Purpose – The purpose of this research was to offer an autonomous motivation perspective to explore the relationship between perceived overqualification and adaptive work behavior and examine job autonomy as a factor that may moderate the association. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Cars are central to modern life the world over. When ownership and use of cars becomes widespread in a society – decades ago in most of the western world; more recently in China, India, and many other countries – we can readily identify substantial changes: its centrality to economic activity...

This special issue had it roots in a symposium organized by Tammar Zilber and Roy Suddaby for the Academy of Management 2003 annual meetings in Seattle. The symposium was titled "Reclaiming the Symbolic in Institutional Theory" and represented an effort to refocus research attention on the...