Missing Organizational Linkages : Tools for Cross-Level Research

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Pub. Date: 2000-07-10
Publisher(s): SAGE Publications, Inc
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Summary

The "organization linkage" concept is relatively new. This book provides a unique and very valuable approach to the study of organizations - how do actions among individuals and groups affect (or not affect) organizations as a whole, and vice versa. This ground-breaking book shows how to bridge the gap between the traditional micro and macro camps of organizational studies.

Author Biography

Paul S. Goodman is Professor of Industrial Administration and Psychology at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Series vii
Preface ix
Beginning the Conversation
1(14)
Barings
2(1)
Allied Manufacturing---Teams
2(1)
Retailer---Downsizing
3(1)
Product Design and Manufacturing
3(3)
Rationale
6(3)
Points of Convergence and Divergence---Existing Literatures
9(3)
The Road Map
12(1)
Concluding Thoughts
13(1)
Conversation One
13(2)
Framing the Organizational Linkage Problem
15(14)
Coal Mining
16(4)
ValuJet
20(4)
Concluding Thoughts
24(1)
Conversation Two
24(5)
Tools for Linkage Analysis
29(24)
Defining Organizational Linkages
30(3)
Outcome Coupling
33(4)
Negative Feedback Systems
37(2)
Positive Feedback Systems
39(3)
Defining the Context
42(7)
Concluding Thoughts
49(1)
Conversation Three
50(3)
Organizational Errors
53(24)
Defining Organizational Errors
55(1)
Typology of Organizational Errors
56(1)
Analyzing Barings and ValuJet
57(16)
Concluding Thoughts
73(1)
Conversation Four
73(4)
Changing Organizations: Limiting Conditions
77(18)
Why Focus on Linkages
78(4)
Understanding Limiting Conditions---Prior Tools
82(2)
Understanding Limiting Conditions---New Tools
84(4)
Tracing Relative Contributions in Outcomes
88(3)
Concluding Thoughts
91(1)
Conversation Five
91(4)
Focusing on System-Wide Changes
95(30)
System-Wide Changes---Organizational Unit
96(3)
Linkage Analysis
99(8)
System-Wide Changes---Corporate Level
107(12)
Concluding Thoughts
119(1)
Conversation Six
120(5)
Change and Linkages Among a System of Outcomes
125(16)
Tools for Analysis
126(1)
A Case---Analog Devices Inc.
126(1)
An Analysis
127(11)
Concluding Thoughts
138(1)
Conversation Seven
138(3)
Organizational Learning
141(20)
Organizational Linkages and Organizational Learning
142(3)
Learning in a Distributed Environment
145(3)
Learning in a Lean Manufacturing Setting
148(4)
Knowledge Creation---New Products
152(6)
Concluding Thoughts
158(1)
Conversation Eight
159(2)
Reflecting Backward and Looking Forward
161(20)
Tools for Linkage Analysis
162(2)
Organizational Linkage Analysis---A Distinctive Perspective
164(1)
Implicit Assumptions
165(2)
New Research Issues
167(3)
Organizational Mysteries
170(3)
New Organizational Contexts
173(2)
Methodological Approaches
175(4)
Concluding Thoughts
179(2)
References 181(6)
Index 187(6)
About the Author 193

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