Organization Studies articles from January 1996

Organization Studies archives from January 1996

Paradox, defense and attachment: accessing and working with emotions and relations underlying organizational change.
January 1, 1996... Introduction One of the aims of this paper is to contribute to the development of theoretical assumptions about the management of change. Various writers have produced overviews of approaches to change (Goodman 1982; Wilson 1992; Burnes 1992),...

Organizations as structures of domination.
January 1, 1996... Introduction My purpose is to investigate the political dimension of organized collective action, where political merely refers to those activities involving administrative power. I will argue that power is a phenomenon particular to...

Organizational identity and space of action.
January 1, 1996... Introduction Organizational theory has increasingly incorporated both feminist (e.g. Acker, 1989, 1992; Calas and Smircich, 1991; Martin 1990; Mumby and Putnam 1992) and postmodern theory (e.g. Daudi 1986; Knights and Willmott 1985, 1989;...

The 'divided self' of Polish state-owned enterprises: the culture of organizing.
January 1, 1996... 'If the whole individual's being cannot be defended, the individual retracts his lines of defendence until he withdraws within a central citadel. He is prepared to write off everything he is, except his 'self'. But the tragic paradox is that the...

Perspectives on innovation in organizations.
January 1, 1996... Introduction The word innovation is frequently used to describe an object such as a new microcomputer or a late model car. Despite this tendency to objectify the concept in everyday usage, there is agreement among innovation theorists that an...

'Contradictory couplings': culture and the synchronization of opponents.
January 1, 1996... 'Resistance to discipline is irremediable, not because of "human nature", "capitalism" or any other putatively essentialist category. It is irremediable because of the power/rule constitution as a nexus of meaning and interpretation which,...