Organization Studies articles from January 2000

Organization Studies archives from January 2000

Managerial Strategies of Domination. Power in Soft Bureaucracies [*].
January 1, 2000... Abstract This paper discusses the emergence and reinforcement of organizational political regimes based on domination and centralization in French organizations. Domination and power are old concepts in organizational sociology, but...

Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Angel Financial Networks.
January 1, 2000... Abstract The success of a new venture often depends on an entrepreneur's ability to establish a network of supportive relationships. The mobilization of financial resources is a particularly important entrepreneurial activity. Informal or...

Rule Enforcement Among Peers: A Lateral Control Regime [*].
January 1, 2000... Abstract The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of control among peers. Drawing on a network study of a medium-sized Northeastern U.S. corporate law firm, this work shows that partners -- all formally equal and...

Transaction Cost and Resource-based Explanations of Joint Ventures: A Comparison and Synthesis [*].
January 1, 2000... Abstract Transaction cost theory has been the dominant theoretical lens used in the study of joint ventures. The purpose of this paper is to explain the formation of joint ventures from the resource-based perspective and to compare this...

A Longitudinal Analysis of Technical and Organizational Uncertainty in Management Theory.
January 1, 2000... Yehouda Shenhav [*] Abstract This study examines the rise of discourse on uncertainty in management during the period 1879-1932. It offers quantitative empirical analyses that are based on primary data collected from the American...

Studying Moral Ethos Using an Adapted Kohlbergian Model.
January 1, 2000... Abstract Alasdair MacIntyre's (1988) analysis of moral philosophy shows that liberal individualism, the dominant contemporary tradition, has failed to secure consensus on ethical principles. It follows that Kohlberg's stages model of...

Comment: Gender Blindness or Gender Suppression? A Comment on Fiona Wilson's Research Note.
January 1, 2000... Abstract This comment takes one term which Fiona Wilson in her excellent and useful review of the research on gender in organization studies makes central to her thesis. Whilst this term may be meaningfully applied to more recent studies...

John Hassard and Ruth Holiday (eds.): Organization Representation: Work and Organization in Popular Culture.
January 1, 2000... John Hassard and Ruth Holiday (eds.): Organization Representation: Work and Organization in Popular Culture 1998, London: Sage. 271 pages. The aim of this collection of essays is to offer insights into the way work and organization are...

Mats Alvesson and Yvonne Due Billing: Understanding Gender and Organizations.
January 1, 2000... Mats Alvesson and Yvonne Due Billing: Understanding Gender and Organizations 1997, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage. 248 pages. Most of us have strong opinions about gender and organizations, but there are only few of us who...

Robert C. H. Chia (ed.): In the Realm of Organization -- Essays for Robert Cooper.
January 1, 2000... Robert C. H. Chia (ed.): In the Realm of Organization -- Essays for Robert Cooper 1998, London: Routledge. 257 pages. In the Realm of Organization has been dedicated to the inspiration of Robert Cooper's writing on organizing....

Michael Dunkerley: The Jobless Economy? Computer Technology in the World of Work.
January 1, 2000... Michael Dunkerley: The Jobless Economy? Computer Technology in the World of Work 1996, Cambridge: Polity Press. 168 pages. Whenever adjectives or nouns are made more dynamic, a hype is born. An example is the transformation of global...

Kevin Hetherington and Rolland Munro: Ideas of Differences. Social Spaces and the Labour of Division.
January 1, 2000... 1997, Oxford: Blackwell. 304 pages. This book introduces contemporary writing about difference, through the idea of the labour of division. The contributors see divisions as artefacts that are not only produced in representations of the...

James R. Baker: The Discipline of Teamwork.
January 1, 2000... 1999, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 207 pages. Recent years have brought team-based and collaborative management to the forefront of organizational leadership thinking and practice. Teamwork has permeated all aspects of the work world and...

Evan M. Berman: Productivity in Public and Non-profit Organizations.
January 1, 2000... 1998, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 297 pages. Examining how public and non-profit managers improve productivity in their organizations, Evan M. Berman lays out a wide range of tools and strategies to promote employee motivation, cost-effective...

C. M. Fisher: Resource Allocation in the Public Sector.
January 1, 2000... 1998, London: Routledge. 294 pages. The widespread restructuring and privatization of UK public services has fundamentally changed the nature of British society. This book is a critical examination of key issues in public-sector...

O.S., Its First Twenty Years and into the Next Millennium: Something not so Completely Different!
January 1, 2000... This is the moment to celebrate both 20 years of publishing O.S. and the millennium. The O.S. festivity might even be more legitimate, since we have completed 20 years (1980 being Volume 1), whereas only 1999 years appear to have elapsed since...

Imitating Uniqueness: How Big Cities Organize Big Events.
January 1, 2000... Abstract This article summarises two studies of how a city organized a big event: the Jubilee of the Third Millennium of Christianity (in Rome) and the Cultural Capital of Europe 1998 (in Stockholm). Despite their differences, the supposed...

Performing the Absolute. Marina Abramovic Organizing the Unfinished Business of Arthur Schopenhauer.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Abstract Performance is a way of organising for value creation. The kind of value performance art aims to generate is neither use- nor exchange-value but aesthetic value, philosophically defined as searching for 'the absolute'....

Putting People in the Picture: Art and Aesthetics in Photography and in Understanding Organizational Life.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Abstract This article considers both the common ground and the diversity between the aesthetic approach to the study of organizational life and conceptual art photography. Based on a personal account, it emphasizes the empathic-aesthetic...

Sustaining the Institutional Environment.
January 1, 2000... Abstract Sustaining the physical environment requires sustenance of the associated institutional environment. Questions are raised about this, based on the observation of a day in each of the lives of two headquarters managers at...

Organizational Doom and Resurrection.
January 1, 2000... Herewith, I invite you to picture this: a medium-sized hospital just outside a Dutch provincial capital in the late 1980s. The hospital's architecture is terrifying and so are the symptoms of a number of the patients. However, the...

Only Penguins: A Polemic on Organization Theory from the Edge of the World [*].
January 1, 2000... 'After us, there's only penguins.' (Anonymous Tasmanian bash philosopher, traditional) Abstract The paper is a reflection on some of the conditions associated with being an Australian Management scholar in the Organization Studies...

Research Note: Cultural Gaps in Cross-national Cooperation: the Legacy of Empires in Macedonia.
January 1, 2000... Margaret M. Camina [*] Abstract This article draws on the author's experience as a UK aid worker operating in a business support agency in former Yugoslavia and, through empirical work at employee level, seeks to understand the ways...

Inside O.S.(Poem)
January 1, 2000... Sally Heavens [*] I have been asked by Arndt - To whom one daren't say 'Can't' - To write a little rhyme About that priv'leged time When O.S. filled my life With tears, and stress, and strife; And that was just...