Organization Studies articles from July 2000

Organization Studies archives from July 2000

Corporate Greening as Amoralization.
July 1, 2000... Amoralize v. 1. To interpret amorally; to point to the moral neutrality of; to not make (an event, etc.) the subject of moral reflection. 2. intr. To refrain from moral reflection. b. trans. To change the condition or aspect of (a person or...

The Project of Rationalization: A Critique and Reappraisal of Neo-Institutionalism in Organization Studies [*].
July 1, 2000... Abstract This article critically approaches various neo-institutional accounts of the process of formal organizing. While acknowledging the importance of the overall orientation marked by neo-institutional studies, the article identifies...

Constructing Organizations: The Example of Public Sector Reform.
July 1, 2000... Abstract Organizations are socially constructed phenomena. A crucial task for organizational research is to analyze how and why people construct organizations rather than other social forms. In this paper, it is argued that recent...

Developing Managers: The Functional, the Symbolic, the Sacred and the Profane [*].
July 1, 2000... Abstract This paper offers a new perspective on international management by examining the role of culture and management development in creating international expertise, a sense of identity and realizing organizational control. A critical...

Advanced Manufacturing Technologies and HRM Policies. Findings From Chemical and Food and Drink Companies in the Netherlands and Great Britain.
July 1, 2000... Abstract This paper explores in two steps the relationship between the design of HRM policies and the use of advanced manufacturing technologies. First, the relationship between advanced manufacturing technologies and changes in the...

Resourceful Sensemaking in Product Development Teams.
July 1, 2000... Brad Gilbreath [*] Abstract In this paper we attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice by developing the concept of 'resourceful sensemaking'. [1] Resourceful sensemaking is the ability to appreciate the perspectives of...

Marie-Laure Djelic: Exporting the American Model. The Postwar Transformation of European Business.(Review)
July 1, 2000... 1998, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 306 pages. In her book Exporting the American Model, Djelic tells a story about the exportation of the American system of industrial production (corporate capitalism) to postwar Europe. Even though...

Zoltan J. Acs, Bo Carlsson and Charlie Karlsson (eds.): Entrepreneurship, Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Macroeconomy.(Review)
July 1, 2000... 1999, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 405 pages. Entrepreneurship and small business have received strong public policy and academic interest in the last 15 years. It has been claimed that small firms are the source of considerable...

Bennett Harrison and Marcus Weiss: Workforce Development Networks. Community-based Organizations and Regional Alliances.(Review)
July 1, 2000... 1998, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage. 188 pages. This book explores how community-based organizations help minorities and low-skilled employees in the United States to develop their skills and to find permanent employment. After the...

Patrick Maclagan: Management and Morality: A Developmental Perspective.(Review)
July 1, 2000... 1998, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage. 212 pages. Here we have a book demonstrating that it is indeed possible to leave behind the limiting perspective of 'business ethics', which at best is an applied moral enquiry, at worst an...

Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson: Organizational Misbehaviour.(Review)
July 1, 2000... 1999, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage. 184 pages. In general, standard textbooks are rather optimistic about the nature of men and the possibilities to organize conforming and dutiful behaviour of employees. This undoubtedly is a...