In this article, we analyze the longitudinal relationship between organizational reforms (with downsizing elements) and feminization of a specific managerial position. We maintain that two dominant contemporary approaches to reforms and change, i.e. the managerialist literature and its...

In this article, we analyze the longitudinal relationship between organizational reforms (with downsizing elements) and feminization of a specific managerial position. We maintain that two dominant contemporary approaches to reforms and change, i.e. the managerialist literature and its...

In this article, we analyze the longitudinal relationship between organizational reforms (with downsizing elements) and feminization of a specific managerial position. We maintain that two dominant contemporary approaches to reforms and change, i.e. the managerialist literature and its...

In this article, we put forth a comparative study of gender distinctions and relations within the processes of organizational reform in a German and a Finnish bank. We demonstrate how these processes are interwoven with assumptions about the 'ideal worker' (cf. Acker 1990; 1992) that organizational...

Deregulation of financial systems, internationalisation of financial markets andglobalisation of product markets have led to considerable changes in theinstitutional and economic environment of banks and small and medium sizedenterprises (SMEs)...

In this paper we examine debates concerned with national models of industrialorganisation. One school of thought has argued that distinct national models, orbusiness systems are a prevelent and enduring paradigm. Critiques of such anapproach argue that common global competitive pressures will...

The paper conceptualises processes of economic internationalisation as strong triggers for restructuration. The branch of business consultancies, a knowledge intensive service activity with recently expanding employment of women, is taken as an example to document and analyse rearrangements both...

Der Beitrag begreift wirtschaftliche Internationalisierungsprozesse als markante Auslöser für Restrukturierungen. Am Beispiel der Unternehmensberatung, einer wissensintensiven Dienstleistungsbranche mit in jüngster Zeit wachsender Frauenbeschäftigung, werden sektorbezogene und...