Disruptive Texts: Case Narratives As Research Inspirations

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Academy of Management ReviewVol. 42, No. 1 What Inspires the Academy: Book Reviews and Beyond?Disruptive Texts: Case Narratives As Research InspirationsDanny MillerDanny MillerHEC Montreal and University of AlbertaPublished Online:7 Jan 2016https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2015.0418AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsDownload CitationsAdd to favoritesTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail View articleREFERENCESAnderson R., Reeb D. 2003. Founding-family ownership and firm performance: Evidence from the S&P 500. Journal of Finance, 58: 1301–1328. Google ScholarAnderson T., Warkov S. 1961. Organizational size and functional complexity. American Sociological Review, 26: 23–28. Google ScholarBarney J. 1991. Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage. Journal of Management, 17: 99–120. Google ScholarChandler A. D. 1990. Scale and scope: The dynamics of industrial capitalism. Boston: Harvard University Press. Google ScholarChild J. 1973. Parkinson’s progress: Accounting for the number of specialists in organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly, 18: 328–329. Google ScholarGalbraith J. R. 1973. Designing complex organizations. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. Google ScholarHofstadter D. R. 1979. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid. New York: Random House. Google ScholarKhandwalla P. 1973. Viable and effective organizational designs of firms. Academy of Management Journal, 16: 481–495.Link , Google ScholarLe Breton-Miller I., Miller D. 2015. The paradox of resource vulnerability: Considerations for organizational curatorship. Strategic Management Journal, 36: 397–415. Google ScholarLevine J. 1999. The rise and fall of the House of Barneys: A family tale of chutzpah, glory, and greed. New York: Morrow. Google ScholarMcNichols T. J. 1967. Policy making and executive action (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. Google ScholarMerton R. K. 1968. Social theory and social structure. New York: Simon & Schuster. Google ScholarMiller D. 1981. Toward a new contingency approach: The search for organizational gestalts. Journal of Management Studies, 18: 1–27. Google ScholarMiller D. 2003. An asymmetry-based view of advantage. Strategic Management Journal, 24: 961–976. Google ScholarMiller D. 2007. Paradigm prison. Strategic Organization, 5: 177–184. Google ScholarMiller D., Eisenstat R., Foote N. 2002. Strategy from the inside out: Building capability-creating organizations. California Management Review, 44(1): 37–54. Google ScholarMiller D., Friesen P. 1984. Organizations: A quantum view. Englewood Hills, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Google ScholarMiller D., Le Breton-Miller I. 2005. Managing for the long run: Lessons in competitive advantage from great family businesses. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing. Google ScholarMintzberg H. 1973. Strategy making in three modes. California Management Review, 16(2): 44–53. Google ScholarMintzberg H. 1979. The structuring of organizations: A synthesis of the research. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Google ScholarPhillips N., Hardy C. 2002. Discourse analysis: Investigating processes of social construction. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. Google ScholarPugh D. S., Hickson D. J., Hinings C. R. 1969. An empirical taxonomy of structures of work organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly, 14: 115–126. Google ScholarPugh D. S., Hickson D. J., Hinings C. R., Turner C. 1968. Dimensions of organization structure. Administrative Science Quarterly, 13: 65–105. Google ScholarRushing W. 1967–68. The effects of industry, size and division of labor on administration. Administrative Science Quarterly, 12: 273–295. Google ScholarRushing W. 1976. Two patterns of industrial administration. Human Organization, 10: 32–39. Google ScholarShapiro D. 1965. Neurotic styles. New York: Basic Books. Google ScholarStarbuck W. H. 1981. A trip to view the elephants and rattlesnakes in the garden of Aston. In A. Van de Ven & W. Joyce (Eds.), Perspectives on organization design and behavior: 167–198. New York: Oxford. Google ScholarTeece D. J., Pisano G., Shuen A. 1997. Dynamic capabilities and strategic management. Strategic Management Journal, 18: 509–533. Google ScholarTerrien F., Mills D. 1955. The effect of size on the changing structure of organizations. American Sociological Review, 20: 11–13. Google ScholarThompson J. D. 1967. Organizations in action. New York: McGraw-Hill. Google ScholarFiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited byOrganizing Refugee Camps: “Respected Space” and “Listening Posts”Marlen de la Chaux, Helen Haugh and Royston Greenwood25 June 2018 | Academy of Management Discoveries, Vol. 4, No. 2 Vol. 42, No. 1 Permissions Metrics in the past 12 months History Published online 7 January 2016 Published in print 1 January 2017 Information© Academy of Management ReviewI would like to thank my wife, Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, for suggesting the thesis of this essay, and Jean Bartunek, for her encouragement and inspired comments.Download PDF