Pamela S Tolbert
Biographic Data
| ID | 263369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pamela S Tolbert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pamela S |
| FAMILY NAME | Tolbert |
| SIGNATURE | TOLBERT P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9661-6528 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Claudia Goldin. Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity
Organizational identities of U.S. art museums and audience reactions
The Impact of Family Economic Structure on Dual-Earners’ Career and Family Satisfaction
Organizations: Structures, Processes and Outcomes
Based upon classical and contemporary theory and empirical research, this text forms a sociological analysis of organizations, focusing on the impacts that organizations have upon individuals and society.
Professions, Organizations, and Institutions: Tenure Systems in Colleges and Universities
A common strategy used by professions to support claims of workplace jurisdiction involves the institutionalization of professionally endorsed formal structures, yet both theory and research suggest that ensuring the implementation of such structures after formal adoption can be problematic. This study investigates the influence of organizational characteristics on the implementation of one professionally created institution in higher education o…
On Organizations and Oligarchies: Michels in the Twenty-First Century
This article argues that Michels's core arguments about the nature of oligarchies in organizations, and research generated in response to his work, are not only relevant to understanding the dynamics of political organizations but can be extended as a useful framework for thinking about important aspects of contemporary economic corporations as well. In making this argument, the article highlights the parallels between Berle and Means's analysis …
From Pabst to Pepsi: The Deinstitutionalization of Social Practices and the Creation of Entrepreneurial Opportunities
In this paper, we examine the dual role that social movement organizations can play in altering organizational landscapes by undermining existing organizations and creating opportunities for the growth of new types of organizations. Empirically, we investigate the impact of a variety of tactics employed by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), the leading organizational representative of the American temperance movement, on two sets of o…
The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization
The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization aims to bring together, present, and discuss what is currently known about work and organizations and their connection to broader economic change in Europe and America. Issues of conceptualization are not neglected but, in contrast to other comparable volumes, the emphasis is firmly on what is known what and has been observed by researchers. The volume contains a range of theoretically informed article…
Men's and Women's Definitions of 'Good' Jobs: Similarities and Differences by Age and Across Time
Whether and to what extent men and women hold differing preferences for particular job attributes remains the subject of debate, with a sizable number of empirical studies producing conflicting results. These conflicts may have temporal sources-historical changes in men's and women's preferences for particular job attributes, as well as changes in preferences that commonly occur over individuals' life cycle. Most previous research has neglected t…
Institutionalization and Structuration: Studying the Links between Action and Institution
Institutional theory and structuration theory both contend that institutions and actions are inextricably linked and that institutionalization is best understood as a dynamic, ongoing process. Institutionalists, however, have pursued an empirical agenda that has largely ignored how institutions are created, altered, and reproduced, in part, because their models of institutionalization as a pro cess are underdeveloped. Structuration theory, on the…
The Effects of Gender Composition in Academic Departments on Faculty Turnover
Using data collected from a sample of 50 academic departments over the years 1977-88, the authors test several hypotheses about the effects of departmental gender composition on faculty turnover. They find that as the proportion of women in a department grew, turnover among women also increased, confirming the prediction that increases in the relative size of a minority will result in increased intergroup competition and conflict. The evidence al…
Research in the Sociology of Organization
Research in the Sociology of Organizations: A Research Annual, Volume 8
Sources of Organizational Demography: Faculty Sex Ratios in Colleges and Universities
Three theoretical explanations of variations in the demographic composition of organizations are used to derive empirically testable hypotheses on the determinants of the proportion of female faculty members in colleges and universities. The first, drawn from economic theory, emphasizes the role of employers' associational preferences. The second emphasizes the influence of constituents, individuals served by and providing support to the organiza…
Partners with Power: The Social Transformation of the Large Firm. Robert L. Nelson
Under Construction: Work and Alienation in the Building Trades
Organizations and Inequality: Sources of Earnings Differences Between Male and Female Faculty
This paper examines the relationship between organizational characteristics and earnings differences between male and female faculty from two theoretical perspectives. Two general sets of organization variables are considered: (1) characteristics that index an organization's power and autonomy in environmental relations, and (2) demographic characteristics. Results show that these characteristics define important aspects of the organizational con…
Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy
The Shopfloor Politics of New Technology
Organizations: Structure and Process
Organizations: Structures, Processes and Outcomes
Based upon classical and contemporary theory and empirical research, this text forms a sociological analysis of organizations, focusing on the impacts that organizations have upon individuals and society.
Men's and Women's Definitions of 'Good' Jobs: Similarities and Differences by Age and Across Time
Whether and to what extent men and women hold differing preferences for particular job attributes remains the subject of debate, with a sizable number of empirical studies producing conflicting results. These conflicts may have temporal sources-historical changes in men's and women's preferences for particular job attributes, as well as changes in preferences that commonly occur over individuals' life cycle. Most previous research has neglected t…
Organizations and Inequality: Sources of Earnings Differences Between Male and Female Faculty
This paper examines the relationship between organizational characteristics and earnings differences between male and female faculty from two theoretical perspectives. Two general sets of organization variables are considered: (1) characteristics that index an organization's power and autonomy in environmental relations, and (2) demographic characteristics. Results show that these characteristics define important aspects of the organizational con…
The Effects of Gender Composition in Academic Departments on Faculty Turnover
Using data collected from a sample of 50 academic departments over the years 1977-88, the authors test several hypotheses about the effects of departmental gender composition on faculty turnover. They find that as the proportion of women in a department grew, turnover among women also increased, confirming the prediction that increases in the relative size of a minority will result in increased intergroup competition and conflict. The evidence al…
Sources of Organizational Demography: Faculty Sex Ratios in Colleges and Universities
Three theoretical explanations of variations in the demographic composition of organizations are used to derive empirically testable hypotheses on the determinants of the proportion of female faculty members in colleges and universities. The first, drawn from economic theory, emphasizes the role of employers' associational preferences. The second emphasizes the influence of constituents, individuals served by and providing support to the organiza…
Professions, Organizations, and Institutions: Tenure Systems in Colleges and Universities
A common strategy used by professions to support claims of workplace jurisdiction involves the institutionalization of professionally endorsed formal structures, yet both theory and research suggest that ensuring the implementation of such structures after formal adoption can be problematic. This study investigates the influence of organizational characteristics on the implementation of one professionally created institution in higher education o…
Organizational identities of U.S. art museums and audience reactions
The Impact of Family Economic Structure on Dual-Earners’ Career and Family Satisfaction
Organizations: Structure and Process
The Shopfloor Politics of New Technology
Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy
Organizations and Inequality: Sources of Earnings Differences Between Male and Female Faculty
This paper examines the relationship between organizational characteristics and earnings differences between male and female faculty from two theoretical perspectives. Two general sets of organization variables are considered: (1) characteristics that index an organization's power and autonomy in environmental relations, and (2) demographic characteristics. Results show that these characteristics define important aspects of the organizational con…
Under Construction: Work and Alienation in the Building Trades
Partners with Power: The Social Transformation of the Large Firm. Robert L. Nelson
Sources of Organizational Demography: Faculty Sex Ratios in Colleges and Universities
Three theoretical explanations of variations in the demographic composition of organizations are used to derive empirically testable hypotheses on the determinants of the proportion of female faculty members in colleges and universities. The first, drawn from economic theory, emphasizes the role of employers' associational preferences. The second emphasizes the influence of constituents, individuals served by and providing support to the organiza…
Research in the Sociology of Organizations: A Research Annual, Volume 8
Research in the Sociology of Organization
The Effects of Gender Composition in Academic Departments on Faculty Turnover
Using data collected from a sample of 50 academic departments over the years 1977-88, the authors test several hypotheses about the effects of departmental gender composition on faculty turnover. They find that as the proportion of women in a department grew, turnover among women also increased, confirming the prediction that increases in the relative size of a minority will result in increased intergroup competition and conflict. The evidence al…
Institutionalization and Structuration: Studying the Links between Action and Institution
Institutional theory and structuration theory both contend that institutions and actions are inextricably linked and that institutionalization is best understood as a dynamic, ongoing process. Institutionalists, however, have pursued an empirical agenda that has largely ignored how institutions are created, altered, and reproduced, in part, because their models of institutionalization as a pro cess are underdeveloped. Structuration theory, on the…
Men's and Women's Definitions of 'Good' Jobs: Similarities and Differences by Age and Across Time
Whether and to what extent men and women hold differing preferences for particular job attributes remains the subject of debate, with a sizable number of empirical studies producing conflicting results. These conflicts may have temporal sources-historical changes in men's and women's preferences for particular job attributes, as well as changes in preferences that commonly occur over individuals' life cycle. Most previous research has neglected t…
The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization
The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization aims to bring together, present, and discuss what is currently known about work and organizations and their connection to broader economic change in Europe and America. Issues of conceptualization are not neglected but, in contrast to other comparable volumes, the emphasis is firmly on what is known what and has been observed by researchers. The volume contains a range of theoretically informed article…
On Organizations and Oligarchies: Michels in the Twenty-First Century
This article argues that Michels's core arguments about the nature of oligarchies in organizations, and research generated in response to his work, are not only relevant to understanding the dynamics of political organizations but can be extended as a useful framework for thinking about important aspects of contemporary economic corporations as well. In making this argument, the article highlights the parallels between Berle and Means's analysis …
From Pabst to Pepsi: The Deinstitutionalization of Social Practices and the Creation of Entrepreneurial Opportunities
In this paper, we examine the dual role that social movement organizations can play in altering organizational landscapes by undermining existing organizations and creating opportunities for the growth of new types of organizations. Empirically, we investigate the impact of a variety of tactics employed by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), the leading organizational representative of the American temperance movement, on two sets of o…
Professions, Organizations, and Institutions: Tenure Systems in Colleges and Universities
A common strategy used by professions to support claims of workplace jurisdiction involves the institutionalization of professionally endorsed formal structures, yet both theory and research suggest that ensuring the implementation of such structures after formal adoption can be problematic. This study investigates the influence of organizational characteristics on the implementation of one professionally created institution in higher education o…
Organizations: Structures, Processes and Outcomes
Based upon classical and contemporary theory and empirical research, this text forms a sociological analysis of organizations, focusing on the impacts that organizations have upon individuals and society.
The Impact of Family Economic Structure on Dual-Earners’ Career and Family Satisfaction
Organizational identities of U.S. art museums and audience reactions
Claudia Goldin. Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Public relations (5 works)