Organizational control

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Organization scholars have long acknowledged that control processes are integral to the way in which organizations function. While control theory research spans many decades and draws on several rich traditions, theoretical limitations have kept it from generating consistent and interpretable empirical findings and from reaching consensus concerning the nature of key relationships. This book reveals how we can overcome such problems by synthesising diverse, yet complementary, streams of control research into a theoretical framework and empirical tests that more fully describe how types of control mechanisms (e.g., the use of rules, norms, direct supervision or monitoring) aimed at particular control targets (e.g., input, behavior, output) are applied within particular types of control systems (i.e., market, clan, bureaucracy, integrative). Written by a team of distinguished scholars, this book not only sheds light on the long-neglected phenomenon of organizational control, it also provides important directions for future research ''Organization scholars have long acknowledged that control processes are integral to the way in which organizations function. While control theory research spans many decades and draws on several rich traditions, theoretical limitations have kept it from generating consistent and interpretable empirical findings and from reaching consensus concerning the nature of key relationships. This book reveals how we can overcome such problems by synthesising diverse, yet complementary, streams of control research into a theoretical framework and empirical tests that more fully describe how types of control mechanisms (e.g., the use of rules, norms, direct supervision or monitoring) aimed at particular control targets (e.g., input, behavior, output) are applied within particular types of control systems (i.e., market, clan, bureaucracy, integrative). Written by a team of distinguished scholars, this book not only sheds light on the long-neglected phenomenon of organizational control, it also provides important directions for future research''--  Read more... Part I. Introduction and history. Control is fundamental / Sim B. Sitkin, Laura B. Cardinal, and Katinka M. Bijlsma-Frankema ; A historical perspective on organizational control / Roger L.M. Dunbar and Matt Statler -- Part II. Conceptions of organizational control. A configurational theory of control / Laura B. Cardinal, Sim B. Sitkin, and Chris P. Long ; Critical perspectives on organizational control : reflections and prospects / Rick Delbridge -- Part III. Identity, attention, and motivation in organizational control. Identity work and control in occupational communities / John Van Maanen ; Organizational identity and control : can the two go together? / Elizabeth George and Ciuli Qian ; Attention and control / William Ocasio and Franz Wohlgezogen ; The role of motivational orientations in formal and informal control / M. Audrey Korsgaard, Bruce M. Meglino, and Sophia S. Jeong -- Part IV. Relational control. Relational networks, strategic advantage : new challenges for collaborative control / John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Mariann Jelinek ; Toward a theory of relational control : how relationship structure influences the choice of control / Laurie J. Kirsch and Vivek Choudhury ; Peer control in organizations / Misty L. Loughry -- Part V. Managerial and strategic control. Control to cooperation : examining the role of managerial authority in portfolios of managerial actions / Chris P. Long ; Consequences and antecedents of managerial and employee legitimacy interpretations of control : a natural open system approach / Katinka M. Bijlsma-Frankema and Ana Cristina Costa ; Managerial objectives of formal control : high motivation control mechanisms / Antoinette Weibel ; Control configurations and strategic initiatives / Markus Kreutzer and Christoph Lechner