International Journal of Organizational Analysis: Volume 22 Issue 2

Pilot study on university English teachers' professional autonomy in France

Nadia Yassine-Diab, Nolwena Monnier, Françoise Lavinal

This paper aims at understanding teachers' (the authors refer to “teachers” in higher education as lecturers or senior lecturers) professional autonomy in the context of the…

Supply chain management, supply performance and total quality management: An organizational characteristic analysis

Assadej Vanichchinchai

This study aims to assess the level of supply chain management practices (SCMP), total quality management practices (TQMP) and firm's supply performance (FSP) in the automotive…

Probing organizational efficiency

Necmi Kemal Avkiran

In investigating the performance of multidivisional organizations, ability to account for each division's importance and contribution enhances the deftness of resource allocation…

IT project risk assessment of learning organizations by fuzzy set and systems

Osman Taylan

IT projects carry high risk of failure due to the existence of great obstacles during the planning, application and development phase. The projects' risks are multi-dimensional…

Distributed expertise and instructions

Irene Valsecchi

The idea of Simon according to which instructions are premises for further decisions is formalized with respect to informationally decentralized organizations. The paper aims to…

Relationship between transformational leadership behaviors and manufacturing strategy

M. Birasnav

It is widely agreed that top management's leadership behavior is a source for achieving and sustaining competitive advantage. Very few research studies analyzed the prevalence of…

Surveying organizational culture to explore grid-group cultural theory: Instrument design and preliminary empirical results

Kristel Wouters, Jeroen Maesschalck

– The aim of this study was to develop a valid and reliable measurement instrument for organizational culture on the basis of grid-group cultural theory (GGCT).

Using politeness to model the psychosocial dynamics of power in organizational interaction

David A. Morand

The purpose is to show how actors' relative power or parity is dynamically instanced in discrete speech behaviors that are exchanged throughout everyday organizational…

Erratum

Special issue on leading for organizational excellence in the Middle East