Organization Studies articles from December 1993

Organization Studies archives from December 1993

Spinning a web? Networking the technical convergence of Europe. (CE Roundtable) (Panel Discussion)
December 22, 1993... Introduction: Integrating European Experience -- The Centrality of Networks European integration, most specifically the prospect of a Single Market, has given rise, not surprisingly, to a large and recent literature on commercial and...

Managing Euregional networks.
December 22, 1993... Introduction The abolition of the internal borders of the European Community fulfills a long-cherished dream of economists and employers. The evolution of one large, unrestrained European market has the potential to eliminate artificial...

Materialism and idealism in organizational research.
December 22, 1993... Introduction The fundamental premise of this paper is that the behaviour of organizations and the people within them reflects both the material forces of technology and economics and the ideational forces of politics and symbols. For example,...

Breaking the paradigm mentality.
December 22, 1993... of orthodox analysis identifies the contradictory separation of the objective and subjective dimensions of class relations. However, as Marx's deconstruction of the commonsense meaning of concepts such as 'commodity' and 'labour' reminds us, it...

Ownership, strategy and performance: is the dichotomy sufficient?
December 22, 1993... Introduction Do ownership features influence firm behaviour and performance, or is ownership a long-neglected strategic variable unto itself? This research question motivates the study reported here. Agency and property rights theorists...