The Legalistic Organization

Edited by:

Sim B. Sitkin - Duke University, USA
Robert J. Bies - Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA

Other Titles in:
Organization Studies (General)

March 1994 | 400 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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In this volume, a multidisciplinary group of scholars investigate the changing attitudes towards management decisions in today's workplace. Across a variety of areas traditionally reserved for managerial authority - employee hiring and firing, corporate takeovers and plant closings - managers face an increased likelihood of public and legal scrutiny of their decisions and decision-making processes. Formal procedures, decision-making criteria and the use of legal rhetoric within organizations are all addressed in the book.

Sim B Sitkin and Robert J Bies

Introduction

Mark G Yudof

Preface

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL CONTEXT

W Richard Scott

Law and Organizations

Sim B Sitkin and Robert J Bies

The Legalization of Organizations

A Multi-Theoretical Perspective

PART TWO: LEGALISTIC PROCEDURES

John Van Maanen and Brian T Pentland

Cops and Auditors

The Rhetoric of Records

Michael J Smitka

Contracting Without Contracts

How the Japanese Manage Organizational Transactions

Martha S Feldman and Alan J Levy

Effects of Legal Context on Decision Making Under Ambiguity

PART THREE: LEGALISTIC CRITERIA IN DECISION MAKING

Nancy L Roth, Sim B Sitkin and Ann House

Stigma as a Determinant of Legalization

Donna M Randall and Douglas D Baker

The Threat of Legal Liability and Managerial Decision Making

Regulation of Reproductive Health in the Workplace

Mary J Culnan, H Jeff Smith and Robert J Bies

Law, Privacy, and Organizations

The Corporate Obsession to Know Versus the Individual Right Not to Be Known

Idalene F Kesner and Jeffrey B Kaufmann

The Changing Legal Environment

A Review and Recommendations for Today's Corporate Directors

PART FOUR: LEGALISTIC RHETORIC

Larry D Browning and Robert Folger

Communication Under Conditions of Litigation Risk

A Grounded Theory of Plausible Deniability in the Iran-Contra Affair

Randall K Stutman and Linda L Putnam

The Consequences of Language

A Metaphorical Look at the Legalization of Organizations

Debra L Shapiro and Deborah M Kolb

Reducing the Litigious Mentality by Increasing Employees' Desire to Communicate Grievances

PART FIVE: REFLECTIONS ON THE LEGALISTIC ORGANIZATION

Jeffrey Pfeffer

The Costs of Legalization

The Hidden Dangers of Increasingly Formalized Control

Chris Argyris

Litigation Mentality and Organizational Learning

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