The Organization of Academic Work

By P. Blau. 2021

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Mobility versus job stability: Assessing tenure and productivity outcomes (2010, background): “colleges of all types, Blau [24] called attention to the importance of loyalty and argued”
Economies of Scale in Higher Education: Sixty Years of Research (2017, methodology): “Studies by Blau (1973) and by Hawley, Boland, and Boland (1965) show that at four-year institu tions the ratio of administrators to faculty declines as the number of faculty increases. In the latter study, this is true only when comparing small to medium-size institutions. The ratio is constant acr”
How organizational structures in science shape spin-off firms: the biochemistry departments of Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF and the birth of the biotech industry (2006, background): “Although less so nowadays, around 1970, institutional settings at the departmental level were among the most important settings at the local level determining the organizational parameters within which scientists of a certain discipline conducted their day to day research (e.g., Blau, 1973).”
Organizational Politics and Job Outcomes: The Moderating Effect of Trust and Social Support (2010, background): “Researchers have long noted the special differentiation of social networks in academia (Blau, 1973; Friedkin, 1983, 1998).”
Beyond the Rhetoric: Trends in the Relative Value of Teaching and Research in Faculty Salaries (2005, background): “I included several control variables, each potentially related to faculty pay, to obtain more accurate estimates of the relationships between faculty pay, teaching, and research (Blau, 1973; Fairweather, 1994, 1996, 1997; Fulton & Trow, 1974; Gordon & Morton, 1974).”