Organization Studies articles from May 2000

Organization Studies archives from May 2000

Tacit Knowledge, Organizational Learning and Societal Institutions: An Integrated Framework [*].
May 1, 2000... Abstract The importance of tacit knowledge in organizational learning and innovation has become the focus of considerable attention in the recent literature. Our understanding of the nature of the links between tacit knowledge and...

Institutional Pressures and Symbolic Displays in a GAO Context [*].(United States General Accounting Office)
May 1, 2000... Abstract Two key organizational properties have long been studied: (1) the manner in which instrumental work processes are performed, and (2) the symbolic display of rational practice in response to institutional pressures. However, the...

Power, Control and Computer-based Performance Monitoring: Repertoires, Resistance and Subjectivities.
May 1, 2000... Abstract This paper examines Computer-based Performance Monitoring (CBPM) in two UK financial services organizations. In doing so, it examines and critiques the existing manner in which this area has been theorized by both traditional and...

Haute Couture and Pret-a-Porter: The Popular Press and the Diffusion of Management Practices [*].
May 1, 2000... Abstract The transformation of management practices has recently become the object of many theoretical and empirical works. While most of these works focus mainly on universities, business schools and consulting firms, our paper aims at...

Essai: Reflections on Fiction, Representation, and Organization Studies: An Essay with Special Reference to the Work of Jorge Luis Borges [*].
May 1, 2000... Abstract This essai examines how Borges' narrative fiction may contribute to a reconceptualization of organizational interpretation and representation, and thus complexify the thinking of both organizational theorists and practitioners....

The Threat of Failure, the Perils of Success and CEO Character: Sources of Strategic Persistence [*].(chief executive officer)
May 1, 2000... Abstract The survival and continuing prosperity of an organization depends on its ability to remain flexible and responsive to changes in its own performance levels as well as in its environment. However, some organizations persist instead...

Research Note: CEO Locus of Control and Small Firm Performance.(chief executive officer)
May 1, 2000... Abstract Boone et al. (1996) reported that Chief Executive Officer (CEO) locus of control was significantly associated with profitability in a cross-sectional study of 39 small firms. As the authors could not rule out the possibility that...

Rick Delbridge: Life on the Line in Contemporary Manufacturing. The Workplace Experience of Lean Production and the 'Japanese' Model.(Review)
May 1, 2000... 1998 Oxford: Oxford University Press. 232 pages. Rick Delbridge's look at 'life' in contemporary manufacturing is a highly detailed account of workplace practices in two British factories. It is a well-crafted ethnographic account of...

John Denton: Organisational Learning and Effectiveness.(Review)
May 1, 2000... 1998, London: Routledge. 237 pages. The title of this book denotes something about its main ambition: to explore the linkages between organizational learning processes and their relation to organizational effectiveness. This is indeed a...

Bryn Jones: Forcing the Factory of the Future. Cybernation and Societal Institutions.(Review)
May 1, 2000... 1997, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 300 pages. Speculations and research efforts aimed at discovering future organizational forms attract a lot of attention, both in practice and among organization and strategy scholars....

Nordal Akerman: The Necessity of Friction.(Review)
May 1, 2000... 1998, Colorado: Westview Press. 320 pages. Friction is what keeps us from realizing our goals. It is what compromises all our plans, sometimes making them unrecognizable. It defies our wish for perfection and constantly surprises us with...

Ernest Braun: Technology in Context -- Technology Assessment for Managers.(Review)
May 1, 2000... 1998, London and New York: Routledge. 165 pages. Technology in Context is an introduction to the theory and methods of technology assessment as a strategic management tool. Technology assessment is viewed as the task of gathering sufficient...

S. Segal-Horn and D. Faulkner: The Dynamics of International Strategy.(Review)
May 1, 2000... 1999, London: International Thomson Business Press. 286 pages. The Dynamics of International Strategy addresses the dynamic interplay between the external environment, international strategy and internal structuring of MNCs. It deals with...

Henry S.R. Kao, Durganand Sinha and Bernhard Wilpert (eds.): Management and Cultural Values -- The Indigenization of Organizations in Asia.(Review)
May 1, 2000... 1999, New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, London: Sage. 332 pages. Management and Cultural Values -- The Indigenization of Organizations in Asia explores issues of emergent Asian patterns of management and organizational functioning influenced by...