Organization Studies articles from September 1994

Organization Studies archives from September 1994

The new journey to Jerusalem: mission and meaning in the managerial crusade to eastern Europe.
September 22, 1994... Introduction One of the less frequently discussed characteristics of the western drive to provide advice, knowledge transfer, and training assistance to the newly decentralizing eastern and central European economies has been the liberal...

Japanese culture, western management: Taylorism and human resources in Japan.
September 22, 1994... Whitley, Richard D. 1990 'Eastern Asian enterprise structures and the comparative analysis of forms of business organization'. Organization Studies 11/1: 47-74. Whitley, Richard D. 1991 'The social construction of business systems in East...

Talking in organizations: managing identity and impressions in an advertising agency.
September 22, 1994... 'reality', the greater is the significance of language as an autonomous power. Social reality can be represented, understood and constituted in many different ways. This idea is especially worth taking seriously when it comes to a social reality...

Paradigms lost: incommensurability vs structurationist inquiry.
September 22, 1994... Neurath, Otto, Charles A. Morris, and Rudolf Carnap, editors 1955/1970 Foundations of the unity of science: toward an international encyclopedia of unified science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Newton-Smith, W. H. 1981 The rationality...

Too little too late: a case study of escalation in decision making.
September 22, 1994... Introduction Escalation refers to predicaments where individuals and organizations become trapped in losing courses of action as a result of earlier decisions. Previous research has been predominantly experimental, focusing upon acute dilemmas...

The tie-pology. (organizational dress)
September 22, 1994... Editor's Note on 'The Tie-pology' 'Many a true word is spoken in jest'. The following, 'a-tie-pical' piece, which is published together with extracts from the correspondence which attended its acceptance, illustrates that this maxim applies to...