Organization Studies articles from October 2003

Organization Studies archives from October 2003

Rethinking the firm: organizational approaches.
October 1, 2003... Abstract How does social science based organization theory describe the business firm? Sociology, political science, social psychology and ethnology have inspired two almost classical perspectives. One theorizes the firm as an arena for...

Indifference or obedience? Business firms as democratic hybrids.
October 1, 2003... Abstract To the perennial question of why and how people obey, organizational and political theories usually offer a restricted vision mainly based on interpersonal power processes and organizational control mechanisms. Although such...

Organizational process, strategic content and socio-economic resources: small enterprises in East Germany, 1990-94.
October 1, 2003... Abstract The theory of the firm implies a framework which links up conceptually diverse aspects and approaches. This article tests a specific framework: an interactionist variant of co-evolution theory derived from an article by Hrebiniak...

The combination of strategic games and moral community in the functioning of firms.
October 1, 2003... Abstract In order to describe the functioning of business firms, two different models of collective action are currently mobilized. The first represents the firm as an arena for the different strategies of actors who want to maximize their...

A theory of the cultural evolution of the firm: the intra-organizational ecology of memes.
October 1, 2003... Abstract In this article, we propose a theory of the cultural evolution of the firm. We apply cultural and evolutionary thinking to the questions posed by theories of the firm: What are firms and why do they exist? We argue that firms are...

Peter Clark: Organizational Innovations.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... 2002, London: Sage Publications. 226 pages 60 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0761958819 (hbk); 19.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0761958827 (pbk) This book is laden with content. It examines organizational innovations from the perspective of both the...

Claudio Ciborra: the Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... 2002, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 195 pages Ciborra's book is eloquently summarized by John Seely Brown's quote on the back of the book: 'Ciborra brings his rich understanding of bricolage and phenomenology to the fore in providing...

Douglas Griffin: the Emergence of Leadership: Linking Self-Organization and Ethics.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... 2002, London and New York: Routledge Theories of materiality, that is, attempts to understand the co-creation of subject and object, or, for that matter, organism and environment, constitute crucial points of departure, whether in...

Barbara Czarniawska and Guje Sevon (eds): the Northern Lights--Organization Theory in Scandinavia.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... 2003, Copenhagen: Liber.Abstract.Copenhagen Business School Press, 471 pages Within this edited collection of diverse papers on the contribution of a 'distinctly Scandinavian way of understanding, reasoning and talking' (Erhard Friedberg,...