Organization Studies articles from June 1999

Organization Studies archives from June 1999

Organizational Culture and Business History.
June 22, 1999... Introduction Organization studies are notoriously ahistorical (Kieser 1994), while business history is notoriously atheoretical (Hannah 1984). The burgeoning interest in organizational culture promised to make organization studies more...

An Exploration of Industry, Culture and Revenue Growth.
June 22, 1999... Introduction Although organizational culture had been the subject of social science speculation and research for some time (Clark 1970; Pettigrew 1979), the publication of In Search of Excellence (Peters and Waterman 1982) called forth the...

Disciplined Bodies: Women's Embodied Identities at Work.
June 22, 1999... Introduction This essay argues that professional and gendered discourses are quite literally written upon members' bodies in ways that often constrain and sometimes enable women's professional identities. Organizational communication...

Constructive Destruction: Transformation of Russian State-Owned Construction Enterprises During Market Transition.
June 22, 1999... Introduction Among many problems posed by market reforms in the former centrally planned economies, the transformation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) occupies a particularly important place. The state enterprises were the dominant...

The Role of Political Language Forms and Language Coherence in the Organizational Change Process.
June 22, 1999... Introduction The purpose of this article is to verify and illustrate empirically a linguistic approach to understanding the nature and significance of communication in organizational change. The approach involves representing different...

Some Remarks on the Problem of Incommensurability in Organization Studies.
June 22, 1999... Introduction In what follows we will discuss problems of theory pluralism and incommensurability in organization studies. Recent discussions have addressed these issues, but reached a dead end and obviously became more emotional and...

John Scott: Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes.(Review)
June 22, 1999... 1997, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 371 pages. After about a decade during which the rhetorics of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Helmut Kohl set the tone in declaring the definitive victory of the First Way, much has changed in the...

Robert Chia: Organizational Analysis as Deconstructive Practice.(Review)
June 22, 1999... 1996, De Gmyter: New York and Berlin. 245 pages. Chia's well-written book is a jewel for those interested in the philosophical underpinnings of organization theory, in a thorough reflection on modes of thinking and theorizing about...

Fiona Haines: Corporate Regulation. Beyond 'Punish or Persuade'.(Review)
June 22, 1999... 1997, Oxford: Clarendon Press. 269 pages. Regulation only established itself as an important focus for socio-legal research in the 1980s, with the publication of a number of studies of regulatory enforcement. The result was that a number of...

Robin ManseIl and Uta Wehn (eds.): Knowledge Societies. Information Technology for Sustainable Development.(Review)
June 22, 1999... 1998, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 323 pages. A popular claim in modern times is that advanced microelectronics-based information and communication technologies (ICTs) are at the heart of recent social and economic transformations in...

Susan D. Toliver: Black Families in Corporate America. Understanding Families.(Review)
June 22, 1999... 1998, Thousand Oaks, London and New Delhi: Sage. 192 pages. The key question posed by this book is: What progress have African Americans made in corporate America? To answer this question, the author (a past president of the New York State...

Jean E. Neumann, Kamil Kellner and Andraea Dawson-Shepherd (eds): Developing Organisational Consultancy.(Review)
June 22, 1999... 1997, London and New York: Routledge. 293 pages. In this book, experienced consultants from the UK and the US present case studies from many different industries, discussing the theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that...

Organization Studies in Sweden.
June 22, 1999... The Framework of Swedish Organization Studies Swedish organization theory research is mainly carried out within the discipline of business studies (known in Swedish as Foretagsekonomi, but not always translated in the same way: in some...