In this paper, we aim at exploring whether and how "organised" clusters can be conceived of as deliberate actors within their contexts. Seeing such clusters as meta-organisations, we suggest that these can make "organisationality" design choices, or decisions regarding full or partial...

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....

Politicians have limited ability to influence policy. This provides an incentive for politicians to feign, whereby they propose policies that voters demand but then exert little effort toward progressing such policies. This feigning behavior is more likely to occur when the politician's...

Introduction: Taking Bourdieu further into studies of organizations and management / Sarah Robinson, Jette Ernst, Kristian Larsen, and Ole Jacob Thomassen -- Caught between times : explaining resistance to change through the tale of Don Quixote / Henrik Koll & Jette Ernst -- Recalling or...

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...

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...

According to implicit leadership literature, actor-national culture fitness is a necessity to be labeled as a leader. However, studies which focus on implicit leadership theory and national culture have some contradictory findings. A systematic review of these studies reveals that participants...

This thesis engages with the organizing of participation in participatory art that constitutes the so-called social turn in contemporary visual art. The purpose of the research project is to generate new knowledge about participatory art, in particular, by investigating the organizational...

While the usefulness of the attention-based view in understanding the role of headquarters-subsidiary relationships in multinational companies (MNC) is well established, recent research on corporate headquarters (CHQ) has moved beyond the simplistic conception of CHQ as a unitary entity. In this...

Recently, the issue of metaphors in organizational studies has fascinated researchers’ attention and interests, leading to a substantial body of research generating theoretical understandings, philosophical concepts, insightful meanings, and experiential interpretations. In this review paper,...

Das Institut für Organisationsökonomik (IO) an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster ist inzwischen neun Jahre alt. Der 9. Jahresbericht informiert über das neunte Jahr, d. h. über das Wintersemester 2018/2019 und das Sommersemester 2019. Wie in den Vorjahren werden das Institut...

Die Hervorbringung von Kreativität in der Mode beruht auf einem komplexen Zusammenspiel verschiedener Bedingungen. Judith Nyfeler untersucht die daran beteiligten Akteure samt ihrer spezifischen Organisationsweisen (Routinen, Technologien, Projekte, Kooperationen) und sprachlichen...

Symbol systems can provide topic-specific languages comprising multimodal grammars and vocabularies. Symbol systems can facilitate mutual knowledge for innovation when people do not already have a common language for effective communication about an innovation. For example, there can be a lack...

The Emerald Handbook of Group and Team Communication Research considers the current research of group communication scholars, provides an overview of major foci in the discipline, and points toward possible trajectories for future scholarship. It establishes group communication's central role...

The concepts of practice and institution are of longstanding importance across the social sciences. This double-volume builds directly on the scholarship of Theodore Schatzki and Roger Friedland, to map out new theoretical and empirical directions at the interface between the practice and...

The concepts of practice and institution are of longstanding importance across the social sciences. This double-volume builds directly on the scholarship of Theodore Schatzki and Roger Friedland, to map out new theoretical and empirical directions at the interface between the practice and...

"Interest in anthropology and ethnography has been an on-going feature of organizational research and pedagogy, The Routledge Companion to Anthropology, Ethnography and Organization Studies provides a key reference text that examines these criteria and that pulls together the different ways in...

Part I - Organizational Dignity: Different Perspectives -- 1. From Dignity in Organizations to Dignity Inter Organizational -- 2. Organizational Dignity, Social Responsibility and Business Ethics -- 3. Organizational Dignity in the Light of Boaventura Souza Santos.-4. Dignity in the Foucauldian...

Why won't my TV turn on? -- Where has empathy gone? -- Outside in, not inside out -- Politics: the invisible straitjacket -- You have been denied access to this chapter -- Show me your deck! -- What's that lurking in the shadows? Aggh, it's a rule!! -- Fear and loathing in the corporate world --...

"This book explores the latest concepts, issues, challenges, innovations, and opportunities covering all aspects of modern organizations. Moreover, it is comprised of content that highlights major breakthroughs, discoveries, and authoritative research results as they pertain to all aspects of...