The rise of modern corporations has been accompanied by an expansion of salaried executives who have replaced owner-managers. With this expansion, the new class of managers/executives came to regard themselves as stewards of large and complex corporations, and not principally or exclusively as...

This text reviews the significance of the business process reengineering trend for management practice. The authors show how term and practice shaped the adopted policies of downsizing restructuring and emphasis on process rather than task

Purpose From a perspective of ‘critical performativity’, John Lewis is of special interest since it is celebrated as a successful organization and heralded as an alternative to more typical forms of capitalist enterprise. Methodology/approach Our analysis uses secondary empirical material...