| Foreword | ix |
| Preface | xi |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Part I. | Doing Exemplary Research: Seven Journeys | |
| Introductory Remarks: Journey 1 | 19 |
| Journey 1. | Obsession and Naivete in Upstate New York: A Tale of Research | 22 |
| Commentaries | |
| The Culture of Social Science Research | 36 |
| Comment on "Cultures of Culture" | 43 |
| Introductory Remarks: Journey 2 | 49 |
| Journey 2. | Time and Transition in My Work on Teams: Looking Back on a New Model of Group Development | 52 |
| Commentaries | |
| Researchers Are Not Cats--They Can Survive and Succeed by Being Curious | 65 |
| Time and Transitions | 73 |
| Introductory Remarks: Journey 3 | 79 |
| Journey 3. | From Loose Coupling to Environmental Jolts | 82 |
| Commentaries | |
| Jolts as a Synopsis of Organizational Studies | 99 |
| Embedded Metaphors and Organizational Ironies as Research Tools | 105 |
| Introductory Remarks: Journey 4 | 113 |
| Journey 4. | How We Untangled the Relationship Between Displayed Emotion and Organizational Sales: A Tale of Bickering and Optimism | 115 |
| Commentaries | |
| Out of the Tangled Thicket: Persistence in the Face of Failed Conventional Wisdom | 129 |
| Do Smiles Lead to Sales? Comments on the Sutton/Rafaeli Study | 136 |
| Introductory Remarks: Journey 5 | 143 |
| Journey 5. | Resolving a Scientific Dispute with Dr. Miriam Erez: Genesis, Process, Outcome, and Reflection | 146 |
| Reflections on the Latham/Erez/Locke Study | 155 |
| Reflections on the Latham/Erez/Locke Study | 165 |
| Commentaries | |
| Comments on the Latham/Erez/Locke Study | 167 |
| Experiments as Reforms | 173 |
| Introductory Remarks: Journey 6 | 179 |
| Journey 6. | Making War and Peace | 182 |
| Commentaries | |
| Comments on "War and Peace" | 193 |
| The Proliferation of Modern Personnel Practices | 198 |
| Introductory Remarks: Journey 7 | 207 |
| Journey 7. | Literary Methods and Organization Science: Reflection on "When the Sleeper Wakes" | 210 |
| Commentaries | |
| Stories of Mike Armstrong and the Idea of Exemplary Research | 227 |
| Escaping the Inherent Conservatism of Empirical Organizational Research | 233 |
| Part II. | Lessons from the Journeys | |
| Themes and Variations: An Examination of the Exemplars | 243 |
| Beyond Exemplars: Some Reflections on the Meaning and Practice of Research in the 1990s | 270 |
| Appendix | Exemplars of Organizational Research--Nominations | 295 |
| References | 299 |
| About the Authors | 313 |
