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119: Management & the Worker -- Roethlisberger & Dickson (Part 1) 43:34

5d ago43:34

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We return for another look at the Hawthorne Studies through Fritz Roethlisberger and William Dickson’s 1939 book Management and the Worker. The work chronicles five years of experiments that initially sought the optimal conditions for increased worker performance but evolved into an examination of the social controls that worker exercise over thems…

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119: Management & the Worker -- Roethlisberger & Dickson (Summary of Episode) 4:36

5d ago4:36

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We return for another look at the Hawthorne Studies through Fritz Roethlisberger and William Dickson’s 1939 book Management and the Worker. The work chronicles five years of experiments that initially sought the optimal conditions for increased worker performance but evolved into an examination of the social controls that worker exercise over thems…

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118: Organizational Structures & Digital Technologies -- AoM 2024 Symposium (Part 2) 32:40

26d ago32:40

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This is the second half of our presentation of asymposium titled “Design Choices: Examining the Interplay of OrganizationalStructure and Digital Technologies” from the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Here we will present an edited version of the question andanswer session.

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118: Organizational Structures & Digital Technologies – AoM 2024 Symposium (Part 1) 50:17

1M ago50:17

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This month we present a recording of a symposium titled “Design Choices: Examining the Interplay of Organizational Structure and Digital Technologies” from the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Digital technologies now underpin the very fabric of the workplace; how tasks are assigned, bundled, and monitored partially hinges on the d…

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118: Organizational Structures & Digital Technologies – AoM 2024 Symposium (Summary of Episode) 5:08

1M ago5:08

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This month we present a recording of a symposiumtitled “Design Choices: Examining the Interplay of Organizational Structure and Digital Technologies” from the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Digital technologies now underpin the very fabric of the workplace; how tasks are assigned, bundled, and monitored partially hinges on the de…

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117: Economic Sociology & Valuation -- Marion Fourcade (Part 2) 51:52

2M ago51:52

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We conclude our episode on economic sociology and valuation by looking at the impact work has had on contemporary research. Societies continue to wrestle with how to properly assign value to intangible things such as non-fungible tokens and other cryptocurrencies, “climate change,” and “social media.” There are also questions of the value and utili…

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117: Economic Sociology & Valuation -- Marion Fourcade (Part 1) 52:57

2M ago52:57

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Economic sociology bridges economics and sociology, exploring questions such as how social environments explain and influence economic activities. Of interest for this episode is the subfield of economic valuation, in which researchers have been studying how the monetary worth of something is formed or constructed. One influential work is Marion Fo…

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117: Economic Sociology & Valuation -- Marion Fourcade (Summary of Episode) 3:46

2M ago3:46

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Coming soon! We enter the field of economic sociology and valuation through a comparative study by Marion Fourcade on the different legal outcomes of oil spills in the US and France. “Cents and Sensibility: Economic Valuation and the Nature of ‘Nature’,” published in the American Journal of Sociology in 2011, presents a case study of the legal proc…

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116: Resource Dependence Perspective -- Pfeffer & Salancik (Part 2) 44:28

3M ago44:28

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We conclude our episode on Resource Dependence Theory (RDT) by discussing its continued influence over organization studies and management science to present day. Does RDT help us better understand how organizations try to cope with contemporary challenges like social media technologies or the impacts of the COVID pandemic and its aftermath? What w…

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116: Resource Dependence Perspective – Pfeffer & Salancik (Part 1) 48:05

3M ago48:05

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Resource Dependence Theory (RDT) represented a significant departure from extant literature on management and organization studies in the 1970s. Prior to the publication of Jeffrey Pfeffer and Gerald’s The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective in 1978, the social context and environment surrounding organizations were …

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116: Resource Dependence Perspective -- Pfeffer & Salancik (Summary of Episode) 3:43

3M ago3:43

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Coming soon! We will Jeffrey Pfeffer and Gerald’s The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective that introduced Resource Dependence Theory on how organizations were dependent on the environment for resources and survival, that the environment often included social actors who sought control over organizations, and that man…

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115: Problems of Field Work -- Robert K. Merton (Part 2) 40:30

4M ago40:30

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We conclude our episode on Robert K. Merton by examining contemporary challenges of conducting field work and the implications for the continued pursuit of rigorous science. How has field work changed or what new barriers have emerged? How must the academic community adapt to the present challenges of being able to conduct quality research?…

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115: Problems of Field Work -- Robert K. Merton (Part 1) 51:04

4M ago51:04

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Robert K. Merton was a sociologist who founded the study of the sociology of science, how acts of research influence and are influenced by the contexts being studied. Two of his early essays exemplify this body of work whereby he and his research teams reflect on the challenges and difficulties of performing field work. Inthis episode, we examine t…

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115: Problems of Field Work -- Robert K. Merton (Summary of Episode) 3:53

4M ago3:53

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We will explore two of the early works of renowned sociologist Robert K. Merton whose interests included studying the processes of field work in order to improve the quality and rigor of field studies. What are the challenges and difficulties of doing research in environments rife with conflict and tension?…

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114: A Conversation about Trist & Sociotechnical Systems 26:25

5M ago26:25

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In Episode 114, we re-examine one of our earlier episodes that covered Trist & Bamforth’s study on the longwall method of coal-getting (Episode 34) is the most referenced of any episode we have released. In this introductory segment, Pedro & Tom take a retrospective look at the episode, why it was included in the program back in 2017, and why it co…

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114: Using Trist & Bamforth's Study for Teaching Change 10:10

5M ago10:10

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In this bonus release, Tom talks about using Trist & Bamforth's study as a way of teaching professionals (student-practitioners) about managing organizational change. By telling the story in a way that does not require mastery of the coal-getting terminology, Tom shows how to bring the case study to life for a contemporary audience and help them se…

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111: Visible & Invisible Work -- Susan Leigh Star (Part 2) 41:46

8M ago41:46

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We conclude the episode by looking to the present day and how the negotiations over work visibility has evolved since the turn of the 21st century. Have the emergence of social media, emergence of general computing platforms over the proprietary systems from the 1990s, and increased competitive pressures driving quests for efficiency challenged or …

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111: Visible & Invisible Work -- Susan Leigh Star (Part 1) 47:23

8M ago47:23

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In this episode, we focus on the emerging discourse from the 1990s on how automated systems would potentially change the very meaning of work. The discussion is on a seminal work of Susan Leigh Star and co-author Anselm Strauss, “Layers of Silence, Arenas of Voice: The Ecology of Visible and Invisible Work,” published in CSCW’s flagship journal, Co…

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111: Visible & Invisible Work -- Susan Leigh Star (Summary of Epiosode) 3:05

8M ago3:05

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We will discuss Susan Leigh Star’s “Layers of Silence, Arenas of Voice: The Ecology of Visible and Invisible Work,” published in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work in 1999. The article deals with the challenges and risks of automating work processes without due consideration of all the invisible work done in an organization that systems designers …

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110: Organizations and Law -- Lauren Edelman (Part 2) 43:47

9M ago43:47

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Since Edelman’s two articles were published, a lot of research has followed into the ever-evolving environment engulfing organizations and the legal systems they operate under. It is more important to comply with the letter of the law or its intent? Why do organizations expend so much energy trying to avoid legal liability rather than pursue the in…

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110: Organizations and Law -- Lauren Edelman (Part 1) 46:46

9M ago46:46

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In this episode, we explore two articles from Lauren Edelman, “Legal Ambiguity and Symbolic Structures: Organizational Mediation of Civil Rights Law” from 1992 and “The Endogeneity of Legal Regulation: Grievance Procedures as Rational Myth” from 1999. These studies showed a wide variety of organizational responses to the enactment of civil rights l…

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110: Organizations and Law -- Lauren Edelman (Summary of Episode) 4:10

9M ago4:10

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Coming soon! We examine the works of Lauren Edelman who explored organizations and their responses to new laws that impact their relationships with employees. Using civil rights laws as an illustration, she shows how ambiguities in the law and unclear enforcement mechanisms contribute to organizations having to define and measure compliance themsel…

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109: Emergence of Mental Health Professions - Abbott (Part 2) 42:41

10M ago42:41

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Professional competition both within the personal problems jurisdiction and from outside it (e.g., insurance and accounting) continued to shape the availability and quality of mental health care to the present day. Yet the landscape has changed – social stigmas against those seeking mental health care seem to have waned. Yet, the cost and lack of a…

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109: Emergence of Mental Health Professions - Abbott (Part 1) 47:26

10M ago47:26

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In this episode, we return to Andrew Abbott’s The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor from 1989 to study in depth one of his case studies that may illuminate the present-day mental health crises gripping many nations from the COVID-19 pandemic. “The Construction of the Personal Problems Jurisdiction” chronicles how socia…

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109: Emergence of the Mental Health Professions - Abbott (Summary of Episode) 3:12

10M ago3:12

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We return to Andrew Abbott’s System of Professions and examine the third of his case studies that informed his conceptual framework for understanding professional work and jurisdictional claims. “The Construction of the Personal Problems Jurisdiction” chronicled how social changes from the Industrial Revolution led to the maladjustment and isolatio…

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108: Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - Goffman (Part 2) 43:43

11M ago43:43

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The 1959 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman became a seminal text for several emergent subfields such as impression management and symbolic interactionism, while also greatly influences studies of organizational behavior. But it was also a product of its time, with its many examples and explanations rooted in societal …

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108: Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - Goffman (Part 1) 46:08

11M ago46:08

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Erving Goffman’s 1959 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life was an important attempt at explaining both apparent and hidden human behaviors across social and organizational settings. Through a comprehensive framework employing theater as a metaphor, he describes the roles of people as performers and members of an audience who try to shape …

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108: Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - Goffman (Summary of Episode) 3:58

11M ago3:58

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Our next episode features Erving Goffman’s 1959 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life that presents a comprehensive framework for understanding human interactions and impression management. Through numerous examples, he explains how humans in social settings try to read and shape the environment so they can act accordingly within it and ge…

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107: Institutionalized Rules and Formal Structures -- Meyer & Rowan (Part 2) 47:14

12M ago47:14

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In the conclusion of this episode on Meyer and Rowan’s “Institutionalized organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony,” we review some of the studies that followed and how well the author’s arguments have stood the test of time. We explore contemporary examples that show how conformity to institutionalized rules is necessary for organizati…

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107: Institutionalized Rules and Formal Structures -- Meyer & Rowan (Part 1) 40:17

1y ago40:17

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In this month’s episode, we discuss John Meyer and Brian Rowan’s famous 1977 article “Institutionalized organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony.” In it, they argued that “institutionalized products, services, techniques, policies, and programs function as powerful myths, and many organizations adopt them ceremonially” (p. 340), even if…

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107: Institutionalized Rules and Formal Structures -- Meyer & Rowan (Summary of Episode) 3:57

1y ago3:57

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We explore John Meyer and Brian Rowan’s famous 1977 article “Institutionalized organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony.” Coming at a time when rational theories of organizing faced multiple challengers, Meyer and Rowan proposed that institutionalization of socially accepted (or demanded) norms played a significant role in driving forma…

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106: The study of organizations across disciplines -- A conversation from CASBS Summer Institute 59:22

1y ago59:22

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We sit down with Woody Powell and Bob Gibbons who, since 2016, have been organizing the summer institute on Organizations and Their Effectiveness at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) in Stanford, California. We ask them to reflect on the history of CASBS and the summer institute, the value of fostering interdisciplinary c…

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105: Manifest & Latent Roles -- Alvin Gouldner (Part 2) 51:05

1y ago51:05

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We conclude our discussion of Alvin Gouldner two-part article, “Cosmopolitans and locals: Toward an analysis of latent social roles.” In the second part of the article, Gouldner presented an initial proposal for a taxonomy of four types of locals and two types of cosmopolitans as a way kickstart the broader research agenda. However, this groundbrea…

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105: Manifest & Latent Roles -- Alvin Gouldner (Part 1) 40:41

1y ago40:41

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Alvin Gouldner wrote the article, “Cosmopolitans and locals: Toward an analysis of latent social roles” in 1957 to propose that through the 1950s latent roles had been seriously overlooked by scholars. Manifest roles, described as those roles and role identities that are directly related to one’s defined position in the organizational structure, ha…

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105: Manifest & Latent Roles -- Alvin Gouldner (Summary of Episode) 3:46

1y ago3:46

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We will discuss a two-part article by Alvin Gouldner titled “Cosmopolitans and Locals: Toward an Analysis of Latent Social Roles.” Before 1957, studies on work roles focused solely on manifest roles that emerged directly from the positions held. The hidden or unstated work roles had not been studies. Gouldner’s article argued that this was a major …

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104: Social Structure & Organizations -- Arthur Stinchcombe (Part 2) 42:11

1+ y ago42:11

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We conclude our discussion of Arthur L. Stinchcombe’s book chapter, “Social Structure and Organizations,” by looking at the present-day impacts. As a foundational text, Stinchcombe’s work has influenced numerous subsequent studies and has been cited tens of thousands of times. In this second part, we discuss how while Stinchcombe’s primary focus wa…

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104: Social Structure & Organizations -- Arthur Stinchcombe (Part 1) 47:22

1+ y ago47:22

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In a famous chapter in James G. March’s 1965 book, Handbook of Organizations, Arthur L. Stinchcombe laid out a case for expanding the study of organizations outward to include social structure bringing attention to innovation as well as imprinting and inertia. He posited that societies had significant effects on how organizations emerge and operate…

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104: Social Structure & Organizations -- Arthur Stinchcombe (Summary of Episode) 4:25

1+ y ago4:25

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We will discuss the 1965 pathbreaking essay “Social Structure and Organizations” by Arthur L. Stinchcombe, where he articulated how societies had significant effects on organizations and that organizations in turn had effects on society. Listen to this discussion on a foundational text in organization studies.…

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103: Bringing Work Back In -- Barley & Kunda (Part 2) 49:54

1+ y ago49:54

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We conclude our discussion of Barley & Kunda’s article in Organization Science titled “Bringing Work Back In.” We ask ourselves to what extent are the author’s argument still valid (in short, they certainly are) and how much more urgency there is to understand the work context given the rapid shifts in technology and the reweaving of the social fab…

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103: Bringing Work Back In -- Barley & Kunda (Part 1) 42:26

1+ y ago42:26

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In their 2001 Organization Science article “Bringing Work Back In,” Steven Barley and Gideon Kunda lamented how the study of work, its organization, and its performance shifted after the 1950s. Work was the center of attention among the classic era of organization studies beginning with Frederic Taylor, but afterward, the focus shifted to post-bure…

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