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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS ADVISORY BOARD

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Michael Lounsbury

Professor of Strategic Management & Organization

Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurship & Innovation

University of Alberta School of Business

RSO Advisory Board

• Howard E. Aldrich, University of North Carolina, USA

• Shaz Ansari, Cambridge University, UK

• Silvia Dorado Banacloche, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

• Christine Beckman, University of Southern California, USA

• Marya Besharov, Oxford University, UK

• Eva Boxenbaum, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

• Ed Carberry, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

• Lisa Cohen, McGill University, Canada

• Jeannette Colyvas, Northwestern University, USA

• Erica Coslor, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Gerald F. Davis, University of Michigan, USA

• Rich Dejordy, California State University, USA

• Rodolphe Durand, HEC Paris, France

• Fabrizio Ferraro, IESE Business School, Spain

• Peer Fiss, University of Southern California, USA

• Mary Ann Glynn, Boston College, USA

• Nina Granqvist, Aalto University School of Business, Finland

• Royston Greenwood, University of Alberta, Canada

• Stine Grodal, Northeastern University, USA

• Markus A. Hoellerer, University of New South Wales, Australia

• Ruthanne Huising, Emlyon Business School, France

• Candace Jones, University of Edinburgh, UK

• Sarah Kaplan, University of Toronto, Canada

• Brayden G. King, Northwestern University, USA

• Matthew S. Kraatz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

• Tom Lawrence, Oxford University, UK

• Xiaowei Rose Luo, Insead, France

• Johanna Mair, Hertie School, Germany

• Christopher Marquis, Cornell University, USA

• Renate Meyer, Vienna University, Austria

• William Ocasio, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

• Nelson Phillips, Imperial College London, UK

• Prateek Raj, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India

• Marc Schneiberg, Reed College, USA

• Marc-David Seidel, University of British Columbia, Canada

• Paul Spee, University of Queensland, Australia

• Paul Tracey, Cambridge University, UK

• Kerstin Sahlin, Uppsala University, Sweden

• Sarah Soule, Stanford University, USA

• Eero Vaara, University of Oxford, UK

• Marc Ventresca, University of Oxford, UK

• Maxim Voronov, York University, Canada

• Filippo Carlo Wezel USI Lugano, Switzerland

• Melissa Wooten, Rutgers University, USA

• April Wright, University of Queensland, Australia

• Meng Zhao, Nanyang Business School & Renmin University, China

• Enying Zheng, Peking University, China

• Tammar B. Zilber, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS - VOLUME 76

CARNEGIE GOES TO CALIFORNIA: ADVANCING AND CELEBRATING THE WORK OF JAMES G. MARCH

EDITED BY

CHRISTINE M. BECKMAN

University of Southern California, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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To Jim and his students – past, present and future

Contents

List of Figures and Images

List of Tables

List of Contributors

About the Contributors

Mie Augier is a Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. She has published in areas such as organizational studies, strategy, leadership, and the history of management education; and researches and teaches in the areas of strategy, critical and strategic thinking, and strategic leadership; and the history, organization, and strategy of US Marine Corps.

Julian Barg is a PhD candidate in Sustainability at Ivey Business School. His work focuses on the environmental impacts of large corporations. He works both with qualitative and quantitative data on those environmental impacts, and analyzes how social processes give rise to discrepancies between those two dimensions.

Sean F. X. Barrett is a Major and Active Duty Intelligence Officer in the US Marine Corps. He has previously deployed in support of Operations IRAQI FREEDOM, ENDURING FREEDOM, ENDURING FREEDOM-PHILIPPINES, and INHERENT RESOLVE. He is also a PhD student in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.

Markus C. Becker is Professor at the Strategic Organization Design Unit, University of Southern Denmark. His research focuses on how organizations adapt and learn, especially if work in organizations is to some degree accomplished through organizational routines. His work has appeared in, for example, Organization Science and the Strategic Management Journal.

Christine M. Beckman is the Price Family Chair in Social Innovation and Professor at the Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California. Her research spans organizational learning, interorganizational networks, gender and inequality, and innovation and entrepreneurship. She is the current Editor-in-Chief at Administrative Science Quarterly.

M. Diane Burton is a Professor at the ILR School at Cornell University and the Chair of the Human Resource Studies Department. Her research focuses on entrepreneurship and employment, organizational design, and human resource management practices.

Tom Christensen is Professor Emeritus at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo. He is also Visiting Professor at Renmin University and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University. He has published extensively on central civil service, comparative public sector reforms and national sector reforms – crisis management, police, higher education, welfare administrative, etc., based on central perspectives from organization theory.

Scott C. Ganz is an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy and a Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His research integrates organizational theory and political economics in order to better understand political processes within organizations and governments and the non-market strategies of firms and interest organizations.

Yanfei Hu is Lecturer in Sustainability, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on sustainable development and social change. In particular, she is interested in how advocacy organizations tackle deeply rooted social and environmental problems.

Per Lægreid is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Norway. He has published extensively on public sector reforms, public governance, public management, central civil service, accountability, crisis management, and comparative public administration from organizational and institutional perspectives.

Chengwei Liu is Associate Professor of Strategy and Behavioral Science at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT Berlin). He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge. His research interests include the role of luck in management, behavioral strategy as arbitrage, and organizational learning and design in the age of artificial intelligence.

Cameron McAlpine is a PhD candidate in Organizational Behavior at Ivey Business School. A career in communications and advocacy work gave him a keen interest in power, politics, and creativity. His research focuses on political processes through which organizations negotiate rules and status hierarchies at the institutional level of analysis.

Daniel A. Newark is an Assistant Professor at HEC Paris. His research focuses on individual and organizational decision making.

Charles A. O’Reilly is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Management at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. His research spans studies of organizational demography, culture, leadership, and executive compensation, and organizational innovation and change.

Claus Rerup is a Professor at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Germany; he studies organizational routines, attention/sensemaking and learning dynamics. His work has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Organization Science and several other journals and handbooks.

Zur Shapira is Professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Society and Academy of Management and former Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science. His books include Risk Taking: A Managerial Perspective; Organizational Decision-Making; Technological Innovation: Oversights and Foresights; Organizational Cognition; and The Evolution of a New Industry: A Genealogical Approach.

Sim B. Sitkin is Michael W. Krzyzewski University Professor and Professor of Management and Public Policy at Duke University. His research focuses on the effects of leadership and organizational control on trust, risk taking, experimentation, learning, and innovation. His most recent books are Organizational Control, The Six Domains of Leadership, and The Routledge Companion to Trust.

Chia-Jung Tsay is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at UCL School of Management, University College London. She received her PhD from Harvard Business School. Her research examines the psychological processes that influence decision making and interpersonal perception, and nonconscious biases in professional selection and advancement.

Lee Watkiss is an Assistant Professor of General Management at Ivey Business School. His research focuses on how choices get made in and by organizations. In particular, he explores the cultural processes that undergird how actors create the situations that in turn shapes the choices they make.

Thierry Weil is a Professor at Mines Paris PSL, working on the future of industry and work, and a member of the French Academy of Engineering. He has held different positions related to R&D and management in companies, universities, and government. He wrote Invitation à la lecture de James March, a biography of Pr. March.

Mark J. Zbaracki is an Associate Professor of General Management at the Ivey Business School at Western University. His research interests include the social construction of managerial practices, decision making, strategy implementation, routine dynamics, and organizational learning.

Foreword: Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Research in the Sociology of Organizations (RSO) publishes cutting edge empirical research and theoretical papers that seek to enhance our understanding of organizations and organizing as pervasive and fundamental aspects of society and economy. We seek provocative papers that push the frontiers of current conversations that help to revive old ones, or that incubate and develop new perspectives. Given its successes in this regard, RSO has become an impactful and indispensable fount of knowledge for scholars interested in organizational phenomena and theories. RSO is indexed and ranks highly in Scopus/SCImago as well as in the Academic Journal Guide published by the Chartered Association of Business schools.

As one of the most vibrant areas in the social sciences, the sociology of organizations engages a plurality of empirical and theoretical approaches to enhance our understanding of the varied imperatives and challenges that these organizations and their organizers face. Of course, there is a diversity of formal and informal organizations – from for-profit entities to non-profits, state and public agencies, social enterprises, communal forms of organizing, non-governmental associations, trade associations, publicly traded, family owned and managed, private firms – the list goes on! Organizations, moreover, can vary dramatically in size from small entrepreneurial ventures to large multi-national conglomerates to international governing bodies such as the United Nations.

Empirical topics addressed by RSO include: the formation, survival, and growth or organizations; collaboration and competition between organizations; the accumulation and management of resources and legitimacy; and how organizations or organizing efforts cope with a multitude of internal and external challenges and pressures. Particular interest is growing in the complexities of contemporary organizations as they cope with changing social expectations and as they seek to address societal problems related to corporate social responsibility, inequality, corruption and wrongdoing, and the challenge of new technologies. As a result, levels of analysis reach from the individual, to the organization, industry, community and field, and even the nation-state or world society. Much research is multi-level and embraces both qualitative and quantitative forms of data.

Diverse theory is employed or constructed to enhance our understanding of these topics. While anchored in the discipline of sociology and the field of management, RSO also welcomes theoretical engagement that draws on other disciplinary conversations – such as those in political science or economics, as well as work from diverse philosophical traditions. RSO scholarship has helped push forward a plethora theoretical conversations on institutions and institutional change, networks, practice, culture, power, inequality, social movements, categories, routines, organization design and change, configurational dynamics, and many other topics.

Each volume of RSO tends to be thematically focused on a particular empirical phenomenon (e.g., creative industries, multi-national corporations, and entrepreneurship) or theoretical conversation (e.g., institutional logics, actors and agency, and microfoundations). The series publishes papers by junior as well as leading international scholars, and embraces diversity on all dimensions. If you are scholar interested in organizations or organizing, I hope you find RSO to be an invaluable resource as you develop your work.

Professor Michael Lounsbury

Series Editor, Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurship & Innovation

University of Alberta