James R Lincoln
Biographic Data
| ID | 3610410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James R Lincoln |
| GIVEN NAMES | James R |
| FAMILY NAME | Lincoln |
| SIGNATURE | LINCOLN J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-7192-1743 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 349 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Network Theory and Analysis
This article reviews developments in network analysis and its applications to problems of organization. From an arcane social science tradition focused chiefly on methods, it has evolved into a major paradigm for thinking about and researching relationships and social structure within and among organizations. Network ideas and methods have been embraced by organizational theorists in part because the world of organizations has itself changed: fro…
Interlocking Boards
Interlocking boards refer to ties formed among organizations when the same individuals serve as directors on multiple boards.
Organizational Status
Organizational status is the standing or position of an organization in a stratification system, based on social honor or esteem.
The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups
PART I: OVERVIEW 4. BUSINESS GROUPS IN PREWAR JAPAN: HISTORICAL FORMATION AND LEGACY GROUP 1: ASIA GROUP 2: LATIN AMERICA GROUP 3: MIDDLE EAST, EASTERN EUROPE, AND AFRICA PART III: ECONOMIC, SOCIO-POLITICAL, AND MANAGERIAL UNDERPINNINGS OF BUSINESS GROUPS
Japan's Network Economy: Structure, Persistence, and Change
Japan's economy has long been described as network-centric. A web of stable, reciprocated relations among banks, firms, and ministries, is thought to play an important role in Japan's ability to navigate smoothly around economic shocks. Now those networks are widely blamed for Japan's faltering competitiveness. This book applies structural sociology to a study of how the form and functioning of this network economy has evolved from the prewar era…
Japan's Network Economy
Japan's economy has long been described as network-centric. A web of stable, reciprocated relations among banks, firms, and ministries, is thought to play an important role in Japan's ability to navigate smoothly around economic shocks. Now those networks are widely blamed for Japan's faltering competitiveness. This book applies structural sociology to a study of how the form and functioning of this network economy has evolved from the prewar era…
Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan
Managers in the Making: Careers, Development, and Control in Corporate Britain and Japan
Using original comparative research data collected in Britain and in Japan this book analyzes the diverse processes through which managers are made in the two countries. It provides comparative detail about careers, training, developmental experiences and job demands of managers in eight named case companies. Each firm is matched by size and sector across the two countries. Quantitative and qualitative data are used to reveal managers' experience…
The Transformation of the Japanese Employment System: Nature, Depth, and Origins
The 1990s have witnessed significant change in the Japanese employment system and in the work organization of Japanese firms. This article gives a broad overview of the changes taking place in Japanese employment and compensation practice, recruiting and promotion, and corporate organization. More than in previous postwar downturns, Japanese firms are going to great and creative lengths to reduce workforce size and costs without resorting to form…
Keiretsu Networks and Corporate Performance in Japan
Les AA. presentent un certain nombre de donnees collectees au Japon entre 1965 et 1988 concernant les grandes entreprises de ce pays et etudient plus particulierement les keiretsu, un type de reseau qui unit de tres nombreuses entreprises japonaises aux six plus importantes : les trois plus grands groupes financiers et les trois plus grands groupes industriels. Ils montrent que ce type d'organisation joue un grand role dans l'economie du pays et …
Models of Management: Work, Authority, and Organization in a Comparative Perspective
The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis
Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan. Mary C. Brinton
The Power to Manage? Employers and Industrial Relations in Comparative-Historical Perspective
Culture, Control, and Commitment: A Study of Work Organization and Work Attitudes in the United States and Japan
Assessing Commitment in the United States and Japan: A Comment on Besser
W hether Japanese workers are more committed to their employing organizations than are U.S. workers has been the subject of considerable comparative research and speculation. Besser reviews our research (Cole 1979; Lincoln and Kalleberg 1985, 1990) on this topic and reaches two major conclusions. First, she argues that U.S. manufacturing employees are more committed than are Japanese workers in terms of work attitudes, like loyalty and identifica…
Japan's California Factories: Labor Relations and Economic Globalization.Ruth Milkman
Keiretsu Networks in the Japanese Economy: A Dyad Analysis of Intercorporate Ties
Culture, Control, and Commitment: A Study of Work Organization and Work Attitudes in the United States and Japan
Based on a large comparative survey of Japanese and American employees, this book seeks to explain the greater motivation and commitment of the Japanese workforce. Is this attributable to the management and organization of Japanese factories, or to deep-seated Japanese cultural values
Convergence Stood on Its Head: A New Look at Japanese and American Work Organization
Organizational Change in Japanese Factories. Robert M. Marsh , Hiroshi Mannari
Culture, Control and Commitment: A Study of Work Organization and Work Attitudes in the United States and Japan
The Network Structures of Organizations: Effects of Task Contingencies and Distributional Form
The broad concern in this paper is a long-standing one in organizational sociology, the determinants of organizational structures. However, it is argued that internal structures are better conceived and operationalized in network terms than in the "distributional" terms of past organizational research. From a survey of 36 agencies, network data were obtained on the communication and client referral ties among practitioner staff. From these data, …
Ecological Models of Organizations
The Structure of Earnings Inequality in the United States and Japan
This paper extends research on the structural sources of economic inequality by investigating the individual level, organizational, and industrial determinants of earnings in a sample of U.S. and Japanese manufacturing employees. The analysis-based on data collected from 98 plants in seven manufacturing industries in the United States and Japan and from over 8,000 of their managers, supervisors, and workers-provides strong evidence that work stru…
Work Organization and Workforce Commitment: A Study of Plants and Employees in the U.S. and Japan
We address the hypothesis that organizational commitment is higher among Japanese than U. S. workers and that this commitment gap may be an outcome of the greater prevalence of welfare structures in Japanese firms. With data from a survey of over 8,000 employees in nearly 100 plants in Japan and the United States, we estimate a multilevel model of the processes shaping individuals' organizational commitment and work satisfaction. Consistent with …
Keiretsu Networks in the Japanese Economy: A Dyad Analysis of Intercorporate Ties
Keiretsu Networks and Corporate Performance in Japan
Les AA. presentent un certain nombre de donnees collectees au Japon entre 1965 et 1988 concernant les grandes entreprises de ce pays et etudient plus particulierement les keiretsu, un type de reseau qui unit de tres nombreuses entreprises japonaises aux six plus importantes : les trois plus grands groupes financiers et les trois plus grands groupes industriels. Ils montrent que ce type d'organisation joue un grand role dans l'economie du pays et …
Organizational Properties from Aggregate Data: Separating Individual and Structural Effects
In this paper, we argue that aggregate measures (means computed on distributions of individual scores) may be valid indicators of organizational properties which also enable an investigator to determine whether statistical relations among organizational measures arise from organization-level, as opposed to individual-level, causal processes. We review certain statistical aggregation issues as these pertain to organizational analysis, and we propo…
Cultural Effects on Organizational Structure: The Case of Japanese Firms in the United States
This paper reports the findings of a survey of 54 Japanese business organizations in the southern California region. We conceptualize these organizations as hybrids whose strategies of structuring wvork and authority relations incorporate both Western and Japanese patterns. Following Yoshino's treatment of Japanese multinationals, iv'e hypothesize that the extent to which an organization of this sort adopts structural features which are character…
The Structure of Earnings Inequality in the United States and Japan
This paper extends research on the structural sources of economic inequality by investigating the individual level, organizational, and industrial determinants of earnings in a sample of U.S. and Japanese manufacturing employees. The analysis-based on data collected from 98 plants in seven manufacturing industries in the United States and Japan and from over 8,000 of their managers, supervisors, and workers-provides strong evidence that work stru…
Analyzing Relations in Dyads: Problems, Models, and an Application to Interorganizational Research
This article deals with the application of regression models to observations on relations in dyads. I address three problems that have troubled past investigations of this sort: (1) how to incorporate measures of nodal characteristics into models explaining ties in dyads, (2) how to specify and estimate the effects of reciprocity, and (3) how to measure and control auto-correlation arising from dyads having common nodes. A model is developed that…
The Transformation of the Japanese Employment System: Nature, Depth, and Origins
The 1990s have witnessed significant change in the Japanese employment system and in the work organization of Japanese firms. This article gives a broad overview of the changes taking place in Japanese employment and compensation practice, recruiting and promotion, and corporate organization. More than in previous postwar downturns, Japanese firms are going to great and creative lengths to reduce workforce size and costs without resorting to form…
The Network Structures of Organizations: Effects of Task Contingencies and Distributional Form
The broad concern in this paper is a long-standing one in organizational sociology, the determinants of organizational structures. However, it is argued that internal structures are better conceived and operationalized in network terms than in the "distributional" terms of past organizational research. From a survey of 36 agencies, network data were obtained on the communication and client referral ties among practitioner staff. From these data, …
Community Structure and Industrial Conflict: An Analysis of Strike Activity in SMSAs
Kerr and Siegel's (1954) theory of social conditions responsible for strike proneness is taken as a framework for understanding variations in strike activity among 78 SMSAs. Their approach suggests that industrial specialization, absentee ownership, and employment concentration are community structure variables which tend to produce an isolated mass of workers and consequently a high level of community-based industrial conflict. Moreover, Kerr an…
The urban distribution of headquarters and branch plants in manufacturing: Mechanisms of metropolitan dominance
The proposition that ties between home offices and branch plants constitute a form of metropolitan dominance is evaluated by examining the dependence of these two forms of manufacturing organization on selected characteristics of the 110 largest SMSAs. The predictor variables in the analysis are measures of industry composition, population size, and regional location, factors which past research has shown to be indicators of rank in an urban hier…
Rationality and Equity in Professional Networks: Gender and Race as Factors in the Stratification of Interorganizational Systems
The organizational principles of rationality and equity account for the bureaucratic leveling effect on social differences posited by Weber. An inference from this framework, that organizational systems will neither create nor reinforce inequality based on gender or race, was examined with data provided by the members of six multiagency social service delivery systems. The dependent variable was a measure of access to the networks of interorganiz…
Power and Mobilization in the Urban Community: Reconsidering the Ecological Approach
Hawley's theory that the distribution of system power in the urban community is related to its capacity for mobilization on public issues is examined in the framework of a model specifying mobilization, the scope of municipal government, the MPO ratio and organizational dimensions of system power (employment concentration and absentee-ownership) as consequences of the city's functional role in an urban division of labor. The model treats mobiliza…
Reply to Katz
Resources, homophily, and dependence: Organizational attributes and asymmetric ties in human service networks
Organizational Differentiation in Urban Communities: A Study in Organizational Ecology
Metropolitan Accessibility and Socioeconomic Differentiation in Nonmetropolitan Areas
Journal Article Metropolitan Accessibility and Socioeconomic Differentiation in Nonmetropolitan Areas Get access James R. Lincoln, James R. Lincoln Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Roger Friedland Roger Friedland University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 57, Issue 2, December 1978, Pages 688–696, …
Convergence Stood on Its Head: A New Look at Japanese and American Work Organization
Levels of Causation and Levels of Data Collection in the Study of Organizational Properties
Household Structure and Social Stratification: Evidence from a Latin American City
In this paper, it is argued that past research on family structure and stratification processes affectingfamily members has obscured, both theoretically and empirically, the distinction between the achievement ofsocioeconomic status and social mobility. Certain methodological weaknesses of approaches to these issues which define mobility as the difference in social position between parent and child are discussed. Blau's and Duncan's (1967) model …
Power and Mobilization in the Urban Community: Reconsidering the Ecological Approach
Hawley's theory that the distribution of system power in the urban community is related to its capacity for mobilization on public issues is examined in the framework of a model specifying mobilization, the scope of municipal government, the MPO ratio and organizational dimensions of system power (employment concentration and absentee-ownership) as consequences of the city's functional role in an urban division of labor. The model treats mobiliza…
Attitudes and Facilitation in the Attainment of Status
The Japanese Are Coming: A Multinational Interaction of Firms and Politics.
The urban distribution of headquarters and branch plants in manufacturing: Mechanisms of metropolitan dominance
The proposition that ties between home offices and branch plants constitute a form of metropolitan dominance is evaluated by examining the dependence of these two forms of manufacturing organization on selected characteristics of the 110 largest SMSAs. The predictor variables in the analysis are measures of industry composition, population size, and regional location, factors which past research has shown to be indicators of rank in an urban hier…
Cultural Effects on Organizational Structure: The Case of Japanese Firms in the United States
This paper reports the findings of a survey of 54 Japanese business organizations in the southern California region. We conceptualize these organizations as hybrids whose strategies of structuring wvork and authority relations incorporate both Western and Japanese patterns. Following Yoshino's treatment of Japanese multinationals, iv'e hypothesize that the extent to which an organization of this sort adopts structural features which are character…
Community Structure and Industrial Conflict: An Analysis of Strike Activity in SMSAs
Kerr and Siegel's (1954) theory of social conditions responsible for strike proneness is taken as a framework for understanding variations in strike activity among 78 SMSAs. Their approach suggests that industrial specialization, absentee ownership, and employment concentration are community structure variables which tend to produce an isolated mass of workers and consequently a high level of community-based industrial conflict. Moreover, Kerr an…
The Ecological Approach and Community Leadership
Household Structure and Social Stratification: Evidence from a Latin American City
In this paper, it is argued that past research on family structure and stratification processes affectingfamily members has obscured, both theoretically and empirically, the distinction between the achievement ofsocioeconomic status and social mobility. Certain methodological weaknesses of approaches to these issues which define mobility as the difference in social position between parent and child are discussed. Blau's and Duncan's (1967) model …
Metropolitan Accessibility and Socioeconomic Differentiation in Nonmetropolitan Areas
Journal Article Metropolitan Accessibility and Socioeconomic Differentiation in Nonmetropolitan Areas Get access James R. Lincoln, James R. Lincoln Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Roger Friedland Roger Friedland University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 57, Issue 2, December 1978, Pages 688–696, …
Reply to Katz
Organizational Differentiation in Urban Communities: A Study in Organizational Ecology
Organizational Properties from Aggregate Data: Separating Individual and Structural Effects
In this paper, we argue that aggregate measures (means computed on distributions of individual scores) may be valid indicators of organizational properties which also enable an investigator to determine whether statistical relations among organizational measures arise from organization-level, as opposed to individual-level, causal processes. We review certain statistical aggregation issues as these pertain to organizational analysis, and we propo…
Levels of Causation and Levels of Data Collection in the Study of Organizational Properties
Rationality and Equity in Professional Networks: Gender and Race as Factors in the Stratification of Interorganizational Systems
The organizational principles of rationality and equity account for the bureaucratic leveling effect on social differences posited by Weber. An inference from this framework, that organizational systems will neither create nor reinforce inequality based on gender or race, was examined with data provided by the members of six multiagency social service delivery systems. The dependent variable was a measure of access to the networks of interorganiz…
Classes in Contemporary Japan
Analyzing Relations in Dyads: Problems, Models, and an Application to Interorganizational Research
This article deals with the application of regression models to observations on relations in dyads. I address three problems that have troubled past investigations of this sort: (1) how to incorporate measures of nodal characteristics into models explaining ties in dyads, (2) how to specify and estimate the effects of reciprocity, and (3) how to measure and control auto-correlation arising from dyads having common nodes. A model is developed that…
Work Organization and Workforce Commitment: A Study of Plants and Employees in the U.S. and Japan
We address the hypothesis that organizational commitment is higher among Japanese than U. S. workers and that this commitment gap may be an outcome of the greater prevalence of welfare structures in Japanese firms. With data from a survey of over 8,000 employees in nearly 100 plants in Japan and the United States, we estimate a multilevel model of the processes shaping individuals' organizational commitment and work satisfaction. Consistent with …
Resources, homophily, and dependence: Organizational attributes and asymmetric ties in human service networks
The Management Challenge: Japanese Views
What works for the Japanese? As our nation's balance of trade with Japan dips Eastward, American managers ask how Japan's economy has outperformed ours during the past 30 years. Some of the answers may be found in the original contributions in this book which are unique in presenting Japanese management as the Japanese see it. They provide American managers with insights into practices that may spark new solutions to old economic problems.Chapter…
Ecological Models of Organizations
The Structure of Earnings Inequality in the United States and Japan
This paper extends research on the structural sources of economic inequality by investigating the individual level, organizational, and industrial determinants of earnings in a sample of U.S. and Japanese manufacturing employees. The analysis-based on data collected from 98 plants in seven manufacturing industries in the United States and Japan and from over 8,000 of their managers, supervisors, and workers-provides strong evidence that work stru…
The Network Structures of Organizations: Effects of Task Contingencies and Distributional Form
The broad concern in this paper is a long-standing one in organizational sociology, the determinants of organizational structures. However, it is argued that internal structures are better conceived and operationalized in network terms than in the "distributional" terms of past organizational research. From a survey of 36 agencies, network data were obtained on the communication and client referral ties among practitioner staff. From these data, …
Convergence Stood on Its Head: A New Look at Japanese and American Work Organization
Organizational Change in Japanese Factories. Robert M. Marsh , Hiroshi Mannari
Culture, Control and Commitment: A Study of Work Organization and Work Attitudes in the United States and Japan
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