Virtual Worlds Paper: WordPress Has Some Awesome Tools…

Hey Everyone! Here is a copy of my paper on VWs if anyone is interested. I am using WordPress as a tool to convert to HTML.             Every once in a while a new type of organization comes along and changes the way that the world works. In the past these [...]

Preliminary Instructions If You Are Doing a Wiki Article

Several of you say you plan to do a long wiki article for yoru final paper. Here is what I want you to do. 1) Write it (complete with any relevnat photographs, tables, figures, and so on.  You probably want ot use word. 2) You will post it to two wikis, hopefully.  First, the NEW [...]

Final Paper- The Specialization of the Athletic Department

The topics of collegiate athletics always raise not only questions but also controversy. Collegiate Athletics have been one of the main focus points of several faculty/administrators meetings across the country, especially during these tough economic times. So, let’s start from the beginning, collegiate athletics started in 1843, when Yale created a boat club, not much [...]

Final Paper Using Wiki

Several of you are planning to do the long form wiki article for your final paper. Here is the link for topics under Organization Theory on wikipedia (the big English one, en.wikipedia.org). As you can see, there is plenty of room for you to add a whole article. You will need an account. You will [...]

Ashoka and Changemaker resources

Here are the links to what I used in class. Youth Venture. Provides raw material for… (also here.) Full Economic Citizenship as a goal or mission. Needs a financial innovation. The HVAC More on HVAC. An example of the HVAC in action in Mexico with small farmers. Enjoy! Bonus: History of the Internet as it [...]

Favela da Rocinha

Since the reading from this week’s class started with an entrepreneur in Brazil, I decided to write about the favelas in Brazil, but to use one in particular as a topic for my final paper; the  Favela da Rocinha. Favelas are shanty towns and unfortunately are very common in Brazil. “Shanty towns are units of [...]

Follow Up on “Soldiers Kill and Rape in Iraq”

Up front, let me just be clear.  I think our military forces are mostly well-intentioned people.  We ask much of them, often to do their best in support of policies or goals that change or that they may not completely agree to. At the same time, I think any sober reading of war will show [...]

Final Paper Topic – Bucknell University

Sitting in the lush farmlands of Central Pennsylvania, Bucknell University is one of the premier liberal arts universities in the nation.  It boasts an absolutely magnificant campus, talented faculty, and intelligent and motivated student body (if I don’t say so myself).  Having now spent almost three years at this university I believe that I have [...]

_The Wire_ Assignment Details

The Wire assignment Hello folks.  For next Tuesday, March 31, you need to watch one episode of the HBO drama The Wire.  Our episode to watch is #31, “Homecoming.” It is on disc three, and is #6 of season 3 (but 31st overall). I picked it because it highlights some tensions around innovation for different [...]

Final paper draft guidelines (REVISED!)

Do you have any t houghts before I make this official? March 30 FINAL VERSION Assignment: Final Paper Due Date: May 7, 4 p.m. Weight: 24% MGMT 339  Spring 2009 Bucknell University Jordi Comas, Assistant Professor of Management Taylor 112 jcomas@bucknell.edu Office: 577 3161 Office Hours: Tuesday 3:30-4:30; Wednesday 9-10 and by appointment. Assignment You [...]

Developing the Process Model of Collective Corruption”

 This article brings forth words that would scare any Wall-Street analyst; words such as organizational crime, white-collar crime, and corporate crime. But what is organizational crime? Palmer and Maher describe organizational crime as “any behavior perpetrated by organizational officials in the course of fulfilling their organizational roles, that judged by social control agents to violate [...]

“An Experimental Examination of the Effects of Individual and Situational Factors on Unethical Behavioral Intentions in the Workplace”

This article describes the explorations of Professor Gwen E. Jones and Professor Michael J. Kavanagh into what variables effect individuals’ intentions to act unethically.  They chose to perform an experiment where three situation variables: (1) quality of work experience, (2) peer influences - unethical vs. ethical, and (3) managerial influences – unethical vs. ethical, and three individual [...]

Change is a Good Thing

Change in an organization is inevitable. With change can come opportunity, or it can produce failure. In the article Organizational Frame Bending: Principles for Managing Reorientation, Nadler and Tushman talk about large-scale organizational changes and the many benefits, as well as challenges that come with change in an organization.

Expectations, Legitimation, and Dominance Behavior in Task Groups

The article Expectations, Legitimation, and Dominance Behavior in Task Groups, Cecilia Ridgeway and Joseph Berger discuss how a group structure forms from expectation, is solidified through legitimation and is practiced with dominance behavior. Expectations are what the group thinks will happen with the group structure based on the characteristics of the group and of the [...]

Best of February 24th – March 3rd

The Best of Bloginization This Week… General Tips and Suggestions:  Write with care, compose your posts in Microsoft Word to avoid spelling and grammatical mistakes. Review your posts at least once before publishing.  When adding hyperlinks to your posts, select the text you wish to link and click the Insert/edit link button (or press Alt + [...]

Best of Feb 16-Feb 23

Announcing This Week’s Best Of… Thanks to Ross and Blaire, this week’s Blgo Council.  They also wrote our new “About Us” page. Best Overall (content and writing) Zuffola’s “Rock Bottom” Most Theoretical Using the way back machine to pull in Fayol, the award goes to Kristin’s “Enron and The Former President.” The Blogitzer (Blog + [...]

Checklist for 2/25

Students!  Make sure you can tick off all the checkboxes on the checklist!

PLEASE READ!

This is your captain speaking. A few reminders as you post. Make sure you use the right category.  These are on the left of the dashbaord screen.  There are just a few choices to keep it simple. Blog= Your minimum long blog post or any other “normal” posts. Fun= Anything else you want to add.  [...]