This section lists bibliographies of books on business, management and organization, including “The Art of Business: In the Footsteps of Giants,” by Raymond T. Yeh and Stephanie H. Yeh, “Business Success Through Service Excellence,” by Moira Clark and Susan Baker, and “Digital Nation: Toward an Inclusive Information Society,” by Anthony G. Wilhelm.
The article presents a list of books received by the publication, including “Cultural Intelligence: People Skills for Global Business,” by David C. Thomas and Kerr Inkson, “Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Government,” edited by Jeffrey N. Gordon and Mark J. Roe, and “ A Bias for Action: How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower, Achieve Results, and Stop Wasting Time,” by Heike Bruch and Sumantra Ghoshal.
This article presents the authors' response to the comments of Hans van Oosterhout on their article, "Corporate Citizenship: Toward an Extended Theoretical Conceptualization."
The article reviews the book ?Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in the 20th Century,? revised edition, by Sanford M. Jacoby.
Government regulation in an industry is an intermediary in the principal-agent relationship that acts as a substitute for internal governance mechanisms. We propose a model for studying how different forms of deregulation (frame-breaking, metamorphic, piecemeal, and plodding) impact variations in the speed of adaptation of internal governance mechanisms to the theoretical predictions of agency theory and resulting performance implications. We develop illustrative propositions for a set of contingencies that moderate the above relationship. How government and firms manage the deregulatory process has important economic and social consequences.
Previous research on ingratiation in organizations has identified various categories of ingratiatory behaviors. However, these studies have failed to mention or investigate the ingratiatory power of humor. I integrate past research on ingratiation with research on humor in organizations to propose humor as a type of ingratiatory behavior in the workplace. I describe how humor affects targets, including determinants of humor's effectiveness as an ingratiation strategy, and various outcomes of humor as an ingratiation tactic.
Ferraro, Pfeffer, and Sutton argue that the core basis for the dominance of economics lies in the institutionalization of the norms and language of economics. I argue that they externalize the blame for the failure of other social sciences, and I challenge the other social sciences to develop a research agenda that is capable of providing useful prescriptions to individuals, organizations, and society. I believe that internalizing the challenge, rather then externalizing the blame, is key to making the other social sciences more powerful.