Table of Contents
List of Contributors xi
Advisory Board xv
An Organizational Sociology of Stanford's Organization Theory Renaissance Frank Dobbin Claudia Bird Schoonhoven xvii
Part I Theories
Chapter 1 Organizational Institutionalism at Stanford: Reflections on the Founding of a 30- Year Theoretical Research Program Brian Rowan 3
Chapter 2 Resource Dependence Theory: Past and Future Gerald F. Davis J. Adam Cobb 21
Chapter 3 Population Ecology Terry L. Amburgey 43
Chapter 4 Organizational Learning Lee Sproull 59
Chapter 5 Culture Stanford's Way Mary Jo Hatch 71
Chapter 6 Organizations and Labor Markets Alison Davis-Blake 97
Chapter 7 The History of Corporate Networks: Expanding Intellectual Diversity and the Role of Stanford Affiliations Christine M. Beckman 119
Chapter 8 Healthcare Organizations and the Stanford School of Organizational Sociology Mary L. Fennell Ann Barry Flood 145
Part II Faculty
Chapter 9 Administration is Necessary-but Research Rules W. Richard Scott 173
Chapter 10 Silicon Valley, Theories of Organization, and the Stanford Legacy Kathleen M. Eisenhardt 191
Chapter 11 When Theory Met Practice: Cooperation at Stanford Roderick M. Kramer 207
Chapter 12 Nimh-Scor: A Pioneering Center at Stanford Raymond E. Levitt 221
Chapter 13 A Fellow from Kansas James G. March 233
Chapter 14 A Cultural View of the Organizational Community at Stanford University Joanne Martin 241
Chapter 15 Explaining the Impact of the Stanford Organization Studies Community Donald Palmer 263
Chapter 16 Speaking with One Voice: A "Stanford School" Approach to Organizational Hierarchy Ezra W. Zuckerman 289
Part III Former Doctoral Students, Post-Docs, and a Visitor
Chapter 17 How I Spent the Summer of 1973: It was not a Vacation Howard E. Aldrich 311
Chapter 18 The Contributions of Organizational Theory to Health Care Joan R. Bloom 319
Chapter 19 The Devil's Workshop Jacques Delacroix 329
Chapter 20 Legacies from Growing Up on the Farm P. Devereaux Jennings 339
Chapter 21 Situated Learning and Brokerage as Keys to Successful Knowledge Production: An Experiential Review Stephen Mezias Theresa Lant 351
Chapter 22 A Relational Approach to Organizational Learning Martha S. Feldman 359
Chapter 23 The Stanford Organizational Studies Community: Reflections of a Tempered Radical Debra E. Meyerson 365
Chapter 24 Unpacking the Stanford Case: An Elementary Analysis Mark C. Suchman 373
Chapter 25 "Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom": The Cross-Fertilization of Organization Studies at Stanford Martin Ruef 387
Chapter 26 Chance Encounters, Ecologies of Ideas, and Career Paths: A Personal Narrative of My Stanford Years Jitendra V. Singh 395
Chapter 27 Sense-Making in Organizational Research Sim B. Sitkin 409
Chapter 28 School and Super-School David Strang 419
Chapter 29 Reflections on the Stanford Organizations Experience Amy S. Wharton 425
Chapter 30 Touchstones: The Stanford School of Organization Theories, 1970-2000 Patricia H. Thornton 429
Part IV Conclusion
Chapter 31 Collegial Capital: The Organizations Research Community at Stanford, 1970-2000 W. Richard Scott 441
Part V Appendixes
Appendix A Stanford Faculty in Organizations 461
Appendix B Stanford Graduate Students in Organizations 463
Appendix C Stanford Post-Docs in Organizations 465
Appendix D Affiliated Centers for Organization Research 467
