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Description:: This research questions how institutional logics shape and change through the event sequencing of institutional reforms. Literature reviewed on sequences of social events underspecifies the enchainment of events, i.e., the set of social processes that both links events and also renders the sequence meaningful beyond summing its individual events. My...
Keyword:: institutional logics, institutional reforms, organizational institutionalism, Latin America, event sequencing, and qualitative methods
Subject:: Management and Organization theory
Creator:: Milner, Daniel
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/16/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_941589 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16331

Description:: This dissertation studies the limitations of incentive design in organizations and how they lead to inefficient outcomes. Chapter 1 studies how a coalition coordinates its members when they freely join and leave. It characterizes the conditions under which such coordination prevents the coalition from forming in the first place. In...
Keyword:: Performance Manipulation, Coalition Formation, Coalition, Delegation, Incentives, and Organization
Subject:: Management, Organization theory, and Economic theory
Creator:: Yan, Ruozhou
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16048 and etdadmin_upload_901237

Description:: This dissertation describes three studies which develop a deeper understanding of both failure and performance in human service referral networks focusing on veterans. It draws on theories across network science, public administration, organizational communication, and technology design to explore three major questions: 1) how stakeholders in veteran care networks define...
Keyword:: referral network, network effectiveness, network failure, veteran care, network performance, and service network
Subject:: Management, Organization theory, and Communication
Creator:: Gibson, Zachary Michael
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/02/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_863338 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15866

Description:: In this dissertation, I combine quasi-experiments and computational tools with large-scale data in new ways to address questions that revolve around the Matthew Effect of status. My dissertation is a collection of four empirical papers on status at both the organizational and the individual levels. I employ two distinct empirical...
Keyword:: Status, Professionals, Inequality, Labor Market, and Science
Subject:: Management, Sociology, and Organization theory
Creator:: TIAN, YUAN
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15295 and etdadmin_upload_765112

Description:: In this dissertation I leverage new data from the global music recording industry to study the social foundations of creativity and the relationship between product novelty, gender, and commercial success. In Chapter 1, I investigate how different kinds of social connection influence the creation of novel cultural products. Using data...
Keyword:: Cultural Markets, Social influence, Creativity, Networks, and Music
Subject:: Management, Sociology, and Organization theory
Creator:: Mauskapf, Michael Gerard
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/28/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14959 and etdadmin_upload_711355

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