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Administrative Science Quarterly is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal publishing theoretical and empirical work aimed at advancing the study of organizational behavior and theory. Administrative Science Quarterly publishes both qualitative and quantitative work, in addition to purely theoretical papers.
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Business planning as pedagogy: language and control in a changing institutional field.(Special Issue: Critical Perspectives on Organizational Control)
June 1, 1998... Business planning has traditionally been thought of as a mechanism to implement direct and explicit controls through formally established goals and, as such, has been promoted as a central tenet of good management (Ansoff, 1965; Anthony, 1965)....
The calculated and the avowed: techniques of discipline and struggles over identity in Big Six public accounting firms.(Special Issue: Critical Perspectives on Organizational Control)
June 1, 1998... Every year when they called you in on your review, it's always, "Well, you did great this year. You did wonderful. Now, what are you going to do to do twenty percent more next year?" Felt great the first couple of times they said it, but by your...
Boundary control: the social ordering of work and family time in a high-tech corporation.(Special Issue: Critical Perspectives on Organizational Control)
June 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION
The industrial revolution marked a fundamental change in the separation of work and family life. On the farm, families worked together from dawn until dusk, intermingling work and family responsibilities, subject to the particular...
Accounting for teamwork: a critical study of group-based systems of organizational control.(Special Issue: Critical Perspectives on Organizational Control)
June 1, 1998... Teamwork is currently being championed as a way of replacing inflexible, dehumanizing, bureaucratic mechanisms with more humanistic, involving, cultural-ideological methods of coordinating productive activity (Marchington, 1992; Katzenbach and...
The discipline of teams: the control of team-based industrial work through electronic and peer surveillance.(Special Issue: Critical Perspectives on Organizational Control)
June 1, 1998... PERSPECTIVES ON THE LABOR PROCESS
Surveillance and Teamwork: An Unexpected Combination
Surveillance in the workplace, previously a relatively neglected issue in organizational theory, is becoming the focus of much attention. New information...
An alternative to bureaucratic impersonality and emotional labor: bounded emotionality at The Body Shop.(Special Issue: Critical Perspectives on Organizational Control)
June 1, 1998... People constantly experience emotions, yet in organizational theory, as in organizational life, the exploration of emotions has been largely deemphasized, marginalized, or ignored. Impersonal criteria for making decisions and restraints on...
Recognizing the possible: the organization and control of a socialist labor process.(Special Issue: Critical Perspectives on Organizational Control)
June 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION
At a time when the triumph of capitalism seems assured and alternatives have been assigned to the trash can of history, the kibbutz movement in Israel remains a viable attempt to provide a socialist labor process without...