The BSE crisis represents one of the worst policy disasters experienced by a UK government in recent years. In material terms, it led to the slaughter of 3.3 million cattle and an estimated economic loss of £3.7 billion. In administrative terms, the crisis led to the dissolution of the Ministry...

Three historical case studies from Polish manufacturing industry are used to evaluate the rise of survival networks in Poland during the early 1990s. The article poses the question of whether survival networks represented a hidden driver of organisational transformation and change in...

Three historical case studies from Polish manufacturing industry are used to evaluate the rise of survival networks in Poland during the early 1990s. The article poses the question of whether survival networks represented a hidden driver of organisational transformation and change in...

This article explores the workings of Reputational Dialogues (RD) (as a form of organizational discourse); within the setting of a UK NHS hospital that has encountered disaster. The disaster in question took place at the Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI), circa 1984-1995; and is thought to have incurred...

Within organization theory, reputation is something we have come to associate with embeddedness research. This short paper seeks to develop a research agenda for new reputational research that draws inspiration from, but also seeks to move beyond, the embeddedness thematic.