... of a corporate value system, (3) the centralization of an information and communication system and (4) the involvement of external consultants. Further analyses suggested an empowerment-control tension. In line with previous critical work on business empowerment practices, these organizational initiatives...

... receive, the amount of path breaking research being created and a degradation of standards of work in academia. Mats Alvesson can be contacted at: mats.alvesson@fek.lu.se © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Academia Autonomy Power Control It is often claimed...

... members by serving as an implicit form of managerial control. Findings The paper reveals how some texts, Mitroff and Denton's, in particular, advocate workplace spirituality as necessary for organizations and the individuals who work in them to prosper. Simultaneously, such texts may imply a form...

...Pauline Gleadle; Nelarine Cornelius; Eric Pezet; Graeme Salaman; Alan Lowe; Andrea McIntosh Purpose Managers at the company attempt to implement a knowledge management information system in an attempt to avoid loss of expertise while improving control and efficiency. The paper seeks to explore...

...Ed G.J. Vosselman; Jeltje van der Meer‐Kooistra Purpose To develop a model in which alternative patterns of management control are confronted with situational and institutional features in the context of transactional relationships. The model could be of use to managers in making rational...

...Gina Vega; Louis Brennan Management control over production has often meant control over one means of production: people. There is evidence of the use of social isolation to control human behavior throughout recorded history. Traces the development of social isolation through the multiple lenses...