ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT THEORY Best Paper Proceedings.

This section presents abstracts of articles on management, particularly organization and management theory. The article 'A Four-Layer Model for Studying Organizational Structure,' proposes a model for the study of organizations consisting of four interrelated superimposed layers of organizations. The article 'Adoption of Illegitimate Organizational Innovations: The Emergence of Stock Option Pay in Germany,' examines how illegitimate organizational policies and practices spread across and within organizational fields. The article 'Competitive Crowding and the Propensity to Crash in Professional Stock Car Auto Racing,' examines the effects of competitive crowding on social action.