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Kim Cameron, a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, is considered to be among the most prominent management scholars in the world. During his career, he has generated several influential contributions that have shaped the field of organizational change. He has been a prolific researcher and writer, authoring 13 books and over 120 articles. Through his research, he has made deep contributions to a broad range of topics, including organizational effectiveness, organizational decline and downsizing, organizational culture and the competing values framework, organizational paradox, organizational virtuousness, and positive organizational scholarship.
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Influential Articles
Cameron, K. S. (1978). Measuring organizational effectiveness in institutions of higher education. Administrative Science Quarterly, 23(4), 604–632. https://doi.org/10.2307/2392582.
Cameron, K. S. (1980). Critical questions in assessing organizational effectiveness. Organizational Dynamics, 9(2), 66–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/0090-2616(80)90041-8.
Cameron, K. S. (1981). Domains of organizational effectiveness in colleges and universities. Academy of Management Journal, 24(1), 25–47. https://doi.org/10.2307/255822.
Cameron, K. S. (1986). Effectiveness as paradox: Consensus and conflict in conceptions of organizational effectiveness. Management Science, 32(5), 539–553. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.32.5.539.
Cameron, K. S. (1994). Strategies for successful organizational downsizing. Human Resource Management, 33(2), 189–211. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.3930330204.
Cameron, K. S., Bright, D. S., & Caza, A. (2004). Exploring the relationships between organizational virtuousness and performance. American Behavioral Scientist, 47, 766–790. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764203260209.
Cameron, K. S., Freeman, S. J., & Mishra, A. K. (1991). Best practices in white-collar downsizing: Managing contradictions. Academy of Management Executive, 5, 57–73. https://doi.org/10.5465/ame.1991.4274469.
Cameron, K. S., Whetten, D., & Kim, M. (1987). Organizational dysfunctions of decline. The Academy of Management Journal, 30(1), 126–138 http://www.jstor.org/stable/255899.
Freeman, S. J., & Cameron, K. S. (1993). Organizational downsizing: A convergence and reorientation framework. Organization Science, 4(1), 10–29. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.4.1.10.
Lavine, M. H., & Cameron, K. S. (2012). From weapons to wildlife: Positive organizing in practice. Organizational Dynamics, 41(2), 135–145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgdyn.2012.01.007.
Quinn, R. E., & Cameron, K. S. (1983). Organizational life cycles and shifting criteria of effectiveness: Some preliminary evidence. Management Science, 29(1), 33–51. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.29.1.33.
Influential Books
Cameron, K. S. (Ed.). (2010). Organizational effectiveness. Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785362156.
Cameron, K. S. (2012). Positive leadership: Strategies for extraordinary performance (2nd ed.). Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Cameron, K. S., & Quinn, R. E. (2011). Diagnosing and changing organizational culture: Based on the competing values framework (3rd ed.). Jossey-Bass. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6570.2006.00052_5.x
Cameron, K. S., & Whetten, D. A. (Eds.). (1983). Organizational effectiveness: A comparison of multiple models. Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/3324319.
Cameron, K. S., Dutton, J. E., & Quinn, R. E. (2003). Positive organizational scholarship: Foundations of a new discipline. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781452276090.n209.
Hess, E., & Cameron, K. S. (2006). Leading with values: Positivity, virtues, and high performance. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511753770.
Manz, C. C., Cameron, K. S., Manz, K. P., & Marx, R. D. (2008). The virtuous organization: Insights from some of the world’s leading management thinkers. World Scientific Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1142/6886.
Quinn, R. E., & Cameron, K. S. (1988). Paradox and transformation: Toward a theory of change in organization and management. Ballinger. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393523.
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Bright, D.S., Lavine, M. (2021). Cameron, Kim: Changing the Study of Change – From Effectiveness to Positive Organizational Scholarship. In: Szabla, D.B. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38324-4_35
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