James Douglas Orton

A vicarious 15-hike executive leadership resilience incubator in Mann Gulch, Montana, permits readers to upgrade their resilience leadership skills. Monday's hikes focus on sense-receiving, skills such as the leveraging of received national cosmologies, received community cosmologies, and received organizational cosmologies. Tuesday's hikes focus o...

The Haiti earthquake of January 2010 serves as an anchor for a new field of research on the role of spirituality in international large-scale catastrophes. Using the case study of one Haitian grandmother affected by the earthquake as a microcosmic representation of the Haitian people, we build an interdisciplinary theory of spirituality in extreme...

This special issue on spirituality in resilience processes across international contexts helps clarify a three-pronged research agenda for the future study of trauma and disasters by psychologists of religion and spirituality. First, the special issue demonstrates the value of expanding from U.S.-based theories, data, models, and practices to incor...

A qualitative meta-analysis of 164 citations to the phrase “cosmology episode” was conducted in order to create an evidence-based reconceptualization of the concept, yielding three findings. The first finding is the literature has moved towards the study of cosmology episodes at multiple levels: i.e. individual, team, organizational, community, and...

This article is part of a long-term research program on high-reliability strategy-making processes in loosely coupled networks (Orton & Weick, 1990). Iterative grounded theory was developed as a research methodology to reduce the gap between theory and practice through a systematic articulation between historical tales and theoretical claims (Orton...

Traditional, hierarchical views of leadership are less and less useful given the complexities of our modern world. Leadership theory must transition to new perspec-tives that account for the complex adaptive needs of organizations. In this paper, we propose that leadership (as opposed to leaders) can be seen as a complex dynamic process that emerge...

The themes explored elsewhere in this volume, on the intersection between information technology and social responsibility, take on new shapes when considered in the context of competitive intelligence. Using the (probably) apocryphal Thomson-Raytheon story as a launching point, this chapter will explore the emergence of social responsibility bench...

Most musings on the strategic management of new organizational forms-e.g., loosely coupled systems, information-technology-enabled networks, and virtual organizations-exhibit two fundamental research weaknesses. First, the "new organizational formists" are insufficiently grounded in research on old organizational forms and old organizational strate...

Weick’s theories of organizing and sensemaking help enrich the assumptions in the organization design school. This study builds on Weick’s theories of sensemaking to illustrate how three fundamental organization design assumptions — dominant variables, causal laws and executive dictates — were found to be restrictive in the explanation of redesign...

In a series of hard-fought and lonely empirical battles, organizational process researchers have started to fortify a position in the no-researcher's land between inductive theory generation and deductive theory verification. This new position suggests that Glaser and Strauss's (1967, The Discovery of Grounded Theory; Strategies for Qualitative Res...

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC Paris, n° 592

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC Paris, n° 587

Carroll School of Management, Working Paper, Boston College, n° 94-10

Diverse applications of the concept of loose coupling are embodied in five recurring voices that focus separately on causation, typology, effects, compensations, and outcomes. Each has a tendency to drift away from a dialectical interpretation of loose coupling toward a unidimensional interpretation of loose coupling, thereby weakening the explanat...

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/35964/2/b1411810.0001.001.pdf http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/35964/1/b1411810.0001.001.txt

Working Paper, Dpt of Management, Graduate School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, n° 87/88-4-1

Sightedness, and Prevention. ABSTRACT: Errors and mishaps, whether human, system, or natural in origin, generate risk and uncertainty which organizations confront, manage, and accept. The Institute of Medicine's 2000 and 2004 reports on medical errors, for example, set forth generative dialogues about risk awareness and risk acceptability. The part...

Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan.