Organizational Control

Sim B. Sitkin is Professor of Management and Faculty Director of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. Laura B. Cardinal is Professor of Management at the C. T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. Katinka M. Bijlsma-Frankema is Associate Professor of Organization Theory at VU University in Amsterdam and Professor of Organization Sciences at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) in Brussels.

• List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Part I. Introduction and History: 1. Control is fundamental Sim B. Sitkin, Laura B. Cardinal and Katinka M. Bijlsma-Frankema; 2. A historical perspective on organizational control Roger M. Dunbar and Matt Statler; Part II. Conceptions of Organizational Control: 3. A configurational theory of control Laura B. Cardinal, Sim B. Sitkin and Chris P. Long; 4. Critical perspectives on organizational control: reflections and prospects Rick Delbridge; Part III. Identity, Attention, and Motivation in Organizational Control: 5. Identity work and control in occupational communities John Van Maanen; 6. Organizational identity and control: can the two go together? Elizabeth George and Ciuli Qian; 7. Attention and control William C. Ocasio and Franz Wohlgezogen; 8. The role of motivational orientations in formal and informal control M. Audrey Korsgaard, Bruce M. Meglino and Sophia S. Jeong; Part IV. Relational Control: 9. Relational networks, strategic advantage: new challenges for collaborative control John Hagel III, John Seely Brown and Mariann Jelinek; 10. Toward a theory of relational control: how relationship structure influences the choice of control Laurie J. Kirsch and Vivek Choudhury; 11. Peer control in organizations Misty L. Loughry; Part V. Managerial and Strategic Control: 12. Control to cooperation: examining the role of managerial authority in portfolios of managerial actions Chris P. Long; 13. Consequences and antecedents of managerial and employee legitimacy interpretations of control: a natural open system approach Katinka M. Bijlsma-Frankema and Ana Cristina Costa; 14. Managerial objectives of formal control: high motivation control mechanisms Antoinette Weibel; 15. Control configurations and strategic initiatives Markus Kreutzer and Christoph Lechner; Index of terms; Author index.