... in the firm. Design/methodology/approach The paper considers the boundaries in terms of: perspectives (legal/proprietary, responsibility and control); stakeholders (shareholders and managers as well as labour, governments and suppliers) and dimensions (organization of production, geographical/by nation...

..., this will allow us to analyze the dynamics and interactions between RAND, as the colonial force, and the Vietnamese interviewees, as the colonized voices. Thus, our paper is organized in accordance with the hermeneutic circle. We will first introduce the RAND documents we plan to analyze. This section...

... and Uganda (ibid). Hence, the empirical set‐up illustrates a high corruption distance between the investor and the host country, and the resulting managerial challenges. Our theoretical perspective is the neo‐institutional organisation theory, which we use to identify strategic responses that Finnish...

...Chris Land Myths Organizations Fiction Culture Article Type: Book reviews From: critical perspectives on international business, Volume 6, Issue 4 Organizational Olympians. Heroes and Heroines of Organizational Myths ,M. Kostera,Palgrave Macmillan,Basingstoke...

...Peter Stokes; Ryan Bishop; John Phillips; Ryan Bishop; John Phillips Purpose This conceptual paper is offered in place of a systematic analysis of militarization in organizations and the wider world. It proceeds on the understanding that militarization implies deep historical tendencies...

...Peter Stokes; Ryan Bishop; John Phillips; Peter Stokes; Ryan Bishop; John Phillips Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a special issue which looks into how militarization can be seen as an entity from which international business, management and organization can or cannot glean...

... culture and men's practices in general. To what extent and how do the organisational arrangements and military culture shape men's social bonding in, but also around, the peacekeeping organisation? © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 To answer these questions, I look at men's bonding...

..., Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Organizations . London : Sage   2005 . 146 pp. , ISBN: 141290191X   £13.99 (Paperback) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Organizations Management Theory Learning Explaining the distinction between...

... is examined not idealistically but in terms of current social and intellectual conditions Hugo Letiche can be contacted at: h.letiche@uvh.nl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Critical management Management theory Organizations The Netherlands Politics Social welfare Will CMS...

...Hugo Letiche; Ruud Kaulingfreks; Robert van Boeschoten; Robert van Boeschoten Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use media studies as a creative impulse for critical research into practices of organization. Design/methodology/approach Through an aesthetic reflection on the use of media...

... story, to try to understand the consequences of attending to context. We (the faculty) had to design two new courses on Organization and organizing for the (part‐time) executive masters at the Erasmus University Rotterdam [4] . This entailed some pretty well‐know problems. We (the teachers) had...

... political and ethical ones, and remains deeply unreflexive. Originality/value The use of postcolonial theory in relation to organisation studies is in its infancy with only a limited number of studies directly related to that critical practice. This paper, then, is a contribution to an important...