Organization Studies articles from January 1995

Organization Studies archives from January 1995

Organizational change: towards a new East-West comparison.
January 1, 1995... Introduction Recent changes in the economic institutions of post-socialist countries (p.s.c.) have been subject to growing interest in the West. Yet there is still a less than satisfactory understanding of a series of important questions. One...

When Chinese companies negotiate with their government.
January 1, 1995... Introduction Internal Chinese case studies remain scarce in the negotiation domain. Most of the material available concerns business between a western company and its Chinese counterpart. In addition it is usually analyzed from the western...

Failures of intermediate forms: a study of the Suzuki 'Zaibatsu.'
January 1, 1995... Introduction In contrast to neoclassical economics which primarily treats the firm as a production function, the New Institutional Economics depicts firms as coordination mechanisms that arise because of the 'failure' of market exchanges due...

Academic knowledge and work jurisdiction in management.
January 1, 1995... Introduction The post-war expansion of high-level business and management education in many industrialized countries was partly based on the presumption that there was a systematic body of research-based knowledge which should significantly...

Collective centring and collective sense-making in the stories and storytelling of one organization.
January 1, 1995... Introduction The significance of story and storytelling is apparent when one reviews the current body of published research. The study reported here demonstrated story and storytelling as a symbolic form by which groups and organizational...