...Nicolas Hayoz Purpose This paper aims to demonstrate the heuristic value of Niklas Luhmann’s social theory for the analysis of autocracies, particularly the regime in Russia. A dictatorship can very well challenge central achievements of modern society, such as functional differentiation, within...

... of four cases of cross-border M&A deals of Chinese or Russian companies. As a result, the authors founded the combination of characteristics of cultural and organizational integration process of firms from China and Russia. Acquisitions made or attempted by EMNEs are not always successful, which...

... data of detailed accounts and case vignettes in production and retail in the Soviet period of the late 1970s and 1980s and from the construction sector in contemporary Russia, with a focus on the labour process, the authors inform and discuss key processes in the informal working of organizations...

... into organisational change and learning. Three manufacturing firms, one each from the UK, South Africa and Russia, were studied to investigate sensemaking under conditions of change. Data were collected through narrative interviews and interpreted using an inductive approach borrowing elements from grounded theory...

... in Russia. The proposed schema builds on the idea of the subject eternally divided between the imaginary conceptions of the self/the other, and the socio‐symbolic order, which is offered to theorize on the role of phantasy in this transformation. Findings The applied (psycho)‐analytic schema reveals why...

...Christa L. Walck Since the break‐up of the Soviet Union, the Western media and Western academics have used the benign rhetorical frames of“democratization”, “privatization”,“transition to a market economy” and “the management revolution” to explain events in post‐Soviet Russia. Reframes...

... former Soviet republics led by Boris Yeltsin's Russia. The resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev on December 25 virtually completed the formality of dissolving the centralized Soviet Government. The fundamental basis of the Commonwealth was, in fact, a rejection of centralized political power (Neuffer, 1991...

... of the new Moscow city government, the Personnel Centre broke apart in 1991. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Career counselling Consultants Personnel Russia JOCM 6,2 26 Organizational Development of a Management Consulting Company under the Sweeping Changes in the Former Soviet Union Anatoly V...

... of the collaborative management style suggest additional evolutionary crises not described in the original model. Organizational Change Management in Russia Organizational Change Management Alexander L. Katkov Johnson & Wales University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA 51 Nobody has the direct, simple concept of how...

... and feedback. Contradicts earlier claims that management theories are culturally limited, and extends the application potential of an already well‐established intervention technique. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Management techniques National cultures Organizational change Retail trade Rewards Russia...