Richard Whitley

Biographic Data

ID3609575
NAMERichard Whitley
GIVEN NAMESRichard
FAMILY NAMEWhitley
SIGNATUREWHITLEY R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Manchester
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS76
TOTAL CITATIONS310
AUTHOR COUNT68
EDITOR COUNT8
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX10

  • The Impact of Changing Funding and Authority Relationships on Scientific Innovations

    Open AccessRichard Whitley, Jochen Gläser et al.ARTICLEMinerva2018Cited by: 23References: 7

  • Changing Asian Business Systems: Globalization, Socio-Political Change, and Economic Organization

    Richard Whitley, Xiaoke ZhangBOOKChanging Asian Business Systems2016

    This book examines the changing patterns of economic organization across Northeast and Southeast Asia against the backdrop of market liberalization, political changes and periodic economic crises since the 1990s. It provides an interdisciplinary account of variations, continuities and changes in the institutional structures that shape business systems and practices and govern innovation patterns, together with analyses of their impact on establis…

  • Transforming Universities: National Conditions of Their Varied Organisational Actorhood

    Open AccessRichard WhitleyARTICLEMinerva2012Cited by: 11References: 2

  • Changing Governance and Authority Relations in the Public Sciences

    Open AccessRichard WhitleyARTICLEMinerva2011Cited by: 13References: 8

  • Reconfiguring Knowledge Production

    Richard Whitley, Jochen Gläser et al.BOOKReconfiguring knowledge production2010

    The governance of the public sciences has profoundly changed since the Second World War, especially with regard to funding structures, the autonomy, and accountability of public research organizations and universities, and the extent to which research is steered towards societal usefulness. Going beyond previous analyses of these changes in science studies, science policy, and higher education studies, this book presents and applies a novel appro…

  • Reconfiguring knowledge production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and Their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation

    Richard WhitleyBOOKReconfiguring knowledge production2010

  • The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis

    Glenn Morgan, John L Campbell et al.BOOKThe Oxford handbook of…2010

    It is increasingly accepted that matter for economic organization and outcomes. The last decade has seen significant expansion in research examining how institutional contexts affect the nature and behavior of firms, the operation of markets, and economic outcomes. Yet institutions conceal a multitude of issues and perspectives. Much of this research has been comparative, and followed different models such as varieties of capitalism, national bus…

  • Varieties of Capitalism” Roundtable

    Open AccessMira Wilkins, Kathleen Thelen et al.ARTICLEThe Business History Review2010Cited by: 18References: 60

    The debate about the idea of “varieties of capitalism,” which was formalized by Peter Hall and David Soskice in their 2001 book on the subject, has attracted the work of business historians, as well as of political scientists, and economists

  • Michele Lamont, How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgement

    Open AccessRichard WhitleyARTICLEMinerva2009References: 1

  • Changing Capitalisms?: Internationalization, Institutional Change, and Systems of Economic Organization

    Glenn Morgan, Richard Whitley et al.BOOKCHANGING CAPITALISMS? INTERNATIONAL…2005

    An increasing number of studies in the last decade or so have emphasized the viability and persistence of distinctive systems of economic coordination and control in developed market economies. Over more or less the same period, the revival of institutional economics and evolutionary approaches to understanding the firm has focused attention on how firms create distinctive capabilities through establishing routines that coordinate complementary a…

  • Changing Capitalisms? Internationalization, Institutional Change, and Systems Of…

    Eli Moen, Glenn Morgan et al.BOOKCHANGING CAPITALISMS? INTERNATIONAL…2005

    "This book focuses on how institutional settings provide a variety of resources and opportunities for firms to develop and evolve new competencies. It shows how national institutional contexts are often heterogeneous and loosely connected, offering a variety of resources that firms can use in order to enhance their competitiveness"--Provided by publisher.

  • Chapter 6 the Social Construction of Organizations and Markets: The Comparative Analysis of Business Recipes

    Richard WhitleyCHAPTERThe New Economic Sociology2004

  • Global managers and Japanese multinationals: Internationalization and management in Japanese financial institutions

    Glenn Morgan, Bill Kelly et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2003

    The paper examines the internationalization of Japanese banks in the 1980s and 1990s and the experiences of managers within them. These banks underwent a vast expansion in international activities in the 1980s, followed by an equally rapid contraction in the 1990s. Building on a series of interviews conducted in London and Tokyo in the period 1999-2001, the paper examines how this impacted on the careers and expectations of both Japanese and non-…

  • From the Search for Universal Correlations to the Institutional Structuring of Economic Organization and Change: The Development and Future of Organization Studies

    Open AccessRichard WhitleyARTICLEOrganization2003

    Organization studies became institutionalized as a distinct research field in North America in the 1960s as leading universities expanded to include the new behavioural and management sciences. In keeping with the prevailing image of science, it adopted an empiricist epistemology and an atomistic ontology that portrayed formal organizations as isolated, reactive hierarchies adapting to market selection mechanisms. The further expansion of higher …

  • Corporate Networks in Europe and the United States

    Richard WhitleyREVIEWContemporary Sociology A Journal…2003

    Corporate networks form part of the institutional structure of markets and the business environment, enabling firms to coordinate their behaviour and regulate competition. Networks perform a number of economic functions: they reduce information asymmetries and uncertainty, and facilitate the redistribution of risk between banks, firms, and investors. Within these networks, firms collectively monitor one another and owners supervise their managers…

  • The Multinational Firm: Organizing across Institutional and National Divides

    Gary Gereffi, Glenn Morgan et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2003

  • Organization Studies: Special Issue on ‘“Connectivity” in Merging Organizations’

    Open AccessMarie-Laure Djelic, Royston Greenwood et al.ARTICLEOrganization Studies2003

  • Dedication

    Richard WhitleyOTHERThe Intellectual and Social…2000

  • The Contexts Of Scientific Fields

    Richard WhitleyCHAPTERThe Intellectual and Social…2000

    JUST as particular combinations of degrees of mutual dependence and task uncertainty are associated with different internal structure of scientific fields, so too they occur in different contexts. Changes in these contexts can similarly be expected to be associated with changes in the way research is organized and controlled and so in the particular type of scientific field most representative of a given subject area. For example, the growth in t…

  • The Modern Sciences As Reputational Work Organizations

    Richard WhitleyCHAPTERThe Intellectual and Social…2000

    The modern sciences have become increasingly important parts of the cultural systems of industrialized societies as producers and validators of knowledge claims about their natural and social environments. They dominate the construction of cognitive orders which serve as means of orientation and attempt to monopolize the production of true knowledge about the world. From being subsidiary to theology and philosophy as systems of understanding, the…

  • Title Pages

    Richard WhitleyOTHERThe Intellectual and Social…2000

  • The Degree Of Task Uncertainty And The Organization Of Scientific Fields

    Richard Whitley, Richard J WhitleyCHAPTERThe Intellectual and Social…2000

    The modem sciences are institutionally committed to the production of novelty and only contributions which are recognized as new can lead to high reputations and other rewards in the public sciences. Research activities are therefore quite uncertain compared to other work activities, in the sense that task outcomes are not repetitious and highly predictable. Each result is unique and different from all others in at least one important respect so …

  • The Degree Of Mutual Dependence Between Scientists And the Organization Of Scientific Fields

    Richard WhitleyCHAPTERThe Intellectual and Social…2000

    IN the previous two chapters I have suggested that scientific fields are a particular kind of work organization which structure and control the production of intellectual novelty through competition for reputations from national and international audience for contributions to collective goals. As such, they deal with relatively high levels of uncertainty, compared to other work organizations, and rely on an extensive formal communication system t…

  • Relationships Between Scientific Fields And changes In The Organization Of The Sciences

    Richard WhitleyCHAPTERThe Intellectual and Social…2000

    So far I have largely focussed on the structure of scientific fields considered as distinct organizational entities in particular environments. In this concluding chapter I shall discuss relations of dependence between fields and how the:::e form a distinct level of organization, that of science in general, as a particular system of generating and co-ordinating intellectual innovations about a broad range of topics. As mentioned in the last chapt…

  • Introduction: Science Transformed? The Changing Nature of Knowledge Production at the End of the Twentieth Century

    Richard WhitleyOTHERThe Intellectual and Social…2000

    Subject Philosophy of Science Epistemology Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online