Organization Studies articles from January 1999

Organization Studies archives from January 1999

No Joking Matter: Discursive Struggle in the Canadian Refugee System.
January 1, 1999... Introduction In this paper, we develop a framework for understanding the inter-relationship between discursive activity at the level of an institutional field and the societal discourses that surround that field. While work focusing on...

Capitalism, Subjectivity and Ethics: Debating Labour Process Analysis.
January 1, 1999... Introduction Over the last decade organization studies, like most other areas of the social sciences, has been engaging with the challenges of poststructuralism and postmodernism. One of the more heated examples of this debate has been a...

Strategists on the Board.
January 1, 1999... Introduction To understand strategy, we need to know more about the strategists. To better understand boards, we need to know more about the behaviour of those who sit on boards. This paper brings together the subjects of boards and...

Exploring the Empty Spaces of Organizing: How Improvisational Jazz Helps Redescribe Organizational Structure.
January 1, 1999... Introduction As businesses become more adaptable and flexible in response to shifting demands and opportunities in their globalizing markets, traditional understandings of organizational structure are breaking down. At first, this...

Learning as Problem-driven or Learning in the Face of Mystery?
January 1, 1999... Introduction As an area of inquiry, organizational learning (OL) has grown to such an extent that it can be described as the institutionalization of a body of knowledge, and it can therefore be analyzed using the categories of the...

Research Note: The Creation of Capabilities in New Ventures - A Longitudinal Study.
January 1, 1999... Introduction In response to the long-standing perspective in the strategic management literature that industry and competitive structures determine firm performance (Bain 1956; Porter 1985), there has been a recent increase of interest in...

Joel Rogers and Wolfgang Streeck (eds.): Works Councils. Consultation, Representation, and Cooperation in Industrial Relations.(Review)
January 1, 1999... 1995, London and New York: University of Chicago Press. 425 pages. This reader, edited by Joel Rogers and Wolfgang Streeck as part of the American National Bureau of Economic Research Series, is an impressive empirical document on works...

Neil Kay: Pattern in Corporate Evolution.(Review)
January 1, 1999... 1997, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 319 pages. This book is an ambitious book. As Kay states in his preface, it is about why firms exist, what determines their boundaries and why they adopt various forms of organization. This is the same...

James P. Begin: Dynamic Human Resource Systems. Cross-National Comparisons.(Review)
January 1, 1999... 1997, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter. 377 pages. When I was asked to review this book and had a look at the contents pages, I was attracted to it because of its comparative nature. In that sense, the book does indeed fulfil its...

Robert L. Flood and Norma R.A. Romm (eds.): Critical Systems Thinking - Current Research and Practice.(Review)
January 1, 1999... 1996, New York and London: Plenum Press. 301 pages. This collection of papers offers an overview of current ideas, developments and practices within a field of systems thinking, that has been known since the publication of Flood and...

Karl H. Horning, Anette Gerhard, and Matthias Michailov: Time Pioneers - Flexible Working Time and New Lifestyles.(Review)
January 1, 1999... 1995, Cambridge: Polity Press. 198 pages. Modern attitudes to work are closely interwoven with the ways in which people think about the temporal organization of their lives. In this book, the authors examine the relations between work and...

Larry J. Ray and Michael Reed: Organizing Modernity - New Weberian Perspectives on Work, Organization and Society.(Review)
January 1, 1999... 1994, London and New York: Routledge. 211 pages. This book provides a re-assessment of the significance of Max Weber's work for the current debates about the institutional and organizational dynamics of modernity. It re-evaluates Weber's...

Sim B. Sitkin and Robert J. Bies: The Legalistic Organization.(Review)
January 1, 1999... 1994, Thousand Oaks: Sage. 389 pages. In today's workplace, managers are being confronted with what may be preceived as a growing 'litigation mentality'. Across a variety of areas traditionally reserved for managerial authority - such as...

Helga Drummond: Escalation in Decision Making.(Review)
January 1, 1999... 1996, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 237 pages. This book examines how and why organizations become ensnared in disastrous decisions. The focal point is Taurus, the now notorious IT venture commissioned by the London Stock Exchange....

Once Upon a Time.
January 1, 1999... Organizations as a field of study originated in 1952 from an interdisciplinary study circle of the Scandinavian Summer University. It attracted researchers with a background in economics, psychology, law, sociology and engineering sciences. ...

The Kingdom of Research Programmes (What's Rotating in the State of Denmark).(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Increasingly, research is being defined as a means of attaining societal goals such as economic growth and competitiveness. Accordingly, the traditional autonomy of social research systems is being contested and modified (even for rather...

Formation of the Clan and its Members: The Ph.D. Programmes.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Present Principles Danish universities and business schools each have their own Ph,D. programme. For an overview consult the Danish Research Academy (www.danphd.dk). These programmes are regulated by a Danish law from 1992 which stipulates...

EGOS Colloquium: Participants' Impressions.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... The EMOT Pre-conference Workshop for Ph.D. Students on 'Writing for Academic Journals' The 2-day EMOT pre-conference workshop on academic writing for Ph.D. students proved to be more than just a good idea of the organizers, Mary Jo Hatch...