Qualitative Studies of Organizations

Van Maanen holds a BA in political science from California State University, Long Beach, as well as an MS in social administration and a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Irvine.

• Foreword - Christine Oliver and Linda JohansonDifferent Strokes - John Van MaanenQualitative Research in the Administrative Science Quarterly from 1956 to 1996PART ONE: STUDIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSESThe Role of Expectations in Business Decision Making - R M Cyert,W R Dill and J G MarchIntense Loyalty in Organizations - Patricia A Adler and Peter AdlerA Case Study of College AthleticsIn Search of Rationality - Ann LangleyThe Purposes behind the Use of Formal Analysis in OrganizationsPART TWO: STUDIES OF GROUPS IN ORGANIZATIONSThe Macropolitics of Organizational Change - Robert E ColeA Comparative Analysis of the Spread of Small-Group ActivitiesTightening the Iron Cage - James R BarkerConcertive Control in Self-Managing Work TeamsStatus Degradation and Organizational Succession - Robert P Gephart JrAn Ethnomethodological ApproachPART THREE: STUDIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY AND CHANGEThe Organizational Saga in Higher Education - Burton R ClarkThe Reluctant Organization and the Aggressive Environment - John Maniha and Charles PerrowFrom Evangelism to General Service - Mayer N Zald and Patricia Denton WallaceThe Transformation of the YMCAThe Creative-Destructive Process of Organizational Change - Nicole Woolsey BiggartThe Case of the Post OfficePART FOUR: STUDIES OF THE SOCIETAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENTOrganizational Effectiveness and the Institutional Environment - Paul M HirschAuthority,Organization and Societal Context in Multinational Churches - Reed E NelsonThe Dynamics of Institutionalization - Petter HolmTransformation Processes in Norwegian Fisheries