Perspective—Neo-Carnegie: The Carnegie School’s Past, Present, and Reconstructing for the Future

Organization Science - Tập 18 Số 3 - Trang 523-536 - 2007
Giovanni Gavetti1, Daniel A. Levinthal2, William Ocasio3
1Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02163
2Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2000 Steinberg–Dietrich Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6370
3Kellogg School, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208

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Cyert and March’s (1963) A Behavioral Theory of the Firm and the broader Carnegie School form critical theoretical underpinnings for modern organization studies. Despite its impact, however, we suggest that researchers who rely on the Carnegie School have progressively lost touch with its defining commitment to a decision-centered view of organizations. Decision making has given way to learning, routines, and an increased focus on change and adaptation; the organizational level of analysis, although frequently invoked, has been largely supplanted by either a more micro or a more macro focus. In this paper, we argue for restoring the School’s original mission and perspective. Our proposal for how this overarching goal can be achieved encompasses three central points. First, we believe the School needs to resurrect a few select ideas that, despite their fundamental importance, have been neglected over time. Second, we believe there is a need for greater paradigmatic closure amongst the School’s central theoretical pillars. Loose coupling among such pillars might keep key insights on organizational decision making from emerging. Finally, there is the need to incorporate major developments that have been generated post-Carnegie School, both within organization theory and in the behavioral and social sciences more broadly. In particular, we point to the shift to more open systems perspectives on organizations, the conceptions of organizations being embedded in larger social contexts, and recent developments in the study of individual cognition.

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Organization Science

Tập 18 Số 3

523-536

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