...Oskar Tengblad; Anna Karin Olsson; Kristina M. Eriksson Purpose This article aims to explore how manufacturing organizations navigate digital transformation in the era of Industry 5.0, with particular attention to management and learning. By applying the frameworks of dynamic capabilities...

...Anna Zabłocka-Kluczka; Anna Katarzyna Sałamacha Purpose The role of brand management in contemporary organizations is very important and consistently growing due to the increasingly difficult competitive conditions on the market. Moreover, the significance of organizational resilience...

... to organizational behavior involving timely purposeful change. Practical implications As managers strive to improve the performance of their organizations in turbulent conditions, the paper provides a useful enhanced understanding of the relative roles that flexibility, resilience and coping capacity play...

... to which staff and management experienced the practical difficulties and challenges and what resolution actions they took. Eighty-five semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2004/2005 and 2011 with the staff and management of four SMEs in the UK. An interpretative analysis was conducted on the case...

...Ronald Soetaert; Kris Rutten In previous research on rhetoric and narrative in management research, cultural narratives have been studied as tools to reflect on rhetorical situations from the perspective of management. The purpose of this paper is to present a similar exploration of rhetoric...

... is positive, impressive, and fascinating” (p. 15). This is what French philosopher Baudrillard (1994, 2005) calls Simulacra and Simulation and the triumph of “sign-value” over use-value. Meanwhile management – less philosophically – became known as “Impression Management” (Rosenfeld et al...

... initiatives. Findings These leaders appear to: design from a deep inner foundation, including grounding their work in transpersonal meaning; access non‐rational ways of knowing, and use systems, complexity, and integral theories; and adaptively manage through “dialogue” with the system, three distinct...

... learning. Originating in writings of Revans (1980) , AL has become a popular method of organizational development, embracing a wide variety of approaches (Elden and Chisholm, 1993). While these approaches vary according to the degree of inquiry, critical reflection, management control and technical...

... wholeness in spirituality research: embracing other ways of knowing” © MCB UP Limited 2003 Beliefs Work Management Religion In the winter of 2002, a very interesting and passionate discussion took place on the management, spirituality and religion (MSR) listserve, sponsored...

...David Collins This paper offers a critical analysis of recent developments in management knowledge. Observing that detractors have sought to “brand” developments in management knowledge as faddish and insubstantial distortions of the nature of management and the realities of organization, the paper...

...Henri Savall This article presents the socio‐economic model founded and developed by the author since 1973. It focuses on the fundamental hypothesis of the socio‐economic approach to management (SEAM) and demonstrates how the model is a system‐ wide approach to change management. The lack...

...David Boje; Grace Ann Rosile The purpose of this article is to explore the similarities and differences in the socio‐economic approach to management (SEAM) method and postmodern approaches to theatre. Neither metaphorical nor managerialist, SEAM's perspective allows that the organization is theatre...

...David Boje; Grace Ann Rosile The purpose of this article is to compare and contrast the socio‐economic approach to management (SEAM) with 15 large system change methods. All 16 of these methods are part of the transorganizational development (TD) gameboard (see the Web site at http://web.nmsu.edu...

...Michel Péron; Monique Péron This article brings out the numerous connections that can be established between the socio‐economic approach to management (SEAM) considered as an architecture and the postmodern movement. The authors analyze the contribution of SEAM to the postmodern management approach...

...Véronique Zardet; Olivier Voyant For more than a century companies’ organizational variables have been studied and researched. Historically, the practice is to focus on the precursors in the management sciences field, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Henri Fayol and Max Weber, the founders...

...Georges Trepo; Fabien de Geuser Attempts to explain the sources of the basic assumption of the socio‐economic approach to management (SEAM): the existence of hidden costs and performance. These are due to the heterogeneity of situations and to the presence of multiple contradictions...

... tenure. The problems associated with the subsequent CEO succession and the different levels of management that interact in these change processes are also discussed. This leads to the identification of a number of drivers and determinants of shapes of organizational change. Tushman and Romanelli (1985...

...Lloyd C. Harris; Andrew Crane The green management literature repeatedly argues that in order to behave in a sustainable manner, organizational actions will need to go beyond technical fixes and embrace new environmentally responsible values, beliefs and behaviors. In this context, developing...

... into competition that is increasingly knowledge‐based. This increasingly knowledge‐based nature of competition is driving change in how supply chains are being managed within and across firms. It also signals a demographic shift in the workforce to knowledge work whose mobile exponents demand a different type...

... and assistance on matters of content, we argue that clients’ manifest requests for assistance are also almost always implicit calls for emotional help. The emotional help that consultants may provide consists of effectively managing the client’s emotional needs in two arenas: the situation in which the client...