Organization Studies articles from September 2003

Organization Studies archives from September 2003

Continuity and change for Organization Studies.(Editorial)(Editorial)
September 1, 2003... It must have been around 1987 when one of us (HT) submitted his first ever paper to David Hickson, then Editor of Organization Studies (OS). The paper derived from an empirical project--the so-called 'Mini Project'--that each doctoral student...

Understanding workplace envy through narrative fiction.
September 1, 2003... Abstract In this article, we explore the social construction of workplace envy through an analysis of its portrayal in a fictional narrative. Based on our examination of three excerpts from Richard Russo's novel Straight Man, we argue that...

Performance measures and the rationalization of organizations.
September 1, 2003... Abstract This article focuses on rationalization, its dimensions, the possibilities of reasoned justification in the public sphere, and the technologies that would operationalize this. It does so through an analysis of the introduction of...

The local selves of global workers: the social construction of national identity in the face of organizational globalization.
September 1, 2003... Abstract This article seeks to further understanding of the significance and impact of national identity in the context of organizational globalization. Arguing against the tendency of organizational researchers to pose this identity as an...

The management science researcher between theory and practice.
September 1, 2003... Abstract This article discusses a series of management research experiments in the banking sector carried out from the original perspective of the 'actor-researcher', that is, by a management researcher who is also a practitioner. It...

Do organizational cultures replicate national cultures? Isomorphism, rejection and reciprocal opposition in the corporate values of three countries.
September 1, 2003... Abstract Despite the intuitive relation between national and organizational culture, empirical research relating the two phenomena is sparse. This article compares the national and organizational cultures of India, Brazil, and the USA,...

Repairing managerial knowledge-ability over distance.
September 1, 2003... Abstract Despite a growing acknowledgement in the literature of the 'socially embedded' character of organizational knowledge, in this article we argue that conceptualizations of knowledge management have remained aloof from the agency...

Vita Contemplativa.(Editorial)
September 1, 2003... Introduction With this issue, Organization Studies inaugurates a series of essays under the title Vita Contemplativa (The Reflective Life). We will be publishing three essays every year. The purpose of the series is to inject some...

A life full of learning.
September 1, 2003... I began my career with a dedication to reducing injustices. The injustices that intrigued me were those that inhibited the expansion of liberating alternatives. Soon I narrowed my focus even further to those injustices created by human beings...

John Hassard, Ruth Holiday and Hugh Willmott (eds): Body and Organization.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... 2000, London: Sage Publications. 272 pages 55 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0761959173 (hbk); 21.99 [pounds sterling], 0761959181 (pbk) 'Essential: to start from the body and employ it as a guide.' (Nietzsche, The Will to Power) The...

Peter J. Crawford: Captive of the System: Why Governments Fail to Deliver on their Promises--and what to do about it.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... 2003, Sydney: Richmond. 256 pages Whether or not readers of this journal would find this book interesting might seem a moot point: it is pointedly Australian, about Australian governments, policies and processes, and their organizational...

Tore Bakken and Tor Hernes (eds): Autopoietic Organization Theory.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... 2003, Oslo: Copenhagen Business School Press Autopoiesis means 'automatic production' and was coined by Varela et al. (1974) as part of a controversial intervention in a debate about how organisms continually reproduce themselves. Even more...

Organizations, social inequality, and social justice.(Announcement)
September 1, 2003... During the last decades, social inequality and stratification research have shown that organizations play an important role in creating and sustaining social inequalities in modern societies. The social distinction of status starts with the...