Heather A Haveman
Biographic Data
| ID | 245255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather A Haveman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather A |
| FAMILY NAME | Haveman |
| SIGNATURE | HAVEMAN H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 395 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Power of Organizations: A New Approach to Organizational Theory
How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has evolved Organizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations, social-movement organizations, religious congregations, scientific bodies, sports teams, and more. Immensely powerful, they shape all social, economic, political, and cultural life, and are critical for the planning and coordination of every activity from manufacturing car…
Power of Organizations: A New Approach to Organizational Theory
The Cultural Perspective
This chapter assesses the cultural perspective on organizations. Although interactions and demographic attributes shape behavior, they miss one critical factor: how we understand and evaluate interactions and attributes, and how these understandings and evaluations affect behavior. Cultural scholars focus on how social actors figure out what is and should be, and how things are and should be done, and how social actors come to agree on shared int…
Hybrid Research: Combining Perspectives
This chapter addresses some examples of how and why scholars have combined perspectives on organizations. To combine the demographic and relational perspectives, scholars increasingly ask how social networks differ between members of ethno-racial groups and between the men and women, and how these differences explain differences in job opportunities and workplace outcomes. To combine the demographic and cultural perspectives, scholars increasingl…
The Impact of Organizations on Society
This chapter outlines an agenda for organizational research that will reconnect it to the mainstream of the social sciences and to critical issues in public policy: a shift toward studying the multifaceted impacts of organizations on society, rather than the impacts of society on organizations. Several such topics have already proven fruitful and could be taken much further. The chapter focuses on three: economic inequality, politics, and environ…
The Power of Organizations: A New Approach to Organizational Theory
Organizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations, social-movement organizations, religious congregations, scientific bodies, sports teams, and more. Immensely powerful, they shape all social, economic, political, and cultural life, and are critical for the planning and coordination of every activity from manufacturing cardboard boxes to synthesizing new drugs and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To understand our…
Professionals and populists: The making of a free market for medicine in the United States, 1787-1860
In the early decades of the 19th century, physicians in the USA enjoyed unquestioned authority in medicine and increasing state recognition. But by mid-century, their monopoly had given way to a raucous free market for medical care. To explain the causes and consequences of this dismantling of a professional monopoly, we draw on political sociology. We argue that to maintain a monopoly, a dominant profession must defend its cultural authority aga…
The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Political Action
526 Review Essays and Institutional Contradictions.’’ In The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Haedicke, Michael A. 2016. Organizing Organic: Conflict and Compromise in an Emerging Market. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Krippner, Greta R. 2007. ‘‘The Making of U.S. Monetary Policy: Central Bank Transparency and the Neoliberal Dilemma.’’ Theory and Soci- ety 36(6):477–513. Lamont, Mich…
Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741–1860
Organizational Populations and Fields
This essay examines two major perspectives on organizations that have been prominent since the 1970s: ecology and institutionalism, both of which emerged as reactions against rationalist approaches to the study of organizations. Both take as their primary units of analysis collections of organizations, rather than individual organizations: “populations” for ecologists (groups of organizations with the same form) and “fields” for institutionalists…
Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860
From the colonial era to the onset of the Civil War, Magazines and the Making of America looks at how magazines and the individuals, organizations, and circumstances they connected ushered America into the modern age. How did a magazine industry emerge in the United States, where there were once only amateur authors, clumsy technologies for production and distribution, and sparse reader demand? What legitimated magazines as they competed with oth…
Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860
c) Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. Heather A. Haveman. Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860. Princeton University Press, 2015. Chap t e r 1 Introduction M edia have tremendous impacts on society. Most basically, books, newspapers, …
Pulpit and Press: Denominational Dynamics and the Growth of Religious Magazines in Antebellum America
Religious economies theory, which views religious organizations as akin to single-unit firms competing for adherents in local markets, has three shortcomings that we solve by reconceptualizing religious organizations and developing a new theory of religious mobilization. First, we treat religious organizations as multi-unit entities operating in interdependent markets in a national field. Second, we incorporate insights from social movement theor…
If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You the Boss? Explaining the Persistent Vertical Gender Gap in Management
Since 1970, women have made substantial inroads into management jobs. But most women are in lower- and middle-management jobs; few are in top-management jobs. Human capital theory uses three individual-level variables to explain this vertical gender gap: women acquire fewer of the necessary educational credentials than men, women prefer different kinds of jobs than men, and women accumulate less of the required work experience than men. The autho…
The Columbia School and the Study of Bureaucracies: Why Organizations Have Lives of their Own
This article focuses on the work of three scholars, Robert K. Merton and his students Alvin W. Gouldner and Peter M. Blau, who were part of Columbia University's sociology department, Merton as professor, Gouldner and Blau as students. Together with Philip Selznick, Seymour Martin Lipset, James Coleman, and Martin Trow, these scholars were the core of the Columbia School of organizational sociology. Along with sociologists and political scientist…
The Winds of Change: The Progressive Movement and the Bureaucratization of Thrift
This article examines how the values espoused by social movements become entrenched in political culture and spawn many new kinds of institutions, which in turn shape organizations far from movements' original targets. We demonstrate the diffuse and indirect effects of social movements, and also show that the diffusion of social-movement values is often selective-some are retained, while others are discarded. Our empirical site is the Progressive…
Hybrid Forms and the Evolution of Thrifts
This article assesses the role of hybrid organizational forms in the coevolution of institutions and organizations. The hybrids the authors study combined elements of one basic plan with another; they developed because blending mechanisms between organizational forms were stronger than segregating mechanisms. The existence of hybrids allowed elements of one theory of thrift, embodied in one organizational form, to be slowly dismantled and element…
Antebellum literary culture and the evolution of American magazines
The Future of Organizational Sociology: Forging Ties among Paradigms
HEATHER A. HAVEMAN Graduate School of Business Columbia University [email protected] cultural turn, skirting the edge of seductive solipsism, by the indifference to historical processes, and by the economy of theory production and research in this areaall those journal articles on narrow topics of corporate efficiency and competitiveness. The most conservative prediction is that because of our embeddedness
And Then There were More? The Effect of Organizational Sex Composition on the Hiring and Promotion of Managers
We study how organizational sex composition influences the intraorganizational mobility of male and female managers. We test hypotheses linking organizational sex composition to hiring and promotion using longitudinal data on all managers in the California savings and loan industry. We find that the impact of sex composition depends on hierarchical level: Not only does it matter what relative proportions of men and women are working in organizati…
Structuring a Theory of Moral Sentiments: Institutional and Organizational Coevolution in the Early Thrift Industry
The authors investigate the coevolution of organizations and institu‐tions—they study how institutional definitions, rules, and expectations unfold in tandem with the organizational structures and processes that embody those institutions. The research site is the early thrift industry. Changes in thrifts' technical environment (the rise of a transient and heterogeneous population) and institutional environment (the rise of Progressivism) propelle…
Structural Contexts of Opportunities. Peter M. Blau
The Ecological Dynamics of Careers: The Impact of Organizational Founding, Dissolution, and Merger on Job Mobility
This article unites social mobility and organizational ecology research and develops an ecological theory of career mobility. The vital events of organizational populations (founding, dissolution, and merger) cause substantial shifts in populations of employing organizations and jobs, thereby greatly altering opportunity structures. Founding creates jobs; dissolution and merger destroy jobs. These processes have strong direct effects on employees…
And Then There were More? The Effect of Organizational Sex Composition on the Hiring and Promotion of Managers
We study how organizational sex composition influences the intraorganizational mobility of male and female managers. We test hypotheses linking organizational sex composition to hiring and promotion using longitudinal data on all managers in the California savings and loan industry. We find that the impact of sex composition depends on hierarchical level: Not only does it matter what relative proportions of men and women are working in organizati…
Structuring a Theory of Moral Sentiments: Institutional and Organizational Coevolution in the Early Thrift Industry
The authors investigate the coevolution of organizations and institu‐tions—they study how institutional definitions, rules, and expectations unfold in tandem with the organizational structures and processes that embody those institutions. The research site is the early thrift industry. Changes in thrifts' technical environment (the rise of a transient and heterogeneous population) and institutional environment (the rise of Progressivism) propelle…
The Winds of Change: The Progressive Movement and the Bureaucratization of Thrift
This article examines how the values espoused by social movements become entrenched in political culture and spawn many new kinds of institutions, which in turn shape organizations far from movements' original targets. We demonstrate the diffuse and indirect effects of social movements, and also show that the diffusion of social-movement values is often selective-some are retained, while others are discarded. Our empirical site is the Progressive…
The Ecological Dynamics of Careers: The Impact of Organizational Founding, Dissolution, and Merger on Job Mobility
This article unites social mobility and organizational ecology research and develops an ecological theory of career mobility. The vital events of organizational populations (founding, dissolution, and merger) cause substantial shifts in populations of employing organizations and jobs, thereby greatly altering opportunity structures. Founding creates jobs; dissolution and merger destroy jobs. These processes have strong direct effects on employees…
Hybrid Forms and the Evolution of Thrifts
This article assesses the role of hybrid organizational forms in the coevolution of institutions and organizations. The hybrids the authors study combined elements of one basic plan with another; they developed because blending mechanisms between organizational forms were stronger than segregating mechanisms. The existence of hybrids allowed elements of one theory of thrift, embodied in one organizational form, to be slowly dismantled and element…
The Future of Organizational Sociology: Forging Ties among Paradigms
HEATHER A. HAVEMAN Graduate School of Business Columbia University [email protected] cultural turn, skirting the edge of seductive solipsism, by the indifference to historical processes, and by the economy of theory production and research in this areaall those journal articles on narrow topics of corporate efficiency and competitiveness. The most conservative prediction is that because of our embeddedness
If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You the Boss? Explaining the Persistent Vertical Gender Gap in Management
Since 1970, women have made substantial inroads into management jobs. But most women are in lower- and middle-management jobs; few are in top-management jobs. Human capital theory uses three individual-level variables to explain this vertical gender gap: women acquire fewer of the necessary educational credentials than men, women prefer different kinds of jobs than men, and women accumulate less of the required work experience than men. The autho…
Pulpit and Press: Denominational Dynamics and the Growth of Religious Magazines in Antebellum America
Religious economies theory, which views religious organizations as akin to single-unit firms competing for adherents in local markets, has three shortcomings that we solve by reconceptualizing religious organizations and developing a new theory of religious mobilization. First, we treat religious organizations as multi-unit entities operating in interdependent markets in a national field. Second, we incorporate insights from social movement theor…
Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860
c) Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. Heather A. Haveman. Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860. Princeton University Press, 2015. Chap t e r 1 Introduction M edia have tremendous impacts on society. Most basically, books, newspapers, …
Antebellum literary culture and the evolution of American magazines
Professionals and populists: The making of a free market for medicine in the United States, 1787-1860
In the early decades of the 19th century, physicians in the USA enjoyed unquestioned authority in medicine and increasing state recognition. But by mid-century, their monopoly had given way to a raucous free market for medical care. To explain the causes and consequences of this dismantling of a professional monopoly, we draw on political sociology. We argue that to maintain a monopoly, a dominant profession must defend its cultural authority aga…
The Ecological Dynamics of Careers: The Impact of Organizational Founding, Dissolution, and Merger on Job Mobility
This article unites social mobility and organizational ecology research and develops an ecological theory of career mobility. The vital events of organizational populations (founding, dissolution, and merger) cause substantial shifts in populations of employing organizations and jobs, thereby greatly altering opportunity structures. Founding creates jobs; dissolution and merger destroy jobs. These processes have strong direct effects on employees…
Structural Contexts of Opportunities. Peter M. Blau
Structuring a Theory of Moral Sentiments: Institutional and Organizational Coevolution in the Early Thrift Industry
The authors investigate the coevolution of organizations and institu‐tions—they study how institutional definitions, rules, and expectations unfold in tandem with the organizational structures and processes that embody those institutions. The research site is the early thrift industry. Changes in thrifts' technical environment (the rise of a transient and heterogeneous population) and institutional environment (the rise of Progressivism) propelle…
And Then There were More? The Effect of Organizational Sex Composition on the Hiring and Promotion of Managers
We study how organizational sex composition influences the intraorganizational mobility of male and female managers. We test hypotheses linking organizational sex composition to hiring and promotion using longitudinal data on all managers in the California savings and loan industry. We find that the impact of sex composition depends on hierarchical level: Not only does it matter what relative proportions of men and women are working in organizati…
The Future of Organizational Sociology: Forging Ties among Paradigms
HEATHER A. HAVEMAN Graduate School of Business Columbia University [email protected] cultural turn, skirting the edge of seductive solipsism, by the indifference to historical processes, and by the economy of theory production and research in this areaall those journal articles on narrow topics of corporate efficiency and competitiveness. The most conservative prediction is that because of our embeddedness
Antebellum literary culture and the evolution of American magazines
Hybrid Forms and the Evolution of Thrifts
This article assesses the role of hybrid organizational forms in the coevolution of institutions and organizations. The hybrids the authors study combined elements of one basic plan with another; they developed because blending mechanisms between organizational forms were stronger than segregating mechanisms. The existence of hybrids allowed elements of one theory of thrift, embodied in one organizational form, to be slowly dismantled and element…
The Winds of Change: The Progressive Movement and the Bureaucratization of Thrift
This article examines how the values espoused by social movements become entrenched in political culture and spawn many new kinds of institutions, which in turn shape organizations far from movements' original targets. We demonstrate the diffuse and indirect effects of social movements, and also show that the diffusion of social-movement values is often selective-some are retained, while others are discarded. Our empirical site is the Progressive…
The Columbia School and the Study of Bureaucracies: Why Organizations Have Lives of their Own
This article focuses on the work of three scholars, Robert K. Merton and his students Alvin W. Gouldner and Peter M. Blau, who were part of Columbia University's sociology department, Merton as professor, Gouldner and Blau as students. Together with Philip Selznick, Seymour Martin Lipset, James Coleman, and Martin Trow, these scholars were the core of the Columbia School of organizational sociology. Along with sociologists and political scientist…
If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You the Boss? Explaining the Persistent Vertical Gender Gap in Management
Since 1970, women have made substantial inroads into management jobs. But most women are in lower- and middle-management jobs; few are in top-management jobs. Human capital theory uses three individual-level variables to explain this vertical gender gap: women acquire fewer of the necessary educational credentials than men, women prefer different kinds of jobs than men, and women accumulate less of the required work experience than men. The autho…
Pulpit and Press: Denominational Dynamics and the Growth of Religious Magazines in Antebellum America
Religious economies theory, which views religious organizations as akin to single-unit firms competing for adherents in local markets, has three shortcomings that we solve by reconceptualizing religious organizations and developing a new theory of religious mobilization. First, we treat religious organizations as multi-unit entities operating in interdependent markets in a national field. Second, we incorporate insights from social movement theor…
Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741–1860
Organizational Populations and Fields
This essay examines two major perspectives on organizations that have been prominent since the 1970s: ecology and institutionalism, both of which emerged as reactions against rationalist approaches to the study of organizations. Both take as their primary units of analysis collections of organizations, rather than individual organizations: “populations” for ecologists (groups of organizations with the same form) and “fields” for institutionalists…
Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860
From the colonial era to the onset of the Civil War, Magazines and the Making of America looks at how magazines and the individuals, organizations, and circumstances they connected ushered America into the modern age. How did a magazine industry emerge in the United States, where there were once only amateur authors, clumsy technologies for production and distribution, and sparse reader demand? What legitimated magazines as they competed with oth…
Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860
c) Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. Heather A. Haveman. Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860. Princeton University Press, 2015. Chap t e r 1 Introduction M edia have tremendous impacts on society. Most basically, books, newspapers, …
The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Political Action
526 Review Essays and Institutional Contradictions.’’ In The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Haedicke, Michael A. 2016. Organizing Organic: Conflict and Compromise in an Emerging Market. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Krippner, Greta R. 2007. ‘‘The Making of U.S. Monetary Policy: Central Bank Transparency and the Neoliberal Dilemma.’’ Theory and Soci- ety 36(6):477–513. Lamont, Mich…
Professionals and populists: The making of a free market for medicine in the United States, 1787-1860
In the early decades of the 19th century, physicians in the USA enjoyed unquestioned authority in medicine and increasing state recognition. But by mid-century, their monopoly had given way to a raucous free market for medical care. To explain the causes and consequences of this dismantling of a professional monopoly, we draw on political sociology. We argue that to maintain a monopoly, a dominant profession must defend its cultural authority aga…
The Power of Organizations: A New Approach to Organizational Theory
How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has evolved Organizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations, social-movement organizations, religious congregations, scientific bodies, sports teams, and more. Immensely powerful, they shape all social, economic, political, and cultural life, and are critical for the planning and coordination of every activity from manufacturing car…
Power of Organizations: A New Approach to Organizational Theory
The Cultural Perspective
This chapter assesses the cultural perspective on organizations. Although interactions and demographic attributes shape behavior, they miss one critical factor: how we understand and evaluate interactions and attributes, and how these understandings and evaluations affect behavior. Cultural scholars focus on how social actors figure out what is and should be, and how things are and should be done, and how social actors come to agree on shared int…
Hybrid Research: Combining Perspectives
This chapter addresses some examples of how and why scholars have combined perspectives on organizations. To combine the demographic and relational perspectives, scholars increasingly ask how social networks differ between members of ethno-racial groups and between the men and women, and how these differences explain differences in job opportunities and workplace outcomes. To combine the demographic and cultural perspectives, scholars increasingl…
The Impact of Organizations on Society
This chapter outlines an agenda for organizational research that will reconnect it to the mainstream of the social sciences and to critical issues in public policy: a shift toward studying the multifaceted impacts of organizations on society, rather than the impacts of society on organizations. Several such topics have already proven fruitful and could be taken much further. The chapter focuses on three: economic inequality, politics, and environ…
The Power of Organizations: A New Approach to Organizational Theory
Organizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations, social-movement organizations, religious congregations, scientific bodies, sports teams, and more. Immensely powerful, they shape all social, economic, political, and cultural life, and are critical for the planning and coordination of every activity from manufacturing cardboard boxes to synthesizing new drugs and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To understand our…
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