Organization Studies articles from February 1999

Organization Studies archives from February 1999

Is Escalation Always Irrational? [*].
February 5, 1999... Abstract The escalation literature focuses upon unwarranted persistence with failing ventures. Escalation theory suggests that persistence may be prompted by individuals attempting to conceal their mistakes. In other words, the assumption...

Managing Product Development Projects: On the Significance of Fountains and Deadlines.
February 5, 1999... Abstract Product development in high-technology industries is often carried out in projects. Managing such projects is a matter of both promoting creative knowledge generation processes and controlling progress towards global goals and...

Street-level Bureaucrats and the Social Construction of Environmental Control [*].
February 5, 1999... Abstract This article explores the micropolitics of environmental regulation of industry through interviews with, and ethnographic observations of, regulatory inspectors. As street-level bureaucrats, inspectors are seen to cope with the...

Top Management Pay: Impact of Overt and Covert Power.
February 5, 1999... Johannes M. Pennings [*] 'Despite his diminishing share of the company -- some 11 percent -- Patey acted the omnipotent owner' (from In All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley, Smith 1990) Abstract This paper examines...

Market Organization in Indonesia: Javanese and Chinese Family Business in the Jamu Industry [*].
February 5, 1999... Martijn F. L. Rademakers [**] Abstract In Southeast Asia, people of Chinese origin have a remarkably strong presence in trade and industry. The main question addressed in this paper is whether the organization of inter-firm linkages in...

Answers to a Discussion Note: On the 'Metaphor of the Metaphor'.(Critical Essay)
February 5, 1999... Abstract Should a debate of the choice(s) between metaphorical investigation and epistemological realism in organizational research be prioritized as Willy McCourt called for in Organization Studies? (McCourt 1997) We argue here against...

Rejoinder: On the 'Metaphor of the Metaphor'.
February 5, 1999... A German editor (Arndt Sorge) who receives a paper by two Dutchmen (Letiche and van Uden) in which they use the writings of two Frenchmen (Derrida and Ricoeur) to attack the critique by an Irishman (McCourt) of the theories of a Weishman...

Quiet Revolutions and Radical Transformations: A Comment on H. Peter Dachler.
February 5, 1999... Abstract This comment is a response to a review essay by H. Peter Dachler of a volume we edited entitled Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research: A Practical Guide (Organization Studies 18/4). While engaging with Dachler's arguments...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
February 5, 1999... The author, Cornelis J. Lammers, would like to make the following corrections to 'An Inside Story: The Birth and Infancy of EGOS. Memories in Tribute to Franco Ferraresi' published in O.S. 19/5. On p. 885 it is stated that in 1973 Mike Aiken...

Barbara Czarniawska: Narrating the Organization.(Review)
February 5, 1999... 1997, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 233 pages. The book contains ten chapters which are structured in three parts: firstly, three theoretical chapters under the heading 'From Narrative to Organization Studies'; secondly, four...

Richard Whitley and Peer Hull Kristensen (eds.): The Changing European Firm -- Limits to Convergence.(Review)
February 5, 1999... 1996, London: Routledge. 337 pages. The attempt to relate a nation's economic performance to its social institutions is an old one, dating from at least the time of the Enlightenment. The exiled Voltaire, in his published letters to...

Mats Alvesson: Management of Knowledge-Intensive Companies.(Review)
February 5, 1999... 1995, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter. 367 pages. Georg von Krogh and Johan Roos (eds.): Managing Knowledge: Perspectives on Cooperation and Competition 1996, London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi: Sage. 235 pages. 'Knowledge'...

Yair Aharoni: Changing Roles of State Intervention in Services in an Era of Open International Markets.(Review)
February 5, 1999... 1997, New York: State University of New York Press. 333 pages. The author starts from the assumption that growth in the service sector has far outpaced the knowledge available to global managers and government officials. The argument is...

Elisabeth S. Clemens: The People's Lobby -- Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890--1925.(Review)
February 5, 1999... 1997, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 459 pages. In this work, the author recovers the social origins of interest-group politics in the United States. Analyzing the organizational politics in three states --...

Pushkala Prasad, Albert J. Mills, Michael Elmes and Anshuman Prasad (eds.): Managing the Organizational Melting Pot. Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity.(Review)
February 5, 1999... 1997, Thousand Oaks: Sage. 395 pages. This book addresses the more troublesome and disturbing aspects of workplace diversity. It discusses issues such as: individual and institutional resistance, the effectiveness of diversity change...