International Journal of Organizational Analysis: Volume 30 Issue 7

The connection between leader behaviour and employee sickness absence in public administration

Jernej Buzeti

The purpose of this study is to find the connection between leader behaviour and employee sickness absence in public administration.

Civil society organisations’ management dynamics and social value creation in the post-conflict volatile contexts pre and during COVID-19

Ahmad Arslan, Samppa Kamara, Ismail Golgeci, Shlomo Yedidia Tarba

The current paper aims to address the management dynamics of civil society organisations (CSOs) in volatile contexts. Along with analysing CSOs’ management dynamics at a general…

Towards emancipation through organizational (re)design? Exploring integral organizational renewal from a critical management perspective

Lucas Gronouwe, Matthijs Moorkamp, Max Visser

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a more pragmatic critical management studies (CMS), by exploring the emancipatory intent of organizational (re)design concepts and…

COVID-19 driven challenges in international B2B customer relationship management: empirical insights from Finnish high-tech industrial microenterprises

Ahmad Arslan, Ismail Golgeci, Zaheer Khan, Petri Ahokangas, Lauri Haapanen

This paper aims to focus on the influences of the COVID-19 pandemic on business-to-business (B2B) firms’ relationship initiation and customer relationship management in an…

The antecedents of leader-member-exchange (LMX) relationships in African context: the influence of the supervisor’s feedback delivery-tactic

Obinna Alo, Ahmad Arslan

The current paper aims to analyse the antecedents of leader–member exchange relationships (LMX) by specifically focusing on the influence of the supervisor’s feedback delivery…

What’s not to like about evidence-based management: a hyper-rational fad?

John F. Hulpke, Michael P. Fronmueller

A topic currently receiving significant academic and practitioner attention is called evidence-based management. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that this approach is…

The relationship between traditional project management, agile project management and teamwork quality on project success

Adebayo Agbejule, Lassi Lehtineva

The aim of the study is to explore how the different combinations of traditional and agile project management (APM) enhance project success under different levels of teamwork…

Measuring corporate social responsibility: an evaluation of a new sustainable development goals index for Fortune 500 companies

Dasom Lee, David J. Hess

The purpose of this study is to explore, develop, and evaluate a new sustainable development goals (SDG) index that quantifies corporate social responsibility (CSR). By providing…

The effects of spiritual expression at work during the COVID-19 crisis: evidence from a private hospital

Johanna Anzengruber

This paper aims to explain the effects of spirituality at work on organizational commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic. In detail, it investigates whether the active part of…

Tacit knowledge in blue-collar work: how workers use it to fulfil their side of the psychological contract

Tiina Saari, Tuija Koivunen

This study aims to analyse the role of tacit knowledge in fulfilling employees’ side of the psychological contract in blue-collar work.

Co-workership: development of an assessment tool

Gerry Larsson, Ann Elisabet Zander, Marianne Lönngren

The purpose of this study was to develop an easy-to-use, theoretically well-founded and psychometrically sound assessment tool of the concept co-workership.

Clarifying the conceptual map of VUCA: a systematic review

Burcu Taskan, Ana Junça-Silva, António Caetano

Over the past few decades, the environment for organisations has been frequently described using the acronym VUCA: a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment. In…