Administrative Science Quarterly Online Table of Contents Alert
A new issue of Administrative Science Quarterly is available online:
September 2018; Vol. 63, No. 3
In this issue of ASQ we visit business schools, U.S. Army brigades, a cancer treatment center, film production sites, and Southern India. Quite a tour! Along the way you can learn about portable selves, ways of managing goal conflict, why an increase in status may be less meaningful than you think, and much more. These articles are open access for a short time, so check them out now. Plus visit my site Organizational Musings for a blog post on each article, visit our student-run ASQ Blog for interviews with ASQ authors, and get a sneak peek of what's to come in future issues here.
Articles
Fast Tracks and Inner Journeys: Crafting Portable Selves for Contemporary Careers
Gianpiero Petriglieri, Jennifer Louise Petriglieri, and Jack Denfeld Wood
We are people on the move. But what do we take with us when we leave one situation to move to another? Contemporary careers fuel people's efforts to craft portable selves endowed with definitions, motives, and abilities they can deploy in a variety of roles and organizations over time. This study explores how people craft these portable selves and how institutions can help them do so.
Blog post is here
Anchored Personalization in Managing Goal Conflict between Professional Groups: The Case of U.S. Army Mental Health Care
Julia DiBenigno
Will you be surprised to learn that the Army has its share of conflicts-internal conflicts? This study of U.S. Army combat brigades examines conflicts between commanders and mental health providers, whose goals were quite different. Brigades that successfully addressed them used practices that included developing personalized relations across groups, anchoring members in their home group identity, and co-constructing integrative solutions to conflict.
Blog post is here
Renegotiating Spheres of Obligation: The Role of Hierarchy in Organizational Learning
Melissa A. Valentine
Do consultants offer anything of value to organizations? Yes, under certain conditions: This ethnographic study of a cancer treatment center shows that to achieve organization-wide goals, sometimes multiple local groups must synchronize their learning activities and commit to changes in their activities. Consultants who facilitate this process create value; others do not.
Blog post is here
Latitude or Latent Control? How Occupational Embeddedness and Control Shape Emergent Coordination
Beth A. Bechky and Daisy E. Chung
What do equipment manufacturers and film production companies have in common? They're the stars of the show in this study of how different occupational communities embedded in organizations exercise control processes to coordinate as they create complex products together. An important article to read for those who wonder how interdependence translates into power.
Blog post is here
The Artisan and His Audience: Identification with Work and Price Setting in a Handicraft Cluster in Southern India
Aruna Ranganathan
Does pride in craftwork mean that some rich tourists pay less for their souvenirs? Yes, it does. That beautiful bangle may cost you less if the person selling it identifies with his work-and believes you will truly appreciate it.
Blog post is here
The Structural Origins of Unearned Status: How Arbitrary Changes in Categories Affect Status Position and Market Impact
Anne Bowers and Matteo Prato
I may gain status-or lose it-without lifting a finger. How so? A funny thing about how status-granting organizations work is that even if my quality doesn't change, the number of opportunities I have for being granted status may change. Does a status award mean as much if the number of awards has increased but my quality has not? It shouldn't, but in the supposedly rational financial markets it does.
Blog post is here
Book Reviews
Bruno S. Frey and Jana Gallus: Honours versus Money: The Economics of Awards
Joe Porac
Eric W. Orts and N. Craig Smith (eds.): The Moral Responsibility of Firms
Glen W. S. Dowell
F. C. Simon: Meta-regulation in Practice: Beyond Normative Views of Morality and Rationality
Stephen M. Mitchell
Boris H. J. M. Brummans (ed.): The Agency of Organizing: Perspectives and Case Studies
James R. Barker
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Editor, Administrative Science Quarterly