We show that firm internationalization is affected by the interaction between the board of directors’ female share and gender-related institutions in foreign countries. The combination of a high share of female directors and gender-discriminating institutions in a destination reduces sales in...

The introduction of AI to augment business decisions has strained the standard ethical approaches in business ethics, where the firm is to focus on the interests of stakeholders (SHs). Unique attributes of AI and AI research – reinforcing systems of power, surreptitious yet pervasive data...

Although school autonomy is often advocated as a way to improve student achievement, many countries are experiencing a counterbalancing trend: the emergence of 'chains' that bind schools together into structures with varying degrees of centralization. Despite their prominence, no evidence exists...

Organizations, both non-profit and for-profit, needs to allocate labor for both production as well as internal administration. If this allocation is skewed towards internal administration, organizations, and especially non-profit organizations, might develop sclerosis over time with too much...

An organization can be likened to a building whose strength is determined by the structure and frames which holds it. The structure is the manner in which interrelated elements (resources) are arranged so that the building can be stable, resist stress and it provides the right form. To this end,...

Das Institut für Organisationsökonomik (IO) an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster wurde am 1. Oktober 2010 gegründet. Dieser 11. Jahresbericht informiert über das elfte Jahr, d. h. über das Wintersemester 2020/21 und das Sommersemester 2021. Wie in den Vorjahren werden zuerst...

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...

Organizations, both non-profit and for-profit, needs to allocate labor for both production as well as internal administration. If this allocation is skewed towards internal administration, organizations, and especially non-profit organizations, might develop sclerosis over time with too much...

This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i) Task specialization and the division of labor is...

Violent political insurgencies display resilient structures that allow their growth and success. They must provide incentives to avoid internal rent-seeking among the members and, at the same time, discourage coalitions from undermining the direction and control of the insurgency. I study how...

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the...

The corporate headquarters (CHQ) of the multi-business enterprise, which emerged as the dominant organizational form for the conduct of business in the twentieth century, has attracted considerable scholarly attention. As the business environment undergoes a fundamental transition in the...

The corporate headquarters (CHQ) of the multi-business enterprise, which emerged as the dominant organizational form for the conduct of business in the twentieth century, has attracted considerable scholarly attention. As the business environment undergoes a fundamental transition in the...

This paper aims to present the theoretical aspects regarding the integration of a new employee within an organization, but also to elaborate a program on facilitating the integration process. Many authors have shown that integration is a stressful process, which is why it is important for the...

The paper presents network theory and complexity theory in the context of organization and management sciences. Both theories today are of great interest among researchers whose purpose is to explain and understand the complexity of the organization's functioning and management through the lens...

This paper tackles a key problem in path dependence research: how can locked-in organizations regain their scope for maneuver? Leveraging insights from two surprising and thus revelatory cases of organizations that have successfully escaped from path dependence, we develop the theoretical...

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....

Das Institut für Organisationsökonomik (IO) an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster wurde am 1. Oktober 2020 zehn Jahre alt. Dieser 10. Jahresbericht informiert über das zehnte Jahr, d. h. über das Wintersemester 2019/20 und das Sommersemester 2020. Wie in den Vorjahren werden...

GitLab is a software company that works "all remote" at the scale of more than 1000 employees located in more than 60 countries. GitLab has no physical office and its employees can work from anywhere they choose. Any step of the organizational life of a GitLab employee (e.g., hiring, onboarding...

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...

"This book offers practical insight into the changing ways in which organizations operate today. Building on a ground-breaking concept of teal organisations, the book illustrates the practicality of advocating a lack of hierarchy of predetermined positions and the introduction of roles that come...

In some fields, research findings are rigorously curated in a common language and made available to enable future use and large-scale, robust insights. Organizational researchers have begun such efforts [e.g., metaBUS (http://metabus.org/)] but are far from the efficient, comprehensive curation...

Einleitung -- Die Heilige Ordnung – Hierarchien -- Schlankheitskuren aus Asien -- Die Große Freiheit – Agilität -- Ein systemischer Brückenschlag -- komm.passion – Eine Agentur erfindet sich neu -- Das 3A-Modell -- Ausblick.