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Peer Fiss
McAlister Associate Professor of Business Administration & Associate Professor of Management and Organization

USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808

Phone: 
213-821-1471
fiss@marshall.usc.edu
Education: 
PhD, Northwestern University; MA, University of Hamburg
Personal Website: 
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~fiss/

Overview

Peer Fiss conducts research that lies at the intersection of organization theory and strategic management. He is interested in how meaning structures shape organizational actions, how organizational practices diffuse, and how accounts framing and justifying practices are constructed. In addition, he works on configurational theory and methods using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis. His work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. He currently serves as associate editor of Academy of Management Review. In 2010 he received the Western Academy of Management?s Ascendant Scholar Award.

Research

Building Better Causal Theories: A Fuzzy Set Approach to Typologies in Organization Research • 2011
Framing Controversial Practices: Frame Salience, Source Credibility, and Stock Market Reaction • 2011
How Golden Parachutes Unfolded: Diffusion and Variation of a Controversial Practice • 2011
The Holistic Nature of Digital Ecodynamics: An Empirical Examination Using a Set-Theoretical Configurational Approach • 2011
Opposites Attract? Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating QCA and Standard Econometric Analyses • 2011
The Two QCAs: From a Small-N to a Large-N Set-Theoretic Approach • 2011
Made to Fit: How Practices Vary as they Diffuse • 2010
Qualitative Comparative Analysis • 2010
A Durkheimian Approach to Globalization • 2009
Case Studies and the Configurational Analysis of Organizational Phenomena • 2009
Comparative Organizational Analysis Across Multiple Levels: A Set-theoretic Approach • 2009
Institutionalization, Framing, and Diffusion: The Logic of TQM Adoption and Implementation Decisions among U.S. Hospitals • 2009
Net Effects Analysis Versus Configurational Analysis: An Empirical Demonstration • 2008
Institutions and Corporate Governance • 2008
A Set-Theoretic Approach to Organizational Configurations • 2007
Social Influence Effects and Managerial Compensation: Evidence from Germany • 2006
The Symbolic Management of Strategic Change: Sensegiving via Framing and Decoupling • 2006
The Discourse of Globalization: Framing and Sensemaking of an Emerging Concept • 2005
The Diffusion of Ideas over Contested Terrain: The (Non) adoption of a Shareholder Value Orientation among German Firms • 2004