...Mariusz Tomasz Wolonciej Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce new perspectives on the job position analysis practice rooted in the traditional person-job fit approach. It highlights selected theoretical assumptions and the case of a company challenged by hidden cultural constraints...

...Buriata Eti-Tofinga; Gurmeet Singh; Heather Douglas Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships and influences of change enablers for social enterprises in organizations undergoing cultural change. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through a survey of social...

...Piet Moonen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the importance of cultural values, the organizational culture and management style for innovation. It also comparatively evaluates the actual performance of European countries in innovation. Design/methodology/approach In this paper...

...Taran Patel Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address four questions: what are the drawbacks of an over reliance on the objectivist tradition in culture in international business (CIB) scholarship? Is a shift from mono-paradigmatic to multi-paradigmatic cultural research justified? What...

...Dr Marja Flory and Dr Juup Essers; Brendan McSweeney Purpose – Although vanquished in anthropology, the notion “national culture” as a set of unique, shared, closed, enduring, coherent, determinate subjective values has been repopularized in management by Global Leadership and Organizational...

... possible an investigation of how a program of strategic change was formed through the discursive framing of organizational reality. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Strategy Culture Discourse Change Since the 1960s the language and tools of strategy have become integral...

... Acemoglu and James Robinson Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty Turkey Crown Business 2012 546pp. 0307719219 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 --> Innovation Culture Creative destruction Extractive institutions Inclusive...

... of the consultant to pay attention to the context instead of ignoring it. Cultural outsiders endeavor “to understand the meaning and significance of unfamiliar perspectives and behaviors and to devise courses of action that are appropriate in the new milieu” (Debebe, 2012, p. 11). Debebe, G. Navigating...

... Making Wicked Problems Governable? The Case of Managed Networks in Health Care Oxford University Press 2013 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 --> Networks Culture Health care Post-bureaucratic An initial perusal of the two books, Making Wicked...

.... Organizational change Contingency analysis Culture Leadership Environmental scan Police Public security Public management International environment Costs of change Policing Organizational change is omnipresent, being the raison d'être of the consultancy industry (Sorge and van...

... other, and the metaphor of organization as family, are discovered. These concepts are highly adaptable to the new present and should be supported and facilitated in order to create trans‐cultural sameness. Research limitations/implications The contribution of this article is to show how to utilize...

...Domingo Ribeiro‐Soriano; David Urbano; Ricardo Hernández‐Mogollon; Gabriel Cepeda‐Carrión; Juan G. Cegarra‐Navarro; Antonio Leal‐Millán Purpose There is no empirical evidence, particularly in relation to small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs), to support the concept of cultural barriers and how...

...Heather Höpfl; Peter Case; Iiris Aaltio; Jiehua Huang Purpose This study seeks to focus on Chinese women managers and gender aspects in information technology (IT) management. Design/methodology/approach Women managers' experience on career is explored in relation to the Chinese cultural...

...Gerald W. Ramey; Maria Viorica Grigoruţă Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify means and opportunities available to managers in Romanian companies in order to successfully undergo the process of integration in the European Union, by accepting the cultural diversity in the global...

...Jennifer Palthe; Ellen Ernst Kossek Past research suggests that most culture change efforts proceed with limited attention to the pluralistic nature of contemporary organizations. We argue that the relationship between organization subcultures and the implementation of new HR strategies into HR...

... of critical theory, the social research project initiated by a group of scholars known as the “Frankfurt School”, we may challenge this degradation of knowledge and its companion, human domination. A critical theory of interorganizational change reveals three forms of organizational imperialism: cultural...

..., and the performance of the organization. Findings from the research did not vindicate the assumption in the culture literature that organizational culture has a direct and predictable effect on organizational performance, as the organization performed very well according to stakeholders′ criteria, in spite...

...Howard S. Schwartz The US manned space flight program is interpreted as an expression of American culture. Since the inception of the program one can detect a regression in the projected image from that which the original astronauts built around themselves to that which NASA constructed...