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READING LIST FOR THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION IN

ORGANIZATIONS AND STRATIFICATION

Revised: July 2005

Department of Sociology

Emory University

I) Bureaucratic Organization

A) Emergence and evolution (including the contemporary corporation)

Collins, Randall. 1980. "Weber's Last Theory of Capitalism: A Systematization." American Sociological Review 45:925-942.

Chandler, Alfred D., Jr. 1977. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge: Belknap Press.

Chandler, Alfred D., Jr. 1984. "The Emergence of Managerial Capitalism." Business History Review 58:473-503.

Dobbin, Frank. 1994. "Cultural Models of Organization: The Social Construction of Rational Organizing Principles. Pages 116-141 in The Sociology of Culture: Emerging Theoretical Perspectives, edited by Diana Crane. Oxford: Blackwell.

Dobbin, Frank and Timothy J. Dowd. 2000. "The Market that Antitrust Built: Public Policy, Private Coercion, and Railroad Acquisitions.” American Sociological Review 65:631-657.

Fligstein, Neil. 1985. "The Spread of the Multidivisional Firm, 1919-79." American Sociological Review 50:377-391.

Hollingsworth, J. Rogers. 1991. "The Logic of Coordinating American Manufacturing Sectors." Pages 34-73 in Governance of the American Economy, edited by John L. Campbell, J. Rogers Hollingsworth, and Leon N. Lindberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kelly, Erin and Frank Dobbin. 2000. “Civil Rights Law at Work: Sex Discrimination and the Rise of Maternity Leave Policies.” American Journal of Sociology 105:455-492

Perrow, Charles. 2002. Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Perrow, Charles. 1986. Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay. Third edition. New York: McGraw Hill. Chapters 1 and 8.

Roy, William G. 1997. Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Weber, Max. 1978. Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology. Edited by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich. Berkeley: University of California Press. Part One: Chapters 1-3. Part Two: Chapters 10 and 11 (skim Chapters 12-15).

B) Unintended consequences: classic statements and a contemporary re-statement

Blau, Peter M. 1955. The Dynamics of Bureaucracy: A Study of Interpersonal Relations in Two Government Agencies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Gouldner, Alvin. 1954. Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy. New York: The Free Press.

Merton, Robert. 1940. "Bureaucratic Structure and Personality." Social Forces 17:560-568.

Perrow, Charles. 1986. Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay. Third edition. New York: McGraw Hill. Chapter 5.

Selznick, Philip. 1949. TVA and The Grass Roots. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Vaughan, Diane. 1996. The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

C) Alternative forms of organization

Biggart, Nicole Woolsey. 1990. Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. 1991. "The Future of Bureaucracy and Hierarchy in Organizational Theory: A Report from the Field." Pages 63-87 in Social Theory for a Changing Society, edited by Pierre Bourdieu and James S. Coleman. Boulder, CO: Westview.

Ouchi, William G. 1980. "Markets, Bureaucracies and Clans." Administrative Science Quarterly 25:129-141.

Rothschild-Whitt, Joyce. 1979. "The Collectivist Organization: An Alternative to Rational-Bureaucratic Models." American Sociological Review 44:509-527.

Stinchcombe, Arthur L. 1959. "Bureaucratic and Craft Administration of Production: A Comparative Study." Administrative Science Quarterly 4:168-157.

II) Organizational Adaptation

A) Uncertainty and complexity: classic statements and contemporary re-statements

Barley, Stephen R. 1990. "The Alignment of Technology and Structure through Roles and Networks." Administrative Science Quarterly 35:61-103.

Cohen, Michael D., James C. March, and Johann P. Olsen. 1972. "A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice." Administrative Science Quarterly 17:1-25.

Cyert, Richard M. and James G. March. 1963. A Behavioral Theory of the Firm. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Chapters 3, 6, and 7.

Hirsch, Paul M. 1972. "Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis of Cultural Industry Systems." American Journal of Sociology 77:639-659.

Lawrence, Paul R. and Jay W. Lorsch. 1967. Organizations and Environment: Managing Differentiation and Integration. Boston: Harvard University.

Levitt, Barbara and Clifford Nass. 1989. "The Lid on the Garbage Can: Institutional Constraints on Decision-Making in the Technical Core of College-Text Publishers." Administrative Science Quarterly 34:190-207.

March, James G. 1988. "Introduction: A Chronicle of Speculations about Organizational Decision-Making." Pages 1-21 in Decisions and Organizations, edited by James G. March. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

March, James G. and Herbert A. Simon. 1958. Organizations. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Perrow, Charles. 1986. Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay. Third edition. New York: McGraw Hill. Chapters 4 and 6.

B) Exchange relations

Baker, Wayne E. 1990. "Market Networks and Corporate Behavior." American Journal of Sociology 96:589-625.

Granovetter, Mark. 1985. "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness." American Journal of Sociology 91:481-510.

Hamilton, Gary G. and Nicole Woolsey Biggart. 1988. "Market, Culture, and Authority: A Comparative Analysis of Management and Organization in the Far East." American Journal of Sociology 94(Supplement):S52-S94.

Lazerson, Mark. 1988. "Organizational Growth of Small Firms: An Outcome of Markets and Hierarchies?" American Journal of Sociology 53:330-342.

Perrow, Charles. 1986. Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay. Third edition. New York: McGraw Hill. Chapters 6 and 7.

Powell, Walter W. 1990. "Neither Market Nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization." Research in Organizational Behavior 12:295-336.

Uzzi, Brian. 1996. "The Sources and Consequences of Embeddedness for the Economic Performance of Organizations: The Network Effect." American Sociological Review 61:674-698.

Williamson, Oliver. 1981. "The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach." American Journal of Sociology 87:548-577.

C) Resource dependency/ contingency

Burt, Ronald S. 1980. "Cooptive Corporate Actor Networks: A Reconsideration of Inter-Locking Directorates Involving American Manufacturing." Administrative Science Quarterly 25:557-582.

Donaldson, Lex. 1996. “The Normal Science of Structural Contingency Theory.” Pp. 57-77 in Handbook of Organization Studies edited by Stewart R. Clegg and Cynthia Hardy. London: Sage Publications.

Fligstein, Neil. 1987. "The Intraorganizational Power Struggle: Rise of Finance Personnel to Top Leadership in Large Corporations, 1919-1979." American Sociological Review 52:44-58.

Mizruchi, Mark S. and Linda Brewster Stearns. 1988. "A Longitudinal Study of the Formation of Interlocking Directorates." Administrative Science Quarterly 33:194-210.

Palmer, Donald, Brad M. Barber, Xueguang Zhou, and Yasemin Soysal. 1995. "The Friendly and Predatory Acquisition of Large U.S. Corporations in the 1960s: The Other Contested Terrain." American Sociological Review 60:469-499.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey. 1987. "A Resource Dependence Perspective on Intercorporate Relations." Pages 25-55 in Intercorporate Relations: The Structural Analysis of Business, edited by Mark S. Mizruchi and Michael Schwartz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey and Gerald Salancik. 1979. The External Control of Organizations. New York: Harper and Row.

III) Organizational Communities: Populations, Industries, and Fields

A) Population ecology

Amburgey, Terry L., Dawn Kelley, and William P. Barnett. 1993. "Resetting the Clock: The Dynamics of Organizational Change and Failure." Administrative Science Quarterly.

Barnett, William P. and Glenn R. Carroll. 1987. "Competition and Mutualism among Early Telephone Companies." Administrative Science Quarterly 32:400-421.

Barron, David N. 1999. “The Structuring of Organizational Populations.” American Sociological Review 64:421-446.

Carroll, Glenn R. 1985. "Concentration and Specialization: Dynamics of Niche Width in Populations of Organizations." American Journal of Sociology 90:1262-1283.

Carroll, Glenn R. and Michael T. Hannan. 2000. The Demography of Corporations and Industries. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Hannan, Michael T. and Glenn R. Carroll. 1992. Dynamics of Organizational Populations: Density, Legitimation, and Competition. New York: Oxford University Press.

Hannan, Michael T. and John Freeman. 1984. "Structural Inertia and Organizational Change." American Sociological Review 49:149-164.

Hannan, Michael T., Glenn R. Carroll, Elizabeth A. Dundon, and John Charles Torres. 1995. "Organizational Evolution in a Multinational Context: Entries of Automobile Manufactures in Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy." American Sociological Review 60:509-528.

Singh, Jitendra V. and Charles J. Lumsden. 1990. "Theory and Research in Organizational Ecology." Annual Review of Sociology 16:161-195.

B) Neo-Institutional theory

Davis, Gerald F. 1991. "Agents without Principles?: The Spread of the Poison Pill through the Intercorporate Network." Administrative Science Quarterly 36:583-613.

Davis, Gerald F., Kristina A. Diekmann, and Catherine H. Tinsley. 1994. "The Decline and Fall of the Conglomerate Firm in the 1980s: The Deinstitutionalization of an Organizational Form." American Sociological Review 59:547-570.

DiMaggio, Paul J. and Walter W. Powell (eds). The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Fligstein, Neil. 1990. The Transformation of Corporate Control. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Fligstein, Neil. 1996. "Markets as Politics: A Political-Cultural Approach to Market Institutions." American Sociological Review 61:656-673.

Jepperson, Ronald L. “The Development and Application of Sociological Neoinstitutionalism.” Pp. 229 - 267 in New Directions in Contemporary Sociological Theory, edited by Joseph Berger and Morris Zelditch Jr. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Meyer, John W. 1977. "The Effects of Education as an Institution." American Journal of Sociology 83:53-77

Meyer, John W. 1994. Rationalized Environments. In Institutional Environments and Organizations: Structural Complexity and Individualism.

Meyer, John. W. and W. Richard Scott, editors. 1983. Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Powell, Walter W. and Paul J. DiMaggio, editors. 1991. The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Schneiberg, Marc and T. Bartley. 2001. "Regulating American Industries: Market, Politics, and the Institutional Determinants of Fire Insurance Regulation." American Journal of Sociology 107: 101-146.

Scott, W. Richard. 2001. Institutions and Organizations. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Thorton, Patricia H. and William Ocasio. 1999. “Institutional Logics and the Historical Contingency of Power in Organizations: Executive Succession in the Higher Education Publishing Industry, 1958-1990.” American Journal of Sociology 105:801-843.

Tolbert, Pamela S. and Lynne G. Zucker. 1983. "Institutional Sources of Change in the Formal Structure of Organizations: The Diffusion of Civil Service Reform." Administrative Science Quarterly 28:22-39.

C) Convergence Between Ecological and Institutional Theory

Amburgey, Terry L. and Haygareeva Rao. 1996. “Organizational Ecology: Past, Present and Future Directions.” Academy of Management Journal 39:1265-1286.

Baum, Joel A.C. 1996. “Organizational Ecology” Pp.77-114 in Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia Hardy, and Walter R. Nord (Eds.), Handbook of Organizations Studies : Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Baum, Joel A.C. and Christine Oliver. 1992. "Institutional Embeddedness and the Dynamics of Organizational Populations." American Sociological Review 57:540-59.

Baum, Joel A.C. and Walter W. Powell. 1995. "Cultivating an Institutional Ecology of Organizations: Comment on Hannan, Carroll, Dundon, and Torres." American Sociological Review 60:529-528.

Dobbin, Frank and Timothy Dowd. 1997. "How Policy Shapes Competition: Early Railroad

Foundings in Massachusetts." Administrative Science Quarterly 42(3).

Hannan, Michael T. and Glenn R. Carroll. 1995. "Theory Building and Cheap Talk about Legitimation: Reply to Baum and Powell." American Sociological Review 60:539-544.

Haveman, Heather A. and Hayagreeva Rao. 1997. "Structuring a Theory of Moral Sentiments: Institutional and Organizational Coevolution in the Early Thrift Industry." American Journal of Sociology 102:1606-1651.

Scott, Richard W., Martin Ruef, Peter J. Mendel and Carol A. Caronna. 2000. Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Zucker, Lynn G. 1989. Combining Institutional Theory and Population Ecology: No Legitimacy, No History.” American Sociological Review 5

D) Convergence Between Organizations and Social Movements

Davis, Gerald, W. Richard Scott and Mayer Zald. 2005. Social Movements and Organization Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Minkoff, Debra C. 1999. Bending with the Wind: Strategic Change and Adaptation by Women’s and Racial Minority Organizations American Journal of Sociology 104:1666-1703.

Minkoff, Debra C. 1995. Organizing for Equality: The Evolution of Women’s and Racial-Ethnic Organizations in America, 1955-1985. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Rao, Hayagreeva, Calvin Morrill, and Mayer N. Zald. 2000. "Power Plays: Social Movements, Collective Action and New Organizational Forms." Research in Organizational Behavior 22:237-282.

Stryker, Robin. 2002. “A Political Approach to Organizations and Institutions.” Pp. 169-191 in Social Structure and Organizations Revised Vol 19 edited by Michael Lounsbury and Marc J. Vantresca. Oxford, UK: JAI Elsevier.

Swaminathan, A., and J. B. Wade. 2001. "Social Movement Theory and the Evolution of New Organizational Forms." Pp. X, in The Entrepreneurship Dynamic in Industry Evolution, edited by C. B. Schoonhoven and E. Romanelli. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

IV) Work and Workers

A) The Organization and Control of the Workplace

Abbott, Andrew. 1988. The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Barley, Stephen R., Gordon W. Meyer, and Debra C. Gash. 1988. "Cultures of Culture: Academics, Practitioners, and the Pragmatics of Normative Control." Administrative Science Quarterly 33:24-60.

Baron, James N., Frank R. Dobbin, and P. Devereaux Jennings. 1986. "War and Peace: The Evolution of Modern Personnel Administration in U.S. Industry." American Journal of Sociology 92:350-383.

Bendix, Reinhard. 1956. Work and Authority in Industry. New York: Wiley.

Berg, Ivar. 1981. Sociological Perspectives on Labor Markets. New York: Academic Press. Articles by Granovetter, Sorenson and Kalleberg, Wallace and Kalleberg, Althauser and Kalleberg, and Schervish.

Bonacich, Edna. 1972. "A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism: The Split Labor Market." American Sociological Review 37:547-559.

Braverman, Harry. 1974. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Burawoy, Michael. 1979. Manufacturing Consent. University of Chicago Press.

Dobbin, Frank, John R. Sutton, John W. Meyer, and W. Richard Scott. 1993. "Equal Opportunity Law and The Construction of Internal Labor Markets." American Journal of Sociology 99:396-427.

Edwards, Richard. 1979. Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books.

Freeman, R.B. and J.L. Medoff. 1984. What Do Unions Do? New York: Basic Books.

Gordon, David M., Richard Edwards, and Michael Reich. 1982. Segmented Work, Divided Workers. New York: Cambridge Press.

Gillespie, Richard. 1991. Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Guillén, Mauro F. 1994. Models of Management : Work, Authority, and Organization in a Comparative Perspective. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Linhart, Robert. 1981. The Assembly Line. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Perrow, Charles. 1986. Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay. Third edition. New York: McGraw Hill. Chapters 2 and 3.

Roethlisberger, Fritz J. and William J. Dickson. 1956. Management and the Worker: An Account of a Research Program Conducted by the Western Electric Company, Hawthorne Works, Chicago. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Sutton, John R. and Frank Dobbin. 1996. "The Two Faces of Governance: Responses to Legal Uncertainty in U.S. Firms, 1955 to 1985." American Sociological Review 61:794-811.

Taylor, Frederick W. 1911. Principles of Scientific Management. New York: Harper and Row.

B) Differential Opportunities

Bielby, William and James Baron. 1986. "Men and Women at Work: Sex Segregation and Statistical Discrimination." American Journal of Sociology 91:759-799.

Blau, Peter and Otis Dudley Duncan. 1967. The American Occupational Structure. New York: Wiley.

DuBois, W.E.B. 1961 [1903]. The Souls of Black Folk.

England, Paula. 1992. Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence. Hawthorne: Aldine.

Featherman, David L. and Robert M. Hauser. 1978. Opportunity and Change. New York: Academic Press.

Giddens, Anthony. 1981. The Class Structure of Advanced Societies. New York: Harper and Row. Chapters 1-6.

Granovetter, Mark. 1995. Getting a Job. Second edition.

Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. 1977. Men and Women of the Corporation. New York: Basic Books.

Lieberson, Stanley. 1980. A Piece of the Pie: Black and White Immigrants since 1880. Berkeley: University Of California Press.

Light, Ivan. 1971. Ethnic Enterprise in America: Business and Welfare among Chinese, Japanese, and Blacks. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Marx, Karl. 1978. "The German Ideology: Part I." Pages 146-200 in The Marx-Engels Reader, edited by Robert C. Tucker. Second edition. New York: W.W. Norton.

Massey, Douglas. 1991. "American Apartheid." American Journal of Sociology 96:32-357.

Reskin, Barbara and Patricia A. Roos. 1990. Job Queues, Gender Queues: Explaining Women's Inroads into Male Occupations. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Weber, Max. 1946. "Class, Status, and Power." Pages 180-195 in From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, translated by H.H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills. New York: Oxford University Press.

Wilson, William J. 1978. The Declining Significance of Race. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapters 4-8.

Wilson, William J. 1989. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Urban Poverty. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.