HARVARD UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Professor Michael Tushman
Professor Ryan Raffaelli
Professor Julie Battilana
Winter/Spring 2016
Doctoral Seminar: Organization and Management Theory
This doctoral seminar explores fundamental aspects of organizations and organization theory. This
seminar will cover various approaches to organizations and the institutional contexts within which they
operate. We will pay particular attention to innovation and differential organizational outcomes, and
the role (and limits) of agency within the firm and in institutional contexts. We will also discuss
organization and management theory in the context of today’s society. In particular, we will explore the
impact of sharply decreased communication and information processing costs on organizations and
industries.
This course is for students interested in understanding and, in turn, conducting research on macroorganizational topics. As research in organizations, institutions, and innovation areas are contested
terrains, after moving through the basics we will focus on contentious and unresolved issues.
Our seminar will improve your ability to be a critical consumer of organizational and institutional
research. It will also sharpen your ability to build mid-range theory and to connect your concepts to
empirical research. During the term we will focus on a range of inter-related topics, including identity,
organization design, senior teams, power and politics, social networks, innovation, organizational
evolution, and institutional dynamics. These topics will be considered across levels of analysis and
disciplinary boundaries and students will be encouraged to develop their own cross- boundary ideas.
Finally, students will develop their own research proposal and present it to the community in our last
class.
Each week we will focus on a particular topic. We will read and critically discuss several theoretical and
empirical contributions, with students playing central roles in leading our discussions. Students will be
evaluated on class participation (50 percent) and an integrative literature review and research proposal
(50 percent).
Discussion of Reading
Each session will have a set of required readings. All students are expected to have read these
thoroughly. Individual students will take responsibility for reviewing the remainder of the optional
(Supplemental) readings. Students will prepare a 1-2-page synthesis/review of their optional readings
which should be posted on our class website at least two days prior to our meeting.
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After we discuss the common readings, students will lead a discussion of the papers they reviewed.
Reviews/critics should include the following:
Summary of the paper
This should be brief. Your first task is simply to create some context or background for the paper and
outline its major arguments.
Main contributions
This should be detailed and well articulated. You are expected to show the main contributions of
the paper. “Contributions” can refer to several things. They can refer to the contributions made to
a particular field of study. Or, contributions can refer to your own understanding of a particular
phenomenon—you should therefore answer the question, “What have I learned from this paper?”
This can include not only content learning (i.e., some novel concept of theory) but also methods and
research design.
Critique
What are the paper’s conceptual shortcomings and/or research design or technical flaws? You
should also consider new opportunities for research and theoretical development.
Finally, note that selected students are only expected to start discussions on a paper. Fellow participants
are expected to be active in ensuing discussions.
Literature Review and/ or Research Proposal
The research proposal provides each student the opportunity to conceive and plan a study on some
issue within our course’s domain. The proposal must include a critical literature review, theoretical
framework, and research questions and/or hypotheses. Research proposals should also include a
research design. I would like to discuss your topic with you no later than our fourth class meeting.
My faculty assistant, Tom Barrow, can be reached at (617) 495-6029 or tbarrow@hbs.edu. He is located
in Morgan Hall 320-A. Articles will be made available online from the Canvas course platform or handed
out. Books will be on reserve in Baker Library.
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January 29:
1. The Phenomena: Organizations, Institutions, and Innovation (Ryan R.)
Benkler, Y. 2006. The wealth of networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom. New
Haven: Yale University Press. (Read Introduction, Part 1.)
Chandler, Alfred D. 1977. The Visible Hand, Harvard University Press, Ch. Introduction, Parts 1,4,5,
conclusion.
Chatman, J. and F. Flynn, 2005, “Full Cycle Micro-Organizational Behavior Research”, Organization
Science, 16 (4): 434-447
Davis, G. F. 2015. What Might Replace the Modern Corporation? Uberization and the Web Page
Enterprise. Seattle University Law Review, 39: 507-519.(forthcoming) .(PDF)
Posted on Canvas
Landes, D. S. 1983. Revolution in time : clocks and the making of the modern world. Cambridge, Mass.:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. (Read Introduction and Section 3).
On reserve at Baker Library
Stokes, D. E. 1997. Pasteur's quadrant : basic science and technological innovation. Washington, D.C.:
Brookings Institution Press. (Read Chapters 2 and 3.)
On reserve at Baker Library
Supplemental:
David, P. A. 1992. Heroes, Herds and Hysteresis in Technological History: Thomas Edison and 'The Battle
of the Systems' Reconsidered. Industrial and Corporate Change, 1(1): 129-180.
Davis, J. 2014, Celebrating Organization Theory: The After-Party. J. of Management Studies.
Lounsbury, M. and C. Beckman, 2014, Celebrating Organization Theory. J. of Management Studies.
Perrow, C. 1986. Complex Organizations, 3rd ed.. Chapters 1 ,2 and 3.
On reserve at Baker Library
Selznick, Philip. 1957. Leadership in Administration: A Sociological Interpretation. Berkeley: University of
California Press. Chapters 1 and 5.
On reserve at Baker Library
Sull, D. N. 1999. The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution.
Business History Review, 73(Autumn): 430-464.
Sutton, R. I. & Staw, B. M. 1995. What Theory is Not. Administrative Science Quarterly, 40(3): 371-384.
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February 5:
2. Innovation and Technological Change: Discontinuities, Dominant Designs,
and Innovation Streams (MLT)
Abernathy, W. J. 1978. The productivity dilemma : roadblock to innovation in the automobile industry.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (Read Chapters 1, 2, 4, & 7.)
On reserve at Baker Library
Anderson, P. & Tushman, M. L. 1990. Technological Discontinuities and Dominant Designs: A Cyclical
Model of Technological Change. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35(4): 604-633.
Christensen, C. M. & Bower, J. L. 1996. Customer power, strategic investment and the failure of leading
firms. Strategic Management Journal, 17: 197-218.
Henderson, R. M. & Clark, K. B. 1990. Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product
Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35(1): 9-30.
Rao, H, 1994, “The Social Construction of Reputation: Certification Contests, Legitimation, and Survival
of Organizations in the American Auto Industry: 1895-1912”, Strategic Mgt Journal, 15, 29-44.
Supplemental:
Adner, R., & Kapoor, R. 2010. Value creation in innovation ecosystems: how the structure of
technological interdependence affects firm performance in new technology generations.
Strategic Management Journal, 31(3): 306-333.
Barley, S. 1990. The Alignment of Technology and Structure through Roles of Networks. Administrative
Science Quarterly, 35(1): 61-103.
Henderson, R. 1995. Of Life Cycles Real and Imaginary: The Unexpectiedly Long Old Age of Optical
Lithography. Research Policy, 24: 631-643.
Kaplan, S. & Tripsas, M. 2008. Thinking about technology: Applying a cognitive lens to technical change.
Research Policy, 37: 790-805.
Murmann, J. P. & Frenken, K. 2006. Toward a systematic framework for research on dominant designs,
technological innovations, and industrial change. Research Policy, 35(7): 925-952.
Vincenti, W. G. 1994. The Retractable Airplane Landing Gear and the Northrop "Anomaly": VariationSelection and the Shaping of Technology. Technology and Culture, 35(1): 1-33.
February 12:
3. Basic Organizational Approaches (MLT and Dennis Campbell):
Resource Dependency Theory (MLT)
Pfeffer, Jeffrey, and Gerald R. Salancik. 1978. The External Control of Organizations: A Resource
Dependence Perspective. New York: Harper and Row. Chapters 2, 3 and 4.
On reserve at Baker Library
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Wry, T., Cobb, J. A., & Aldrich, H. E. (2013). More than a metaphor: Assessing the historical legacy of
resource dependence and its contemporary promise as a theory of environmental
complexity. The Academy of Management Annals,7(1), 441-488.
Supplemental:
Casciaro, T., & Piskorski, M. J. 2005. Power Imbalance, Mutual Dependence, and Constraint Absorption:
A Closer Look at Resource Dependence Theory. Administrative Science Quarterly, 50(2): 167199.
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Gulati, Ranjay and Maxim Sytch, 2007. “Dependence Asymmetry and Joint Dependence in
Interorganizational Relationships: Effects of Embeddedness on a Manufacturer Performance in
Procurement Relationships.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 52: 32-69.
Pfeffer, J.and Salancik, G. 1974. Organizational decision making as a political process: The case of a
university budget. Administrative Science Quarterly, 19, p. 135-151.
The Carnegie School (MLT)
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Administrative Science Quarterly, 17(1), p. 1-25.
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2(1): 71-87.
Nickerson, J. A., & Zenger, T. R. 2004. A Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm--The Problem-Solving
Perspective. Organization Science, 15(6): 617-632.
Supplemental:
Casciaro, T., & Piskorski, M. J. 2005. Power Imbalance, Mutual Dependence, and Constraint Absorption:
A Closer Look at Resource Dependence Theory. Administrative Science Quarterly, 50(2): 167199.
Cohen, Wesley and Daniel Levinthal. 1990. “Absorptive Capacity: A new perspective on learning and
innovation.” ASQ 35: 128-52.
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On reserve at Baker Library
Gavetti, G., D. Levinthal, and W. Ocasio. 2007. “Neo-Carnegie: The Carnegie School’s Past, Present, and
Reconstructing for the Future.” Organization Science 18:523-36.
March, James G., and Herbert Simon. 1958. Organizations. McGraw-Hill, Ch. 5 and 6
On reserve at Baker Library
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Accounting and Control in Organizations (Dennis Campbell)
Campbell, D. 2008. Nonfinancial Performance Measures and Promotion-Based Incentives. Journal of
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Organizations and Society, 12(4): 357-374.
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Management Journal, 15(3): 169-189.
Supplemental:
Lambert, R. A. 2001. Contracting theory and accounting. Journal of Accounting and Economics, 32(1–3):
3-87.
February 19:
4. Economic Theories of the Firm (Eric Van den Steen)
Ghoshal, S. & Moran, P. 1996. Bad for Practice: A critique of the Transaction Cost Theory. Academy of
Management Review, 21(1): 13-47.
Gibbons, R. and Roberts, J. 2012. “Economic Theories of Incentives in Organizations.” In Gibbons, R. and
Roberts, J. (Eds.), The Handbook of Organizational Economics, pp. 56-99. Princeton University
Press (PDF).
On reserve at Baker Library
Gibbons, R. and Roberts, J. 2012. “Table of Contents.” In Gibbons, R. and Roberts, J. (Eds.), The
Handbook of Organizational Economics, pp. v-vii. Princeton University Press (PDF).
On reserve at Baker Library
Nilakant, V. and Rao, H. 1994. Agency theory and uncertainty in organizations: An evaluation.
Organization Studies, 15 (5), p. 649-672.
Roberts, J., 2004, The Modern Firm. Oxford University Press, Chapter 3 “The Nature and Purpose of the
Firm” (pp 74-117)
On reserve at Baker Library
Stuckey, J. and White, D., “When and when not to integrate vertically.” Sloan Management Review,
Spring 1993, 34 (3), pp71-83 (PDF).
Posted on Canvas
Van den Steen, E., "Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity." Management Science 56, no.
10 (October 2010): 1718–1738.
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Supplemental:
Argyres, Nicholas S. and Todd R. Zenger. 2012. “Capabilities, Transaction Costs, and Firm Boundaries.”
Organization Science, 23(6): 1643-1657.
Coase, Ronald H. 1960. "The Problem of Social Cost". Journal of Law and Economics 3 (1): 1–44.
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Journal of Sociology 87: 548-577.
February 26:
5. Contingency Theory and Organization Design (Ethan B.)
Burns, Tom and G. M. Stalker. The Management of Innovation. London: Tavistock Publications, 1961.
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Fjeldstad, Ø. D., Snow, C. C., Miles, R. E., & Lettl, C. 2012. The architecture of collaboration. Strategic
Management Journal, 33(6): 734-750.
Gruenfeld, D. H. & Tiedens, L. Z. 2010. Organizational preferences and their consequences. In Fiske,
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On reserve at Baker Library
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Thompson, James D. 1967. Organizations in Action: Social Science of Administrative Theory. New York:
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On reserve at Baker Library
Supplemental:
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201-218.
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On reserve at Baker Library
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March 4
6. Innovation Streams, Exploration and Exploitation, and Ambidexterity (Ryan
R. )
Benner, M. J. & Tushman, M. 2002. Process Management and Technological Innovation: A Longitudinal
Study of the Photography and Paint Industries. Administrative Science Quarterly, 47(4): 676-706.
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Supplemental:
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changeovers in the Toyota production system. Organization Science, 10(1): 43-68.
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March 11:
7. Institutional Theory, Institutional Change and Complexity (Julie B.)
Battilana, J., & Dorado, S. 2010. Building sustainable hybrid organizations: The case of commercial
microfinance organizations. Academy of Management Journal, 53(6), 1419-1440.
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collective rationality in organizational fields.” American Sociological Review 48: 147-160.
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and Organizational Responses. Academy of Management Annals, 5: 317-371.(40 pp)
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ceremony.” American Journal of Sociology 83: 340-363.
Supplemental:
Battilana, J., & Lee, M. (2014). Advancing Research on Hybrid Organizing – Insights from the Study of
Social Enterprises. Academy of Management Annals, 8, 397-441. (PDF).
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Battilana, J., Sengul, M., Pache, A.-C., & Model, J. 2015. Harnessing productive tensions in hybrid
organizations: The case of work integration social enterprises. Academy of Management
Journal: 1658-1858.
Greenwood, R., & Suddaby, R. (2006). Institutional entrepreneurship in mature fields: The big five
accounting firms. Academy of Management Journal, 49(1), 27-48.
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Journal of Sociology, 115: 657–711.
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March 25:
8. Open Communities and Distributed Innovation (Karim L. and Mike)
Baldwin, C., & von Hippel, E. 2011. Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and
Open Collaborative Innovation. Organization Science, 22(6): 1399-1417.
Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani. ““Open” disclosure of innovations, incentives and followon reuse: Theory on processes of cumulative innovation and a field experiment in
computational biology” Research Policy (2015).
Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani and Chris Riedl. “Looking Across and Looking Beyond the
Knowledge Frontier: The Role of Uncertainty and Bounded Rationality in Selecting Scientific
Research Projects.” Management Science (forthcoming).
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Boudreau, Kevin J., Karim R. Lakhani and Michael Menietti. “Performance Responses to Competition
across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament
Design.” RAND Journal of Economics (forthcoming) (PDF)
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Jeppesen, Lars Bo, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Marginality and Problem-Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast
Search." Organization Science 21 (September - October 2010): 1016-1033.
Supplemental:
Fleming, L., & Waguespack, D. M. 2007. Brokerage, Boundary Spanning, and Leadership in Open
Innovation Communities. Organization Science, 18(2): 165-180.
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Environments." Organization Science 24: 58-78.
O'Mahony, S., & Ferraro, F. 2007. The Emergence of Governance in an Open Source Community.
Academy of Management Journal, 50(5): 1079-1106.
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Alliance Formation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 46(4): 748-772.
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software innovation: a case study. Research Policy 32(7): 1217 - 1241.
April 1:
9. Field Emergence, Categories, and Identity (Ryan R., Mary Ann G.)
Categories & Identity
Glynn, M. and R. Abzug, 2002, Institutionalizing Identity: Symbolic Isomorphism and Organizational
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Field Emergence & Re-emergence
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Entrepreneurship in Satellite Radio, 1990-2005. Administrative Science Quarterly, 55, 439-471.
Raffaelli, Ryan. "Mechanisms of Technology Re-Emergence and Identity Change in a Mature Field: Swiss
Watchmaking, 1970–2008." Harvard Business School Working Paper, March 2015 (PDF)
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Santos, F. M., & Eisenhardt, K. M. (2009). Constructing markets and shaping boundaries: Entrepreneurial
power in nascent fields. Academy of Management Journal, 52(4), 643-671.
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for grass-fed meat and dairy products. Administrative Science Quarterly, 53(3), 529-567.
Supplemental:
Glynn, M.A. & Navis, C. 2013. Categories, Identities, and Cultural Classification: Moving Beyond a Model
of Categorical Constraint. Journal of Management Studies, 50 (6): 1124-1137.
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73(2): 270-295.
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interorganizational fields: An organizational history of the U.S. radio broadcasting industry.”
Administrative Science Quarterly, 36: 333–363.
Raffaelli, R. & Glynn, M.A. 2015. “Institutional Innovation: Novel, Useful and Legitimate." In Shalley,
C.E., Hitt, M.A., & Zhou, J. (Eds.). Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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Rao, H., et al. (2003). "Institutional Change in Toque Ville: Nouvelle Cuisine as an Identity Movement in
French Gastronomy." American Journal of Sociology 108(4): 795-843
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Nineteenth-century America." Administrative Science Quarterly 54:486-520.
Tripsas, M. 2009. Technology, Identity, and Inertia Through the Lens of "The Digital Photography
Company". Organization Science, 20(2): 441-460.
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April 8
10. Networks and Embeddedness (Ranjay G.)
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