Organization Studies articles from June 1995

Organization Studies archives from June 1995

Political organizations and commedia dell'arte. (includes play)
June 22, 1995... Abstract This paper employs the dramatistic metaphor of commedia dell'arte to interpret developments in a set of interlocking public administrative organizations in Sweden. More specifically, the performances given by state and...

Socialized economic action: a comparison of strategic investment decisions in China and Britain. (includes appendix)
June 22, 1995... Abstract This paper examines six strategic investments occurring in three Chinese state enterprises and three British firms matched, by types of products, with their Chinese equivalents. In both China and Britain, the form of decision...

Institutional initiatives for technological change: from issue interpretation to strategic choice. (includes appendices)
June 22, 1995... Abstract To test a managerial cognition model of organizational adaptation to technological change, we examine strategic responses to the introduction of electronic filing of individual income-tax returns by the U.S. Internal Revenue...

The management of politics in technically related organizational change
June 22, 1995... Abstract This paper is an attempt to build an integrated model of the role of politics in technologically related organizational change. A large part of organizational theory presents power games as a simple factor of `dilution',...

The unmanaged organization: stories, fantasies and subjectivity.
June 22, 1995... Abstract This paper argues that within every organization there is a terrain which is not and cannot be managed, in which people, both individually and in groups, can engage in unsupervised, spontaneous activity. This is referred to as...

Organizational analysis in North America and Europe: a comparison of co-citation networks.
June 22, 1995... Abstract Over the last decade, the field of organization studies has been characterized by a proliferation of divergent perspectives. Using bibliometric techniques, this paper examines the extent to which this state of differentiation...