Organizational Realities: Studies of Strategizing and Organizing Book

Preface     vii
List of Figures     xviii
List of Tables     xx
Credits     xxii
Organizational Growth and Development and Environmental Relations     1
Organizational Growth and Development     3
Organizations and Their Environments     69
Camping on Seesaws: Prescriptions for a Self-Designing Organization   Bo L. T. Hedberg   Paul C. Nystrom     94
Organizational Learning and Strategizing Part 1     117
Responding to Crises   Arent Greve   Bo L. T. Hedberg     119
Organizations as Action Generators     142
To Avoid Organizational Crises, Unlearn   Paul C. Nystrom     159
Acting First and Thinking Later: Finding Decisions and Strategies in the Past     171
Perceptions and Learning Part 1     199
Organizational Facades   Paul C. Nystrom     201
Executives' Perceptual Filters: What They Notice and How They Make Sense   Frances J. Milliken     209
Challenger: Changing the Odds Until Something Breaks   Frances J. Milliken     233
Organizing and Strategizing in Knowledge-Intensive Firms, Control Systems Part 1     255
When Is Play Productive?   E. Jane Webster     257
Learning by Knowledge-Intensive Firms     276
Keeping a Butterfly and an Elephant in a House of Cards: The Elements of Exceptional Success     302
How Organizations Channel Creativity     340
Strategizing Part 2     347
Strategizing Realistically in Competitive Environments     349
Trying to Help S&Ls: How Organizations with Good Intentions Jointly Enacted Disaster   P. Narayan Pant     358
Unlearning Ineffective or Obsolete Technologies     382
Ancient Issues in Organizing, Control Systems Part 2     395
Distrust in Dependence: The Ancient Challenge of Superior-Subordinate Relations   Violina P. Rindova     397
Ancient Chinese Theories of Control   Violina P. Rindova     416
Perceptions and Learning Part 2     441
How Organizations Learn from Success and Failure   Bo L. T. Hedberg     443
The Accuracy of Managers' Perceptions: A Dimension Missing from Theories about Firms   Susan R. Salgado   John M. Mezias     468
Studying the Accuracy of Managers' Perceptions: A Research Odyssey   John M. Mezias     487
Strategizing Part 3     507
Which Dreams Come True? Endogeneity, Industry Structure, and Forecasting Accuracy   Michael L. Barnett   P. Narayan Pant     509
References     525
Index     567