Doing exemplary research / edited by Peter J. Frost, RalphE. Stablein.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-312).

Obsession in upstate New York : a tale of research / Gordon W. Meyer, Stephen R. Barley, and Debra C. Gash -- The culture of social science research / Cathy A. Enz -- Comment on "Cultures of culture" / Mayer N. Zald -- Time and transition in my work on teams : looking back on a new model of group development / Connie J.G. Gersick -- Researchers are not cats--they can survive and succeed by being curious / Janice M. Beyer -- Time and transitions / J. Richard Hackman -- From loose coupling to environmental jolts / Alan D. Meyer -- Jolts as a synopsis of organizational studies / Karl E. Weick -- Embedded metaphors and organizational ironies as research tools / Linda L. Putnam -- How we untangled the relationship between displayed emotion and organizational sales : a tale of bidkering and optimism / Robert I. Sutton and Anat Rafaeli -- Out of the tangled thicket : persistence in the face of failed conventional wisdom / Richard T. Mowday -- Do smiles lead to sales? : comments on the Sutton/Rafaeli study / Barry M. Staw --

Resolving a scientific dispute with Dr. Miriam Erez : genesis, process, outcome, and reflection / Gary P. Latham -- Reflections on the Latham/Erez/Locke study / Miriam Erez -- Reflections on the Latham/Erez/Locke study / Edwin Locke -- Comments on the Latham/Erez/Locke study / Larry L. Cummings and P. Christopher Earley -- Experiments as reforms / John P. Campbell -- Making war and peace / P. Devereaux Jennings, Frank R. Dobbin, and James N. Baron -- Comments on "War and peace" / Pamela S. Tolbert -- The proliferation of modern personnel practices / Walter W. Powell -- Literary methods and organization science : reflection on "When the sleeper wakes" / John M. Jermier -- Stories of Mike Armstrong and the idea of exemplary research / Linda Smircich -- Escaping the inherent conservatism of empirical organizational research / Joanne Martin -- Themes and variations : an examination of the exemplars ; Beyond exemplars : some reflections on the meaning and practice of research in the 1990s / Peter J. Frost and Ralph E. Stablein.