Studying differences between organizations comparative approaches to organizational research

This volume is motivated by key questions and challenges associated with reviving and developing a comparative perspective. One organizing theme of the volume is to present comparative analysis as a means to explain and describe organizational heterogeneity, at varying levels and contexts. While muc...

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Other Authors King, Brayden G., Felin, Teppo, Whetten, David A. 1946-
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2009.
SeriesResearch in the sociology of organizations ; v. 26.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781848556478
ISSN0733-558X ;
Physical Description1 online zdroj (viii, 270 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • The comparative analysis of organizational forms : considering field and ecological approaches / Omar Lizardo
  • Negotiating actorenvironment relations : a framework for comparative research / Franz Wohlgezogen, Paul Hirsch
  • Differentiating organizational boundaries / Katherine K. Chen, Siobhán O'Mahony
  • Lost in space, out of time : why and how we should study organizations comparatively / Howard E. Aldrich
  • Technology, structure, and heterogeneity among American antiwar organizations / Fabio Rojas
  • Organizations, populations, and fields : investigating organizational heterogeneity through a multilevel case study design / Carol A. Caronna, Seth S. Pollack, W. Richard Scott
  • Comparative organizational analysis : an introduction / Brayden G. King, Teppo Felin, David A. Whetten
  • Comparing organizations : empirical and theoretical issues / W. Richard Scott
  • Organizational comparative analysis : investigating similarities and differences among organizations / David A. Whetten
  • Comparative organizational analysis across multiple levels : a set-theoretic approach / Rodney Lacey, Peer C. Fiss.