Learning from Other People's Actions: Environmental Variation and Diffusion in French Coal Mining Strikes, 1890-1935

Learning In Hybrid-Project Systems: The Effects of Project Performance on Repeated Collaboration

“…Beyond internal trial-and-error learning, firms can also learn vicariously by imitating actions that produced positive outcomes at other organizations (Conell & Cohn, 1995;Haunschild & Miner, 1997;Kraatz, 1998). In a transparent hybrid-project system, superordinate organizations can observe outcomes of projects they did not create and try to replicate good combinations of participants for their own future projects.…”

Introduction: the diffusion of liberalization

“…188 Tolbert andZucker 1983. 189 Holden 1986;Conell and Cohn 1995. abstraction, both theoretically and empirically. Theoretically, practitioners describe a sweeping global trend rather than focusing on the variable regional and national environments it faces.…”

Dying Without Killing: Self‐Immolations, 1963–2002

“…After all, this is also found in other forms of protest, like strikes (Biggs 2003a;Conell and Cohn 1995). The same is true for suicide: news reports and dramatic enactments alike increase the suicide rate (Bollen and Phillips 1982;Phillips and Carstensen 1986;Schmidtke and Schaller 2000).…”