Social Structure and Organizations.

Stinchcombe, A. L. (1965). Social Structure and Organizations. Handbook of Organizations.

Type

Reference work

Intellectual base

Reference work

Year

1965

Pages cited

142-193

Link

https://books.google.com/books/about/Social_Structure_and_Organizations.html?id=36yHwgEACAAJ not authoritative

Cited from

biology_ecology, sociology_anthropology

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Critical Period
  • Software platforms and ecosystems: a new platform has a window for attracting developer participation, and once a competitor locks in network effects the window closes and entry becomes prohibitive; the months after an API launch shape the third-party ecosystem for years. Organisational founding: a venture's first 18–24 months disproportionately fix its cultural and technical commitments, and once headcount and surface grow, the same installation effort produces far less change — the organisational "founder effect."

    This sourceOrigin of the organizational-imprinting hypothesis and the 'liability of newness': founding-period conditions leave enduring imprints on organizational and industry structure that persist despite later environmental change.

• Institution
  • The tenure system in universities: Academic tenure is a rule-complex governing hiring, evaluation, dissent, and job security that constrains behavior across decades and reproduces itself despite complete faculty turnover.

    This sourceRand McNally. Foundational "imprinting" argument: organizations adopt structures appropriate to their founding-era social context, and these founding-era structures persist long after the originating conditions have changed.

Mechanisms

• Founder Legacy Audit
  • It also systematically under-catches the most consequential inheritances, the informal vetoes and tacit filters that leave no paper trail, precisely because organizations bear the deep imprint of their founding conditions long after anyone remembers choosing them.

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