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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores cognitive and action errors that occur in communication networks. I leverage theories on organizational errors and social networks to develop a novel, conceptual, and empirically testable framework to understand how individuals make errors when using their networks to share information. Here, I argue that information sharing is...
- Keyword:
- Information Sharing, Communication Networks, Small-world Experiment, Error, and Network Cognition
- Subject:
- Organizational behavior, Organization theory, and Communication
- Creator:
- Tanaka, Kyosuke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_809056 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15509
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- 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
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- 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