Organization Studies articles from March 1999

Organization Studies archives from March 1999

Managerial Power and Succession: SBU Managers of Mutual Funds.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 1999... Introduction One of the major contributions of the literature on the antecedents of senior executive succession has been the development of the performance-power-succession model. The primary attributes of this model are twofold. First,...

'Are There No Limits to Authority?': TQM and Organizational Power.
March 22, 1999... Introduction Since the 1980s, a broad raft of innovations, such as culture, Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) and especially Total Quality Management (TQM), have become increasingly popular as managerial devices for improving...

Expert Humans or Expert Organizations?
March 22, 1999... Introduction As Kay (1993) has pointed out, the exact reasons why some companies have been successful in managing technological innovation and change remain at least partially opaque, otherwise every company would have been as successful...

National Employment Systems and Job Autonomy: Why Job Autonomy is High in the Nordic Countries and Low in the United States, Canada, and Australia.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 1999... Introduction Evidence has mounted since the early 1980s that worker discretion varies widely across nations (Einhorn and Logue 1982; IDE 1981a; ILO 1981; Kirmeyer and Shirom 1986; Lincoln and Kalleberg 1985; Maurice et al. 1984; Wright et...

The Organization of Industrial Relations in Hong Kong: Economic, Political and Sociological Perspectives.
March 22, 1999... Introduction The growing literature on organizational fields and sectors has demonstrated that they can be structured in diverse ways. One major difference is in their governance structures, which can range from the 'more spontaneously...

Research Note: Interlocking Ties within Business Groups in Israel - A Longitudinal Analysis, 1974-1987.
March 22, 1999... Introduction How interlocks form, and why, are questions which have risen to the forefront of organization studies. An interlocking directorate occurs when a person affiliated to one organization sits on the board of directors of another....

Power and Political Processes as Ethical Issues in Methodology: Continuing the Dialogue with Catherine Cassell and Gillian Symon.
March 22, 1999... I doubt that I could have made a more constructive and helpful commentary on my review essay than that made by Catherine Cassell and Gillian Symon (1998). In the spirit of their hope for a clarifying and mutually empowering debate, I would like...

Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott: Making Sense of Management.(Review)
March 22, 1999... 1996, London: Sage. 246 pages. Here we have another useful looking runner from the Alvesson/Willmott stable which builds upon and deepens their earlier, edited, Critical Management Studies (Alvesson and Willmott 1992). Fortuitously, its...

Daniel Druckman, Jerome E. Singer, and Harold Van Cott (eds.): Enhancing Organizational Performance.(Review)
March 22, 1999... 1997, Washington D.C.: National Academy Press. 284 pages. Once there was a time that military organizations were at the forefront of new developments in management and organization. One can go back as far as the times of the Roman Empire -...

Peter G. Northouse: Leadership - Theory and Practice.(Review)
March 22, 1999... This book is considered by the author to be an 'in-depth presentation of leadership theory and a discussion of how it applies to real situations' (p.15). It is intended for undergraduates and graduates in business, management, communication,...

Max Bazerman: Judgment in Managerial Decision Making.(Review)
March 22, 1999... 1998, New York: Wiley. 200 pages. This is the fourth revised edition of Max Bazerman's book on judgment in managerial decision making. Its starting point is that while, to some extent, judgment may be considered an innate ability, it is...

Donald P. Cushman and Sarah Sanderson King: Continuously Improving an Organization's Performance. High-speed Management.(Review)
March 22, 1999... 1996, New York: State University of New York Press. 158 pages. This book provides a summary of the major managerial tools available to organizational managers in adapting to the pressures of what is said to be a rapidly changing and...

John C. Oliga: Power, Ideology and Control.(Review)
March 22, 1999... 1996, New York: Plenum Press. 321 pages. Many books on power seem to be written with too much emphasis on the theoretical construct. In this book, however, practically minded readers will find an account of power that aims to prepare...

David L. Collinson and Jeff Hearn (eds.): Men as Managers, Managers as Men. Critical Perspectives on Men, Masculinities and Managements.(Review)
March 22, 1999... 1996, London: Sage. 275 pages. This collection of essays in the area of gender studies raises questions about gendered power in organizational life. Most managers in most organizations in most countries are men. This book is an...

Organization Studies in Portugal: In Search of a Community of Theory.
March 22, 1999... This report presents the state-of-the-art of organization studies in Portugal. It was based on my personal experience as a 'participant observer', on journal articles, and on conversations with Professors Carlos Alves Marques and Jorge Vala. I...