OBHRM 805 : The Craft of Scholarship (Prof. Karl Weick)

Fall 1997

 

ASSIGNED TEXTBOOKS
A.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey (1997). New directions for organization theory. New York: Oxford.

B.

Frost, Peter and Stablein, Ralph (Eds.) (1992). Doing exemplary research. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

ASSIGNED ARTICLES
The field
1.

Pfeffer Chapter 1

2.

Daft, Richard L. (1983). Learning the craft of organizational research. Academy of Management Review, 8, (4), 539-546.

3.

Starbuck, William H. "Watch where you step!" or Indiana Starbuck amid the perils of academe (Rated PG). In A. G. Bedeian (Ed.), Management Laureates. Vol. 3 (65-110). Greenwich, Conn.: JAI.

4.

Roberts, Karlene A. A non linear life. Unpublished manuscript.

Paradigms
5.

Pfeffer Chapters 2 and 3.

6.

Campbell, Donald T. (1969). Ethnocentrism and the fish-scale model of omniscience. In M. Sherif and C.W. Sherif (Eds), Interdisciplinary relationships in the social sciences (328-348). Chicago: Aldine.

7.

Campbell, Donald T. (1981). Comment: Another perspective on a scholarly career. In M. B. Brewer and B. E.Collins (Eds.), Scientific inquiry and the social sciences (454-501). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

8.

. Editorial. (1994). Why Organization? Why now. Organization, 1 (1), 5-17.

Styles
9.

Lawrence, Paul R. (1992). The challenge of problem-oriented research. Journal of Management Inquiry 1 (2), 139-142.

10.

Weick, Karl E. (1992). Agenda setting in organizational behavior: A theory-focused approach. Journal of Management Inquiry, 1 (3), 171-182.

11.

Nord, Walter A. (1996). Research/Teaching boundaries. In Peter J. Frost and M. Susan Taylor (Eds.), Rhythms of academic life (83-89). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

12.

Quinn, R.E., O'Neill, R. M., and Debebe, G. (1996). Confronting the tensions in an academic career. In Peter J. Frost and M. Susan Taylor (Eds.), Rhythms of academic life (421-427). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

13.

Blass, Thomas (1992). The social psychology of Stanley Milgram. In MP Zanna (Ed), Advances in experimental social psychology Vol. 25 (277-329). San Diego: Academic.

Getting Started
14.

Gersick in Frost and Stablein (1992), pp. 48-76.

15.

Lundberg, Craig C. (1996). Finding research agendas: Getting started Weick-like. (unpublished manuscript).

16.

Webb, Wilse B. (1961) The choice of the problem. American Psychologist, 16 (5), 223-227.

17.

Mills, C. Wright (1959). On intellectual craftsmanship. In C. Wright Mills, The sociological imagination (195-227). New York: Grove.

18.

Wicker, Alan (1985). Getting out of our conceptual ruts. American Psychologist, 40 (10), 1094-1103.

Insiders
19.

Gioia, Dennis A. (1992). Pinto fires and personal ethics: A script analysis of missed opportunities. Journal of Business Ethics, 11, 379-389.

20.

Frank, Arthur W. (1992). The pedagogy of suffering. Theory and psychology, 2 (4), 467-485.

21.

Wicker, Allan W. and Sommer, Robert (1993). The resident researcher: An alternative career model centered on community. American Journal of Community Psychology, 21 (4), 469-482.

22.

Fine, Gary Alan and Holyfield, Lori (1996). Secrecy, trust, and dangerous leisure: Generating group cohesion in voluntary organizations. Social Psychology Quarterly, 59 (1), 22-38.

23.

Thomas, Kenneth W. and Tymon, Walter G., Jr. (1982). Necessary properties of relevant research: Lessons from recent criticisms of the organizational sciences. Academy of Management Review, 7 (3), 345-382.

Outsiders
24.

Baron in Frost and Stablein, pp. 179-206.

25.

Barley in Frost and Stablein, pp. 19-48.

26.

Pfeffer, Chapter 7.

27.

Evered, Roger, and Louis, Meryl Reis (1981). Alternative perspectives in the organziational sciences: "Inquiry from the inside" and "inquiry from the outside". Academy of Management Review, 6 (3), 385-395.

28.

Aldrich, Howard E., Fowler, Sally W., Liou, Nina, and Marsh, Sarah J. (1994). Other people's concepts: Why and how we sustain historical continuity in our field. Organization, 1 (1), 65-80.

Collaboration
29.

Pfeffer, Chapter 4.

30.

Rafaeli and Sutton in Frost and Stablein, pp. 113-142.

31.

Latham in Frost and Stablein, pp. 143-178.

32.

Campbell, Donald T. (1979). A tribal model of the social system vehicle carrying scientific knowledge. Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 1 (2), 181-201.

33.

Weick, Karl E. (1983). Contradictions in a community of scholars: The cohesion-accuracy tradeoff. The Review of Higher Education, 6 (4), 253-267.

Theorizing
34.

Pfeffer, Chapter 8.

35.

Meyer in Frost and Stablein, pp. 79-112.

36.

Gilbert, Daniel T. and Malone, Patrick S. (1995). The correspondence bias. Psychological Bulletin, 117 (1), 21-38.

37.

Bem, Daryl J. (1996). Exotic becomes erotic: A developmental theory of sexual orientation. Psychological Review, 103 (2), 320-335.

38.

Davis, Murray S. (1986). That's Classic. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 16, 285-301.

39.

Weick, Karl E. (1989). Theory construction as disciplined imagination. Academy of Management Review, 14 (4), 516-531.

Representing
40.

Jermeier in Frost and Stablein, pp. 207-242.

41.

Ashford, Susan J. The publishing process: The struggle for meaning. Unpublished manuscript.

42.

Perrow, Charles (1995). Journaling careers. In L.L. Cummings and Peter J. Frost (Eds.), Publishing in the organizational sciences 2nd ed. (203-215). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

43.

Schneider, Benjamin (1995). Some propositions about getting research published. In L.L. Cummings and Peter J. Frost (Eds.), Publishing in the organizational sciences 2nd ed. (216-217). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

44.

Townley, Barbara (1994). Writing in friendship. Organization 1 (1), 24-28.

Contexts
45.

Pfeffer, Chapters 5 and 6

46.

Huff, Anne S. (1996). Professional and personal life. In Peter J. Frost and M. Susan Taylor (Eds.), Rhythms of academic life (429-434). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

47.

Marx, Gary T. (1992). Reflections on academic success and failure: Making it, forsaking it, reshaping it. In B.M. Berger (Ed), Authors of their own lives (260-284). Berkeley: Univer. of California.

Resolves
48. Pfeffer, Chapter 9
49. Frost and Stablein, pp. 243-292.

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