Organization Studies articles from July 2003

Organization Studies archives from July 2003

Editorial introduction to the special issue: Knowledge and Professional Organizations.
July 1, 2003... The call for articles for this special issue on 'Knowledge and Professional Organizations' emphasized the wide variety of topics that could and should be treated under this overall subject. This variety and diversity is reflected in the six...

Knowledge creation in professional service firms: institutional effects.
July 1, 2003... Abstract This article presents an analysis of institutional influences upon knowledge creation within professional service firms, whose main business is the provision of specialized consultancy. Such firms, we argue, provide an important...

Knowledge development through client interaction: a comparative study.
July 1, 2003... Abstract The present article extends a previously published framework for the analysis of knowledge development in professional service firms by looking deeper into the underlying dynamics of the components and processes described in the...

Exploring management consulting firms as knowledge systems.
July 1, 2003... Abstract This article examines the nature and the generation, dissemination and translation of knowledge in large, global management consulting organizations. The knowledge system in consulting organizations is modelled as consisting of...

The professional partnership: Relic or exemplary form of governance?
July 1, 2003... Abstract The creation of the public corporation in the 19th century drove out the partnership as the predominant form of organizational governance. Yet, within the professional services sector, partnerships have survived and prospered....

The nature of knowledge and the entry mode decision.
July 1, 2003... Abstract Previous work on the choice of mode of entry into foreign markets highlights the central role of knowledge and the attributes of knowledge in choosing an appropriate governance form for its transfer internationally. The literature...

Good visions, bad micro-management and ugly ambiguity: contradictions of (Non-)leadership in a knowledge-intensive organization.
July 1, 2003... Abstract This article investigates how managers position themselves and their work in terms of leadership in a large knowledge-intensive company. The significance of contemporary discourse on leadership, practical aspects of managerial...

Handbook of Interpersonal Communication. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Mark L. Knapp and John A. Daly: Handbook of Interpersonal Communication 2002, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 842 pages. Communication between people is central to what so many of us who study organizations are interested in,...

Fashion and Utopia in Management Thinking. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Rene ten Bos: Fashion and Utopia in Management Thinking 2000, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins. 225 pages. Fashion and Utopia in Management Thinking is one of those rare books that combine several virtues usually noticed in...

The Organization of Hypocrisy: Talk, Decisions, Actions in Organizations, 2nd edn. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Nils Brunsson: The Organization of Hypocrisy: Talk, Decisions, Actions in Organizations, 2nd edn 2002, Norway: Abstrackt/Liber. 242 pages. Some book titles make a greater impact than their contents. The wholesalers of management...