Research Catalog

Title

The dynamics of rules : change in written organizational codes / James G. March, Martin Schulz, Xueguang Zhou.

Author

March, James G.

Publication

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Schulz, Martin, 1955-
• Zhou, Xueguang.

Description

xi, 228 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "This study uses qualitative and quantitative data from the history of a specific organization, Stanford University, to develop speculations about the ways in which written rules change. It contributes both to a theory of rules and to theories of organizational decision-making change, and learning. Organizations respond to problems and react to internal or external pressures by focusing attention on existing and potential rules.
• The creation, modification, or elimination of a rule, then, is a response to events in the outside environment (such as new government regulations) or to events within the organization (such as alterations in internal government structures)."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Stanford University Administration
• By-laws > United States > Case studies
• Stanford University By-laws
• Organizational change > United States > Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p.209-219) and index.

Contents

1. Rules in Organizations -- 2. Rules at Stanford -- 3. Speculating about Rule Dynamics -- 4. An Event History Approach -- 5. Explaining Patterns of Rule Birth -- 6. Explaining Patterns of Rule Change -- 7. Regularities in Rule Dynamics -- 8. Toward an Understanding of Rules.

ISBN

• 080473996X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0804727444 (cloth : alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

99042233

OCLC

• 43245810
• ocm43245810
• SCSB-3927313

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries