Sociology of Organization

• Alstyne, Marshall van [1997]
  The State of Network Organization: A Survey in Three Frameworks
  From: Journal of Organizational Computing, 1997 7:3.
  This article has two primary goals: to review the literature on network organizations and to interpret explanations for its behaviors in terms of established analytical principles. Tools from computer science, economics, and sociology give three markedly different interpretations of its core attributes but they also settle on a handful of common themes. The proposed benefits are a clarification of what it means for an organization to be network structured, a few insights into its origins, and a suggestion of where the boundaries to some of its different forms might lie. You can download this article in pdf format.

• Benschop, Albert (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
  
  • [1994-9] Transaction Costs in Economic Sociology - A critique on Oliver Williamson - In Dutch

  • [Feb. 2000] Gedragsmatige Theorie van de Onderneming

• Brynjolfsson, E. / Renshaw, Amy A. / Alstyne, M.V.
  The Matrix of Change: A Tool for Business Process Reengineering
  Business process reengineering efforts suffer from low success rates, due in part to a lack of tools for managing the change process. The 'Matrix of Change' can help managers identify critical interactions among processes. In particular, this tool helps managers deal with issues such as how quickly change should proceed, the order in which changes should take place, whether to start at a new site, and whether the proposed systems are stable and coherent. When applied at a medical products manufacturer, the Matrix of Change provided unique and useful guidelines for change management. You can download this article in pdf format. From: Sloan Management Review, Winter 1997.

• Business Process Reengineering & Innovation
  A Business Researcher's Interests (BRINT). An extensive annotated collection with resources on BPR: papers, books, periodicals, bibliographies, tools, projects etc.

• CC&S Management Consultants
  Organizational Learning, Systems Thinking, Teams and Teambuilding. A meeting point for people and organizations who want to make the Learning Organization a reality. English and Dutch version.

• Centre de Sociologie des Organisations / Center for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO)
  The C.S.O. has initiated current empirical research on the functioning of organizations and on the institutional dynamics in the private and public sectors. Through its numerous empirical studies, the Center has made important contributions in this research area in France. The director of the CSO, Erhard Friedberg, is currently conducting a series of filmed interviews with those he considers to be amongst the founding fathers of the organizational sciences. The aim of these interviews is to trace the origins and the major turning points in the field of the organizational sciences.

• Centre de Recherche en Sociologie des Organisations (CERSO)
  The site for the Center for the Sociology of Organizations (Universite Paris IX Dauphine) includes a presentation of two postgrad formations and of the current research activites and seminars of the laboratory.

• Centre for Technology and Social Theory - Keele University
  An interdisciplinary Research Centre sponsored by the Department of Management and the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. The fundamental aim of the Centre is to foster first-class research and teaching in the social theory of technology and organisations. (English and German version).

• Child, John [1975]
  Managerial and Organizational Factors Associated with Company Performance - Part II. Contingency Analysis [pdf]
  His seminal 1975 JMS article on contingency theory, which identifies as the means to superior performance those attributes which enable a company to cope better with its particular operating conditions. The factors associated with high performance are expected to vary along with differences in a company's context - especially with the differences in its environment, size and technology. The central argument in contingency theory is "that there is no single mode of organizing which can serve as an optimum for all situations" [p.27]. The contingency approach emphasizes that company decision-makers should adequately secure and evaluate information on their operating situation, and that they should adapt the design of their organization when necessary.

• Classified Guide to the F.W. Taylor Collection
  The personal papers of the founder of Scientific Management.

• Finley, Michael
  Why Things Don't Work
  A witty and incisive page about the dysfunctions of organisations and management thought.

• Formal Organization
  Summaries of classic studies in formal organization from the University of Chicago.

• Gergen, Kenneth, J. (Swarthmore College) / Tojo Joseph (George Mason University)
  Organizational Science in a Postmodern Context
  The thesis is that certain arguments within the postmodern dialogues, when properly extended, yield a promising vision of future organizational science. After developing these arguments, he explores several implications and illustrates their potential in ongoing work.

• Gulledge, Thomas R. / Haszko, Ruth, A. (George Mason University, USA)
  Information Technology Enabled Organization, The
  Also available in French and in Spanish. The article focusses on the drivers within organizations that are enabling the change that is displacing workers and managers. It shows how firms are integrating processes with new information technologies and systems, and discusses the resulting implications for workers and managers. The authors consider competing views of the societal impacts of the information revolution, and suggest some policy implications and avenues for further research.

• Heylighen, F.
  Cybernetics and Systems Theory
  A collection of links on the field of cybernetics and systems theory, provided in the context of the Principia Cybernetica Project.

• History of a Discipline
  Erhard Friedberg, director of the Center for the Sociology of Organizations (Paris, France), presented a series of filmed interviews with some of the founding fathers of the organizational sciences. You will meet Michael Crozier, Paul Lawrence, Herbert A. Simon, Thomas C. Schelling, Charles Perrow, William Foote Whyte, Peter Drucker, James G. March, Philip Selznick, Chris Argyris, Peter Blau, and Charles Lindblom. And there are more interview to come. At this time the site only offers selective bibliographies of these authors.

• Hill, Charles W.L. (School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
  The Organizational Advantage: The Firm as an Engine for the Discovery of Knowledge
  Hill suggests that established firms enjoy a relative advantage over the market alternative when it comes to the discovery of economically valuable knowledge. This advantage is founded upon three main factors; (i) the superior ability of firms to communicate knowledge among organizational members, and as a consequence, to generate new knowledge, (ii) the ability of firms to create incentives that encourage individuals who would otherwise not do so to engage in the knowledge discovery process, and (iii) the co-specialized, personal, and tacit nature of knowledge, which precludes separating out such knowledge for sale through the market mechanism. The result of this theorizing is the construction of an efficiency rationale for the existence of the firm in a competitive marketplace that is not based upon the assumption of opportunistic behavior, and does not rely upon asset specificity or monitoring problems as key explanatory variables.

• Jensen, Michael C. / Meckling, William H. [1976]
  Agency Theory
  Reference Reading: Jensen and Meckling [1976] Theory of the Firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs, and capital structure, Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 3: 305-60.

• Jensen, Michael C. / Meckling, William H. [1999]
  Divisional Performance Measurement
  From: SSRN Journal, January 20, 1999.

• Kimble, Chris (Univ. of York, UK)
  Impact of Computer Based Information Systems on Organisations
  The impact of computer based information systems on organizations has typically been one of two scenarios - either 'technological determinism' or 'social determinism'. Both are causal or deterministic models based on the idea of one thing "impacting" on anohter to cause change. Kimble tries to re-conceptualize the "impact" of technology in a way that attempts to integrate features of both models. Integrationist models portray an "impact" as complex, interactive and ongoing process. Therefor, technology does not "impact" on its social environment, or vice versa but eachdynamically shapes the other. On this page you will find som links to material related to the "impact" of computer technology on managers and organizations.

• Kaplan, Buck
  • [1995] Four Accounts of Sociological Rationality
    A comparison of the treatment given to rationality and irrationality by Weber, Simon, Crozier, and DiMaggio and Powell. The author demonstrates how rationality is socially contstructed in an organizational setting.
  • [1995] The Two Faces of Institutional Theory
    Institutional theory is a diverse and growing literature concerning the "not-so-rational" side of organizations. Kaplan discusses the old institutionalism (Selznick and Stinchcombe) that concentrates on vested interests, inertia and resistance to change, and the new institutionalism (Meyer & Rowan, DiMaggio & Powell) that emphasizes the need for legitimacy and resources. Both concern themselves with the apparent irrationalities of modern organization.
  • [1995] Transaction Costs vs Agency Theory
    The transaction cost theory (associated with the name of Oliver Williamson) is concerned with how to econonomize on the costs of managing opportunistic workers, particularly when conditions are uncertain and complex. The agency theory (associated with the names of Jensen/Meckling and Eisenhardt) is more limited, concerned with economizing and bonding agents to fulfill the stipulations of a contract. These two economic theories are recognized by sociologists as a fruitful way of looking at organizations. The author stresses their underlying similarity.
  • [1995] (with Jan Collins) Bureaucracy: Weber's Ideal Type
    Essay on the four esseential characteristics of Weber's idea type bureaucracy: hierarchy of authority, salaried careers, specialization and technical qualification, and written rules.

• Kiernan, Verner, M.
  The Impact of Technology on Organizational Transformations

• Lloyd, Seth [1995] (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  Learning how to control complex systems

• Merton, Robert K. [1957]
  Bureaucratic Structure and Personality
  From: Robert K. Merton, Social Theory and Social Structure. Glencou, IL: Free Press, 1957, pp. 195-206.

• Organization and Management Theory (OMT)
  Division of the Academy of Management includes resources for organization scholars.

• Organizations Evolving by: Howard E. Aldrich.
  Written with grace and clarity, Aldrich cogently consolidates state-of-the-art thinking and research on organizational environments, a domain of inquiry that he helped pioneer 20 years ago with his classic "Organizations and Environments". He establishes how diverse literatures ranging from transaction-cost economics to intepretive theory are premised on evolutionary foundations, and explores their convergences. He synthesizes cutting edge research to illuminate how variation, selection and retention processes unfold at multiple levels within and outside organizations. The book was published by Sage Publications, 1999. The site offers a table of contents and a downloadable chapter 1, sample syllaby using the book and a discussion forum for comments and discussion.

• Organizations & Markets
  Devoted to the interdisciplinary development of a modern theory of organizations and markets that is useful both to social scientists and managers. Michael C. Jensen and Chris Argyris are also member of this group.

• Organisations, Occupations and Work (A.S.A)
  A specialist subsection of the American Sociological Association.

• Organizations as Complex Systems
  A Business Researcher's Interests. An extensive collection of annotated resources on organizations as complex systems.

• Rank Xerox: Work Practices
  The projects undertaken in this program of research aim to improve the design of systems by grounding it in a thorough understanding of the workplace, the people who work there, and how they organize themselves to get their work done. The field studies cover a wide variety of settings and participants: large offices and small, workplace and home, adults and children. The field-work methods involve ethnographic studies of work sites and organisations.

• Rocco, Elena (Laboratory of Experimental Economics, University of Trento, Italy)
  Cooperative Efforts in Electronic Contexts: the Relevance of Prior Face-to-Face Interactions
  The organizational shift toward horizontal mechanisms of coordination - where communication and cooperation take precedence over predefined vertical lines of authority and discrete market transactions - has been enabled by information technology (IT). In particular communication media supported by electronic networks facilitate the emergence of fluid and flexible patterns of working relations, giving rise to innovative contexts for interactions and collaborative work that span traditional organizational boundaries. IT offers a great potential for communication. But networked organizations are not the same as electronic networks nor can they be built entirely on them. Working relations in the networked organization are intrinsically embedded in a social context made of culture, social norms, practices, habits, and expectations. These elements are primarily shaped by ongoing face-to-face interactions. Electronic networks might complement existing face-to-face relations. The extent to which networks developed through face-to-face interactions might become synonymous to networks of computer-supported relations is an issue that needs to be explored. Elena attempts to shed some light on this issue, with a specific focus on the relation between electronic-mail and cooperation. Her research question is: to what extent can computer-mediated communication support spontaneous mechanisms of mutual adjustment and trust building that are essential for the development of stable cooperation?

• Self-Organization, Autopoiesis, and Enterprises by: Randall Whitaker
  A paper on the autopoietic theory of self-organization and its application to enterprises and their management.

• Wertheim, Edward G. (College of Business Administration, Northeastern University, Boston)
  Historical Background of Organizational Behavior
  Wertheim covers Taylorism and Scientific Management, the Human Relations Movement, Theory X and Theory Y, and a very short description of schools of thought in organizational behavior.

• What is chaos theory? [Moved to ??] by: Mark Michaels.
  An overview of the new science of chaos (also sometimes termed the "study of complex adaptive systems" and the "science of complexity.") Emphasis is on the two terms nonlinear and systems: while the former connotes unpredictability and uncertainty, the latter underscores the interrelationships and interactions between the various entities.

Organizational Learning — Learning Organizations

• Atkins, Howard / Kellner, Kamil / Linklater, Jane - SIPSO Papers
  Action Learning - Employing the Workplace Within
  Action learning is an apparently simple technique where a small group of managers meet regularly to engage in facilitated group counselling around individuals' work concern. Action learning is presented as a powerful tool in enabling managers to recognise and deal with ambiguity and anxiety, and develop effective strategies for individual and group learning. As such it has significat value in working with oranizations undergoing large scale change.

• Balasubramanian, Siva K. - College of Business Administration, Southern Illinois University, USA
  Organizational Learning and Information Systems
  Identification of aspects of organizational learning that can benefit from the use of information systems. A brief discussion on how information systems can support organizational learning processes such as knowledge acquisition, information distribution, information interpretation, and organizational memory. Aspects of learning that require further research by organization scientists and information systems researchers are identified.

• Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, The
  Strategies, tools, and connections for building a learning organization. The aim is to serve the worldwide community of learning organization practitioners. You are invited to contribute to the next edition of the Discipline Fieldbook.

• Karash, Richard
  Karash is a consultant and facilitator covering he broad range of Learning Organizations disciplines, with special emphasis on Systems Thinking.

• Knowledge Innovation - Strategies for the Millennium

• Group Performance Systems, Inc.
  Learning Organisation Resources
  Mainly US links.

• Huang, Albert H. [1998] - School of Business, University of Hawaii, Hilo
  Intranets for Organizational Memory Building: An Exploratory Study
  A study on the technological advances and managerial changes that facilitate the memory-building process with intranets. Huang suggests a model that describes the relationshop between organizational memory, individual memory, and intranets.

• Kim, Daniel H. [1993]
  The Link between individual and organizational learning
  In: Sloan Management Review, 35(1): 37-50.
  Summary by: David Kroh. Although the topic of organizational learning has gained a lot of attention, there's little agreement on what organizational learning means and even less on how to create a learning organization. The crucial issue is how individual learning is transferred to the organization. Kim develops a model that links individual and organizational learning through 'mental models'. These are thought constructs that affect how people and organizations operate in the world.

• Lembke, Gerhard (ed.) - Bad Harzburg, Germany.
  Management - Forum: Lernende Organisationen
  A newsletter and lots of interesting links to German resources.

• Mailing Lists
  • learning-org
    A mailing list on systems thinking and the learning organization.
    List managers: Richard Karash and Charles Kiefer.
    Send "Subscribe learning-org" in the body of the message to: majordomo@world.std.com

• Organisational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS)
  The OCIS division of the Academy of Management provides members with a variety of information resources. It encourages professional scholarship pertaining to the study of behavioral and social aspects of communication and information systems within organizations.

• Organizational Learning Resources
  A selection of web-based resources on organizational learning, organizational cognition, information management, knowledge management, environment scanning, and scenario planning.

• Organizational Knowledge Mananagement & Organizational Learning
  A Business Researcher's Interests. An extensive annotated collection of resources on organizational learning and knowledge management.

• Program on Social and Organizational Learning (PSOL) - George Mason University, USA
  A compendium of resources and perspectives, updated by students and faculty. PSOL is a space for exploring the links between organizing and learning.

• Rosengarten, Philipp
  Learning Organization Page
  A MPhil Thesis, Industrial Relations Department, London School of Economics.

• Senge, Peter M.
  • [1996] Rethinking Leadership in the Learning Organization
    From: The Systems Thinker 7(1), February 1996.

  • [1999] Integrating Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management
    An interview with Peter Senge by Lauren Johnson, in Pegagus Communication.

• Society for Organizational Learning, The (SOL)
  A global learning community dedicated to building knowledge about fundamental institutional change through integrating: research, capacity boulding and practice. The Society wants to discover, integrate, and implement theories and practices for the interdependent development of people and their institutions.

• Stanford Learning Organization Web (SLOW)
  Recommended Readings on Senge's Five Disciplines: systems thinking, personal mastery, shared vision, mental models, and team learning. All resources, including recommended articles, books and videos for reinventing organizational learning are houdes at KnowledgePassion.

• Strassman, Paul A.
  The Value of Computers, Information and Knowledge

• Underhill, Lynus B. [april 1995]
  The Sociology of Megaprogramming experiences in generating an organizational learning enterprise
  A brief background of organizational models, and abstracts the work of Peter Senge of MIT to provide a Framework for Learning Organizations. It postulates that transitioning to Megaprogramming technology causes an organization to practice the disciplines of a learning organization.

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Virtual Organizations

• Bouvet, Stephen [1996]
  The Many Virtues of the Virtual Office

• Center for Virtual Organizations and Commerce (CVOC) - Louisiana State University, USA

• DeSanctis, Gerardine / Monge, Peter [1998]
  Communication Processes for Virtual Organizations
  In: JCMS 3(4), June 1998.

• Electronic Journal Organizational Virtualness

• Emergent Organizational Forms and Virtual Organizations
  An extensive collection of references to research, books and articles on new organization forms, intranets, and virtual communities. With many links to other WWW resources on new organization forms. From: A Business Researcher's Interest.

• Grabowski, Martha /Robers, Karlene H. [1998]
  Risk Mitigation in Virtual Organizations
  In: JCMC 3(4) June 1998.

• GroupWare

• Handy, Charles [1995] (London Business School, England)
  Trust and the Virtual Organization
  In: Harvard Business Review, May-June 1995.
  Managing people and work in new organizational settings will requie trust. Managers must move past traditional views of control, efficiency and accountability approaches when the nee to manage employees the cannot see. How do you manage people whome you do not see? Handy explains some managerial, organizational and societal dilemmas, formulates some rules of trust, and tries to find some anwsers.

• Hughes, John A. / O'Brien, Jon / Rouncefield, Mark / Tolmie, Peter [1998]
  Some 'real problems of 'virtual' teamwork
  An ethnographic study of the implementation of virtual teamworking within a large bank. The use of IT to support decision-making, quality control and customer services is combined with mahor organizational changes. It highlights a number of organizational problems (such as 'passing the buck' and managerial problems) that emerge with the movement towards virtual teamworking.

• Hughes, John A. / O'Brien, Jon / Randall, Dave / Rouncefield, Mark / Tolmie, Peter [1998]
  Some 'real' problems of 'virtual' organisation

• Hughes, John A. / O'Brien, Jon / Randall, Dave / Rouncefield, Mark / Tolmie, Peter [1998]
  Virtual Organisations and the Customer: How 'virtual organisations' deal with 'real' customers

• Kimble, Chris / Selby, William [2000]
  An Interdisciplinary study of Information Systems: Christopher Alexander and IS Failure [pdf]
  In: Proceedings of 5th UKAIS Conference, University of Wales Institute, Cardigg, McGraw Hill, April 2000, pp. 356-265.
  Based on the idea that physical and virtual office spaces exist to serve parallel organisational requirements, it is argued that designers of information systems should be able to learn from the experience of otherin order to improve their methods and redefine their objectives. The work of Christopher Alexander is reviewed to show how his work on architectural patterns has been of value to the designers of object-oriented systems. This provides an example of how insights into virtual organisations can be gained by looking at them from the perspectives of other academic disciplines.

• NetAge: Virtual Teaming Tools and Expertise
  NetAge helps people work together across boundaries of space, time and organizations using technology. The site provides information about 21st century organizations, virtual teams, teamnets, and networks.

• Sieber, Pascal / Griese, Joachim (eds.) [1998]
  Organizational Virtualness [pdf]

• Virtual Organization Net (VoNet)
  VoNet focusses on theoretical and empirical researh related to virtual organizations, virtual teams, network organization and electronic commerce. The site provides news, a discussion forum, bibliographical and internet resources, and a online journal called "Electronic Journal of Organizational Virtualness".

• Virtual Organizations
  Special issue on virtual organizations of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Volume 3, Issue 4.

• VO - The Virtual Organization - Layola University, USA
  VO facilitates the use of technology in teaching, learning and research by providing training and instructional resources, and creating forums for the exchange of information.

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Intranet

An intranet is the use of internet technologies within an organization or company to achieve better results than the conventional means of data access and transfer. It is used als a management system for documents and records, and it can serve as a foundation for knowledge management. An intranet supports organizations to improve their business processs through customer and partner collaboration tools, seamless business process integration and rapid access to dynamic organizational information. Streamlined collaboration practices, rapid information discovery, and dynamic data integration make it much easier for employees to access, dsitribute, and share information in real time.

• Building the Corporate Intranet
  A seminar that discusses the complete range of Web technologies and how they can be used for a wide variety of enterprise-wide intranet applications, including document distribution, interactive services, training, and database access. Presented by WordMark.

• Complete Intranet Resource (CIR)
  Many case studies and analysis, listings of white papers and a comprehensive series of links. Compiled by: Vipul Sheth.

• Good Documents
  A site that discusses how to create good business documents in the linked, on-screen environment of intranets and the internet. "Writing for reading with a browser is different than writing for paper. Writing everyday documents that are destined to be read on-screen and not printed out means different words and organization than the same ideas written to be printed out on paper. You can't take what you wrote for paper, paste it into an HTML editor, mark it up with a few tags and call it an on-screen document. You need to write specifically for the screen if you want to take best advantage of the medium."

• Intranet Journal
  Offers news, opinions, intra-views, FAQ, resources, design tools, chat and more. Or do you want a real-time chat with your fellow intranetters?

• Intranet Journal: Best Practices
  On-going intranet development case studies written by IT professionals developing corporate webs.

• Intranet Resources
  A collection of sites that offer some perspective on building Intranets, networks that leverage IP and Internet technologies to better connect customers and businesses.

• Intranet Resources and Info
  A collection of links maintained by Intranet Services (New Zealand). Editor: David Storm.

• Intranets
  About.com Guide edited by Bradley Mitchell.

• Intranets.com
  

• Intranets: What? Why? How?
  A comprehensive list of links to intranet resources, presented by Brint.com.

• Strom, David [1995]
  Creating Private Intranets: Challenges and Prospects for IS
  A white paper for Attachmate Corp.. These days the internet is everywhere: ads for au courant clothing on bus shelters, television programs, and even underwear have their own addresses on the World-Wide Web, the most popular of Internet services. With all this attention, it seems as if the internet has become the only topic for computing professionals these days. According to Strom, this focus may be misplaced: "it is the Intranet, the internal internet, that is the key information technology revolution for the remainder of this century." He describes the rise of corporate intranets, provides a description of some of their key features, and offers advice about how to manage the transition from mostly SNA networks. He also highlights some key Intranet enabling technologies from Attachmate and others.

• Telleen, Steven L. (director of IntraNet Solutions)
  • Internet Organization: Strategies for managing change
    An online book on intranets in terms of organizational needs, role requirements and reskilling people.
  • White Papers
    A collection of intranet papers.
  • [1995] IntraNet Architecture
    A paper that focuses on the management aspects of an intranet.
  • [1995] IntraNet Methodology - Concepts and Rationale
  • [1996] Intranets and Adaptive Innovation
  • [1997] Intranets as Knowledge Management Systems

• Web Business: Intranet Research Center
  CIO Magazine's intranet webmaster area. Includes a collection of in-depht articles which look how enterprises are developing and extending their intranets, information resources about Intranets, and a forum for people involved with intranet, extranet and internet initiatives.

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Mailing Lists in Organization Theory

• APP-ORGCOMM
  Applied and Organizational Communication Network. List manager: John Hollwitz.
  Send "Subscribe APP-ORGCOMM <your_full_name>" to: MAJORDOMO@CREIGHTON.EDU

• ASQ
  Administrative Science Quarterley listserver. List managers: Will Mitchell and Brad Killaly, (University of Michigan).
  Send following message to: ASQ@UMICH.EDU
  first line: <Your E-Mail Address>
  second line: <Your_Name and Affiliation>

• BPR
  Business process re-engineering.
  Send "Join BPR <first name> <last name>" to: MAILBASE@MAILBASE.AC.UK

• BUSINESS-RESEARCH
  For business/organisation studies researchers/research groups seeking to network with academic peers and improve the quality of their research. List is part of networking activities of UK academics working in departments with less than maximum RAE ranking. Online subscription.

• COGNITION-IG
  Managerial and Organizational Cognition Interest Group. List manager: Page West
  Send "Subscribe COGNITION-IG <your_full_name>" to: LISTPROC@LISTS.COLORADO.EDU

• DYNMOD-L
  Discussion List for Dynamic Models of Organizations and Information Systems. List manager: Alexander Verbraeck.
  Send "Subscribe DYNMOD-L <your_full_name>" to: LISTSERV@DUTICAI.TWI.TUDELFT.NL

• GDO-L
  Forum for Gender & Diversity in Organizations. Online subscription.

• MCLUHAN-LIST
  Media/Social theories of Marshall McLuhan & their application.
  Send "Subscribe MCLUHAN-L <your_full_name>" to: MAJORDOMO@INFORAMP.NET

• OBTS-L
  Organizational Behavior Teaching Society Network. List manager: John Miller.
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• OCISNET
  Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division Network. List manager: Mark Fuller.
  Send "Subscribe OCISNET <your_full_name>" to: OCISNET@BAYLOR.EDU

• ODCNET-L
  Organizational development. List manager: Bob Munzenrider.
  Send "Subscribe ODCNET-L <your_full_name>" to: LISTSERV@PSUVM.PSU.EDU

• OIC
  The Organizational Issues Clearinghouse.
  Forum for the distribution of calls for papers, conference announcements, special journal issue announcements, etc. dealing with organizational issues. List Manager: Marc-David Seidel.

• OMT-L
  Organization and Management Theory Division Network. List manager: Dwight Lemke.
  Send "Subscribe OMTNET <your_full_name>" to: OMT-L-Request@aom.pace.edu

• ONE-L
  Organizations and the Natural Environment Interest Group Network. List manager: Gary Throop.
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• ORGCULT
  Organizational Culture Caucus. List manager: Neal Ashkanasy.
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• Mailing Lists in Organization Theory - Editor: Mark Burns.

Journals in Organization Sociology

• Administrative Science Quarterly
  A major journal in organisation theory. Includes table of contents of the current issue and information about the journal which publishes interdisciplinary research in organisational theory.

• Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory

• E-JOV - The Electronic Journal of Organizational Virtualness.

• Electronic Journal of Radical Organisation Theory (EJROT) - Univ.of Waikato, New Zealand.
  The aim of the Journal is to stimulate leading edge discussion around radical ideas in the study and practice of organisation and management. They encourage the submission of: research articles which present new information, theoretical tracts which attempt to produce synthesis of existing ideas, radical approaches which can produce new images of organisations, visions of organisations and management practices which are not exploitative or oppressive for those who participate in them. They encourage perspectives that include interpretations of the broader societal contexts in which organisations are embedded.

• Journal of Organizational Change Management [table of contents]

Professional Associations

• Academy of Management
  A professional society that is primarily composed of professors who conduct research and teach management in colleges, universities, or research institutes and doctoral students who are pursuing PhD's in management.

• American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
  The professional association and leading resource on workplace learning and performance issues. ASTD provides information, research, analysis and practical information derived from its own research and the knowlegde and experience of its members.

• Center for the Study of Work Teams
  Based at the University of North Texas, USA. Stimulates education and research in all areas of collaborative work systems.

• International Society for Performance Improvement (IPSI)
  Dedicated to improving individual and organizational performance in the workplace.

• International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations
  A forum for academics, clinicians, consultants and others interested in working in and with organizations utilizing psychoanalytic concepts and insights.

• Organization Development Institute
  A non-profit educational association that promotes an understanding of the field of Organization Development.

• Organization Development Network
  An association of organization development practitioners. The OD Network supports its members in their work in human organization and systems development, and offers leadership and scholarship to the profession.

Editor	dr. Albert Benschop Social & Behavioral Studies University of Amsterdam
Created	September, 1996
Last modified	10th January, 2006