Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that Slawek Magala’s theory of management of meaning in organisations can be considered as a step towards a generic theory of organisational change. Design/methodology/approach – The authors are integrating Slawek Magala’s views on the...

Purpose – While emotions and feelings arise in the singular personality, they may also develop a normative dimensionality in a plural agency. The authors identify the cybernetic systemic principles of how emotions might be normatively regulated and affect plural agency performance. The purpose...

Das Konzept des individuellen Kulturschocks ist bekannt. Es beschreibt psychische und mitunter auch physische Belastungen während des Aufenthalts in einer fremden Kultur, die durch die Konfrontation zwischen eigener und fremder Kultur ausgelöst werden. Nach der Meinung der Autoren gibt es...

In 339 interviews we identified 449 time related and culturally determined critical incidents. We can clearly distinguish time behaviour of Anglo-German managers from that of managers from France and Italy and East Central Europe. These incidents with East Central European Managers can be...