Classic Organization Theory. Faculty and Reading List. DOME PhD Course: Faculty

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1 DOME PhD Course: Classic Organization Theory Faculty and Reading List Faculty George P. Huber is the Prothro Regents Chair in Business Administration Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Huber is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and of the Decision Sciences Institute and is a charter member of the Academy of Management Journals Hall of Fame. His article, The Nature and Design of Post-Industrial Organizations, was awarded First Prize in an International Prize Competition sponsored by The Institute of Management Sciences in His co-authored article, Fit, Equifinality, and Organizational Effectiveness was selected as the Best Article of the Year in the Academy of Management Journal for In 1993, his co-edited book, Organizational Change and Redesign: Ideas and Insights for Improving Performance, was published by Oxford University Press, and in 1995 his co-edited book, Longitudinal Field Research Methods: Studying Processes of Organizational Change, was published by Sage Publications. Sage Publications published his most recent book, The Necessary Nature of Future Firms: Attributes of Survivors in a Changing World, in Dr. Huber s Web of Science citations rank him in the top 0.1% of management researchers in terms of impact on the field. Dr. Huber has held full time positions with the Emerson Electric Manufacturing Company, the Procter and Gamble Manufacturing Company, the U.S. Department of Labor, and Execucom Systems Corporation, and has served as a consultant to many corporations and public agencies. Professor Huber has held full time faculty appointments at the Universities of Wisconsin, California, and Texas, and he has served as Associate Dean for Research in the Graduate Schools of Business at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Texas. Charles C. Snow is the Mellon Foundation Professor of Business Administration and Chair of the Department of Management and Organization at Penn State s Smeal College of Business where he has been on the faculty since He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the strategic management of innovation and entrepreneurship, organization design, and new organizational forms. Professor Snow is on the editorial board of the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, and several other academic journals. He has published widely in academic and practitioner journals on various management topics. He has also co-authored or edited nine books on organizations and management, including the classic Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process (McGraw-Hill, 1978) and Collaborative Entrepreneurship: How Communities of Networked Firms Use Continuous Innovation to Create Economic Wealth (Stanford University Press, 2005). He has been a visiting professor at The Amos Tuck School (Dartmouth College), Norwegian School of Management, and the University of Oregon. During , he will be a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Melbourne, and during , he is a Visiting Research Scholar at Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management. Professor Snow has extensive experience in executive education programs. He has taught in numerous university-based programs, including those at Penn State, Berkeley, North Carolina, Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, and Texas Christian University. He has taught the core 1

2 strategy course to Executive MBAs at Penn State and at business schools in Australia, New Zealand, France, Turkey, and Norway, and he has spoken on management topics to a variety of executive audiences in Europe, Asia, and South America. John Parm Ulhøi is Professor of Organization and Management Theory at Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, and Head of the Doctoral programme in Organization and Management Education (DOME). He also serves as Centre Director for the Centre for Organizational Renewal and Evolution (CORE). He is the author, co-author, editor and co-editor of various books and journal articles. His most recent book is Handbook of qualitative research methods in entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar, 2007 (with H. Neergaard). His research has been published in journals such as for example Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice; European Journal of Operational Research; Industrial Management & Data Systems; International Journal of Manpower; International Journal of Technology Management; Journal of Business Venturing; Journal of Engineering and Technology; Journal of Organizational Behaviour; Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development; Management Decision; Managerial & Decision Economics; Scandinavian Journal of Management; Strategic Change; Technovation; Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. In 1996 he received The ANBAR 1996 Citation of Excellence Award. Jørn Flohr Nielsen is Professor of Organization and Management at Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark. His research interests include organizational change, strategic and organizational impact of emerging information technologies, and service management. He has published in journals such as Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Scandinavian Journal of Management, European Management Journal, and The International Journal of Service Industry Management. Guest lecturers: Prof. Henning Madsen, Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University Prof. Niels Peter Mols, Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University Associate Prof. Jakob Lauring, Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University Assistant Prof. Anders Villadsen, Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University Assistant Prof. Per Svejvig, Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University 2

3 Reading list : (Preliminary: Please notice that minor changes may occur) Main books: Scott, W. R. & Davis, G.F Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural, and Open System Perspectives, Pearson Education. Shafritz, J.M., Ott, J.S. (Eds.) Classics of Organization Theory, 5 th Ed., Harcourt, 2001, or later editions: - Thompson - Jensen and Meckling Supplementary: Bakka, J.F. & Fivelsdal, E Organisationsteoriens klassikere, Handelshøjskolens Forlag, København. (Most relevant parts: pp will be translated into English) The History of Organization Theory (Jørn Flohr Nielsen) Scott & Davis, ch.1. Bakka, J.F., & Fivelsdal, E Organisationsteoriens klassikere: Fra Taylor og Weber til Simon og Drucker, Handelshøjskolens Forlag, København. pp (Available in English) Classifications and Research in Organization Theory (Jørn Flohr Nielsen) Astley, W.G. and Van de Ven, A.H "Central Perspectives and Debates in Organization Theory". Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 28, June, pp Child, J "Organizational Structure, Environment, and Performance - The Role of Strategic Choice". Sociology, 6 Simon/March - Decision and Structure (Jørn Flohr Nielsen) Review Scott and Davis, ch. 2, pp ; add ch. 8, pp Simon, H.A The New Science of Management Decision, Harper and Row, pp. 1-8 and pp Organization Theory ( OMT ), OMT Problems, Trends, Extensions (George Huber) Huber, G.P. Organizations: Theory, Design, Future. (Forthcoming in the APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology). 3

4 Charles Snow s Traditional forms of organizing Miles, Raymond E., and Charles C. Snow Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process. New York: McGraw-Hill, Ch. 2. Organization Design and Integration of OMT and Organization Design (George Huber) Professor Huber s Notes on Use of Theory in Organization Design. Classifications and Research in Organizational Change (Jørn Flohr Nielsen) Van de Ven, A. H. & Poole, M. S "Explaining Development and Change in Organizations." Academy of Management Review, vol. 20, no. 3, pp Poole, M. S. & Van de Ven, A. H "Theories of Organizational Change and Innovation Processes." In Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation, edited by M.S. Poole & A.H. Van de Ven, New York: Oxford University Press. Culture (Jakob Lauring) Scott and Davis, ch. 6: pp ; ch. 8: pp Hofstede, G Cultures Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations, 2 nd Edition, 2001 (Ch. 1, pp. 1-40). Smircich, L "Concepts of Culture and Organization Analysis." Administrative Science Quarterly 28: Brannen, M.Y. & Salk, J Partnering across borders: Negotiating organizational culture in a German-Japanese joint venture. Human Relations 53(4): Organizational Economics (Niels Peter Mols) Jensen, M.C. and Meckling, W.H "Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure." In Shafritz and Ott (Art. 28). Williamson, O.E "Comparative Economic Organization: The Analysis of Discrete Structural Alternatives." Administrative Science Quarterly, vol. 36, pp Bergen, M., Dutta, S. and Walker, O.C "Agency Relationships in Marketing: A Review of the Implications and Applications of Agency and Related Theories." Journal of Marketing, Vol 56, No. 3, pp. 1-8 (NB! Only 8 pages). Ghoshal, S Bad Management Theories Are Destroying Good Management Practises. Academy of Management Learning and Education, Vol. 4, No.1, pp

5 Institutional Organization Theory (Jørn Flohr Nielsen) Greenwood, R.; Oliver, C.; Sahlin, K. & Suddaby, R Introduction. In Greenwood, R.; Oliver, C.; Sahlin, K. & Suddaby, R. (eds.): Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism. Sage. Czarniawska, B. & Joerges, B Travels of Ideas. In Czarniawska, B. & G. Sevón (eds.), Translating Organizational Change, Walter de Gruyter. Charles Snow s Emerging forms of organizing Snow, C.C., Fjeldstad, Ø.D., Lettl, C. & Miles, R.E Organizing Continuous Product Development and Commercialization: The Collaborative Community of Firms Model. Journal of Product Innovation Management. Fjeldstad, Ø.D., Snow, C.C., Miles, R.E. & Lettl, C The Architecture of Collaboration: Organizing Resources Among Large Sets of Co-equal Actors. Working Paper, BI, Norwegian School of Management. The Stakeholder Theory of the Firm (John Ulhøi & Henning Madsen) Donaldson, T; Preston, L.E The Stakeholder Theory of the Firm: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications. Academy of Management Review 20: Harrison, J.S.; Bosse, D.A. & Phillips, R.A Managing for Stakeholders, Stakeholder Utility Functions, and Competitive Advantage. Strategic Management Journal 31: Madsen, H.; Ulhøi, J.P Integrating Environmental and Stakeholder Management. Business Strategy and the Environment 10: Reynolds, S.J.; Schultz, F.C., Hekman, D.R Stakeholder Theory and Managerial Decisionmaking: Constraints and Implications of Balancing Stakeholder Interests. Journal of Business Ethics 64: Vilanova, L Neither Shareholder nor Stakeholder: What Happens when Firms Are Run for Their Short-term Salient Stakeholder? European Management Journal 25(2): Strategy, Technology, and Structure (Jørn Flohr Nielsen) Scott & Davis ch. 6 and ch. 12. [Thompson and Recent applications] Thompson, J.D.: "Organizations in Action" in Shafritz and Ott (Art. 27) Thompson, J.D.: "Organizations in Action", McGrawHill, 1967, pp

6 [Information Technology and Organization] Orlikowski, W.J. & Barley, S.R Technology and Institutions: What Can Research on Information Technology and Research on Organizations Learn from Each Other? MIS Quarterly, 25(2):