... 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...

... rights only Organizations Colonialism Critical management Post-colonialism Postcolonial theory not only uses “texts” – such as press reports, archival material or tourism brochures – but also examines institutional processes and cultural events within organizations to disclose hidden...

... in international business by identifying the firm size as a key determinant for strategic responses to host country corruption. Neo‐institutional organisation theorists have, however, later started to criticise the idea of institutional isomorphism for its strong environmental determinism with little room...

...Chris Land Mythical Inspirations for Organizational Realities ,M. Kostera,Palgrave Macmillan,Basingstoke,2008c,208 pp.,ISBN: 9780230515734,£60 Keywords: Myths, Organizations, Fiction, Culture The three volumes of “Mythologies of Organizational Everyday Life”contain 41...

...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...

... then contextualise the analysis in terms of some reflections on the history of Finland and recent debates on defence. The analytic exploration of the ethnographic data from the peacekeeping organisation looks into four forms of social relations: hierarchies; management of an office; alcohol use and its control...

...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...

..., 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...

...” and the “Dutch society”? What justifies the use of such reifications as “Dutch”, “society”, or “organization”? And what happens to the writer's persona, when it makes use of these categories? The pretence to provide an overview of the development of organizational studies in Holland assumes that one person...

...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...

.... Burrell and Morgan (1979) and later Morgan (1986 , 1997), as well as Maas (1988) , Chia (1996a) , Hatch (1997) , Shafritz and Ott (2001) , Jaffee (2001) , and Clegg (2002) , have all taken the stand that we perceive organization differently [2] . From the early 1980s onwards, OS theorists have...

... 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...