... to police forces in The Netherlands and the United Kingdom to observe technology usage first hand. Comparing accounts across countries they analyzed how macro‐context impacted adoption decisions and implementation processes. In this analysis they concentrated on the five macro‐contextual factors...

... United Kingdom Management philosophy This conceptual paper explores the impact of the ever popular sustainability performance league tables on current university agendas. It draws on the critique of one such league table, the UK's “Green League Table” compiled by the student campaigning NGO...

... function. Comparative studies are essential here to vary the contexts in which organisational change and its meaning are understood. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Organizational change Sensemaking Stories Change management United Kingdom South Africa Russia The study...

... The originality of this paper is in the relatively un‐discussed nature of the role of the HR department in change initiatives at HEI and how this could be improved, therefore this could be beneficial for HR departments in this sector. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 United Kingdom Universities...

... United Kingdom Developmental peer review is the name given to a family of initiatives whereby outsiders with reputations for domain‐relevant experience and judgement are invited into an organisation in order to provide feedback on organizational processes and performance and suggest areas...

... Organizational change Building societies United Kingdom There is ample evidence that organizational identity (OI) can be changed (Albert et al., 2000 ; Chreim, 2005 ; Corley and Gioia, 2004 ; Nag et al., 2007 ; Whetten and Godfrey, 1998), especially within the contexts of identity...

...? In order to answer the above questions I set five research objectives: Lola‐Peach Martins can be contacted at: l.martins@mdx.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Line managers Human resource management Manufacturing industries United Kingdom Questions regarding...

... United Kingdom How individuals respond to change can be complex. Whilst an individual may welcome the imposed changes in theory, they may find its implementation uncongenial in practice. Such variance of response is sometimes referred to as ambivalence. Ambivalence, it is suggested here, involves...

... to a national‐centric approach in part as a consequence of post‐1945 ideological divisions. Rebecca Ryland can be contacted at: r.ryland@liverpool.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Trade unions United Kingdom Change management Communities This paper therefore explores...

... Bureaucracy United Kingdom Comment on the “end” of bureaucracy is derived from the view that bureaucratic rationalisation can no longer provide a viable basis for organising in the current context of radical uncertainty and turbulent change (Harvey, 1989 ; Kumar, 1995 ; Castells, 2000). Advocates...

..., an example of which is provided in Table I . Sarah E.A. Dixon can be contacted at: s.dixon@kingston.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Entrepreneurialism Corporate social responsibility; Sustainable development United Kingdom What motivates companies to embrace...

...”. Bureaucracy Innovation Communication technologies Digital libraries Organizational change United Kingdom Recent years have seen an increasing volume of comment on the supposed “end” of bureaucracy and its replacement by new and more flexible organisational forms in the emergent “knowledge society...

... meeting that expectation. Working practices Universities Critical management Public administration Bureaucracy United Kingdom Discussions of social and organisational change have apparently been “dominated by a ‘discourse of endings ’” (Courpasson and Reed, 2004, p. 6), such as the “end...

...?” © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Bureaucracy Civil service Postmodernism Organizational change United Kingdom Since the early‐1980s, a growing literature in a range of management sub‐disciplines has asserted that the age of bureaucracy has ended or is ending. It is said...

... of the profession through altering their relationship with their patients/clients and reconceptualising notions of service. The focus of analysis is the role of popular film and television images in negotiating these shifts in professional values. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Service Nurses United Kingdom...

.... Regulations Stakeholders Privatization Utilities United Kingdom Pricing When the UK Government initiated its process of privatisation of nationally owned utilities, one of the most controversial policies of recent times (Ogden and Anderson, 1995), it was felt necessary to compensate...

...Sara Carter The dynamics and performance of female‐owned companies in the United Kingdom are focused on. Women can be differentiated by behavioural and motivational factors in their desire to start up in business, although these groupings are fluid and women are capable of changing into different...