Using sociological institutionalism the three articles constituting this dissertation scrutinize the relationship between organizations and their (social) environment at different levels of analysis and in the context of specific research questions. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in...

Thesis advisors: Dr. Steven Cades, Dr. Catherine P. Mulder

In der wissenschaftlichen Literatur des Human Resource Managements wird viel über normative Empfehlungen bzw. Best Practices für die Organisationspraxis diskutiert. Dabei sind nicht nur die Empfehlungen an sich und deren Erfolgsbeiträge, sondern auch deren Universalität nie ganz...

Reorganisationen sind seit vielen Jahren und unter verschiedenen Bezeichnungen ("Lean Management", "Reengineering" etc.) eines der Top-Themen in der Management-Szene. Die Umsetzung solcher Vorhaben sieht in der Praxis jedoch zumeist sehr ern?chternd aus. "Unwillen zur Ver?nderung" gepaart mit...

Ziel und Inhalt der Arbeit ist es, auf Basis von Ressourcen und der Organisation (Koordination und Kontrolle) von Ressourcentransaktionen Erkl?rungen f?r die Generierung von Renten ?konomischer Akteure zu gewinnen. Dazu wendet sich die Arbeit folgenden Fragenkomplexen zu:1. Welche Renten- und...

This paper analyzes the founding rate of bioengineering departments in the United States. It takes the density dependence model from organizational ecology literature as the starting point of the analysis. This model predicts that founding rates of organizational populations are driven by...

A central insight in economic sociology is that firms depend on relationships with other organizations for their access to capital, information, and other resources. Such interactions among firms tend to develop into stable networks of social and economic exchange that stratify firms in an...

Newton paradigmasının filtresinden dünyaya bakan modernist düşünce akımı nesnel ontoloji ve buna bağlı olarak gelişen mekanik epistemoloji ve enstrümantal praksiyoloji varsayımı altında örgütleri birer makina olarak tasavvur etmiştir. Örgütlerin, denge halini muhafaza etme...

This project extends work toward building strategies to improve the status of technical communication by arguing that shifts in product development processes, such as the current shift in software development from waterfall to iterative methods, open gaps for technical communicators to take...

This project's broad goal is to articulate the dominant discourses and materialities of entrepreneurial work in order to understand how these intersections of these work processes enable and constrain young adults' career choices. Using a theoretical framework that included the communicative...