Organization Studies articles from February 1996

Organization Studies archives from February 1996

Time in organizations: its experience, explanations and effects.
February 5, 1996... Introduction Time is a fundamental dimension of organizational life and action but its study, as a number of authors have indicated (Clark 1985, 1990; Bluedorn and Denhardt 1988; Burrell 1992), has been strangely neglected. Time, nevertheless,...

Managing understandings: politics, symbolism, niche marketing and the quest for legitimacy in IT implementation. (information technology)
February 5, 1996... Introduction This paper draws on the literatures concerned with interpretive approaches to understanding organizations and IT to provide an analysis of how a large acute hospital dealt with the implementation of a Hospital Information Support...

The transfer of management innovations from Japan.
February 5, 1996... Introduction Capital and technology travels with increasing ease across borders on speedy information highways. Corporations in various parts of the world can tap into the same international pool of these productive factors. The remaining...

Blackboxes, hostages and prisoners.
February 5, 1996... Introduction This paper outlines evidence on the organization of technical knowledge in the development of major IT-based innovations. Technical knowledge can take various forms in this context, including hardware, packaged software and human...

Knowledge, knowledge work and organizations: an overview and interpretation.
February 5, 1996... Introduction Ever since Galbraith (1967) suggested that a powerful new class of technical-scientific experts was emerging, and Bell (1973) proposed that knowledge is a central feature of post-industrial societies, the significance of experts...

The meaning and meaninglessness of postmodernism: some ironic remarks.
February 5, 1996... Introduction 'Postmodernism' is a word that has attained considerable interest in the social sciences since the beginning of the 1980s, drawing upon French, and to some extent, Anglo-Saxon philosophers and social scientists such as Derrida,...