Measuring organizational legitimacy has become a challenge for researchers because they face a mul-tilevel construct, where diverse terminologies, approaches, and evaluators converge. As a consequence,researchers have developed different conceptual proposals that have, in turn, given rise to...

Mediation as a ‘preemptive discipline’ is introduced with relevant theories and research, including from psychology and business studies.The paper is contemporary descriptive using a conflict that is very present in modern discussion: The sustainability of nature in contrasted with business...

In recent years, many new approaches have emerged regarding the effective and efficient management of organizations. These approaches are included in the literature with different disciplines and different perspectives. The main purpose of all these studies is to ensure sustainability. Among...

This paper studies how labor income taxation interacts with the organization of knowledge and production, and ultimately the distribution of wages in the economy. A more progressive tax system reduces the time that managers allocate to work. This makes the organization of production less...

We examine how two highly successful new biotechnology firms (NBFs) source their most critical input -- scientific knowledge. We find that scientists at the two NBFs enter into large numbers of collaborative research efforts with scientists at other organizations, especially universities. Formal...

Chapter 1 An Attempt to Introduction -- Chapter 2 Organisational Fields and Organisational Processes -- Chapter 3 Introduction to Organisation Structuralism -- Chapter 4 Fundamental properties of Organisational Structuralism: from homogeneity to autonomy -- Chapter 5 Methodological Foundations...

"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...

Widening International Entrepreneurship Research addresses several unresolved questions and thus moves forward by acknowledging that future international entrepreneurship research needs to find new ways to further enrich its knowledge. The book presents the results of six studies that explain...

Widening International Entrepreneurship Research addresses several unresolved questions and thus moves forward by acknowledging that future international entrepreneurship research needs to find new ways to further enrich its knowledge. The book presents the results of six studies that explain...

Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt am Beispiel der betriebswirtschaftlichen Organisationslehre und der Wirtschaftsinformatik auf, dass die Beschränkung auf tradierte disziplinspezifische Perspektiven nicht geeignet ist, den vielschichtigen Auswirkungen der digitalen Transformation gerecht zu werden....

This research is from the point of view of purpose, applied and heuristic and from the point of view of nature, it is descriptive-survey which has used thematic analysis and structural equation modeling method. Therefore, this research was a mixed research that was done by qualitative and...

1 Researching values in leadership and organisation. Introduction -- Part I: Methodological approaches to researching values -- 2 Values at work: Mapping the field through the lens of methodological approaches -- 3 Definitions as Initial and Final Point of Values Research? Searching for...

Part 1. Foundations of complexity in organizational theories -- Early attempts to deal with complexity in organizations -- Cybernetics: the rise of a systems science to control complexity -- Systems theories and complexity in organizations -- The origins of complexity theories in organizations...

"Discourse-based approaches to studying organizations have grown in significance over the last 25 years. This accessible and insightful book exemplifies how to use a discursive approach to study organizations. By drawing on her own empirical research, Cynthia Hardy aligns key theoretical...

PrefacePart1: Data1. Organizational Data and its Implications for Research and Theory - Rick Guzzo 2. Using Other Peoples' Data: Implications of Reliance on Meta-analysis and Archival Data - Frank Bosco and James Field3. Data sharing and Data Integrity - Martin Göetz and James Field 4. Using...

We critically review the emerging literature in Organizational and Personnel Economics concerning the role of managers and management practices. Our focus is on the middle managers who populate the hierarchies between top executives and front-line employees. We are especially concerned with...

Part 1. Foundations of complexity in organizational theories -- Early attempts to deal with complexity in organizations -- Cybernetics: the rise of a systems science to control complexity -- Systems theories and complexity in organizations -- The origins of complexity theories in organizations...