry L. Amburgey

ch. 4. Organizational learning / Lee Sproull

ch. 5. Culture Stanford's way / Mary Jo Hatch

ch. 6. Organizations and labor markets / Alison Davis-Blake

ch. 7. The history of corporate networks : expanding intellectual diversity and the role of Stanford affiliations / Christine M. Beckman

ch. 8. Healthcare organizations and the Stanford School of Organizational Sociology / Mary L. Fennell, Ann Barry Flood

ch. 9. Administration is necessary but research rules / W. Richard Scott

ch. 10. Silicon valley, theories of organization, and the Stanford legacy / Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

ch. 11. When theory met practice : cooperation at Stanford / Roderick M. Kramer

ch. 12. NIHM-SCOR : a pioneering center at Stanford / Raymond E. Levitt

ch. 13. A fellow from Kansas / James G. March

ch. 14. A cultural view of the organizational community at Stanford University / Joanne Martin

ch. 15. Explaining the impact of the Stanford organization studies community / Donald Palmer

ch. 16. Speaking with one voice : a 'Stanford school' approach to organizational hierarchy / Ezra W. Zuckerman

ch. 17. How I spent the summer of 1973 : it was not a vacation / Howard E. Aldrich

ch. 18. The contributions of organizational theory to health care / Joan R. Bloom

ch. 19. The devil's workshop / Jacques Delacroix

ch. 20. Legacies from growing up on the farm / P. Devereaux Jennings

ch. 21. Situated learning and brokerage as keys to successful knowledge production : an experiential review / Steve Mezias, Theresa Lant

ch. 22. A relational approach to organizational learning / Martha S. Feldman

ch. 23. The Stanford organizational studies community : reflections of a tempered radical / Debra E. Meyerson

ch. 24. Unpacking the Stanford case : an elementary analysis / Mark C. Suchman

ch. 25. 'Let a hundred flowers blossom' : the cross-fertilization of organization studies at Stanford / Martin Ruef

ch. 26. Chance encounters, ecologies of ideas, and career paths : a personal narrative of my Stanford years / Jitendra V. Singh

ch. 27. Sense-making in organizational research / Sim B Sitkin

ch. 28. School and super-school / David Strang

ch. 29. Reflections on the Stanford organizations experience / Amy S. Wharton

ch. 30. Touchstones : the Stanford school of organization theories, 1970-2000 / Patricia H. Thornton

ch. 31. Collegial capital : the organizations research community at Stanford, 1970-2000 / W. Richard Scott.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9786612552656

9781282552654

1282552651

9781849509312

184950931X

OCLC:

609470972