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The Syrotuck Symposium began in 1996 to: "Foster the intellectual and scientific development of SAR methods and techniques, to promote new ideas, and to encourage development of new techniques and the practical use of technology."

This research examines data collected as part of a 10-year case study of the creation and evolution of organizational control during organizational founding. Past research has taken a cross-sectional approach to examining control use in mature, stable organizations. In contrast, this study examines organizational controls during the founding period and takes a longitudinal perspective on organizational control. By examining how organizational controls are created and evolve through specific phases of the founding period, the research also provides new data and insights about what drives shifts in the use of various types of control. Specifically, this research sheds light on the role of imbalance among formal and informal controls as the key driver of shifts in control configurations, and provides a step toward making organizational control theory more dynamic.

This paper outlines an alternative theory of organization-environment coevolution that generalizes a model of organization adaptation first proposed by March (1991), linking firm-level exploration and exploitation adaptations to changes in the population of organizations. The theory considers organizations, their populations, and their environments as the interdependent outcome of managerial actions, institutional influences, and extra-institutional changes (technological, sociopolitical, and other environmental phenomena). In particular, the theory incorporates potential differences and equifinal outcomes related to country-specific variation. The basic theses of this paper are that firm strategic and organization adaptations coevolve with changes in the environment (competitive dynamics, technological, and institutional) and organization population and forms, and that new organizational forms can mutate and emerge from the existing population of organizations. The theory has guided a multicountry research collaboration on strategic and organization adaptations and the mutation and emergence of new organizational forms from within the existing population of organizations.

This report summarizes the layout and content of a website created for the CEC to make the information in the Energy Aware Planning Guide readily available to California cities and counties, to assist them in their efforts to reduce energy use. The website consists of an electronic version of the entire Planning Guide that allows easy maneuverability among the many sections of the document, and quick downloading of references cited in the document. The website also contains individual briefing pages for 46 land use- and transportation-related measures, including 21 briefs that provide information on additional transportation-related measures that are not specifically identified in the Planning Guide. The website also summarizes estimates of the effectiveness of individual measures described in the briefings, as well as the cost-effectiveness of each measure, derived from a comprehensive national study of the potential to reduce energy use from the transportation sector