Organization Studies articles from February 2003

Organization Studies archives from February 2003

The relative impact of country of origin and universal contingencies on internationalization strategies and corporate control in multinational enterprises: worldwide and European perspectives.
February 1, 2003... Abstract We examine the importance of country-of-origin effects and of universal contingencies such as industrial recipes in organizational practices at the international level of multinational enterprises. This is based on a study...

The quality of standard, routine and nonroutine processes.
February 1, 2003... Abstract Efforts to increase organizational effectiveness using standardization and quality techniques have been successful in repetitive production and administrative processes but less so when dealing with nonroutine processes typical of...

Strategic innovation in traditional big business: case studies of two Japanese companies.
February 1, 2003... Abstract This paper presents two case studies of how large, traditional corporations simultaneously created new service markets and established a dominant position in the competitive fields of the Internet and mobile communications in...

Bridging uncertainty in management consulting: the mechanisms of trust and networked reputation *.
February 1, 2003... Abstract This article analyzes the market of management consulting and identifies institutional and transactional uncertainty as its principal features. Based on these uncertainties, we argue that competition in this market takes place on...

A resource-based view of corporate responsiveness toward employees.
February 1, 2003... Abstract This paper demonstrates the strategic importance of developing a capability to manage human resources based on a set of social responsibility principles (normative and structural) with the aim of responding to the interests of the...

Effects of the social Origins of alliances on alliance performance *.
February 1, 2003... Abstract This research responds to the charges of two criticisms about the embeddedness approach -- (1) that it does not treat embeddedness as a variable and (2) that it does not explain economic performance -- by investigating how...

Researching the Small Enterprise. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... James Curran and Robert A. Blackburn: Researching the Small Enterprise 2001, London: Sage Publications. 180 pages. Across the world, small enterprises -- widely defined in European terms as ventures with less than 50 employees -- are...

A World of Standards. (Book Review).(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Nils Brunsson and Bengt Jacobsson (eds): A World of Standards 2000, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 188 pages. A World of Standards takes an unusual and refreshing approach towards standards and their role in the world. Instead of...

Making a World of Difference--IT in a Global Context. (Book Review).(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Geoff Walsham: 2001, Chichester and New York: John Wiley, 272 pages. The catastrophic events of 11 September 2001 have radically changed what a reader might expect of a book entitled Making a World of Difference -- IT in a Global...