Qualitative Studies of Organizations

by John Van Maanen

• ISBN13: 9780761916956
• ISBN10: 0761916954
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-08
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Summary

The inaugural book in a new series sponsored by the Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) it is designed to focus and stimulate thinking on those areas of administrative science that have most profoundly shaped the development of organizational theory and behavior. In this volume, editor John Van Maanen selects and introduces the compendium of ASQ articles on qualitative research. Each article serves as an exemplar of well-written, substantively focused, and theoretically relevant qualitative research. As a group, the articles represent a broad range of research styles, methods, topics, and level of analysis. The studies are spread across four areas of research: organizational process, groups in organizations, organizational identity and change, and the societal and institutional environment. Organizations studied include factories, churches, universities, engineering groups, fisheries, voluntary organizations, basketball teams, pop music recording firms, and more. The authors of the works represent a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, political science, communication, management studies, and history.

Table of Contents

Foreword - John Van Maanen

Different Strokes

Qualitative Research in the /f003Administrative Science Quarterly/f001 from 1956 to 1996

PART ONE: STUDIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES - R M Cyert,W R Dill and J G March

The Role of Expectations in Business Decision Making - Patricia A Adler and Peter Adler

Intense Loyalty in Organizations

A Case Study of College Athletics - Ann Langley

In Search of Rationality

The Purposes behind the Use of Formal Analysis in Organizations

PART TWO: STUDIES OF GROUPS IN ORGANIZATIONS - Robert E Cole

The Macropolitics of Organizational Change

A Comparative Analysis of the Spread of Small-Group Activities - James R Barker

Tightening the Iron Cage

Concertive Control in Self-Managing Work Teams - Robert P Gephart Jr

Status Degradation and Organizational Succession

An Ethnomethodological Approach

PART THREE: STUDIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY AND CHANGE - Burton R Clark

The Organizational Saga in Higher Education - John Maniha and Charles Perrow

The Reluctant Organization and the Aggressive Environment - Mayer N Zald and Patricia Denton Wallace

From Evangelism to General Service

The Transformation of the YMCA - Nicole Woolsey Biggart

The Creative-Destructive Process of Organizational Change

The Case of the Post Office

PART FOUR: STUDIES OF THE SOCIETAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT - Paul M Hirsch

Organizational Effectiveness and the Institutional Environment - Reed E Nelson

Authority,Organization and Societal Context in Multinational Churches - Petter Holm

The Dynamics of Institutionalization

Transformation Processes in Norwegian Fisheries