This paper systematically reviews research on organizational socialization by examining ten key theories within four major perspectives: Uncertainty Reduction, Identity Affiliation, Social Exchange, and Resource. We aim to address three main research questions: (1) What motivates individuals to...

Die Abteilung für Organisations- und Innovationssoziologie hat im Oktober 2009 als neu eingerichteter Lehrstuhl am Institut für Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Stuttgart ihren Betrieb aufgenommen. Dieser Text gibt einen Überblick über die ersten fünfzehn Jahre unserer Forschungs- und...

This study provides a comprehensive review of the intellectual structure and current dynamics of onboarding and socialization research. Using the Web of Science (WoS) database, we found 452 research articles that met the inclusion criteria. Biblioshiny R-package and VOSviewer were used for the...

The pursuit of social goals and ethics in business creates challenges. Sustained efforts to address poverty, environmental degradation or health/wellbeing require meaningful and transformative responses that impact across multiple levels - individual, community and the global collective....

As the main agents of economic growth world-wide, corporations embody a paradoxical role in our current social and political order. They are increasingly viewed as legitimate partners and subjects of global governance and the sustainable transition, but they are also routinely involved in...

The socio-political system that has developed over the last several decades has had a detrimental effect on our societal values and has all but brought the nation to a standstill. The way that individuals work and act has been significantly impacted as a result. Our ideas of human resource...

Obviously one of the threshold questions in the field of organizational studies is defining exactly what is meant by the term “organization.” There are a wide variety of definitions with the words and emphasis changing depending upon the academic school of thought. The simple neoclassical...

"Organizational sociology is a distinct field within sociology that examines how the structure of the group influences, limits, and defines human interactions within a given organizational context"-- Provided by publisher

"Organizations construct their environments themselves. From the bewildering, chaotic array of impressions, they take those bits of information that enable them to produce such a view of the environment - one that makes it possible for them to operate in the environment with relative...

Purpose - This study aims to examine the effects of occupational characteristics on the length of time required to socialize newcomers. The authors examine task mastery, role clarity and social acceptance as indicators of socialization. Design/methodology/approach - To test the hypotheses, the...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Though organizational scholarship traces its intellectual lineage from a diversity of sources, there is little doubt that in recent years a key divide has emerged amongst organization scholars and sociologists....

"Why do some countries succeed while others struggle? Why are some firms profitable while rivals fail? Why do some marriages thrive and others end in divorce? These questions seem unrelated, but societies, companies, and marriages have one important thing in common: they involve more than one...

Abstract Despite being conjointly stronger in their synergies in the past, there is still a significant gap between management and organization studies and sociology. The temporal lag is also, on occasion, a substantive lag. The emergent sociological concept of emotional reflexivity has recently...

Abstract Organizational sociology and organization studies have a long history together, while also sharing a proclivity to self-diagnose crises. Instead of taking these assessments at face value, this paper treats them as an object of study, asking what conditions have fueled them. In the case...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The higher education and research system faces a constant dilemma. On the one hand, research and higher education are run by autonomous, interrelated academic communities, often described as collegial governance....

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This paper underlines the concept of the organization of information as a process and attempts to understand how information is organized for storage and retrieval. It examines a similar concept of Knowledge Organization (KO) and argues that though Information organization (IO) is a process much...

A rich literature argues that interorganizational networks foster learning and coordinated adaptation among their constituents, but embedded ties between organizations are not ubiquitous. What explains this heterogeneity? Acknowledging the influence of agency relationships within organizations...

This is a descriptive study of the structure of communications in a modern organization. We analyze a dataset with millions of electronic mail messages, calendar meetings and teleconferences for many thousands of employees of a single, multidivisional firm during a three-month period in calendar...

The author, Maurizio Catino, has undertaken a meticulous examination of criminal organizations that dominate the illicit marketplace throughout the world. The Mafia, Cosa Nostra, Camorra, ‘Ndrangheta, Triads, Yakuza, and the South American cartels are dissected and their respective...

"In Organization Theory: Management and Leadership Analysis, Jesper Blomberg explores the fields of organization theory and management, making sense of complex theories and encouraging critical thinking"--

Ein überraschender Blick auf Themen, bei denen viele der Überzeugung sind, dass sie sich diesbezüglich bereits eine klare Meinung gebildet haben. Was für ein Irrtum! Warum starten Organisationen Reformen, nur damit alles beim Gleichen bleiben kann? Weswegen verschwindet zwangsläufig die...