System designs for a planning MIS, in particular settings, are developed. The designs are described by one or more information generation modes (personal, interactive, reports, and analysis) applied in a particular sequence. Each design is related to planning stages (formulation, conceptualization, detailing, evaluation, and implementation) and to planning in “simple” and “complex” environments.

In this article, I develop a theoretical framework to explain rivalry for narrative control between members of the media and transgressing organizations. I do so by integrating and advancing key in...

I argue that research on organizational configurations has been limited by a mismatch between theory and methods and introduce set-theoretic methods as a viable alternative for overcoming this mismatch. I demonstrate the value of such methods for studying organizational configurations and discuss their applicability for examining equifinality and limited diversity among configurations, as well as their relevance to other research fields such as complementarities theory, complexity theory, and the resource-based view

The article presents a review of the book ?Multiple Commitments in the Workplace: An Integrative Approach,? by Aaron Cohen.

The article reviews the book “The Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry: The New Drug Lag and the Failure of Industrial Policy,” by L. G. Thomas.

Organizations, like sponges, must have the capacity to absorb inputs in order to generate outputs. Researchers have developed theories of organizational absorptive capacity; researchers have also developed models of the effective generation of new products. The challenge lies in integrating the two research streams.

This article synthesizes the large but diverse literature on organizational legitimacy, highlighting similarities and disparities among the leading strategic and institutional approaches. The analysis identifies three primary forms of legitimacy: pragmatic, based on audience self-interest; moral, based on normative approval: and cognitive, based on comprehensibility and taken-for-grantedness. The article then examines strategies for gaining, maintaining, and repairing legitimacy of each type, suggesting both the promises and the pitfalls of such instrumental manipulations.

The article presents a response to an earlier article published in a 1995 issue of “Academy of Management Review” by Yitzak Fried. The author takes issue with Fried's claim that the legal environment is not conducive to total quality management (TQM), and feels that Fried does not make a convincing argument. Rather than lay the resistance to TQM adoption at the door of the legal environment, the author argues that TQM or systems-based approaches are usually rejected because organizations are resistant to change.