Synopses & Reviews
DESCRIPTION: Volume 24 of Research in Organizational Behavior (ROB) contains a broad and eclectic set of offerings. The chapters address a variety of recent and important concerns in organizational theory, ranging from the evolution of organizations and cross-cultural analyses of managerial behavior to the micro-sociology of knowledge brokering within organizations and the etiology of organizational messes. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface. Organizational processes of resource partitioning (G.R. Carroll et al.). Brokering knowledge: linking learning and innovation (A.B. Hargadon). Learning from experience in high-hazard organizations (J.S. Carroll et al.). Disorganization theory and disorganizational behavior: towards an etiology of messes (E. Abrahamson). When fairness works: toward a general theory of uncertainty management (E.A. Lind, K. van den Bos). OB and entrepreneurship: the reciprocal benefits of closer conceptual links (R.A. Baron). Redefining interactions across cultures and organizations: moving forward with cultural intelligence (P.C. Earley). Utilitarian and ontological variation in individualism-collectivism (J.A. Wagner).
Synopsis
Address a variety of recent and important concerns in organizational theory