The director of a research coalition and the founder/coordinator of an NGO consortium meet to dis... more The director of a research coalition and the founder/coordinator of an NGO consortium meet to discuss the possibility of jointly drafting a proposal for an integrated research and development project in the Congo River basin. Approved projects will receive an annual operating budget of $2 million. Together they must develop a joint plan for how the money should be spent.Learning Objective:Provides a platform to discuss a multi-issue negotiation in which cooperation is vital but the two parties have different perspectives and interests. To learn how to create value through bundling and tradeoffs. To gain a better understanding of Pareto optimality. To explore the effects of complex social contexts on negotiation processes.
The director of a research coalition and the founder/coordinator of an NGO consortium meet to dis... more The director of a research coalition and the founder/coordinator of an NGO consortium meet to discuss the possibility of jointly drafting a proposal for an integrated research and development project in the Congo River basin. Approved projects will receive an annual operating budget of $2 million. Together they must develop a joint plan for how the money should be spent.Learning Objective:Provides a platform to discuss a multi-issue negotiation in which cooperation is vital but the two parties have different perspectives and interests. To learn how to create value through bundling and tradeoffs. To gain a better understanding of Pareto optimality. To explore the effects of complex social contexts on negotiation processes.
ABSTRACT We study the process by which a professional service firm reshaped its activities and be... more ABSTRACT We study the process by which a professional service firm reshaped its activities and beliefs over nearly two decades as it adapted to shifts in the social discourse regarding gender and work. Analyzing archival data from the firm over eighteen years and representations of gender and work from the business press over the corresponding two decades, we find that the firm internalized the broader social discourse through iterated cycles of analysis and action, punctuated by evolving beliefs about gender and work. Outside experts and shifting social understandings played pivotal roles in changing beliefs and activities inside the firm. We conclude with an internalization model depicting organizational adaptation to evolving social institutions.
... Atfvances In Social Network Analysis Stanley Wtsserman snd Joteph Gala ski ewicz 172. ... Pag... more ... Atfvances In Social Network Analysis Stanley Wtsserman snd Joteph Gala ski ewicz 172. ... Page 5. HIDDEN CONFLICT IN ORGANIZATIONS Uncovering Behind-the-scenes Disputes Deborah M. Kolb Jean M. Bartunek editors SAGE Publications International Educational and ...
Public policies are raw resources. They can be put to practical use in ways that offend those who... more Public policies are raw resources. They can be put to practical use in ways that offend those who initially created them. Policy research sometimes takes the perspective of the offended without giving due regard to the perspective of the offenders. The conceptual and practical limitations of such an approach are illustrated in this article. The contextual example concerns policy research on the so-called chilling and addiction problems of collective bargaining in the public sector. The general point is simply that what is misuse to some (in the example, overuse) is quite proper to others. Policy researchers, in their eagerness to produce "relevant" studies on policies believed to have gone astray, frequently dismiss or ignore the situationally specific uses to which public policies are put. A social action perspective toward policy science is suggested in this article as a partial counterbalance to such research oversights.
The director of a research coalition and the founder/coordinator of an NGO consortium meet to dis... more The director of a research coalition and the founder/coordinator of an NGO consortium meet to discuss the possibility of jointly drafting a proposal for an integrated research and development project in the Congo River basin. Approved projects will receive an annual operating budget of $2 million. Together they must develop a joint plan for how the money should be spent.Learning Objective:Provides a platform to discuss a multi-issue negotiation in which cooperation is vital but the two parties have different perspectives and interests. To learn how to create value through bundling and tradeoffs. To gain a better understanding of Pareto optimality. To explore the effects of complex social contexts on negotiation processes.
The director of a research coalition and the founder/coordinator of an NGO consortium meet to dis... more The director of a research coalition and the founder/coordinator of an NGO consortium meet to discuss the possibility of jointly drafting a proposal for an integrated research and development project in the Congo River basin. Approved projects will receive an annual operating budget of $2 million. Together they must develop a joint plan for how the money should be spent.Learning Objective:Provides a platform to discuss a multi-issue negotiation in which cooperation is vital but the two parties have different perspectives and interests. To learn how to create value through bundling and tradeoffs. To gain a better understanding of Pareto optimality. To explore the effects of complex social contexts on negotiation processes.
ABSTRACT We study the process by which a professional service firm reshaped its activities and be... more ABSTRACT We study the process by which a professional service firm reshaped its activities and beliefs over nearly two decades as it adapted to shifts in the social discourse regarding gender and work. Analyzing archival data from the firm over eighteen years and representations of gender and work from the business press over the corresponding two decades, we find that the firm internalized the broader social discourse through iterated cycles of analysis and action, punctuated by evolving beliefs about gender and work. Outside experts and shifting social understandings played pivotal roles in changing beliefs and activities inside the firm. We conclude with an internalization model depicting organizational adaptation to evolving social institutions.
... Atfvances In Social Network Analysis Stanley Wtsserman snd Joteph Gala ski ewicz 172. ... Pag... more ... Atfvances In Social Network Analysis Stanley Wtsserman snd Joteph Gala ski ewicz 172. ... Page 5. HIDDEN CONFLICT IN ORGANIZATIONS Uncovering Behind-the-scenes Disputes Deborah M. Kolb Jean M. Bartunek editors SAGE Publications International Educational and ...
Public policies are raw resources. They can be put to practical use in ways that offend those who... more Public policies are raw resources. They can be put to practical use in ways that offend those who initially created them. Policy research sometimes takes the perspective of the offended without giving due regard to the perspective of the offenders. The conceptual and practical limitations of such an approach are illustrated in this article. The contextual example concerns policy research on the so-called chilling and addiction problems of collective bargaining in the public sector. The general point is simply that what is misuse to some (in the example, overuse) is quite proper to others. Policy researchers, in their eagerness to produce "relevant" studies on policies believed to have gone astray, frequently dismiss or ignore the situationally specific uses to which public policies are put. A social action perspective toward policy science is suggested in this article as a partial counterbalance to such research oversights.
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