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- Andersson, Thomas
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Personal growth and sensitivity training as fashions in management and management research
- 2008
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Ingår i: International Studies of Management and Organization. - : International Arts and Sciences Press. - 0020-8825 .- 1558-0911. ; 38:2, s. 71-96
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – to compare the introduction of, and associated contemporary research into, two management fashions. Design/methodology/approach – names the two fashions as “personal growth” and “sensitivity training”, states that sensitivity training was popular in the 1960s-1970s, and that personal growth, incorporating aspects of sensitivity training, was widely used in 1990s-2000s, focuses on the relationship between management fashions and management research fashions, suggests that fashions follow wave patterns, and discusses the role of consultants in the development, diffusion and translation of a fashion. Draws on the author’s own doctoral thesis to illustrate how individuals can be influenced by a fashion, identifies similarities between sensitivity training and personal development, sees the former as a first-wave fashion and the latter as a second-wave, and profiles the techniques, methods and goals of the two fashions, pinpointing self-knowledge, and the belief that in order to understand others one must understand one’s self, as key concepts in both fashions. Analyses two doctoral theses, the first published in 1979 studying sensitivity training, the second published by the author in 2005 studying personal development, reports the author’s interviews with the first paper’s author, likens managers’ identity work in managing to researchers’ identity work in a dissertation, and concludes that both managers and researchers surf on the same or parallel, fashion waves. Originality/value – highlights the cyclic pattern of fashions, and shows how both researchers and practitioners are subject to fashions
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- Blombäck, Anna, et al.
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Identifying the Role of Heritage Communication : A Stakeholder-Function Framework
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Studies of Management and Organization. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0020-8825 .- 1558-0911. ; 46:4, s. 256-268
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article uses the case of family business to distinguish the range of potential aims and outcomes of corporate heritage communication. In family businesses, the challenges of heritage communication are particularly salient as the past of the firm is simultaneously that of the controlling family. Based on a study of 55 websites of Swedish and German family-owned firms, we classify aims and outcomes of heritage communication with reference to different stakeholders. Our findings elucidate the need to consider various stakeholders when planning heritage communications, and the value of such communication for different corporate functions, such as marketing, management and governance. To aid decision-making we offer a framework to map aims and stakeholders of heritage communication related to a company’s functions.
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- Boons, Frank, et al.
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Trajectories of greening : The diffusion of green organizational routines in the Netherlands, 1986-1995
- 2000
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Ingår i: International Studies of Management and Organization. - : Routledge. - 0020-8825 .- 1558-0911. ; 30:3, s. 18-40
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the Netherlands. there has been an ongoing effort by business firms and government organizations to deal with the ecological impact of industrial activities. Over the years. the set of organizational routines that firms employ to deal with their ecological impact is changing. In this article, we analyze first of all the change in this set of routines in the period 1986-1995. Then we address the question by what mechanisms these changes are brought about. Institutional theory provides us with three possible mechanisms (i.e., forms of isomorphism) by which such changes occur. Our analysis suggests that, in addition to these three forms, there are two distinct mechanisms of change. We also suggest that each mechanism leads to a certain kind of organizational change. We thus develop the concept of trajectories of change.
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- De Witte, Hans, et al.
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Associations between quantitative and qualitative job insecurity and well-being : A Test in Belgian banks
- 2010
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Ingår i: International Studies of Management and Organization. - 0020-8825 .- 1558-0911. ; 40:1, s. 40-56
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Most studies on the relationship between job insecurity and well-being have focused on the effects of employees’ overall concerns about the continued existence of the job as such (quantitative job insecurity). Comparatively little research has examined perceived threats to valued job features (qualitative job insecurity). The overall aim of this study was to investigate the relative strength of associations of quantitative and qualitative job insecurity with job-related (job satisfaction and burnout) and general (psychological distress and psychosomatic complaints) well-being, and health-related behavior (absence and medical consultation). Controlling for socio-demographics, negative affectivity and job characteristics, these relationships were tested in a sample of 7,146 Belgian employees from the banking sector. The results suggest that both quantitative and qualitative job insecurity are important stressors.
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- Frishammar, Johan
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Organizational environment revisited : a conceptual review and integration
- 2006
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Ingår i: International Studies of Management and Organization. - 0020-8825 .- 1558-0911. ; 36:3, s. 22-49
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Innumerable books and articles state that "the environment" is important to organizations and merits attention, as it is thought to influence organizations' actions as well as outcomes. Still, little agreement exists on what the environment is and how to apprehend it. This paper presents a review of four different perspectives in organization-environment research: the adaptive, the resource-dependence, the cognitive, and the population-ecology perspectives. All perspectives present assumptions about environmental structure, sources of environmental change, level of analysis, and so forth, but they also imply different meta-theoretical assumptions that constitute distinct frames of references. In this paper, the author suggests that the ideas in the realist paradigm in strategy research, the logic of appropriateness, and high general applicability and prescriptive value contribute to explaining the dominant position of the adaptive perspective. It is further argued that viewing "environment" from only one angle is too limited a conceptualization, and "environment" is suggested to be a feasible avenue for combining and integrating characteristics from different perspectives in order to overcome limitations with a single-frame approach.
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- Gabrielsson, Jonas, 1975-, et al.
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Context, behavior and evolution : Challenges in research on boards and governance
- 2004
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Ingår i: International Studies of Management and Organization. - Armonk, United States : M. E. Sharpe. - 0020-8825 .- 1558-0911. ; 34:02, s. 11-36
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we present an overview of empirical research on boards and governance in leading U.S. and international academic journals in general management. Samples, methods, theories, and main concepts are presented and compared. The contributions are positioned with respect to contingency perspectives, behavioral perspectives, and evolutionary perspectives. Through an analysis of 127 empirical articles, we find that most studies on boards and governance have been influenced by a research tradition that treats the board of directors as an isolated “black box.” Only few studies explore boards in context or explore behavioral perspectives of boards. Almost no studies include evolutionary perspectives. Based on our analysis, we explore alternative research streams and outline various directions for future research.
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