Organization Studies articles from June 1998

Organization Studies archives from June 1998

The question of technology, or how organizations inscribe the world.
June 22, 1998... Introduction: Silent Inscription At least since Latour and Woolgar's Laboratory Life (1979), the notion of inscription has made a highly satisfactory passage from literary to social theory. Anthropologically minded, Latour and Woolgar observed...

A tale of two gladiators: 'reading' entrepreneurs as texts. (includes appendices)
June 22, 1998... Introduction Entrepreneurial propensity, an amalgam of personality, outlook and experience, makes a significant, strategic impact on the firm (Baden-Fuller and Stopford 1994; Hambrick and Mason 1984; Kets de Vries and Miller 1984; Leavy and...

Theorizing subjectivity in organizations: the failure of Foucauldian studies?
June 22, 1998... Introduction This paper is concerned to critically explore the 'success' of Foucauldian work in dealing with the issue of subjectivity within organizations. The turn to Michel Foucault was to some reasonable extent about a turn to problematic...

The determinants of employee responses to total quality management: six case studies.
June 22, 1998... Introduction Total Quality Management is one of the leading management issues of the 1980s and 1990s. Stimulated by the work of quality consultants, the term gained rapid acceptance in North America and the UK. Surveys in the US and Britain...

Attitudes, values and organizational culture: disentangling the concepts.
June 22, 1998... Introduction: Researchers' and Respondents' Minds Survey research tries to collect information about what is on the respondents' minds, their sentiments or 'mental programmes'. The social science literature (anthropology, economics, political...

Culture dimensions of Polish managers: Hofstede's indices.
June 22, 1998... Introduction One of the focal issues in comparative management theory is the impact of culture on management. Culture, which might be described in terms of a 'collective mental programming' of people who share a similar environment, is often...

Inside story: mind your identity when conducting cross-national research.
June 22, 1998... I read Monir Tayeb's (1991) article 'The Sufferings and Joys of Doctoral Research' published in this section with interest and sympathy. It reminds me of the fieldwork of my own doctoral research a few years ago. Compared with Tayeb, I find...