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December 2004 Table of Contents

Articles
The Diffusion of Ideas over Contested Terrain: The (Non)adoption of a Shareholder Value Orientation among German Firms
Peer C. Fiss and Edward J. Zajac Abstract

Why Are Some Organizations More Competitive Than Others? Evidence from a Changing Global Market
William P. Barnett and David G. McKendrick Abstract

A Dynamic Theory of Expertise and Occupational Boundaries in New Technology Implementation: Building on Barley's Study of CT Scanning
Laura J. Black, Paul R. Carlile, and Nelson P. Repenning Abstract

Managers' Mobility and Market Interface: The Effect of Managers' Career Mobility on the Dissolution of Market Ties
Joseph P. Broschak Abstract

Book Reviews
Robert J. House et al.: Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies
Mark F. Peterson

Kellee S. Tsai: Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China
Prescott C. Ensign

Stephen R. Barley and Gideon Kunda: Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy
Vicki Smith

Edgar H. Schein: DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation
Eli Berniker

Frank Dobbin, ed.: The Sociology of the Economy
Damon J. Phillips

Patricia H. Thornton: Markets from Culture: Institutional Logics and Organizational Decisions in Higher Education Publishing
P. Devereaux Jennings

Christopher Gunn: Third-Sector Development: Making up for the Market
Stuart L. Hart

Johann Peter Murmann: Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions
Olav Sorenson

Yoav Vardi and Eli Weitz: Misbehavior in Organizations: Theory, Research, and Management
Daniel Skarlicki