Reading List on Organizational Behavior and Ethnography in the New Economy
Philip Howard, Communication, University of Washington

11/17/2002

Abramson, R. (2000, October 25). New net study has positive results. The Standard: Intelligence For The Internet Economy. Retrieved Nov 2, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.thestandard.com.

Achrol, R. S. & Kotler, P. (1999, December). Marketing in the network economy. Journal of Marketing, 63, 146-163.

Andersen, B., Howells, J., Hull, R., Miles, I., & Roberts, J.  (Eds.). (2000). Knowledge and innovation in the new service economy.  Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

Arthur, M. (1996). The Boundaryless Career:  A new employment Principle for a New Organizational Career, Oxford University Press.

Barley, S. (1996). “ Technicians in the Workplace:  Ethnographic Evidence for bringing work into Organizational Studies.”  Administrative Science Quarterly, 41:404-441.

Barley, S. (1997). Between Craft and Science:  Technical Work in US Settings, Cornell University Press.

Batt, R., Christopherson, S., Rightor, N., and Van Jaarsveld, D.  (2001).  Net -Working, Work Patterns and Workforce Policies for the New Media Industry. Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute.

Borsook, P. (2000). Cyberselfish : A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, Public Affairs.

Bram, Jason and Mike De Mott.  (1998). "New York City's New-Media Boom: Real or Virtual?," Second District Highlights. New York: Federal Reserve Bank of New York. October. Available online at http://www.ny.frb.org/rmaghome/curr_iss/sec_dis/issue5.html

Brand, S. (1988). The Media Lab:  Inventing the Future at MIT. New York, Penguin.

Brockman, J. (1996). Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite, Hardwired.

Bronson, P. (2000). The First $20,000,000 Are Always the Hardest. New York, Harper Perennial.

Bronson, P. (2000). The nudist on the late shift. New York, Broadway Books.

Camp, L. J. (2000). Trust and risk in internet commerce. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Christopherson, Susan. 1996. "Flexibility and Adaptation in Industrial Relations: The Exceptional Case of the U.S. Media Entertainment Industries," pp. 86-112 in L.S. Gray and R.L. Seeber, eds. Under the Stars: Essays on Labor Relations in the Arts and Entertainment. Ithaca NY:  ILR Press.

Cooper, Marianne.  (2000).  “Being the ‘Go-To Guy’:  Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the Organization of Work in Silicon Valley.”  Qualitative Sociology 23(4), pp. 379-405.

Crocker, S. D., & Stevenson, R. B., Jr. (1999).  “Paying up: Payment systems for digital commerce”.  In Leebaert, D. (Ed.), The future of the electronic marketplace (pp. 303-333). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Evans, P., & Wurster, T. S. (1999). Getting real about virtual commerce: Strategies for success in electronic and physical retail commerce. Harvard Business Review, 77(6).

Florida, Richard. 2002. The Creative Class. New York: Basic.

Gefen, D. (2000). E-commerce: The role of familiarity and trust. OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science, 28(6).

Grabher, Gernot. 2002a. "Collective Tinkering: Emerging Project Ecologies in New Media," Environment & Planning A, forthcoming.
_______. 2001. "Ecologies of Creativity: the Village, the Group, and the Heterarchic Organization of the British Advertising Agency,"  Environment and Planning: A 33: 351-374.

Hagel, J., III., & Armstrong, A. G. (1997). Net gain: Expanding markets through virtual communities. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Harrington, J. (1991). Organizational Structure and Information Technology, Prentice-Hall.

Heydebrand, Wolf.   1999. "Multimedia Networks, Globalization and Strategies of Innovation: The Case of Silicon Alley," in Hans-Joachim Braczyk, Gerhard Fuchs, Hans-Georg Wolf, eds. Multimedia & Regional Economic Restructuring. London: Routledge.

Hoffman, D. L., & Novak, T. P. (1996). Marketing in hypermedia computer-mediated environments: Conceptual foundations. Journal of Marketing, 60(3).

Kait, Casey and Weiss, Stephen.  (2001).  Digital Hustlers: Living Large and Falling Hard in Silicon Alley.  PLACE:  Regan Books.

Lessard, Bill and Baldwin, Steve.  (2000).  Net slaves: true tales of working the web.  New York:  McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing.

Maanen, J. V. (1984).  Occupational Communities:  Culture and Control in Organizations, Research in Organizational Behavior. 6.

Marschall, Daniel.  (2000, September).  “'Nurture the Hurt, Dude!': An Ethnographic Portrait of an Internet Software Development Firm."  Conference Paper, AIR 1.0.

Morrill, C. (1997).  Ethnographic Contributions to Organizational Sociology, Sociological Methods and Research. 25: 424-451.

Mosco, Vincent.  (2000).  "Webs of Myth and Power: Connectivity and the New Computer Technopolis," in Andrew Herman & Thomas Swiss, eds., The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory.  New York:  Routledge.

OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development).  (2001, March). Business-to-consumer e-commerce statistics.  Paper presented at the Consumers in the online marketplace OECD workshop.  (http://www1.oecd.org/dsti/sti/it/secur/act/Berlin/roomdoc_stats.pdf).

Pratt, Andrew. 1997. "The Cultural Industries Production System: A Case Study of Employment Change in Britain, 1984-91," Environment and Planning A 29:1953-74.

Pratt, Andy C. 2000. "New media, the new economy, and new spaces." Geoforum 31:25-436.

Pratt, Andy C.  2002. "Hot Jobs in Cool Places" Information Communication and Society.

PricewaterhouseCoopers.  (2000).  "3rd New York New Media Industry Survey: Opportunities and Challenges of New York's Emerging Cyber-Industry."  ( http://www.nynma.org).

Ross, Andrew.  (1998).  “Jobs in Cyberspace.” Chapter in Real Love: In Pursuit of Cultural Justice.  New York:  NYU Press.

Saxenian, AnnaLee.  (1994). Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. Cambridge, MA: Harvard.

Storper, Michael and Susan Christopherson. 1987. "Flexible specialization and regional industrial agglomerations: the case of the US motion picture industry", Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 77 (1), pp.104-117.

Schiller, H. (1981). Who Knows:  Information in the Age of the Fortune 500, Ablex Press.

Schmidt, I., Stark, B., & Döbler, T. (2001).  “Electronic Commerce - The New Challenge in Retailing” in Ulf-Dietrich Reips & Michael Bosnjak, eds., Lengerich, Germany:  Pabst Science Publishers.

Shapiro, C. (1999). Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard Business School Press.

U.S. Department of Commerce. (2000).  Digital economy 2000. Washington, DC: Economics and Statistics Administration, Office of Policy Development.

UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development).  (2001).  E-Commerce and Development Report 2001.  Geneva:  UNCTAD.   (http://www.unctad.org/en/pub/ps1ecdr01.en.htm).

Vaughan, Diane. 1999a. "The Dark Side of Organizations: For The Economic Performance Of Organizations: The Network Effect" American Sociological Review 61:674-98.

Virnoche, Mary.  (2001).  “Pink Collars on the Internet: Roadblocks to the Information Superhighway.”  Women Studies Quarterly – Special Issue on Women and Technology, forthcoming.  (http://sobek.colorado.edu/~virnoche/pink.pdf).