Publications

Educators

March 1983 (Revised January 1984)
Case

Merloni Group

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

The general manager of the recently-established French subsidiary of an Italian appliance company is in conflict with headquarters about unexpectedly poor financial performance. Headquarters management believes it should be able to exert more control over the... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Trade; Organizational Structure; Performance Evaluation; Power and Influence; France; Italy

March 1983
Article

Brilliant but Cruel: Perceptions of Negative Evaluators

By: T. M. Amabile

Using edited excerpts from actual negative and positive book reviews, this research examined the hypothesis that negative evaluators of intellectual products will be perceived as more intelligent than positive evaluators. The results strongly supported the hypothesis.... View Details

Keywords: Social Psychology; Situation or Environment; Performance Evaluation; Perception; Status and Position; Attitudes; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence

January 1983
Article

Uncertainty, Social Location and Influence in Decision Making: A Sociometric Analysis

By: Michael Tushman and E. Romanelli

Keywords: Decision Making

1982
Chapter

Power and Enterprise in Action: Corporate Middle Managers as Entrepreneurs

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Power and Influence; Business or Company Management

Article

Bargaining Power of Multinationals and Host Governments

By: L. T. Wells Jr. and N. Fagre

Keywords: Negotiation; Power and Influence; Government and Politics

autumn 1981
Article

Power, Leadership, and Participatory Management

Keywords: Power and Influence; Leadership; Management

March 1981 (Revised October 1998)
Case

Corning Glass Works International (A)

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Michael Y. Yoshino

Follows the impact of a change in global strategy on a diversified company's global organization structure. Traces two failed attempts at bringing a business perspective to a geographic organization, and poses the problem of what the international division president... View Details

Keywords: Disruption; Framework; Global Strategy; Organizational Structure; Perspective; Power and Influence

Educators

Article

Asymptotic Behavior of Nonexpansive Mappings in Normed Linear Spaces

By: Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman

Keywords: Behavior

01 Nov 1980
Conference Presentation

Value Change and the Public Workforce: Labor Force Trends and the Salience of Opportunity and Power

By: R. M. Kanter and B. A. Stein

Keywords: Labor; Power and Influence

01 Aug 1979
Conference Presentation

Organizational Locations as a Link between Structure and Behavior: General Considerations and the Case of Opportunity and Power

Keywords: Organizations; Social Psychology; Behavior; Power and Influence

01 Sep 1978
Conference Presentation

Powerlessness Corrupts: Structural Influences on Organizational Behavior

Keywords: Organizations; Behavior; Power and Influence

1978
Chapter

Power and Position: The Utility of Playing a Simple Game

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Power and Influence; Status and Position; Game Theory; Games, Gaming, and Gambling

01 Apr 1977
Conference Presentation

Access to Opportunity and Power: Measuring Racism/Sexism inside Organizations

Keywords: Power and Influence; Organizational Culture; Demographics

July 1977
Article

Social Roles, Social Control and Biases in Social Perception Processes

By: L. D. Ross, T. M. Amabile and J. Steinmetz

To make accurate social judgments, an individual must both recognize and adequately correct for the self-presentation advantages or disadvantages conferred upon actors by their social roles. Two experiments using 120 undergraduates examined social perceptions formed... View Details

Keywords: Perception; Prejudice and Bias; Social Psychology; Judgments; Power and Influence; Status and Position; Situation or Environment

1968
Chapter

Neo-Freudian Views of Maturity and Bureaucratic Norms

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Social Issues