Organization Studies articles from June 1997

Organization Studies archives from June 1997

Strategies and institutions: a pluralistic account of strategies in the Taiwanese computer industry.
June 1, 1997... Abstract The 'new institutionalism' had led to increasing emphasis on the 'embeddedness' of organizations in local social systems. In this journal, Sorge (1991) and Whitley (1994) have shown, in particular, how the dominant forms of...

Implementing strategic decisions: four key success factors.(Case study of decision-making at Central Water, Easyshop Mail Order, S & D Chemicals, Vale University, Wharf Chemicals )
June 1, 1997... Abstract This paper reports an empirical study aimed at elucidating reasons for success or failure in the implementation of strategic decisions. Eleven decisions in six organizations were examined using a case-study approach. Findings...

How fragmentation can improve co-ordination: setting standards in international telecommunications.
June 1, 1997... Abstract There is a stark contrast between the way industrial economics asks us to think about standard setting in telecommunications and the way standard-setting is actually organized. On the one hand, leading scholars maintain that...

Manufacturing the past: loss and absence in organizational change.(case study of CANCO reorganization in 1993)
June 1, 1997... '... presence is always already mediated by the absent trace.' (Linstead and Grafton-Small 1992: 343) '... we must look with different eyes, and into the spaces, the gaps, the hollow areas. For here we "see" different things.' (Smith...

Marginalization and recovery: the emergence of Aristotelian themes in organization studies.
June 1, 1997... Abstract The past decade has witnessed a number of interesting shifts in the way people think about organizations. One of the most curious is the way in which much of the 'new thinking' is antithetical to mechanistic and rationalistic...

Essai: thirty years on: from organizational structures to the organization of thought.(new look at Aston Studies)
June 1, 1997... 'Every age manages to find modes of classification which seem fundamental starting points for the researches of the special sciences. Each succeeding age discovers that the primary classification of its predecessors will not work' A. N...

Catherine Cassel and Gillian Symon (eds.): Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research: a Practical Guide.(Book Review)
June 1, 1997... Catherine Caasel and Gillian Symon (eds.): Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research: A Practical Guide 1994, London: Sage. 253 pages. Does the Distinction between Qualitative and Quantitative Methods Make Sense? Introduction...

Jules J. J. van Dijck and John P. M. Groenewegen (eds.): Changing Business Systems in Europe. An Institutional Approach.(Book Review)
June 1, 1997... Jules J. J. van Dijck and John P. M. Groenewegen (eds.): Changing Business Systems in Europe. An Institutional Approach 1994, Brussels: Vrij Universiteit van Brussel Press. 495 pages. The furtherance of economic integration within the...

Cary L. Cooper and Ivan T. Robertson (eds.): International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Vol. 10.(Book Review)
June 1, 1997... Cary L. Cooper and Ivan T. Robertson (eds.): International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Vol. 10 1995, Chichester: Wiley. 365 pages. In a 1970s Steve Martin movie, The Jerk, the title character dances around...

Barbara Reskin and Irene Padavic: Women and Men at Work.(Book Review)
June 1, 1997... Barbara Reskin and Irene Padavic: Women and Men at Work 1994, Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Pine Forge Press, 218 pages. Barbara Reskin and Irene Padavic have taken on the ambitious task of writing a comprehensive study book for...

Haruhito Shiomi and Kazuo Wada (eds.): Fordism Transformed.(Book Review)
June 1, 1997... Haruhito Shiomi and Kazuo Wada (eds.): Fordism Transformed 1995, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 320 pages. The book includes 12 articles produced for the Fuji International Conference on Business History in Japan 1994, plus a...

Majken Schultz: On Studying Organizational Cultures.(Book Review)
June 1, 1997... Majken Schultz: On Studying Organizational Cultures 1995, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 183 pages. Schultz's intent is to combine 'theoretical modelling with empirical application' (p. 1) and to demonstrate two theoretical models in such...

Reg Jennings, Charles Cox and Cary L. Cooper: Business Elites. The Psychology of Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs.(Book Review)
June 1, 1997... Reg Jennings, Charles Cox and Cary L. Cooper: Business Elites. The Psychology of Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs 1994, London and New York: Routledge. 159 pages. This book is about elite entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs--about very...

Mike Smith and Valerie Sutherland (eds.): International Review of Professional Issues in Selection and Assessment, Vol. 2.(Book Review)
June 1, 1997... Mike Smith and Valerie Sutherland (eds.): International Review of Professional Issues in Selection and Assessment, Vol. 2 1996, Chichester: Wiley. 179 pages. The purpose of this annual review is to sift out and connect the growing...

Michael D. Cohen and Lee S. Sproull (eds.): Organizational Learning.(Book Review)
June 1, 1997... Michael D. Cohen and Lee S. Sproull (eds.): Organizational Learning 1995, Thousand Oaks: Sage. 611 pages. This edited volume compiles 14 papers on organizational learning which first appeared as Organization Science articles in 1991 and...

Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges and Pierre Guillet de Monthoux (eds.): Good Novels, Better Management. Reading Organizational Realities in Fiction.(Book Review)
June 1, 1997... Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges and Pierre Guillet de Monthoux (eds.): Good Novels, Better Management. Reading Organizational Realities in Fiction 1994, Margate, U.K.: Harwood Academic. 330 pages. This edited volume demonstrates...

10th European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) Conference, Prague, 10-12 September 1997.(News and Notes)
June 1, 1997... Organizers: The Society for Ethics in Economics, Czech Republic, the Centre for Ethics in Economics and Business at CERGE-EI, Charles University, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the Patriae Foundation

'How to make business ethics operational: creating effective alliances'.(News and Notes)
June 1, 1997... This conference is planned as a forum for the exchange of information and ideas about how business ethics can be made operational by adopting integrative measures in companies or by way of alliances or cooperation among stakeholders. The...

Workshop programme.(News and Notes)
June 1, 1997... Workshop 1 Valerie Buthion Nardy (Lumiere University, France) 'Choose Ethical "Values" to Build an Ethical Code: Case Material Dealing with Manufacturer-Retailer Relationships' Andrew Wilson (Ashridge Management Research Group, U.K.)...

Decision making in inter-firm networks as a political process.
June 22, 1997... Introduction It is well recognized that organizations are made up of individuals striving to pursue their own conflicting self-interests, and that organizational change and decision making can be interpreted as a political process (Clegg 1989;...

Firm growth in transitional economies: three longitudinal cases from China, 1989-96. (includes appendix)
June 22, 1997... Introduction Since the 1980s, fundamental transitions have swept through a huge landmass between the former boundaries separating East and West Germany and China's southern border with Hong Kong. One of the central aims of these transitions in...

Social structure and managerial agency in India.
June 22, 1997... Introduction In this paper, we examine the relationship between social structure and the nature of managerial agency in India. More specifically, we address two questions. First, how do societal influences shape the formation of managerial...

Harmony and patriarchy: the cultural basis for 'paternalistic headship' among the overseas Chinese.
June 22, 1997... Introduction The intention in this paper is to explore a specific, but vital, component of what is increasingly being recognized as a distinctive Overseas Chinese (OSC) management/business orientation: namely leadership. The principle aim is...

Essai: dislocating (instrumental) organizational time.
June 22, 1997... Introduction In a recent essay, Cooper and Law (1995: 238) compare the 'distal and proximal modes of thinking in organizational analysis'. They explain that, 'Distal thinking privileges results and outcomes, the "finished" things or objects of...

Using metaphors to understand and to change organizations: a critique of Gareth Morgan's approach.
June 22, 1997... Introduction Buffeted by competitive pressures in the private sector, and political pressures for greater efficiency in the public sector, practitioners and students of organization have searched for new ways of coming to terms with...