Organization Studies articles from May 2003

Organization Studies archives from May 2003

The state matters: management models of Singaporean Chinese and Korean business groups.
May 1, 2003... Abstract Both the proponents and critics of Asian economic organization have been preoccupied with the ideal-typical management models of family businesses, and have rarely identified their changing management structures. We, instead,...

Social capital and entrepreneurial performance in Russia: a longitudinal study.
May 1, 2003... Abstract Drawing on the social embeddedness perspective, this article examines the impact of entrepreneurs' social capital on their firm performance in post-Soviet Russia. Based on face-to-face interviews with 75 Russian entrepreneurs in...

The social and organizational consequences of the implementation of electronic data interchange systems: reinforcing existing power relations or a contested domain?
May 1, 2003... Abstract This paper is based on a survey of UK firms making use of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), and deals with the social and organizational consequences stemming from the adoption of these systems. It was found that a major factor...

To make or to sell? The case of in-house outsourcing at Fiat Auto.
May 1, 2003... Abstract In-house outsourcing is a major organizational innovation built on a combination of under-the-same-roof outsourcing, interdependent outsourcing and continual incomplete re-contracting. Its introduction has great impact on the...

Work, human agency and organizational forms: an anatomy of fragmentation.
May 1, 2003... Abstract This article is concerned with the changing premises of human involvement in organizations underlying current employment and labour trends. The appreciation of these trends is placed in the wider historical context signified by...

Your home, my exile: boundaries and 'otherness' in antiquity and now. (Essai).
May 1, 2003... Abstract As traveller in perilous seas and storyteller, as trickster and bricoleur, as schemer and as bully, as lover and family man, as a leader of men and reader of situations, Odysseus has woven his way easily into discourses past and...

French sociology of work and labor: from shop floor to labor markets to networked careers. (Essai).
May 1, 2003... Abstract Concentrating mostly on France, this paper considers the changing interests and the renewal of academic alliances in the sociology of work and labor over the last 50 years. Three periods result from the combined dynamics of...

Cary L. Cooper, Philip J. Dewe, and Michael P. O'Driscoll: Organizational Stress. A Review and Critique of Theory, Research, and Applications.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... 2001, London: Sage Publications. 288 pages This book is published in the Sage series 'Foundations for Organizational Science'. The purpose of this series, among others, is to enhance the quality of doctoral education by 'providing broader...

David M. Boje: Narrative Methods for Organizational and Communication Research.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... 2001, London: Sage Publications. 152 pages. In the dynamics of organizations, stories and narratives are salient phenomena. The patterns of communication, the rise of routines, the unfolding of networks, all can be seen as both the...

Antonio Strati: Theory and Method in Organization Studies.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... 2000, London: Sage Publications. 256 pages. Many introductory books deal with the domain of organization studies. Those published in the 1970s and 1980s looked identical: a first chapter on classical theory and taylorism, a second on the...

Social movement organizations: A Metaphor for strategic actors in institutional fields.
May 1, 2003... Abstract Faced with increasing real-time dislocation of institutionalized practices in empirical studies, it has become clear that neo-institutional theory is still ill-equipped to elucidate strategies of change in institutional fields. In...

Communities of practice and habitus: A critique.
May 1, 2003... Abstract Pierre Bourdieu' s concept of habitus is frequently drawn upon in work on learning and knowledge in organizations. However, this use is much looser than Bourdieu's emphasis on habitus as generative structure. This tension is...

Corporate social and financial performance: A meta-analysis.
May 1, 2003... Abstract Most theorizing on the relationship between corporate social/environmental performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) assumes that the current evidence is too fractured or too variable to draw any generalizable...

The structure of knowledge and seller-buyer networks in markets for emergent technologies.
May 1, 2003... Abstract This empirical study compares the impact of knowledge structures on relational patterns in markets for emergent technology and in a mass market within the electronics industry. We hypothesized that in markets for emergent...

Trust in organizational superiors: systemic and collective considerations.
May 1, 2003... Abstract The social-psychological literature on trust in organizational superiors implies that it is an interpersonal phenomenon, based on the superior's behaviours and on subordinates' perceptions of the superior's behaviours and...

Research 'frontiers'. (Research Note).
May 1, 2003... As an occasional section, we feature notes and feedback from some sessions held at the annual EGOS Colloquia. What follows is an account of a doctoral workshop, set up for the first time, to discuss research frontiers and future directions in...

Jon Sundbo: The Strategic Management of Innovation. A Sociological and Economic Theory. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... 2001, Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar. 218 pages. Hundreds of books have been written about innovation and innovation management. What does The Strategic Management of Innovation by Jon Sundbo contribute to that literature? This...

Emmanuel Lazega: The Collegial Phenomenon. The Social Mechanisms of Cooperation among Peers in a Corporate Law Partnership. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... 2001, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 346 pages. In order to develop a 'broadly conceived structural approach' towards the problem of cooperation among peers, the author has conducted an in-depth case study of a US corporate law...