Organization Studies articles from June 1996

Organization Studies archives from June 1996

The social constitution of trust: supplier relations in Britain and Germany.
June 22, 1996... Introduction Greatly increased intensity of competition in markets for manufactured goods and the enhanced emphasis on high quality, versatility and innovativeness of products have brought about changes in the organizational structure and...

Trust and contractual relations in an emerging capitalist economy: the changing trading relationships of ten large Hungarian enterprises.
June 22, 1996... Introduction The post-war success of the Japanese economy, and of various forms of 'flexible specialization' in parts of Europe, have encouraged considerable interest in the varied ways that firms organize relations between themselves (see,...

Culture, institutions and business in East Asia.
June 22, 1996... Introduction Economic success in post-war Japan and the Asian newly industrialized countries (ANICs) has led to a focus of attention on the East Asian variants of capitalism by large numbers of social scientists. Here the focus is on those...

A diverse employee in a changing workplace.
June 22, 1996... Introduction In recent years, the topic of managing diversity has received significant attention in human resource management literature. Although research has led to the increasing understanding of the subject (e.g. Copeland 1988; Cox 1991;...

Emotional subtexts in corporate greening.
June 22, 1996... Introduction A major proportion of 'green' consultancy and green academic management literature is aimed at technical, strategic or cultural organizational change. The rhetoric runs as follows: (i) the survival of the planet is now in...

Advanced manufacturing technology: organizational design and strategic flexibility.
June 22, 1996... Introduction Much of the work in the early management literature has focused on the different sources of competitive advantage arising from pursuit of various generic strategies (e.g. Porter 1980, 1985; Hambrick 1983a, 1983b; Dess and Davis...

An American in Paris: the influence of nationality on organization theories.
June 22, 1996... An American in Paris 'An American in Paris' is the title of a well-known piece of music by the American composer George Gershwin. He wrote it during his first visit to Europe, in 1928, and it is based on his own sentiments. The piece, meant as...