This text is the first in a series sponsored by the "Administrative Science Quarterly" designed to focus and stimulate thinking on those areas of administrative science which have most profoundly shaped the development of orgnaizational theory and behaviour. In this volume, the editor has selected and introduced the compendium of ASQ articles on qualitative research. The articles represent a broad range of research styles, methods, topics and level of analysis. The studies are spread across four areas of research: organizational process; groups in organizations; organizational identity and change; and the societal and institutional environment. Organizations studied include factories, churches, universities, engineering groups, fisheries, voluntary organizations, basketball teams, pop music recording firms and others. The authors of the works represent a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, political science, communications, management studies and history.
Van Maanen holds a BA in political science from California State University, Long Beach, as well as an MS in social administration and a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Irvine.
Foreword - Christine Oliver and Linda Johanson Different Strokes - John Van Maanen Qualitative Research in the Administrative Science Quarterly from 1956 to 1996 PART ONE: STUDIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES The Role of Expectations in Business Decision Making - R M Cyert,W R Dill and J G March Intense Loyalty in Organizations - Patricia A Adler and Peter Adler A Case Study of College Athletics In Search of Rationality - Ann Langley The Purposes behind the Use of Formal Analysis in Organizations PART TWO: STUDIES OF GROUPS IN ORGANIZATIONS The Macropolitics of Organizational Change - Robert E Cole A Comparative Analysis of the Spread of Small-Group Activities Tightening the Iron Cage - James R Barker Concertive Control in Self-Managing Work Teams Status Degradation and Organizational Succession - Robert P Gephart Jr An Ethnomethodological Approach PART THREE: STUDIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY AND CHANGE The Organizational Saga in Higher Education - Burton R Clark The Reluctant Organization and the Aggressive Environment - John Maniha and Charles Perrow From Evangelism to General Service - Mayer N Zald and Patricia Denton Wallace The Transformation of the YMCA The Creative-Destructive Process of Organizational Change - Nicole Woolsey Biggart The Case of the Post Office PART FOUR: STUDIES OF THE SOCIETAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT Organizational Effectiveness and the Institutional Environment - Paul M Hirsch Authority,Organization and Societal Context in Multinational Churches - Reed E Nelson The Dynamics of Institutionalization - Petter Holm Transformation Processes in Norwegian Fisheries
