TY - BOOK ID - 8834200 TI - Studying differences between organizations AU - King, Brayden G AU - Felin, Teppo AU - Whetten, David A PY - 2009 SN - 9781848556478 1848556470 1848556462 9786612271397 1282271393 9781848556461 PB - Bingley JAI Press DB - UniCat KW - Comparative organization. KW - Knowledge management. KW - Organizational learning. KW - Organizational sociology -- Research. KW - Social Change KW - Sociology & Social History KW - Social Sciences KW - Organizational sociology KW - Research. KW - Organizational research KW - Learning organizations KW - Management of knowledge assets KW - Learning KW - Communities of practice KW - Knowledge management KW - Organization KW - Management KW - Information technology KW - Intellectual capital KW - Organizational learning KW - Comparative organization KW - Research KW - E-books KW - #SBIB:316.334.2A500 KW - Organization (Sociology) KW - Organization theory KW - Sociology of organizations KW - Sociology KW - Bureaucracy KW - Organisatiesociologie: algemeen KW - Sociology of organization KW - Business & Economics KW - Organizational theory & behaviour. KW - Ownership & organization of enterprises. KW - Organizational sociology. KW - Organizational Behavior. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8834200 AB - This volume is motivated by key questions and challenges associated with reviving and developing a comparative perspective. One organizing theme of the volume is to present comparative analysis as a means to explain and describe organizational heterogeneity, at varying levels and contexts. While much empirical work looks for the sources of homogeneity within fields, industries, etc., we believe that one advantage of doing comparative analysis is to make assessments of the observed differences between organizations. Thus, we have asked all of the authors to consider how their style of comparative analysis enhances our understanding of organizational heterogeneity. The volume consists of two sections: an introductory essay section and a section where authors focus on specific theoretical, methodological and empirical topics. A couple of papers are original empirical analyses that use a comparative logic or method. We expect that each paper, in addition to providing a theoretical contribution, will offer a meta-discussion that explains how taking a comparative approach enhances our understanding of the phenomenon of interest. ER -