About the AuthorsSource: Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Dec., 1983), pp. 614-616Published by: Sage Publications, Inc. on behalf of the Johnson Graduate School of Management,Cornell UniversityStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2393013 .

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V. Warren Bourgeois [coauthor, "Contrasting Philosophical Perspectives in Administrative Science: A Replyto Morgan"] is the Philosophy Instructor, Kwantlen College, Surry, B.C., Canada. He is currently writing a book on problems of ethics in social science research. He has published papers on this topic as well as on verstehen, metaphysics, and laws in social science in periodicals such asZeitschrift FbrAllegemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Grazer Philosophische Studien. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the Univer- sity of California at Irvine.

Daniel B. Cornfield ["Chances of Layoff in a Corporation: A Case Study"] is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235. His current research interests include the causes and consequences of organizational decline, labor markets, and labor unions. He is presently studying labor union decline, using a historical case study of the United Furniture Workers of America. His recent articles have been published in Industrial Relations, Human Organization, and Sociological Perspectives on Labor Markets (edited by Ivar Berg, Academic Press, 1981). He received his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from the University of Chicago.

Pamela 1. McKechnie [coauthor, "The Justification of Organi- zational Performance"] is a doctoral student in organizational behavior and industrial relations at the School of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. She is now completing a dissertation on organizational percep- tion of environmental uncertainty.

Gareth Morgan ["More on Metaphor: WhyWe Cannot Control Tropes in Administrative Science"] is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations in the Faculty of Administrative Studies at York University, Downsview, On- tario, Canada M3J 2R6. His research interests focus on the relationship between social theory and organization theory, research methodology, and organizational symbolism. He is coauthor, with Gibson Burrell, of Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis (H einemann, 1979), author of Beyond Method (Sage, 1983), and co-editor (with Louis R. Pondy, Peter Frost, and Thomas Dandridge) of Organizational Symbolism (JAI Press, forthcoming 1983). He holds a B.S. degree from the London School of Economics, an M.A. from the University of Texas, and a Ph.D. from the University of Lancaster.

Greg R. Oldham [coauthor, "Relationships between Office Characteristics and Employee Reactions: A Study of the Physi- cal Environment"] is Professor in the Department of Business Administration and the Institute of Labor and Industrial Rela- tions at the University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. He is currently researching the way individuals react to inequitable conditions in the organization. He received his Ph.D. in organiza- tional behavior from Yale University.

Charles Perrow ["The Organizational Context of Human Fac- tors Engineering"] is Professor of Sociology, Yale University, P.O. Box 1965, New Haven, CT06520. Heisalso affiliated with

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the Center for Policy Research in New York City. He is currently studying the emergence of a society of organizations since the nineteenth century and is revising his book, Complex Organiza- tions. An elaboration of some of the themes in the article published in this issue ofASQ will appear inNormalAccidents: Living with High-Risk Technology (Basic Books, forthcoming, March 1984). He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley.

Craig C. Pinder [coauthor, "Contrasting Philosophical Perspec- tives in Administrative Science: A Reply to Morgan"] is As- sociate Professor in the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1W5. His current research interests include organizational taxonomy and systematics, intrinsic work moti- vation, and personnel transfers, particularly their role in em- ployee development. He has published articles on these and other topics in such journals asAdministrative Science Quar- terly, Journal ofApplied Psychology, Academy of Management Review, Personnel Psychology, and Human Resource Planning. He is currently completing a book on work motivation. He received his M.S. in personnel management from the Univer- sity of Minnesota and his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Cornell University.

Sheila A. Puffer [coauthor, "TheJustification of Organizational Performance"] is a doctoral student in organizational behavior and industrial relations at the School of Business Administra- tion, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. She is currently completing her dissertation on the determinants of prosocial behavior in organizations.

Nancy L. Rotchford [coauthor, "Relationships between Office Characteristics and Employee Reactions: A Study of the Physi- cal Environment"] is a Ph.D. candidate in the Psychology Department, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. She is currently employed as a Personnel Research Consultant for Personnel Research, Bank of America, Box 37000, San Fran- cisco, CA 94137. Her recent publications include "Part-time Workers as Missing Persons in Organizational Behavior" (Academy of Management Review) and "Time and Behavior in Organizations" (Research in Organizational Behavior, vol. 5, edited by Larry L. Cummings and Barry M. Staw, JAI Press, 1983).

Maryan S. Schall ["A Communication-Rules Approach to Organizational Culture"] is an independent consultant in organi- zational behavior who also lectures in the Department of Speech-Communication, University of Minnesota, Min- neapolis, MN 55455, and at private colleges in the Minne- apolis-St. Paul area. Her current research interests focus on the communication and effects of organizational values and beliefs and on the communication of power relationships in organizational settings. She is coauthor of "The Eclectic Per- spective: A Tool for Diagnosing Interpersonal Communication Problems" (Communication Education, April 1981). She re- ceived her Ph.D. in communication theory from the University of Minnesota.

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Barry M. Staw [coauthor, "The Justification of Organizational Performance"] is Professor in the School of Business Adminis- tration and the Institute of Industrial Relations of the University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. He has recently completed the latestAnnual Review of Psychology chapter on organiza- tional behavior and is now doing research on creativity in organizations. He holds a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Northwestern University.

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