Organization Studies articles from March 1997

Organization Studies archives from March 1997

On the study of settings marked by severe superior-subordinate conflict.
March 22, 1997... Abstract We discuss several issues related to the study of an organizational setting that is marked by severe conflict between superiors and subordinates. The discussion is based on our experiences during fieldwork conducted in an Indian...

Inertia, density and the structure of organizational populations: entries in European automobile industries, 1886-1981.
March 22, 1997... Abstract Existing theories of density dependence in organizational evolution treat the key processes as timeless functions of density. This paper revises the theory by specifying that the effects of density on legitimation and competition...

Implementation of information technology: a time-space perspective.
March 22, 1997... Abstract This paper has two broad objectives. First, to emphasize the importance of integrating a time-space analysis into the body of information technology (IT) implementation research. This is done by discussing two evolutionary trends...

The institutional logic of performance appraisal.
March 22, 1997... Abstract The focus of this paper is to examine the responses to institutional isomorphism in one area of the public sector--universities. As an example, one particulaR organizational practice is examined--performance appraisal--and its...

Just how managed is the McUniversity?
March 22, 1997... Abstract This paper seeks to illuminate ways in which the introduction and use of management knowledges and practices in U.K. universities overlaps, intersects and confronts established knowledge and practice in these sites. While broadly...