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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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....

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....

"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...

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...

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 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...

"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...

Exclusion is the process by which some people are out-grouped, or the state experienced by those alienated and/or marginalised. Lived Experiences of Exclusion in the Workplace shares the emotional expressions of those who have faced alienation and marginalisation -- from subtle to traumatic....

"Organizations and Society examines the costs and consequences of social life that is dominated by rational control characteristic of bureaucratic organizations large and small. Students of all interests-those who wish to run organizations someday, study them, or simply understand their...

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...

Chapter 1 Prelude: The Sociomateriality and the Legacy of Structuration Theory -- Chapter 2 Actor Network Theory and The Problem of Describing Heterogeneity -- Chapter 3 The Theoretical Positions of Institutions and Technology in Organizational Institutionalism -- Chapter 4 The Materiality of...

"Within Entrepreneurship Education, Team Academy is seen by some as an innovative pedagogical model that enhances social connectivity, as well as experiential, student-centred and team-based learning. It also creates spaces for transformative learning to occur. This fourth book of the Routledge...

1. Team coaching practice in the UK, a comparative study Duncan Iraci, Berrbizne Urzelai, and Georgina Dance2. A Hybrid Model in Tourism Postgraduate Education - A Learning Journey Georgiana Els3. Increasing human agency through team learning in Finnish basic education Tuula Koivukangas and...