Huseyin Leblebici

Huseyin Leblebici
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | UIUC · Department of Business Administration

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Purpose – This paper focuses on a unique historical case study of industry evolution in order to develop a road map where historical and strategic research could develop a common ground for trans-disciplinary inquiry. Design/methodology/approach – The industry I explore is the Universal Credit Card Industry since its inception with the Diners Club...
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Using key insights from the resource-based view of the firm, we develop and test a theory of how firms can successfully deploy and develop their strategic human assets while managing the trade-offs in their service and geographical diversification strategies. In a sample of large law firms we find that, even though firms profit from expert human-ca...
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Within organisation theory, the importance of history is always implicitly acknowledged but never explicitly incorporated into our theoretical perspectives. Even though most of our contemporary perspectives view organisations as a conglomeration of economic and social practices and routines rooted in historical time-space, this recognition has not...
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Strategic human resource management (HRM) research has been dominated by a best-practice perspective that calls for seeing uniformity and stability in HRM practices across organizations. The dominance of the best practice perspective occurs despite the many theoretical arguments and typologies that suggest there is variety and change in HRM practic...
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This paper is an attempt to articulate in a systematicfashion how different patterns or forms of organizingare achieved and how one can talk about the variety inand the transformation of these forms. The paperargues that one way to address this fundamentalquestion is to look at how resources and rules can beused in transactions to develop a generat...
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Franchising contracts are designed to bring together two kinds of entrepreneurs, the franchiser and the franchisee, and to maintain their relationship in the long run. In contrast to standard exchange contracts in law, which are specifically designed to bring about the completion of an exchange efficiently, franchise contracts are designed to make...
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The research reported here explores how institutional practices change over time in an interorganizational field, in the historical context of the U.S. radio broadcasting industry. It identifies three endogenous mechanisms of change: analogies that are used to make sense of and manage new phenomena, private agreements between identifiable parties,...
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This paper is an attempt to clarify the meaning of the term 'an organization' based on the Weberian distinction between corporate groups and organizations and to identify the managerial role imbedded in his definition. This is done in two stages. First, Weber's definition is theoretically analyzed and its logical implications are presented. In the...
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This study empirically investigated the propositions generated from agency and constituency perspectives about the nature of the managerial role. The managerial role was conceptualized as an integral part of the existing outcome interdependencies and power relations among a set of constituencies. By using time-series data on 160 companies in 10 man...
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This paper is an attempt to extend and amplify the concept of transaction and its relation to alternative organizational forms. Based on the institutional economics tradition of Commons (1924), the economics of internal organizations (Williamson 1975), and recent developments in organization theory (Ouchi 1980), it proposes a conceptual scheme to e...
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This article reports the results of a longitudinal investigation of how interpretative schemes of organizational members change through time, and whether any contextual factors are related to this change. In an exploratory study of two bureaux of an American state highway department, which are different in terms of work demands, interpersonal inter...
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This article reports the results of a longitudinal study designed to show (1) how stability of interorganizational transactions is achieved within the working rules of an interorganizational organization and (2) how the working rules of such an organization are changed as a result of environmental uncertainty. The study investigates the relationshi...
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The effect of environmental diversity and volatility on decision-making strategies is examined for 41 independent banks. Uncertainty is defined and measured in terms of an entropy equation, which combines environmental and probabilistic sources of decision uncertainty. Uncertainty was associated with loan managers' perceptions of the uncertainty of...
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While production technology has been used to explain organizational structure, the effect of the computer or information technology on organizational structure has not been extensively examined. When information technology is conceptualized as affecting the mechanisms and systems of organizational control, it is found that, controlling for the effe...
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In the study of social structures, the grounds for allocating rewards and resources has been of major concern. One of the tenets of bureaucracy is the basing of evaluations and decisions on universalistic, organizationally relevant criteria. From the literature on social comparison processes, it is argued that particularistic criteria, derived from...
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This study develops a general model of the relationship between variables measuring organizational environments and executive succession within organizations, with particular emphasis on the role of executive movement in developing stable patterns of interorganizational interaction. Such factors as (1) the number of organizations in the industry, (...
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The effect of the competitiveness of an organization's environment on organizational structure is examined for 38 small manufacturing firms. Competitiveness is hypothesized to increase the demand for control and coordination within the organization. Consistent with this hypothesis, the extent of competition in the environment is positively associat...

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