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Freeing organizational behavior from inhibitory constraints
Publication date: 2013 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 33 Author(s): E. Allan Lind , Kees van den Bos Many organizational policies and practices are based on the view that people's behavior needs to be inhibited to protect against their selfish basic nature. Indeed, a fundamental assumption of theories ranging from social exchange to economic models of organizational behavior is that individuals are primarily oriented to gain good outcomes for themselves. This chapter describes a program of research that raises serious questions about these ideas by showing that disinhibition—prompted by remindin...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Ethically adrift: How others pull our moral compass from true North, and how we can fix it
Publication date: 2013 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 33 Author(s): Celia Moore , Francesca Gino This chapter focuses on the social nature of morality. Using the metaphor of the moral compass to describe individuals’ inner sense of right and wrong, we offer a framework that identifies social reasons why our moral compasses can come under others’ control, leading even good people to cross ethical boundaries. Departing from prior work on how individuals’ cognitive limitations explain unethical behavior, we focus on socio-psychological processes that facilitate moral neglect, moral justificatio...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Understanding stability and change in fields
Publication date: 2013 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 33 Author(s): Neil Fligstein In the literature on organizations, there are two very different views of social change. One emphasizes piecemeal change and actor learning. The other views change as more revolutionary resulting in entirely novel forms of organizations. On the surface, these two conceptions of social change seem incompatible. But, I argue that by situating organizations in field analysis, we can make sense about the conditions under which both can occur. This paper offers a framework for understanding strategic action in organizatio...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The reorganization of legitimate violence: The contested terrain of the private military and security industry during the post-cold war era
Publication date: 2013 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 33 Author(s): Joel A.C. Baum , Anita M. McGahan We investigate the interplay between institutional structures and agency in the emergence of the private military and security industry (PMSI). Despite its controversial nature, the PMSI has achieved sufficient legitimacy since the end of the Cold War to account at times for the majority of military personnel deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. We find both structure and agency central to the PMSI's development. The analysis points first to the central roles played by actors with expertise, reputati...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

List of Contributors
Publication date: 2013 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 33 (Source: Research in Organizational Behavior)
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Image is everything Reflections on the dominance of image in modern organizational life
Publication date: Available online 12 February 2014 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Dennis A. Gioia , Aimee L. Hamilton , Shubha D. Patvardhan We develop the notion of image as a “covering concept,” one that subsumes several major ideas in organization study. We draw on a number of literatures, including social psychology, marketing/branding, political science and organization studies, to make the case that “image is everything.” We consider not only the pervasiveness of image, but also the power of image including its transformational potential for altering the character of even our mo...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

System justification in organizational contexts: How a Motivated preference for the status quo can affect organizational attitudes and behaviors
Publication date: Available online 27 March 2014 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Devon Proudfoot , Aaron C. Kay In this chapter, we put forth the premise that people's motivated tendency to justify and defend their external systems has important, and largely unexplored, implications for the field of organizational behavior. Drawing on recent theoretical and empirical work emerging from System Justification Theory (Jost & Banaji, 1994), we propose that people's desire to view prevailing structural arrangements in a positive light may uniquely contribute to our understanding of the psychol...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Social sexual behavior at work
Publication date: Available online 31 March 2014 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Karl Aquino , Leah Sheppard , Marla Baskerville Watkins , Jane O’Reilly , Alexis Smith Organizational leaders and scholars have long regarded social sexual behavior in the workplace as deviant, harassing in nature, and something that organizations must eliminate to ensure maximal performance. Regardless of this perspective, however, social sexual behavior is an inescapable feature of human interaction that cannot be completely controlled in organizations. Moreover, there are many aspects of social sexual behavi...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The shifting landscape of LGBT organizational research
This article offers a critical review of this growing body of research. More specifically, we identify and discuss four dominant scholarly frames that have informed LGBT organizational research from the late nineteenth century to date. The frames include a “medical abnormality,” “deviant social role,” “collective identity,” and “social distinctiveness” view of sexual minorities. We argue that these frames have profoundly shaped the scope and range of organizational scholarship devoted to sexual minorities by showing that scholars using such contrasted frames have been drawn to very different research questi...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The governance of social enterprises: Mission drift and accountability challenges in hybrid organizations
Publication date: Available online 27 September 2014 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Alnoor Ebrahim , Julie Battilana , Johanna Mair We examine the challenges of governance facing organizations that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as social enterprises, combine aspects of both charity and business at their core. In this paper we distinguish between two ideal types of such hybrids, differentiated and integrated, and we conceptualize two key challenges of governance they face: accountability for dual performance objective...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

History and the present: Institutional legacies in communities of organizations
Publication date: Available online 5 October 2014 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Henrich R. Greve , Hayagreeva Rao An important source of organizational variation in communities is institutional legacies: institutions that persist and affect the community over long periods of time. Institutional legacies have received attention in the past, but recently there has been increased interest in their origins and effects. We examine three carriers of institutional legacies—legal structures, voluntary organizations, and intra-community relations—and show some work on each of these carriers. We dis...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Moral character: What it is and what it does
We present a tripartite model for understanding moral character, with the idea that there are motivational, ability, and identity elements. The motivational element is consideration of others – referring to a disposition toward considering the needs and interests of others, and how one's own actions affect other people. The ability element is self-regulation – referring to a disposition toward regulating one's behavior effectively, specifically with reference to behaviors that have positive short-term consequences but negative long-term consequences for oneself or others. The identity element is moral identity—referr...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research