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The favored “logic‐in‐use” research: The referring to concepts in organization studies publications
Suleika BortSince research evaluations have made their way into the academic system and the “publish or perish” doctrine pressures researchers to enlarge their publication list, it has become…
Competition and choice: banks and savings banks in Spain
J. Carles Maixé‐AltésThe purpose of this paper is to examine how Spanish savings banks have come to compete directly with commercial banks. It also looks at how regulatory changes and corporate…
Organizational identity and symbioticity: Parco as an urban medium
Toyoko SatoExamining aspects of organizational identity, this paper revisits McLuhan's media theory in connection with W.R. Scott's insight that organizations themselves are the medium. The…
The hierarchical consequences of reinvention: evidence from the American bureaucracy
Andrew B. WhitfordPolitical reorganizations like that of the national performance review in the USA fundamentally alter hierarchical relations within public agencies. This paper includes a set of…
Education and the masculinization of hospital administration
Margarete ArndtHospital administration in the USA represents a rare instance of a female‐dominated occupation that masculinized. Advocacy for the change in social identity began in the early…
The corporate governance of Benedictine abbeys: What can stock corporations learn from monasteries?
Katja Rost, Emil Inauen, Margit Osterloh, Bruno S. FreyThis paper aims to analyse the governance structure of monasteries to gain new insights and apply them to solve agency problems of modern corporations. In an historic analysis of…
Historical lessons in purchasing and supplier relationship management
M.L. EmilianiThe purpose of this paper is to examine the key recommendations of early practitioners of purchasing management regarding supplier relationships and how policies and practices for…
ISSN:
1751-1348e-ISSN:
1758-7751ISSN-L:
1751-1348Online date, start – end:
2006Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Bradley Bowden
- Jeffrey Muldoon