Institutions and Organizations

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Research Site
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Social Control in a Paper Factory
n 67 trouble cases
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Hypotheses

• Rationalist Explanation
• Grievance severity increases escalation
• Structuralist Explanation
• Personal ties decrease escalation
• Network embeddedness increases escalation
• Culturalist Explanation
• Decay of solidarity frame increases escalation

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Changes in Formal Organization
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Changes in Formal Structure
Task Interdependence
1997
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Outcome Interde-pendence
1996
1995
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Changes in Informal Structure
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Formal and Informal Networksin the Paper Factory
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Results

• Cross-Sectional
• Grievance severity increases bilateral control
• Grievance frequency increases indirect control
• Strong ties decrease escalation
• Coalitions increase escalation
• Longitudinal
• Effect of coalitions and strong ties disappears
  through time
• Decay of solidarity frame through time increases
  escalation

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Summary Social Mechanisms

• Changes in Formal Structure from T1 to T2

• Breakdown ofSocial Controlat T3

• Decrease Density and Centralization Infor-mal
  Structure at T2

Distrust, dissolution trust ties
Ambiguous relational signals
Lack of social approval

Passivity
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Theoretical Paradigms and Organizational
Networks Overview
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Meta-Theoretical Strategies Overview

Source Lichbach (2003), p. 52
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Discussion

• Networks, Social Mechanisms, and Theories of
  Action

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Applying the Conceptsto your own project

• 1. Specify the major outcome variable you want to
  explain
• 2. Specify the types of interdependencies you
  investigate
• 3. Determine the explanatory paradigm you are
  working with by defining your approach to
  interests, identities, and structures
• 4. Make a first sketch of the social mechanisms
  in your explanation of your major outcome
  variable
• 5. Write down the results of your analysis and
  use this as a reference to record modifications
  during the next days