Why did women writers do so well in the early American film industry? Content analysis of articles published in Moving Picture World and the New York Times, 1907-27, shows early film studios were flexible in job assignments and collaborated with other studios. This non-bureaucratic configuration...

This article explores producing and managing change within conversationally constructed realities. Conversations are proposed as both the medium and product of reality construction within which change is a process of shifting conversations in the network of conversations that constitute...

An international investigation of corporate approaches to learning, renewal and transformation reveals that the emergence of network and virtual models of organisation has profound implications for career development, and for the approaches to corporate learning, and to change, relationship and...

The focus of this paper is on divesting in-house trade activities into franchising operations. Conventional wisdom and assets analysis would suggest that firm growth objectives could only be attained through investments whereas an asset shrinking (a divestment) will necessarly determine a...

Unilever‐Sagit is the main Italian competitor in the Italian frozen food market. The company has very recently innovated its distribution channel by creating a private Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) network. Examines the effects generated by the implementation of EDI technology on supply...

Although strategic alliances are increasingly commonplace, our understanding of these ventures is still evolving. Drawing on a consulting experience in a network organization, presents an intervention framework focused on issues related to creation, maintenance and assessment. Emphasizes lessons...

One of the consequences of trends in business worldwide has been the emergence of the “network form” organization ‐ alliances of independent operating units bound together by a mutuality of interests and shared visions of the future for their industry rather than as subsidiaries of a...