Peer C. Fiss

Management and Organization (MOR)

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University of Southern California
Marshall School of Business
Department of Management
and Organization
Hoffman Hall 521
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808

Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: 213-821-1471
Fax: 213-740-3582
Email: fiss@marshall.usc.edu

Sample Publications

1. Articles in peer-reviewed journals

   • Ansari, Shazad, Peer C. Fiss, and Edward J. Zajac. 2010. Made to Fit: How Practices Vary As They Diffuse. Academy of Management Review, forthcoming.
   • Kennedy, Mark T., and Peer C. Fiss. 2009. Institutionalization, Framing, and Diffusion: The Logic of TQM Adoption and Implementation Decisions among U.S. Hospitals. Academy of Management Journal, 52: 897-918.
   • Fiss, Peer C. 2007. A Set-theoretic Approach to Organizational Configurations. Academy of Management Review, 32: 1180-1198.
   • Fiss, Peer C. 2006. Social Influence Effects and Managerial Compensation Evidence from Germany. Strategic Management Journal, 27: 1013-1031.
   • Fiss, Peer C., and Edward J. Zajac. 2006. The Symbolic Management of Strategic Change: Sensegiving via Framing and Decoupling. Academy of Management Journal, 49: 1173-1193.
   • Fiss, Peer C., and Paul M. Hirsch. 2005. The Discourse of Globalization: Framing and Sensemaking of an Emerging Concept. American Sociological Review, 70: 29-52.
   • Fiss, Peer C., and Edward J. Zajac. 2004. The Diffusion of Ideas Over Contested Terrain: The (Non)adoption of a Shareholder Value Orientation among German Firms. Adminstrative Science Quarterly, 49: 501-534.

2. Book chapters

   • Rodney Lacey and Peer C. Fiss. 2009. Comparative Analysis Across Multiple Levels: A Set-theoretic Approach P. 91-116 in Studying Differences Between Organizations: Comparative approaches to Organizational Research, edited by Brayden King, Teppo Felin, & David Whetten. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 26. Bingley, UK: Emerald/JAI.
   • Charles C. Ragin and Peer C. Fiss. 2009. Net Effects Analysis Versus Configurational Analysis: An Empirical Demonstration. Chapter 11, Pp. 190-212 in Ragin, Charles C., Redesigning Social Inquiry: Set Relations in Social Research. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 
   • Peer C. Fiss. 2009. Case Studies and the Configurational Analysis of Organizational Phenomena. Pp. 424-440 in the Handbook of Case Study Methods, edited by Charles C. Ragin and David Byrne. London: Sage.
   • Peer C. Fiss. 2008. Institutions and Corporate Governance. P. 389-410 in the SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism, edited by Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Kerstin Sahlin & Roy Suddaby. London: Sage Publications.
   • Paul M. Hirsch, Peer C. Fiss, and Amanda Hoel-Green. 2008. A Durkheimian Approach to Globalization. Pp. 223-245 in Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations, edited by Paul S. Adler. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

3. Book draft

   • Charles C. Ragin and Peer C. Fiss. Fuzzy Set Policy Analysis. Book précis.