J H Freeman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J H Freeman |
| GIVEN NAMES | J H |
| FAMILY NAME | Freeman |
| SIGNATURE | FREEMAN J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3199-9182 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 969 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Organization Theory
Organization theory is a body of scholarship that attempts to explain variations in the structure and operating processes of organizations.
Contingency Theory
Contigency theory denotes a body of literature that seeks to explain the structure of organizations by analyzing their adjustment to external factors, particularly changing circumstances that introduce uncertainty in D ecision‐ M aking.
Eyeblink Classical Conditioning
Community Ecology and the Sociology of Organizations
Research on organizations is increasingly informed by analysis of community context. Community can be conceptualized as sets of relations between organizational forms or as places where organizations are located in resource space or in geography. In both modes, organizations operate interdependently with social institutions and with other units of social structure. Because such relationships channel flows of resources, opportunities are granted o…
Eyeblink conditioning in rats using pontine stimulation as a conditioned stimulus
Blockade of Gabaa receptors in the interpositus nucleus modulates expression of conditioned excitation but not conditioned inhibition of the eyeblink response
Ontogenetic changes in the neural mechanisms of eyeblink conditioning
Nuevos paradigmas en sociología de las organizaciones
Out of the Niche
The Ecology of Organizational Mortality: American Labor Unions, 1836-1985
This research analyzes the disbanding rates of the full population of American national labor unions for the period 1836-1985. It tests the hypothesis, drawn from population-ecology theory, that disbanding rates are nonmonotonic functions of the number of unions in the population. The evidence supports this hypothesis: as density rises from low to high, disbanding rates first fall but eventually rise. This pattern of effects holds when age, type …
The Population Ecology of Restaurants Revisited: Reply to Herriott
The Ecology of Organizational Founding: American Labor Unions, 1836-1985
This paper analyzes the founding rate of national labor unions in the United States for the period 1836-1985. It investigates the effects of competitive processes and environmental effects on this rate. A number of stochastics models embodying different assumptions about the ecology of foundings are estimated. The best-fitting models posit that the effect of density (the number of unions in existence) and the number of recent foundings on the fou…
Where do organizational forms come from
Most theory and research on organizations assumes that the great diversity of organizational attributes reflects variation in implementation of a relatively small number of forms. Modern conceptions of organizational form concentrate on discontinuities in distributions of either attributes or relationships with other organizations. We argue that this approach be supplemented with an explicitly dynamic one that focuses on processes that create and…
The Liability of Newness: Age Dependence in Organizational Death Rates
Schwartz, Richard D. and James C. Miller 1964 Legal evolution and societal complexity. American Journal of Sociology 70:159-69. Sheleff, Leon Shaskolsky 1975 From restitutive law to repressive law: Durkheim's 'The Division of Labor in Society' re-visited. European Journal of Sociology 16:16-45. Spitzer, Steven 1975 Punishment and social organization: a study of Durkheim's theory of penal evolution. Law and Society Review 9:613-37. Webb, Stephen D…
Niche Width and the Dynamics of Organizational Populations
This paper explores the effects of environmental variability and grain on the niche width of organizational populations. It develops a model of the manner in which environmental variations affect the life changes of specialist and generalist organizations. This model predicts that death rates of generalists exceed those of specialists in fine-grained environments, regardless of the level of variability, but that generalists have lower death rates…
The Population Ecology of Organizations
A population ecology perspective on organization-environment relations is proposed as an alternative to the dominant adaptation perspective. The strength of inertial pressures on organizational structure suggests the application of models that depend on competition and selection in populations of organizations. Several such models as well as issues that arise in attempts to apply them to the organization-environment problem are discussed
Some Sources of Interviewer Variance in Surveys
Interviewer variance is examined for 33 interviewers and 3,000 interviews, with age, sex, socioeconomic status, social mobility, and interviewer ratings as key variables. It differs among interview schedule items and is influenced by combinations of sex and age of interviewers and respondents. Selecting interviewers and assigning households-respondents to them is a complex process, and matching interviewers with respondents on "face sheet" charac…
Specification of Models for Organizational Effectiveness
Growth and Decline Processes in Organizations
Since the original articles by Melman (1951) and Terrien and Mills (1955), researchers have most often attempted to explain variations in administrative intensity through reference to size. Administrative intensity is defined as the relative sizes of two personnel components in organizations: administrative (or supportive) and production-worker (or direct). In its most recent form, the linkage between this variable and size has been asserted by B…
Organizations: Structure and Process. Richard H. Hall
Environment, Technology, and the Administrative Intensity of Manufacturing Organizations
Data from forty-one manufacturing organizations produced no support for the position that variations in administrative intensity may be attributed to scale factors. However, technological and environmental variables did correlate with administrative intensity. In addition, interaction effects were observed which were consistent with hypotheses stressing constraints on structural change imposed from outside the organization and the vulnerability t…
Problems of Definitional Dependency: The Case of Administrative Intensity
In the process of defining their variables, researchers often produce dependencies between them by redundantly including component variables. The result is that a null hypothesis of “no relationship” cannot be tested by comparing the observed correlation with zero. The potentially misleading consequences of this practice are discussed in a detailed analysis of the size-administrative intensity literature. Suggestions are made for dealing with the…
Social Change in Complex Organizations
The Population Ecology of Organizations
A population ecology perspective on organization-environment relations is proposed as an alternative to the dominant adaptation perspective. The strength of inertial pressures on organizational structure suggests the application of models that depend on competition and selection in populations of organizations. Several such models as well as issues that arise in attempts to apply them to the organization-environment problem are discussed
The Liability of Newness: Age Dependence in Organizational Death Rates
Schwartz, Richard D. and James C. Miller 1964 Legal evolution and societal complexity. American Journal of Sociology 70:159-69. Sheleff, Leon Shaskolsky 1975 From restitutive law to repressive law: Durkheim's 'The Division of Labor in Society' re-visited. European Journal of Sociology 16:16-45. Spitzer, Steven 1975 Punishment and social organization: a study of Durkheim's theory of penal evolution. Law and Society Review 9:613-37. Webb, Stephen D…
Growth and Decline Processes in Organizations
Since the original articles by Melman (1951) and Terrien and Mills (1955), researchers have most often attempted to explain variations in administrative intensity through reference to size. Administrative intensity is defined as the relative sizes of two personnel components in organizations: administrative (or supportive) and production-worker (or direct). In its most recent form, the linkage between this variable and size has been asserted by B…
Niche Width and the Dynamics of Organizational Populations
This paper explores the effects of environmental variability and grain on the niche width of organizational populations. It develops a model of the manner in which environmental variations affect the life changes of specialist and generalist organizations. This model predicts that death rates of generalists exceed those of specialists in fine-grained environments, regardless of the level of variability, but that generalists have lower death rates…
The Ecology of Organizational Founding: American Labor Unions, 1836-1985
This paper analyzes the founding rate of national labor unions in the United States for the period 1836-1985. It investigates the effects of competitive processes and environmental effects on this rate. A number of stochastics models embodying different assumptions about the ecology of foundings are estimated. The best-fitting models posit that the effect of density (the number of unions in existence) and the number of recent foundings on the fou…
Community Ecology and the Sociology of Organizations
Research on organizations is increasingly informed by analysis of community context. Community can be conceptualized as sets of relations between organizational forms or as places where organizations are located in resource space or in geography. In both modes, organizations operate interdependently with social institutions and with other units of social structure. Because such relationships channel flows of resources, opportunities are granted o…
Where do organizational forms come from
Most theory and research on organizations assumes that the great diversity of organizational attributes reflects variation in implementation of a relatively small number of forms. Modern conceptions of organizational form concentrate on discontinuities in distributions of either attributes or relationships with other organizations. We argue that this approach be supplemented with an explicitly dynamic one that focuses on processes that create and…
The Ecology of Organizational Mortality: American Labor Unions, 1836-1985
This research analyzes the disbanding rates of the full population of American national labor unions for the period 1836-1985. It tests the hypothesis, drawn from population-ecology theory, that disbanding rates are nonmonotonic functions of the number of unions in the population. The evidence supports this hypothesis: as density rises from low to high, disbanding rates first fall but eventually rise. This pattern of effects holds when age, type …
Some Sources of Interviewer Variance in Surveys
Interviewer variance is examined for 33 interviewers and 3,000 interviews, with age, sex, socioeconomic status, social mobility, and interviewer ratings as key variables. It differs among interview schedule items and is influenced by combinations of sex and age of interviewers and respondents. Selecting interviewers and assigning households-respondents to them is a complex process, and matching interviewers with respondents on "face sheet" charac…
Environment, Technology, and the Administrative Intensity of Manufacturing Organizations
Data from forty-one manufacturing organizations produced no support for the position that variations in administrative intensity may be attributed to scale factors. However, technological and environmental variables did correlate with administrative intensity. In addition, interaction effects were observed which were consistent with hypotheses stressing constraints on structural change imposed from outside the organization and the vulnerability t…
Specification of Models for Organizational Effectiveness
Problems of Definitional Dependency: The Case of Administrative Intensity
In the process of defining their variables, researchers often produce dependencies between them by redundantly including component variables. The result is that a null hypothesis of “no relationship” cannot be tested by comparing the observed correlation with zero. The potentially misleading consequences of this practice are discussed in a detailed analysis of the size-administrative intensity literature. Suggestions are made for dealing with the…
Organizations: Structure and Process. Richard H. Hall
Environment, Technology, and the Administrative Intensity of Manufacturing Organizations
Data from forty-one manufacturing organizations produced no support for the position that variations in administrative intensity may be attributed to scale factors. However, technological and environmental variables did correlate with administrative intensity. In addition, interaction effects were observed which were consistent with hypotheses stressing constraints on structural change imposed from outside the organization and the vulnerability t…
Problems of Definitional Dependency: The Case of Administrative Intensity
In the process of defining their variables, researchers often produce dependencies between them by redundantly including component variables. The result is that a null hypothesis of “no relationship” cannot be tested by comparing the observed correlation with zero. The potentially misleading consequences of this practice are discussed in a detailed analysis of the size-administrative intensity literature. Suggestions are made for dealing with the…
Social Change in Complex Organizations
Growth and Decline Processes in Organizations
Since the original articles by Melman (1951) and Terrien and Mills (1955), researchers have most often attempted to explain variations in administrative intensity through reference to size. Administrative intensity is defined as the relative sizes of two personnel components in organizations: administrative (or supportive) and production-worker (or direct). In its most recent form, the linkage between this variable and size has been asserted by B…
Some Sources of Interviewer Variance in Surveys
Interviewer variance is examined for 33 interviewers and 3,000 interviews, with age, sex, socioeconomic status, social mobility, and interviewer ratings as key variables. It differs among interview schedule items and is influenced by combinations of sex and age of interviewers and respondents. Selecting interviewers and assigning households-respondents to them is a complex process, and matching interviewers with respondents on "face sheet" charac…
Specification of Models for Organizational Effectiveness
The Population Ecology of Organizations
A population ecology perspective on organization-environment relations is proposed as an alternative to the dominant adaptation perspective. The strength of inertial pressures on organizational structure suggests the application of models that depend on competition and selection in populations of organizations. Several such models as well as issues that arise in attempts to apply them to the organization-environment problem are discussed
The Liability of Newness: Age Dependence in Organizational Death Rates
Schwartz, Richard D. and James C. Miller 1964 Legal evolution and societal complexity. American Journal of Sociology 70:159-69. Sheleff, Leon Shaskolsky 1975 From restitutive law to repressive law: Durkheim's 'The Division of Labor in Society' re-visited. European Journal of Sociology 16:16-45. Spitzer, Steven 1975 Punishment and social organization: a study of Durkheim's theory of penal evolution. Law and Society Review 9:613-37. Webb, Stephen D…
Niche Width and the Dynamics of Organizational Populations
This paper explores the effects of environmental variability and grain on the niche width of organizational populations. It develops a model of the manner in which environmental variations affect the life changes of specialist and generalist organizations. This model predicts that death rates of generalists exceed those of specialists in fine-grained environments, regardless of the level of variability, but that generalists have lower death rates…
Where do organizational forms come from
Most theory and research on organizations assumes that the great diversity of organizational attributes reflects variation in implementation of a relatively small number of forms. Modern conceptions of organizational form concentrate on discontinuities in distributions of either attributes or relationships with other organizations. We argue that this approach be supplemented with an explicitly dynamic one that focuses on processes that create and…
The Population Ecology of Restaurants Revisited: Reply to Herriott
The Ecology of Organizational Founding: American Labor Unions, 1836-1985
This paper analyzes the founding rate of national labor unions in the United States for the period 1836-1985. It investigates the effects of competitive processes and environmental effects on this rate. A number of stochastics models embodying different assumptions about the ecology of foundings are estimated. The best-fitting models posit that the effect of density (the number of unions in existence) and the number of recent foundings on the fou…
The Ecology of Organizational Mortality: American Labor Unions, 1836-1985
This research analyzes the disbanding rates of the full population of American national labor unions for the period 1836-1985. It tests the hypothesis, drawn from population-ecology theory, that disbanding rates are nonmonotonic functions of the number of unions in the population. The evidence supports this hypothesis: as density rises from low to high, disbanding rates first fall but eventually rise. This pattern of effects holds when age, type …
Out of the Niche
Nuevos paradigmas en sociología de las organizaciones
Ontogenetic changes in the neural mechanisms of eyeblink conditioning
Blockade of Gabaa receptors in the interpositus nucleus modulates expression of conditioned excitation but not conditioned inhibition of the eyeblink response
Eyeblink conditioning in rats using pontine stimulation as a conditioned stimulus
Community Ecology and the Sociology of Organizations
Research on organizations is increasingly informed by analysis of community context. Community can be conceptualized as sets of relations between organizational forms or as places where organizations are located in resource space or in geography. In both modes, organizations operate interdependently with social institutions and with other units of social structure. Because such relationships channel flows of resources, opportunities are granted o…
Organization Theory
Organization theory is a body of scholarship that attempts to explain variations in the structure and operating processes of organizations.
Contingency Theory
Contigency theory denotes a body of literature that seeks to explain the structure of organizations by analyzing their adjustment to external factors, particularly changing circumstances that introduce uncertainty in D ecision‐ M aking.
Eyeblink Classical Conditioning
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