Additional References for Session 6: Sociological Perspectives on the Employment Relationship
Maurice, Marc, François Sellier, and Jean-Jacques Silvestre. The Social Foundations of Industrial Power: A Comparison of France and Germany. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780262132138.
Institutional Theory
Meyer, John, and Brian Rowan. “Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony.” American Journal of Sociology 83 (1977): 340-363.
DiMaggio, Paul, and Walter Powell. “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields.” American Sociological Review 48 (1983): 147-160.
Scott, W. Richard. Institutions and Organizations. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000. ISBN: 9780761920014.
Baron, James, Frank Dobbin, and P. Devereaux Jennings. “War and Peace: The Evolution of Modern Personnel Administration in U.S. Industry.” American Journal of Sociology 92 (1986): 350-383.
Dobbin, Frank, John Sutton, John Meyer, and W. Richard Scott. “Equal Opportunity Law and the Construction of Internal Labor Markets.” In Institutional Environments and Organizations: Structural Complexity and Individualism. Edited by W. Richard Scott, John Meyer, and Associates. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994. ISBN: 9780803956674.
Edelman, Lauren. “Legal Environments and Organizational Governance: The Expansion of Due Process in the American Workplace.” American Journal of Sociology 95 (1990): 1401-40.
Ecology
Hannan, Michael. “Social Change, Organizational Diversity, and Individual Careers.” In Social Change and the Life Course. Vol. 1. Edited by Mathilda White Riley. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1988. ISBN: 9780803934337.
Haveman, Heather, and Lisa Cohen. “The Ecological Dynamics of Careers: The Impact of Organizational Founding, Dissolution, and Merger on Job Mobility.” American Journal of Sociology 100 (1994): 104-152.
Phillips, Damon. “The Promotion Paradox: Organizational Mortality and Employee Promotion Chances in Silicon Valley Law Firms, 1946-1996.” American Journal of Sociology 106 (2001): 1058-1098.
Networks
Granovetter, Mark. Getting a Job. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780226305813.
Stratification and Inequality
Baron, James, and William Bielby. “Bringing the Firms Back In: Stratification, Segmentation, and the Organization of Work.” American Sociological Review 45 (1980): 737-765.
Race and Gender
Reskin, Barbara. “Getting It Right: Sex and Race Inequality in Work Organizations.” Annual Review of Sociology 26 (2000): 707-709.
Sex Segregation
Baron, James, and Andrew Newman. “For What It’s Worth: Organizations, Occupations, and the Value of Work Done by Women and Nonwhites.” American Sociological Review 55 (1990): 155-195
Bielby, Willian, and James Baron. “Men and Women at Work: Sex Segregation and Statistical Discrimination.” American Journal of Sociology 91 (1986): 759-99.
Strang, David, and James Baron. “Categorical Imperatives: The Structure of Job Titles in California State Agencies.” American Sociological Review 55 (1990): 479-495.
Work, Occupations, and Professions
Jencks, Christopher, et al. “What Is a Good Job?” The American Journal of Sociology 93 (May 1988): 322-1357.
Chicago School of Sociology
Barley, Stephen. “Careers, Identities, and Institutions: The Legacy of the Chicago School of Sociology.” In Handbook of Career Theory. Edited by Michael Arthur, Douglas Hall, and Barbara Lawrence. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780521389440.
Barley, Stephen, and Gideon Kunda. “Bringing Work Back In.” Organization Science 12 (January-February 2001): 76-95.
Sutton, Robert. “Maintaining Organizational Norms about Expressed Emotions: The Case of Bill Collectors.” Administrative Science Quarterly 36 (1991): 245-268.
Hochschild, Arlie. The Managed Heart: The Commercialization of Human Feeling. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780520239333.
Barley, Stephen. “Technicians in the Workplace: Ethnographic Evidence for Bringing Work into Organization Studies.” Administrative Science Quarterly 41 (1996): 404-41.
Identity
Van Maanen, John. “Identity Work: Notes on the Personal Identity of Police Officers.” Paper prepared for the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 1998, San Diego, CA.
Ibarra, Herminia. “Provisional Selves: Image, Identity and Social Network in Professional Adaptation.” Administrative Science Quarterly 44 (1999): 764-791.
Professions
Freidson, Eliot. Professional Powers: A Study of the Institutionalization of Formal Knowledge. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780226262253.
Leicht, Kevin, and Mary Fennell. “The Changing Organizational Context of Professional Work.” Annual Review of Sociology 23 (1997): 215-31.
Abbott, Andrew. The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780226000695.
Kunda, Gideon. Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9781592135462.
Additional Readings and References for Session 8: Relating to Strategic Human Resource Management
Delery, John, and D. Harold Doty. “Modes of Theorizing in Strategic Human Resource Management: Tests of Universalistic, Contingency, and Configurational Performance.” Academy of Management Journal 39 (1996): 802-835.
Jackson, Susan, and Randall Schuler. “Understanding Human Resource Management in the Context of Organizations and Their Environments.” Annual Review of Psychology 46 (1995): 237-264.
Lepak, David, and Scott Snell. “The Human Resource Architecture: Toward a Theory of Human Capital Allocation and Development.” Academy of Management Review 24 (1999): 31-48.
Wright, Patrick, and Scott Snell. “Toward a Unifying Framework for Exploring Fit and Flexibility in Strategic Human Resource Management.” Academy of Management Review 23 (1998): 756-772.
Baron, James, M. Diane Burton, and Michael Hannan. “The Road Taken: The Origins and Evolution of Employment Systems in Emerging High-Technology Companies.” Industrial and Corporate Change 5 (1996): 239-276.
———. “Engineering Bureaucracy: The Genesis of Formal Policies, Positions, and Structures in High-Technology Firms.” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 15 (1999): 1-41.
———. “Effects of Human Resource Systems on Manufacturing Performance and Turnover.” Academy of Management Journal 37 (1994): 670-687.
Baron, James, Michael Hannan, and M. Diane Burton. “Building the Iron Cage: Determinants of Managerial Intensity in the Early Years of Organizations.” American Sociological Review 64 (1999): 527-547.
———. “Labor Pains: Change in Organizational Models and Employee Turnover in Young, High-Tech Firms.” American Journal of Sociology 106 (2001): 960-1012.
Batt, Rosemary. “Managing Customer Services: Human Resource Practices, Quit Rates, and Sales Growth.” Academy of Management Journal 45 (2002): 587-597.
Becker, Brian, and Barry Gerhart. “Special Research Forum: Human Resource Management and Organizational Performance.” Academy of Management Journal 39 (1996): 777-985.
Becker, Brian, and Mark Huselid. “High Performance Work Systems and Firm Performance: A Synthesis of Research and Managerial Implications.” Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management 16 (1998): 53-101.
Huselid, Mark. “The Impact of Human Resource Management Practices on Turnover, Productivity, and Corporate Financial Performance.” Academy of Management Journal 38 (1995): 635-672.
Youndt, Mark, Scott Snell, James Dean, Jr., and David Lepak. “Human Resource Management, Manufacturing Strategy, and Firm Performance.” Academy of Management Journal 39 (1996): 836-866.
