Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Grant Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Grant Author-Name: Tom Keenoy Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Keenoy Author-Name: Cliff Oswick Author-X-Name-First: Cliff Author-X-Name-Last: Oswick Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-4 Issue: 3 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656817 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656817 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:3:p:3-4 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Grant Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Grant Author-Name: Tom Keenoy Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Keenoy Author-Name: Cliff Oswick Author-X-Name-First: Cliff Author-X-Name-Last: Oswick Title: Organizational Discourse Abstract: This article highlights the increasing significance of “organizational discourse” as a field of inquiry. It defines the term, identifies its antecedents, and provides a commentary on the articles published in this issue. In so doing, it outlines several ways in which organizational discourse contributes to the study and understanding of organizations. It also identifies a number of challenges faced by proponents of organizational discourse. It addresses each of these challenges in turn and suggests that in some cases they are not insurmountable while in others they are unwarranted. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 5-24 Issue: 3 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656818 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656818 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:3:p:5-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Cynthia Hardy Author-X-Name-First: Cynthia Author-X-Name-Last: Hardy Title: Researching Organizational Discourse Abstract: In recent years, the body of theory on organizational discourse has grown significantly, helping to form a specific field of study and also contributing to broader organization and management theory. During this time, empirical work using discourse analysis has also increased, as organizational researchers have drawn on methods established in other domains of study to examine organizations. However, the study of organizational discourse is not without difficulties, especially for researchers wishing to conduct empirical studies. This article identifies four particular challenges for empirical researchers and then describes how an ongoing program of organizational research using discourse analysis has attempted to address them. It also highlights some of the important contributions that empirical studies of organizational discourse can offer toward the understanding of organizational processes. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 25-47 Issue: 3 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656819 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656819 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:3:p:25-47 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Laurie Cohen Author-X-Name-First: Laurie Author-X-Name-Last: Cohen Author-Name: Mary Mallon Author-X-Name-First: Mary Author-X-Name-Last: Mallon Title: My Brilliant Career? Abstract: Within organizational research, stories are increasingly recognized as a powerful research tool. In this article we argue that stories can likewise be a valuable research instrument in analyzing “career.” In particular, they illuminate the ways in which individuals make sense of their careers as they unfold through time and space, attending to both the holistic nature of career as well as to specific career transitions. Further, stories as discursive constructs provide insights into individual sense-making. Through such insights, the story-based researcher can build a rich, complex, multifaceted, and integrated picture from the perspective of situated individuals. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 48-68 Issue: 3 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656820 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656820 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:3:p:48-68 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marjan Huisman Author-X-Name-First: Marjan Author-X-Name-Last: Huisman Title: Decision-Making in Meetings as Talk-in-Interaction Abstract: Decisions in organizations are often made during some form of talk-in-interaction. In this article, conversation analysis is used to identify those interactions and linguistic features which characterize decision-making at four Dutch organizations. In taking this approach, the research highlights the ways in which organizational members collaboratively create the future of their organization. It also shows that the formulation and content of decisions is inextricably connected to the situations in which they are produced and that what counts as a decision depends on the communicative norms of the group that is talking. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 69-90 Issue: 3 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656821 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656821 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:3:p:69-90 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Neil Washbourne Author-X-Name-First: Neil Author-X-Name-Last: Washbourne Author-Name: Willemijn Dicke Author-X-Name-First: Willemijn Author-X-Name-Last: Dicke Title: Dissolving Organization Theory? Abstract: The narrative of progress has been central to modern organization theory, but as other narratives have come to the fore in contemporary organizing scholarship, it is now being challenged. Using narrative analysis, this article investigates contemporary water management in England and Wales. Four key narratives are identified, and these are shown to present a number of challenges to modem organization theory. Contemporary organizational theorists from a variety of perspectives have sought to overcome these challenges, but we argue that they have not succeeded. Instead, we propose an alternative way forward—one that takes us beyond the current deadlock. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 91-112 Issue: 3 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656822 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656822 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:3:p:91-112 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Claus Jacobs Author-X-Name-First: Claus Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs Author-Name: Loizos Heracleous Author-X-Name-First: Loizos Author-X-Name-Last: Heracleous Title: “Seeing Without Being Seen” Abstract: What is the relationship between current German management accounting techniques (referred to as “Controlling “ in German-speaking areas), Taylorism, and an eighteenth-century prison design by Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon? Using a Foucauldian “archaeological” approach combined with “genealogical” concerns, we argue that panopticism as a disciplinary instrument and as an organizing metaphor can still be discerned in current German management accounting concepts as well as in one of its conceptual ancestors, Taylorism. Our analysis constitutes a critical reflection of the impacts of panopticism as an underlying metaphor for present-day German management accounting, especially with regard to the “successful” implementation of management accounting tools and their organizational consequences. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 113-135 Issue: 3 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656823 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656823 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:3:p:113-135 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nicolai J. Foss Author-X-Name-First: Nicolai J. Author-X-Name-Last: Foss Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-8 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656759 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656759 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:2:p:3-8 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nicolai J. Foss Author-X-Name-First: Nicolai J. Author-X-Name-Last: Foss Title: The Challenge of Business Systems and the Challenge to Business Systems Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 9-24 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656760 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656760 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:2:p:9-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Casson Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Casson Author-Name: Sarianna M. Lundan Author-X-Name-First: Sarianna M. Author-X-Name-Last: Lundan Title: Explaining International Differences in Economic Institutions Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 25-42 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656761 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656761 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:2:p:25-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Torben Pedersen Author-X-Name-First: Torben Author-X-Name-Last: Pedersen Author-Name: Steen Thomsen Author-X-Name-First: Steen Author-X-Name-Last: Thomsen Title: Business Systems and Corporate Governance Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 43-59 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656762 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656762 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:2:p:43-59 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bengt-Åke Lundvall Author-X-Name-First: Bengt-Åke Author-X-Name-Last: Lundvall Title: National Business Systems and National Systems of Innovation Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 60-77 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656763 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656763 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:2:p:60-77 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Karnøe Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Karnøe Author-Name: Claus Nygaard Author-X-Name-First: Claus Author-X-Name-Last: Nygaard Title: Bringing Social Action and Situated Rationality Back in Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 78-93 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656764 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656764 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:2:p:78-93 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peer Hull Kristensen Author-X-Name-First: Peer Hull Author-X-Name-Last: Kristensen Title: Toward a New Sociology of Business Firms Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 94-112 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656765 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656765 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:2:p:94-112 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Richard Whitley Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Whitley Title: Competing Logics and Units of Analysis in the Comparative Study of Economic Organization Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 113-126 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656766 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656766 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:2:p:113-126 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yair Aharoni Author-X-Name-First: Yair Author-X-Name-Last: Aharoni Author-Name: John D. Forsyth Author-X-Name-First: John D. Author-X-Name-Last: Forsyth Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-5 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656677 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656677 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:2:p:3-5 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yair Aharoni Author-X-Name-First: Yair Author-X-Name-Last: Aharoni Title: The Organization of Global Service MNEs Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 6-23 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656678 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656678 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:2:p:6-23 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Fahy Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Fahy Title: Competitive Advantage in International Services: A Resource-Based View Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 24-37 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656679 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656679 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:2:p:24-37 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bernard Marois Author-X-Name-First: Bernard Author-X-Name-Last: Marois Author-Name: Tamym Abdessemed Author-X-Name-First: Tamym Author-X-Name-Last: Abdessemed Title: Cross-Border Alliances in the French Banking Sector Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 38-58 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656680 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656680 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:2:p:38-58 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John L. Brown Author-X-Name-First: John L. Author-X-Name-Last: Brown Author-Name: David J. Cooper Author-X-Name-First: David J. Author-X-Name-Last: Cooper Author-Name: Royston Greenwood Author-X-Name-First: Royston Author-X-Name-Last: Greenwood Author-Name: C.R. Hinings Author-X-Name-First: C.R. Author-X-Name-Last: Hinings Title: Strategic Alliances within a Big-Six Accounting Firm Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 59-79 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656681 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656681 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:2:p:59-79 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Henk A. Post Author-X-Name-First: Henk A. Author-X-Name-Last: Post Title: Internationalization and Professionalization in Accounting Services Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 80-103 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656682 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656682 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:2:p:80-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Susanne Hertz Author-X-Name-First: Susanne Author-X-Name-Last: Hertz Title: The Dynamics of International Strategic Alliances Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 104-130 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656683 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656683 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:2:p:104-130 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: T. C. Melewar Author-X-Name-First: T. C. Author-X-Name-Last: Melewar Author-Name: Bang Nguyen Author-X-Name-First: Bang Author-X-Name-Last: Nguyen Author-Name: S. F. Syed Alwi Author-X-Name-First: S. F. Author-X-Name-Last: Syed Alwi Author-Name: Jyoti Navare Author-X-Name-First: Jyoti Author-X-Name-Last: Navare Title: Guest Editors’ Introduction Abstract: This article introduces the special issue on corporate identity and corporate branding. It presents a brief overview of six articles that further the developments of the corporate branding concept and the “brand-strategic management”-link, particularly from a brand identity perspective. We thank International Studies of Management & Organization for providing us with this platform. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 107-109 Issue: 2 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1256159 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1256159 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:2:p:107-109 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luke Devereux Author-X-Name-First: Luke Author-X-Name-Last: Devereux Author-Name: T. C. Melewar Author-X-Name-First: T. C. Author-X-Name-Last: Melewar Author-Name: Pantea Foroudi Author-X-Name-First: Pantea Author-X-Name-Last: Foroudi Title: Corporate Identity and Social Media: Existence and Extension of the Organization Abstract: The arrival of social media has created a multitude of ways the organization can develop and disseminate its corporate identity. This study explores the relationship between social media and corporate identity by breaking social media use into five stages and discussing what each stage can reveal and add to our knowledge of corporate identity. A framework is provided that can aid scholars and practitioners in gaining a greater understanding of what social media can do for corporate identity. The main implications for researchers and managers/policy makers are highlighted. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 110-134 Issue: 2 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1256161 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1256161 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:2:p:110-134 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Keith Glanfield Author-X-Name-First: Keith Author-X-Name-Last: Glanfield Author-Name: John Saunders Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Saunders Author-Name: Heiner Evanschitzky Author-X-Name-First: Heiner Author-X-Name-Last: Evanschitzky Author-Name: John M. Rudd Author-X-Name-First: John M. Author-X-Name-Last: Rudd Title: Corporate Identity at the Stakeholder Group Level Abstract: There is a paucity of literature regarding the construction and operation of corporate identity at the stakeholder group level. This article examines corporate identity from the perspective of an individual stakeholder group, namely, front-line employees. A stakeholder group that is central to the development of an organization’s corporate identity as it spans an organization’s boundaries, frequently interacts with both internal and external stakeholders, and influences a firm’s financial performance by building customer loyalty and satisfaction. The article reviews the corporate identity, branding, services and social identity literatures to address how corporate identity manifests within the front-line employee stakeholder group, identifying what components comprise front-line employee corporate identity and assessing what contribution front-line employees make to constructing a strong and enduring corporate identity for an organization. In reviewing the literature the article develops propositions that, in conjunction with a conceptual model, constitute the generation of theory that is recommended for empirical testing. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 135-158 Issue: 2 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1256164 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1256164 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:2:p:135-158 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sara Spear Author-X-Name-First: Sara Author-X-Name-Last: Spear Title: Impression Management Activity in Vision, Mission, and Values Statements: A Comparison of Commercial and Charitable Organizations Abstract: This article investigates the extent to which vision, mission, and values (VM&V) statements play a role in corporate identity management by commercial and charitable organizations. Impression management (IM) theory was used to analyze how these statements could influence stakeholders’ impressions of an organization. A qualitative empirical study was conducted to explore VM&V statements on the websites of 100 commercial and 100 charitable organizations, using content analysis to identify IM activity in the statements. The findings have implications for academics and managers, as there were evidently gaps between theory and practice. Many of the commercial and charitable organizations underutilized VM&V statements as corporate identity cues, and there is subsequently potential for greater use of these statements as part of corporate identity management by organizations in both sectors. Managers should also ensure that the influence of the statements on stakeholders’ impressions of the organization aligns with the desired corporate image. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 159-175 Issue: 2 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1256165 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1256165 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:2:p:159-175 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pantea Foroudi Author-X-Name-First: Pantea Author-X-Name-Last: Foroudi Author-Name: T. C. Melewar Author-X-Name-First: T. C. Author-X-Name-Last: Melewar Author-Name: Suraksha Gupta Author-X-Name-First: Suraksha Author-X-Name-Last: Gupta Title: Corporate Logo: History, Definition, and Components Abstract: Both academics and practitioners alike have directed increasing attention to the field of the corporate logo, and yet, a definitive construct of the corporate logo and its measurement does not yet exist. In this article, we marshal the literature relating to the historiography of the corporate logo. Furthermore, we report the findings of a literature-based study that sought to clarify the definitions and components of the corporate logo; namely, color, typeface, corporate name, and design. Challenges in developing a corporate logo are discussed. An important recommendation made by this research is about. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 176-196 Issue: 2 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1256166 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1256166 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:2:p:176-196 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stefano Pace Author-X-Name-First: Stefano Author-X-Name-Last: Pace Title: Shaping Corporate Brands: From Product Features to Corporate Mission Abstract: Product brands convey symbolic and tangible meanings, including association with the concrete features of the product. Corporate brands convey values and ideals that operate at a higher level: values and mission of the company. Products convey technical information, which is usually detached from the abstract values of the corporate brand. In this study we investigate if the technical features of products can express some dimensions of a corporate brand, namely the corporate mission. The literature on how consumers process numerical vs. verbal information suggests that if the technical features of a product are presented in verbal forms as opposed to numerical forms, they can better express the corporate mission of a company. We explore this hypothesis by adopting two online consumer surveys, and the results confirm that product can transmit some dimensions of the corporate mission. These results may help managers identify strategies to communicate the corporate values and mission through an integrated communication approach that would include both corporate communication and product brand. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 197-205 Issue: 2 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1256167 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1256167 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:2:p:197-205 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Silvia Biraghi Author-X-Name-First: Silvia Author-X-Name-Last: Biraghi Author-Name: Rossella C. Gambetti Author-X-Name-First: Rossella C. Author-X-Name-Last: Gambetti Author-Name: Don E. Schultz Author-X-Name-First: Don E. Author-X-Name-Last: Schultz Title: Advancing a Citizenship Approach to Corporate Branding: A Societal View Abstract: Citizenship approach to corporate branding challenges the corporate brand to evolve from being a self-referential corporate asset embodying a company-centred attitude, toward being an asset that is socially inspired and that in the essence of its promise expresses the citizenship status of the corporation in society. In this article, we name this view of corporate branding (CB) as “societal CB.” By societal CB we refer to the humanistic tension of a company to use the corporate brand as an enabler of social discourses and actions through which the company, in enacting its corporate citizenship (CC), carries out quasi-governmental interventions in favor of society. The aim is to elaborate the view of the corporate brand as a relational asset nurtured by business and society encounters, by elucidating the conceptual seeds that pave the way to societal CB, to then illustrate and critically discuss anecdotes of quasi-governmental actions carried out by companies in their CB efforts. In doing that, we attempt to open an arena for debate on societal CB as a contemporary humanistic expression of CC. We conceive this contribution as an incubator of ideas for the advancement of CC through the societal CB view. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 206-215 Issue: 2 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1256168 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1256168 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:2:p:206-215 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael J. Morley Author-X-Name-First: Michael J. Author-X-Name-Last: Morley Author-Name: Noreen Heraty Author-X-Name-First: Noreen Author-X-Name-Last: Heraty Title: The Anatomy of an International Research Collaboration: Building Cumulative Comparative Knowledge in Human Resource Management Abstract: Comparative human resource management (HRM) has an established pedigree in the management and organization literature. However, the generation of novel contextual understanding to enhance theory building, deepen our appreciation of embedded management practices in more diverse territories, and open up new lines of enquiry was, and remains, challenging social science research. Increasingly, international academic research networks that bring together scholars from different countries in the co-production of knowledge represent a key approach to rising to this challenge. In this issue, we document aspects of the development of one such network, namely the Cranet Network on International Human Resource Management, and we provide an exposition of a series of recent articles from the network. The contributions highlight, inter alia, the limits to convergence in HRM as a result of contextual determinism, the role of institutional actors, markets and work regulation in accounting for variations in people management practices, the contextual specificities and dynamics at play in transition economies, along with key methodological challenges that arise when seeking to build cumulative comparative knowledge via network collaborations of this nature. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 341-354 Issue: 4 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1646485 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1646485 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:4:p:341-354 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Wolfgang Mayrhofer Author-X-Name-First: Wolfgang Author-X-Name-Last: Mayrhofer Author-Name: Paul N. Gooderham Author-X-Name-First: Paul N. Author-X-Name-Last: Gooderham Author-Name: Chris Brewster Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Brewster Title: Context and HRM: Theory, Evidence, and Proposals Abstract: Human resource management (HRM) has paid insufficient attention to the impact of context. In this article, we outline the need for HRM to take full account of context, particularly national context, and to use both cultural theories and, particularly, institutional theories to do that. We use research publications that utilize the Cranet data to show how that can be done. From that evidence, we develop a series of proposals for further context-based research in HRM. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 355-371 Issue: 4 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1646486 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1646486 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:4:p:355-371 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Wilson Aparecido Costa de Amorim Author-X-Name-First: Wilson Aparecido Costa Author-X-Name-Last: de Amorim Author-Name: Andre Luiz Fischer Author-X-Name-First: Andre Luiz Author-X-Name-Last: Fischer Author-Name: Jordi Trullen Author-X-Name-First: Jordi Author-X-Name-Last: Trullen Title: A Comparative Study of Trade Union Influence over HRM Practices in Spanish and Brazilian Firms: The Role of Industrial Relations Systems and Their Historical Evolution Abstract: This study explores trade union influence over human resource management (HRM) practices in Spanish and Brazilian organizations using the Cranet 2014 dataset. While some of the existing data suggest that trade unions may hold little power within surveyed organizations, we offer additional evidence contradicting this. Trade unions’ influence is better understood when taking into account the industrial relations systems of Spain and Brazil, as well as their historical evolution. Understanding such evolution helps us account for similarities and differences observed in the way trade unions influence HRM in these two countries. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 372-388 Issue: 4 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1646487 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1646487 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:4:p:372-388 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Brookes Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Brookes Author-Name: Geoffrey Wood Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey Author-X-Name-Last: Wood Author-Name: Chris Brewster Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Brewster Title: The Antecedents of Comparative Differences in Union Presence and Engagement: Evidence from Coordinated and Liberal Market Contexts Abstract: This study employs a large on-going survey database to explore the antecedents of comparative differences in union representation and the extent to which employers engage with them at the workplace, and how this has changed over time. It finds that amongst organizations employing more than 100 employees, there has been no uniform decline in the presence of unions, or engagement by employers with them at the workplace. In other words, although we do not measure the range of topics covered or the impact of such engagement, it is clear that neither the neo-liberal nor the more critical theory suggestions that systems are naturally converging to a common model of minimal union presence and engagement receives much support. Collective employment relations are influenced by comparative capitalisms and, to a lesser extent, legal systems and remain a significant feature of many continental European economies. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 389-401 Issue: 4 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1646488 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1646488 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:4:p:389-401 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elaine Farndale Author-X-Name-First: Elaine Author-X-Name-Last: Farndale Author-Name: J. Ryan Lamare Author-X-Name-First: J. Ryan Author-X-Name-Last: Lamare Author-Name: Maja Vidović Author-X-Name-First: Maja Author-X-Name-Last: Vidović Author-Name: Amar S. Chauhan Author-X-Name-First: Amar S. Author-X-Name-Last: Chauhan Title: Understanding Financial Participation across Market Economies Abstract: Organizations implement a range of financial participation plans to help create a stronger linkage between corporate and individual goals. Although seemingly an organizational-level choice as to what plans are adopted, we argue that institutional constraints at the market economy level of analysis that directly affect worker-firm relationships play a significant role in this choice. Based on organization-level data from nineteen countries, comparisons of the level of profit-sharing and equity-ownership plan use are explained through varieties of capitalism theorizing. The findings indicate the usefulness of this level of analysis in explaining corporate practice in financial participation. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 402-421 Issue: 4 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1646489 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1646489 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:4:p:402-421 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Veronika Kabalina Author-X-Name-First: Veronika Author-X-Name-Last: Kabalina Author-Name: Olga Zelenova Author-X-Name-First: Olga Author-X-Name-Last: Zelenova Author-Name: Kira Reshetnikova Author-X-Name-First: Kira Author-X-Name-Last: Reshetnikova Title: Contemporary Human Resource Management Practices in Russia: Flexibility under Uncertainty Abstract: This article develops the concept of flexibility in Human Resource Management (HRM) practices which can increase a company’s potential to respond to substantial variation in the business environment. It reveals the characteristics of flexible HRM practices in Russian companies in an uncertain external and internal environment. Cranet survey data gathered from October 2014 until March 2015 is used for measuring the environmental uncertainty and flexibility of staffing, training, and development, pay, employee relations, and communication. A comparison of the flexibility indices for the four HRM practices shows a higher level of flexibility in training and development practices. The research results confirm a direct positive relationship between the complexity of the environment and the flexibility of HRM practices. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 422-440 Issue: 4 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1646490 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1646490 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:4:p:422-440 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jesper Christensen Author-X-Name-First: Jesper Author-X-Name-Last: Christensen Author-Name: Frans Bévort Author-X-Name-First: Frans Author-X-Name-Last: Bévort Author-Name: Erling Rasmussen Author-X-Name-First: Erling Author-X-Name-Last: Rasmussen Title: The Cranet Survey: Improving on a Challenged Research-Practice? Abstract: The Cranet-survey has mapped human resource management (HRM) practices for more than 25 years, and so it is timely to take a closer look at the significance of this unique multinational, longitudinal, empirical endeavor. How may we understand the inner workings and emergent practices of this ambitious research effort in order to better assess the value of the unique data-set and propose avenues for its improvement? This is of course a daunting task if the purpose is to make a general evaluation, as was the case in 2011 in the Human Resource Management Review issue on the Cranet International Network. Rather, the contribution of this article is to examine the established research practices of the Cranet Network from the point of view of incoming researchers to identify and assess fundamental challenges of design, measurement, and project management that underlie many of the more apparent and often-discussed issues relating to validity, comparability, and the multinational adaptation of standardized research tools. To accomplish this, the article analyzes the Danish Cranet project from its inception in 1991 until today, with particular emphasis on the effort to establish a longitudinally comprehensive Danish database with application in cross-country comparisons, exemplified here through comparisons with New Zealand. On this basis, the article discusses the ramifications for the Cranet Network and proposes opportunities and potentials for improving future consistency and comparability of the global research practice. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 441-464 Issue: 4 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1646491 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1646491 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:4:p:441-464 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: M. K. Nandakumar Author-X-Name-First: M. K. Author-X-Name-Last: Nandakumar Author-Name: Saptarshi Purkayastha Author-X-Name-First: Saptarshi Author-X-Name-Last: Purkayastha Author-Name: Vikas Kumar Author-X-Name-First: Vikas Author-X-Name-Last: Kumar Title: Guest Editors’ Introduction Abstract: The rapid internationalization of firms from emerging economies and the consequent phenomenal rise of the “new multinationals” have led to the emergence of a new research frontier in the international business domain (Child and Rodriguez 2005; Luo and Tung 2007; Guillen and Garcia-Canal 2009; Chang and Rhee 2011; Ramamurti 2012). While researchers have debated the need for new theories to explain this phenomenon (Mathews 2006; Narula 2012), there is an increasing realization that traditional internationalization theories are constrained in fully deciphering the uniqueness of the internationalization process of firms from emerging economies (Gaur and Kumar 2010; Cuervo-Cazurra 2012). Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 1-7 Issue: 1 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1007005 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1007005 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:1:p:1-7 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: A. S. Ashwin Author-X-Name-First: A. S. Author-X-Name-Last: Ashwin Author-Name: Rishikesha T. Krishnan Author-X-Name-First: Rishikesha T. Author-X-Name-Last: Krishnan Author-Name: Rejie George Author-X-Name-First: Rejie Author-X-Name-Last: George Title: Board Characteristics, Financial Slack and R&D Investments Abstract: In this study, we examine how board characteristics, such as the independent director ratio, board size, and the number of interlocks, influence the investment of slack resources into research and development (R&D) by a firm. Both the agency theory and resource dependence theory predict a positive influence of independent director ratio on the financial slack-R&D investment relationship. However in the case of board size and number of interlocks, resource dependence theory argues for a positive moderating effect, while agency theory predicts a negative effect. The hypotheses are tested on the seven-year panel data of 172 firms in the Indian pharmaceutical industry, an emerging economy, high technology industry. We find broad support for the resource provisioning role of the board of directors, which is attributed to the emerging economy context of the Indian pharmaceutical industry, where firms face high levels of opportunity but lack resources to make use of them effectively. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 8-23 Issue: 1 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1007007 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1007007 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:1:p:8-23 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Saptarshi Purkayastha Author-X-Name-First: Saptarshi Author-X-Name-Last: Purkayastha Author-Name: Somnath Lahiri Author-X-Name-First: Somnath Author-X-Name-Last: Lahiri Title: Do Diversified Business Groups Help Organizational Performance? Abstract: The superior performance of firms affiliated with business groups as compared to unaffiliated firms has not been clearly established in the literature. Previous studies examining the effect of business groups on firm performance have found varying results (Khanna and Palepu 2000a, 2000b; Chang and Hong 2002; Chu 2004). These findings are the results of analysis conducted at the aggregate level across all industries. This study examines performance of affiliated and unaffiliated firms separately across three industries in India. The results indicate that the impact of group affiliation is not uniform across industries. Further, the study examines the relationship between business group diversification and firm performance across industries after controlling for certain variables that impact performance. Findings indicate that the relationship is not unique across various industries. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 24-34 Issue: 1 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1007008 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1007008 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:1:p:24-34 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Naveen Kumar Jain Author-X-Name-First: Naveen Kumar Author-X-Name-Last: Jain Author-Name: Puneet Prakash Author-X-Name-First: Puneet Author-X-Name-Last: Prakash Title: Multinationality and Performance Abstract: This study aims to find the multinationality and performance relationship for the largest Indian software companies. It further tests the moderating influence of internationalization motives (marketing- versus labor-seeking) and resources on this relationship. Results show an inverted U-shaped relationship between multinationality and performance for Indian software firms. Additionally, this relationship is moderated by the internationalization motives of these firms. In the process, we add to the literature with our unique context and moderating variables. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 35-49 Issue: 1 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1007010 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1007010 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:1:p:35-49 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vijay Pereira Author-X-Name-First: Vijay Author-X-Name-Last: Pereira Author-Name: Surender Munjal Author-X-Name-First: Surender Author-X-Name-Last: Munjal Author-Name: M. K. Nandakumar Author-X-Name-First: M. K. Author-X-Name-Last: Nandakumar Title: Reverse Dependency Abstract: This study provides a conceptual framework and typology to measure headquarters and subsidiary dependency on capabilities and resources. Using an in-depth longitudinal case study approach, it highlights a novel phenomenon called “reverse dependency,” which indicates that a headquarters dependency on its subsidiary is rising. This is an emerging phenomenon, probably related to increased globalization and convergence of world economies. The study offers implications for the theory of subsidiary entrepreneurship and location embeddedness. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 50-62 Issue: 1 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1007014 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1007014 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:1:p:50-62 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: K. V. Mukundhan Author-X-Name-First: K. V. Author-X-Name-Last: Mukundhan Author-Name: M. K. Nandakumar Author-X-Name-First: M. K. Author-X-Name-Last: Nandakumar Title: Stakeholder Influences on the Choice and Performance of FDI-based Market Entry Modes Abstract: This article accounts for stakeholder influences on the performance of emerging market firms (EMFs) entering developed markets through foreign direct investment (FDI)-based market entry modes. Stakeholders, such as governments, regulators, customers, competitors, community/environmental interest groups, and industry associations, impose coercive and normative pressures of compliance on internationalizing firms. Firms respond to these pressures from their institutional environment by emulating the entry strategies of other firms in their environment. By conceptualizing stakeholder influences across two bases—one arising from regulatory influences and the other arising from normative influences—we study the effects of these pressures and inducements in driving firms to internationalize through similar market entry modes. We conclude this article by proposing that, although isomorphism negatively affects firm performance in the short run, firms can benefit from high reputation, high social status, and future support for their actions from their stakeholders by adopting strategic behavior legitimated by their institutional environments. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 63-74 Issue: 1 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1007017 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1007017 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:1:p:63-74 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gabriel R.G. Benito Author-X-Name-First: Gabriel R.G. Author-X-Name-Last: Benito Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-5 Issue: 1 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656779 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656779 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:1:p:3-5 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ingmar Björkman Author-X-Name-First: Ingmar Author-X-Name-Last: Björkman Author-Name: Mats Forsgren Author-X-Name-First: Mats Author-X-Name-Last: Forsgren Title: Nordic International Business Research Abstract: This article identifies the specific characteristics of Nordic international business research by analyzing how Nordic researchers over time have perceived and conceptualized their research object, “the international firm.” Their perceptions about essential features of the international firm are arguably reflected in their theoretical and empirical work on the internationalization of the firm and the management of the international firm. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 6-25 Issue: 1 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656780 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656780 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:1:p:6-25 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kent Eriksson Author-X-Name-First: Kent Author-X-Name-Last: Eriksson Author-Name: Jan Johanson Author-X-Name-First: Jan Author-X-Name-Last: Johanson Author-Name: Anders Majkgård Author-X-Name-First: Anders Author-X-Name-Last: Majkgård Author-Name: D. Deo Sharma Author-X-Name-First: D. Deo Author-X-Name-Last: Sharma Title: Effect of Variation on Knowledge Accumulation in the Internationalization Process Abstract: This article examines the effect of variation in the geographical scope of international business operations on experiential knowledge development in the internationalization of the firm. Based on learning theory, this article develops five hypotheses on the effects of variation on three interrelated components of international experiential knowledge: internationalization knowledge, business knowledge, and institutional knowledge. LISREL analysis indicates that variation has a positive effect on the accumulation of experiential knowledge in internationalizing firms. In particular, it demonstrates that internationalization knowledge is a key variable that mediates the effect of variation on the other knowledge variables. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 26-44 Issue: 1 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656781 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656781 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:1:p:26-44 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bent Petersen Author-X-Name-First: Bent Author-X-Name-Last: Petersen Author-Name: Gabriel R. G. Benito Author-X-Name-First: Gabriel R. G. Author-X-Name-Last: Benito Author-Name: Torben Pedersen Author-X-Name-First: Torben Author-X-Name-Last: Pedersen Title: Replacing the Foreign Intermediary Abstract: What factors impel exporters to replace a foreign intermediary (i.e., agents or distributors), and what factors impede such actions? Dissatisfaction with the current intermediary is the explanation typically given for why intermediaries are replaced, but other factors may also influence the likelihood of such a change. Using longitudinal data from a sample of Danish exporters, we apply logistic regression analysis to model the impact of a number of factors. Our data show that dissatisfaction with the local intermediary does not appear as a determinant of replacement. Instead, changes in the level of information asymmetry exert the most important influence on the decision to replace the foreign intermediary. As an exporter becomes more informed about alternative—and potentially more qualified—intermediaries operating in a particular market, the existing intermediary faces a higher risk of being replaced. The study also shows that switching costs are important impediments to change of intermediaries. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 45-62 Issue: 1 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656782 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656782 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:1:p:45-62 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Svante Andersson Author-X-Name-First: Svante Author-X-Name-Last: Andersson Title: The Internationalization of the Firm from an Entrepreneurial Perspective Abstract: There are two dominant views in international business research: the economic and the process view. In this study it is shown that these views give us some insight into the complex phenomenon of the internationalization of the firm. However, our understanding of various international behaviors in the firm’s first international ventures as well as of radical strategic changes is enhanced by an analysis focusing on entrepreneurs. Such a conceptual framework is used to analyze this study’s cases. New concepts are developed: the marketing entrepreneur who implements an international push strategy; the technical entrepreneur who implements a strategy focusing on technical development, creating an international pull strategy; and the structure entrepreneur who implements an international restructuring of an industry. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 63-92 Issue: 1 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656783 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656783 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:1:p:63-92 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Amjad Hadjikhani Author-X-Name-First: Amjad Author-X-Name-Last: Hadjikhani Title: The Political Behavior of Business Actors Abstract: While most international business studies assume the authority of governments over multinational corporations (MNCs), this article adopts an interactional view to study the relationship between MNCs and political actors. Political behavior is understood as an interaction that is embedded in the relationships between MNCs and political decision makers. The question is: how do MNCs behave when they deal with political actors? A model including the factors of interactive behavior, the characteristics of the actors involved, and outcome was developed and used to analyze the political behavior of Swedish MNCs interacting with European Union (EU) political units. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 93-117 Issue: 1 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656784 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656784 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:1:p:93-117 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Matthias Brauer Author-X-Name-First: Matthias Author-X-Name-Last: Brauer Title: Guest Editor’s Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 283-286 Issue: 4 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1006033 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006033 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:4:p:283-286 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alexander Alscher Author-X-Name-First: Alexander Author-X-Name-Last: Alscher Author-Name: Matthias Brauer Author-X-Name-First: Matthias Author-X-Name-Last: Brauer Title: Path Dependence in the Evolution of the Business Portfolio Configuration of Large Multi-business Firms Abstract: Based on learning theory, this study introduces a distinction into three orders (zero, first, second) of path dependence. Applying econometric time series analysis (VAR models), we explore the order of path dependence in firm investment, divestment, and cooperation decisions. An extension to prior research, we not only investigate the order of path dependence for each type of portfolio decision but also investigate the order of path dependence in firms’ collective portfolio decision making. Results show differences in the order of path dependence for the three types of portfolio decisions between firms. Moreover, the collective portfolio activities display a different order of path dependence from the analysis of each portfolio activity separately, which indicates substantial interactions among them. In sum, our empirical analyses indicate the need to distinguish between different orders of path dependence and to demonstrate that an organizational activity is not only dependent on its general conditions, as contingency theory argues, nor is it solely dependent on its own history, as classical path dependence theory argues. Instead, an organizational activity is also dependent on the history of related activities. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 287-318 Issue: 4 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1006035 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006035 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:4:p:287-318 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Julia Hautz Author-X-Name-First: Julia Author-X-Name-Last: Hautz Author-Name: Michael Mayer Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Mayer Author-Name: Christian Stadler Author-X-Name-First: Christian Author-X-Name-Last: Stadler Title: Advance and Retreat Abstract: Theory predicts that economic and institutional changes increase competitive pressure and lead to the retreat of unrelated diversified firms, while, at the same time, allow more economically efficient related forms of diversification to persist. This study investigates the long-term waves of diversification in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom between the 1950s and 2003. It documents a rise in diversification until the mid-1990s and a retreating wave since the inception of the single European Market. These waves reflect both an early shift to related diversification and nationally variable trends of unrelated diversification. We examine the fate of the unrelated diversified firms in more detail to establish what caused some to refocus and others to resist the wider trend. In particular, we explore if and how different kinds of ownership facilitated the strategic choices to maintain existing unrelated strategies. We examine these choices in detail by considering representative and illustrative company case examples. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 319-341 Issue: 4 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1006037 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006037 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:4:p:319-341 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Teresa da Silva Lopes Author-X-Name-First: Teresa Author-X-Name-Last: da Silva Lopes Title: A Systems View of Corporate Diversification Abstract: This article extends the systems view of the global economy to the study of corporate diversification. In the systems view, the economy is disaggregated from the industry and the firm level to explain the boundaries of the firm. The economic environment generates imperfections in markets and in firms. These imperfections generate costs, which create incentives for firms to internalize physical and intellectual linkages, such as manufacturing equipment and marketing knowledge. Drawing on the case of the global alcoholic beverages industry from the 1960s until the 2010s, I conclude that it is necessary to combine these two types of linkages and take into account the volatility of the environment in order to provide a dynamic and full account of corporate diversification. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 342-358 Issue: 4 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1006039 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006039 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:4:p:342-358 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pierre Romelaer Author-X-Name-First: Pierre Author-X-Name-Last: Romelaer Author-Name: Hanane Beddi Author-X-Name-First: Hanane Author-X-Name-Last: Beddi Title: Strategy and Structure in International Multi-business Groups Abstract: The global integration/local responsiveness (I/R) perspective has been used for a long time and is still today essential to the understanding of the many models presented in the literature on multinational companies. We deconstruct the notions of integration and responsiveness, showing how the I/R perspective, as it is presented in the literature, is incomplete or insufficient. We then define an approach that goes beyond this perspective and discuss its applications and limitations. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 359-378 Issue: 4 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1006040 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006040 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:4:p:359-378 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Hassard Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Hassard Author-Name: Jackie Sheehan Author-X-Name-First: Jackie Author-X-Name-Last: Sheehan Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-4 Issue: 3 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656767 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656767 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:3:p:3-4 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Athar Hussain Author-X-Name-First: Athar Author-X-Name-Last: Hussain Author-Name: Chen Jian Author-X-Name-First: Chen Author-X-Name-Last: Jian Title: Changes in China’s Industrial Landscape and Their Implications Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 5-20 Issue: 3 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656768 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656768 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:3:p:5-20 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Keith Goodall Author-X-Name-First: Keith Author-X-Name-Last: Goodall Author-Name: Malcolm Warner Author-X-Name-First: Malcolm Author-X-Name-Last: Warner Title: Enterprise Reform, Labor–Management Relations, and Human Resource Management in a Multinational Context Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 21-36 Issue: 3 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656769 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656769 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:3:p:21-36 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: M.W. Luke Chan Author-X-Name-First: M.W. Luke Author-X-Name-Last: Chan Author-Name: Wendy Rotenberg Author-X-Name-First: Wendy Author-X-Name-Last: Rotenberg Title: Accounting, Accounting Education, and Economic Reform in the People’s Republic of China Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 37-53 Issue: 3 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656770 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656770 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:3:p:37-53 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Hassard Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Hassard Author-Name: Jackie Sheehan Author-X-Name-First: Jackie Author-X-Name-Last: Sheehan Author-Name: Jonathan Morris Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Author-X-Name-Last: Morris Title: Enterprise Reform in Post-Deng China Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 54-83 Issue: 3 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656771 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656771 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:3:p:54-83 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Celeste Wilderom Author-X-Name-First: Celeste Author-X-Name-Last: Wilderom Author-Name: Ursula Glunk Author-X-Name-First: Ursula Author-X-Name-Last: Glunk Author-Name: Giorgio Nzerilli Author-X-Name-First: Giorgio Author-X-Name-Last: Nzerilli Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-12 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656684 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656684 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:3:p:3-12 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dimitris Bourantas Author-X-Name-First: Dimitris Author-X-Name-Last: Bourantas Author-Name: Vassilis Papadakis Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis Author-X-Name-Last: Papadakis Title: Greek Management Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 13-30 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656685 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656685 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:3:p:13-30 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Behlül Üsdiken Author-X-Name-First: Behlül Author-X-Name-Last: Üsdiken Title: Importing Theories of Management and Organization Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 33-46 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656686 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656686 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:3:p:33-46 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tatjana Globokar Author-X-Name-First: Tatjana Author-X-Name-Last: Globokar Title: Intercultural Management in Eastern Europe Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 47-59 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656687 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656687 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:3:p:47-59 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hrafnmldur Mary Eyjolfsdotiir Author-X-Name-First: Hrafnmldur Mary Author-X-Name-Last: Eyjolfsdotiir Author-Name: Peter B. Smith Author-X-Name-First: Peter B. Author-X-Name-Last: Smith Title: Icelandic Business and Management Culture Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 61-72 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656688 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656688 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:3:p:61-72 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Martin Lindell Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Lindell Author-Name: Jouko Arvonen Author-X-Name-First: Jouko Author-X-Name-Last: Arvonen Title: The Nordic Management Style in a European Context Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 73-91 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656689 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656689 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:3:p:73-91 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ursula Glunk Author-X-Name-First: Ursula Author-X-Name-Last: Glunk Author-Name: Celeste Wilderom Author-X-Name-First: Celeste Author-X-Name-Last: Wilderom Author-Name: Robert Ogilvie Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Ogilvie Title: Finding the Key to German-Style Management Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 93-108 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656690 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656690 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:3:p:93-108 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter F. Boone Author-X-Name-First: Peter F. Author-X-Name-Last: Boone Author-Name: Frans A.J. van den Bosch Author-X-Name-First: Frans A.J. Author-X-Name-Last: van den Bosch Title: Discerning a Key Characteristic of a European Style of Management Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 109-127 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656691 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656691 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:3:p:109-127 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ed Clark Author-X-Name-First: Ed Author-X-Name-Last: Clark Author-Name: Rainhart Lang Author-X-Name-First: Rainhart Author-X-Name-Last: Lang Author-Name: Károly Balaton Author-X-Name-First: Károly Author-X-Name-Last: Balaton Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-8 Issue: 2 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656811 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656811 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:2:p:3-8 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elke Weik Author-X-Name-First: Elke Author-X-Name-Last: Weik Title: Myths in Transformation Processes Abstract: Transformation processes are historical times that differ considerably from the normal course of events. As societal and group identities crumble or break down, it becomes difficult for the individual actor to retain a reference structure on which to base rational action. In consequence, actions in transformation phases often seem irrational and confused. The article argues that this perception is incorrect and should be substituted by the concept of mythical thinking as developed by Claude Levi-Strauss. Mythical thinking is a different, but not inferior, mode of thinking which moves to the fore when rational thinking is not an adequate or even possible reaction. Using empirical materials from East German enterprises, the article shows how the concept can improve the researcher’s understanding of managerial action in transformation times and explain hitherto “irrational” elements in people’s accounts. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 9-27 Issue: 2 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656812 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656812 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:2:p:9-27 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Karin Breu Author-X-Name-First: Karin Author-X-Name-Last: Breu Title: The Role and Relevance of Management Cultures in the Organizational Transformation Process Abstract: This article presents an empirical analysis of the impact of management models on the organizational change processes of formerly state-operated East German enterprises. Employing the grounded-theory methodology, the study elicited an empirical typology of management models from a sample of sixty-four East German organizations. The typology of binational, emergent, and received management models not only reflects variations in the decision makers’ appreciation of cultural influences on the management of change but also the models’implications for the success of the change process. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 28-47 Issue: 2 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656813 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656813 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:2:p:28-47 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Soulsby Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Soulsby Title: The Construction of Czech Managers’ Careers Abstract: This article analyzes the social construction of the careers of a group of Czech managers who started their careers under the constraints of communism. The process of career construction and enactment is considered from both psychological and social perspectives. The article examines how the managers’ orientation to their careers changed as a consequence of the critical life-changing decisions that they had to make within the social institutions of a repressive regime. The managers, who have experienced different degrees of success since the revolution of 1989, reflect on their lives and try to make sense of the unfolding of their careers. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 48-64 Issue: 2 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656814 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656814 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:2:p:48-64 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Neil Thomson Author-X-Name-First: Neil Author-X-Name-Last: Thomson Author-Name: Carla C.J.M. Millar Author-X-Name-First: Carla C.J.M. Author-X-Name-Last: Millar Title: The Role of Slack in Transforming Organizations Abstract: We review the argument for and against keeping slack during the transformation of a plan-filling organization to a profit-seeking firm. Before the demise of the command economies, organizations in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries were typified as being overstaffed, although the degree of overstaffing (slack) varied from country to country. This article reports on two small empirical studies in East Germany and Slovenia and examines the experiences of downsizing and its effects on the remaining staff. The findings, especially from East German companies, demonstrate the potentially corrosive effects of staff cutbacks on levels of information exchange and trust among surviving work-group members. Evidence from the Slovenian firms indicates that some degree of slack can have very positive consequences for information exchange and trust. In neither case did managers perceive and attempt to mobilize slack as a strategic resource. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 65-83 Issue: 2 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656815 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656815 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:2:p:65-83 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bertrand Venard Author-X-Name-First: Bertrand Author-X-Name-Last: Venard Title: Sense Forcing through Political Ideology in a Franco-Vietnamese Alliance Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 84-100 Issue: 2 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656816 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656816 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:2:p:84-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Olga Tregaskis Author-X-Name-First: Olga Author-X-Name-Last: Tregaskis Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-7 Issue: 1 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656724 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656724 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:1:p:3-7 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Odd Nordhaug Author-X-Name-First: Odd Author-X-Name-Last: Nordhaug Title: Competence Specificities in Organizations Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 8-29 Issue: 1 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656725 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656725 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:1:p:8-29 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul R. Sparrow Author-X-Name-First: Paul R. Author-X-Name-Last: Sparrow Title: Reappraising Psychological Contracting Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 30-63 Issue: 1 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656726 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656726 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:1:p:30-63 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Henrik Holt Larsen Author-X-Name-First: Henrik Holt Author-X-Name-Last: Larsen Author-Name: Manuel London Author-X-Name-First: Manuel Author-X-Name-Last: London Author-Name: Marc Weinstein Author-X-Name-First: Marc Author-X-Name-Last: Weinstein Author-Name: Sumita Raghuram Author-X-Name-First: Sumita Author-X-Name-Last: Raghuram Title: High-Flyer Management-Development Programs Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 64-90 Issue: 1 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656727 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656727 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:1:p:64-90 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrew Thomson Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Thomson Author-Name: Christopher Mabey Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Mabey Author-Name: John Storey Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Storey Title: The Determinants of Management Development Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 91-113 Issue: 1 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656728 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656728 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:1:p:91-113 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Thomas N. Garavan Author-X-Name-First: Thomas N. Author-X-Name-Last: Garavan Author-Name: Noreen Heraty Author-X-Name-First: Noreen Author-X-Name-Last: Heraty Author-Name: Michael Morley Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Morley Title: Actors in the HRD Process Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 114-135 Issue: 1 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656729 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656729 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:1:p:114-135 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Olga Tregaskis Author-X-Name-First: Olga Author-X-Name-Last: Tregaskis Title: HRD in Foreign MNEs Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 136-163 Issue: 1 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656730 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656730 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:1:p:136-163 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: T. C. Melewar Author-X-Name-First: T. C. Author-X-Name-Last: Melewar Author-Name: Bang Nguyen Author-X-Name-First: Bang Author-X-Name-Last: Nguyen Author-Name: S. F. Syed Alwi Author-X-Name-First: S. F. Syed Author-X-Name-Last: Alwi Author-Name: Jyoti Navare Author-X-Name-First: Jyoti Author-X-Name-Last: Navare Title: Guest Editors’ Introduction Abstract: This article provides an overview of our special issue on corporate reputation. Our aim is to present state-of-the-art research in the management and organization context that focuses on the corporate reputation of organizations. We propose that researchers must adopt a more branding-oriented mindset and emphasize more systematically the corporate reputation concept as part of the broader organization management efforts. The special issue contains five articles from renowned scholars and it is hoped that these articles will encourage further debate in this interesting research field of corporate reputation. We thank International Studies of Management & Organization for providing us with this platform. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 217-219 Issue: 3 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1318016 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1318016 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:3:p:217-219 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Raza Ali Author-X-Name-First: Raza Author-X-Name-Last: Ali Author-Name: Zhongqi Jin Author-X-Name-First: Zhongqi Author-X-Name-Last: Jin Author-Name: Kailin Wu Author-X-Name-First: Kailin Author-X-Name-Last: Wu Author-Name: T. C. Melewar Author-X-Name-First: T. C. Author-X-Name-Last: Melewar Title: How Does Reputation Win Trust? A Customer-Based Mediation Analysis Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between customer-based corporate reputation (CBR) and customer trust, in particular, the mediating role of customer perceived risk in this relationship. We propose and test a model comprising of four components: cognitive CBR, affective CBR, customer perceived risk and customer trust using a sample of 156 customers from the fast-food services industry in Pakistan. The results suggest that the cognitive and affective dimensions of CBR behave differently in developing customer trust. Affective CBR has a direct positive relationship with customer trust; whereas, customer perceived risk and affective CBR mediate the relationship between cognitive CBR and customer trust. Implications for research and practice are proposed based on the study results. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 220-239 Issue: 3 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1318017 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1318017 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:3:p:220-239 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chen-Chu Matilda Chen Author-X-Name-First: Chen-Chu Matilda Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Bang Nguyen Author-X-Name-First: Bang Author-X-Name-Last: Nguyen Author-Name: T. C. Melewar Author-X-Name-First: T. C. Author-X-Name-Last: Melewar Author-Name: Charles Dennis Author-X-Name-First: Charles Author-X-Name-Last: Dennis Title: Investigating the Uses of Corporate Reputation and Its Effects on Brand Segmentation, Brand Differentiation, and Brand Positioning: Evidence from the Taiwanese Pharmaceutical Industry Abstract: This study advances current knowledge on building a brand strategy that includes corporate reputation. It employs three theories, namely, value creation, strategic resources, and corporate communication to study the uses of corporate reputation and its effect on brand segmentation, brand differentiation, and brand positioning. In the context of the Taiwanese pharmaceutical industry, a sequential mixed method approach is applied and data are analyzed using partial least squares (PLS) structural equation modeling (SEM). Findings demonstrate the relative impacts of three uses of corporate reputation (value creation, strategic resources, and corporate communication) on brand image strategy (brand segmentation, brand differentiation, and brand positioning) and the implications are evaluated. This study discovers that the inclusion of medicine prices is necessary and that it negatively moderates the impact of the overall uses of corporate reputation on overall brand image strategy. This research contributes to the literature as one of the few that tests an empirical model of reputation-and-branding-building outside the United States and Europe. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 240-257 Issue: 3 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1318019 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1318019 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:3:p:240-257 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tony Garry Author-X-Name-First: Tony Author-X-Name-Last: Garry Author-Name: Tracy Harwood Author-X-Name-First: Tracy Author-X-Name-Last: Harwood Title: Exploring Consumer Associations Between Corporate Reputation, Corporate Sustainability, and Product Attributes Within Utilitarian Market Contexts Abstract: Much of the extant literature proposes that contemporary motivated consumers assess, evaluate, and differentiate firms based not only on their corporate reputation (CR), but also on their corporate sustainability (CS) strategy. However, research that examines the inter-relationship and cognitive associations between CR, CS strategy, and a firm’s product attributes among consumer stakeholders remains scant. To address this gap, we take a holistic perspective that draws on the pertinent literature to develop a conceptual framework and subsequently explore consumer stakeholder cognitive associations between CR, CS, and product attributes within a utilitarian context. Adopting an exploratory methodology, findings are structured so as to reflect the components of the proposed framework. Reflecting the specificity of consumers’ associations between CS and market context, participants do not associate the telecommunications industry with CS despite many firms having a clear and positive Web-based communications strategy. Tangential proxies used in other market contexts such as point-of-sale communication, package design, and information communicated on the package would appear to be also pertinent within this context, particularly if standardized and adopted on an industry-wide basis. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 258-275 Issue: 3 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1318021 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1318021 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:3:p:258-275 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Artyom Shirin Author-X-Name-First: Artyom Author-X-Name-Last: Shirin Author-Name: Nicola Kleyn Author-X-Name-First: Nicola Author-X-Name-Last: Kleyn Title: An Evaluation of the Effects of Corporate Reputation on Employee Engagement: The Case of a Major Bank in South Africa Abstract: Employee engagement and corporate reputation are both scarce organizational resources that have been shown to influence competitive performance and profitability. This study explores the impact of employee perceptions of corporate reputation on employee engagement. The study was designed to measure the impact of employees’ perceptions of corporate reputation on their engagement with the corporation, while controlling for the state of their psychological contract with the organization. Following the development of a theoretical model, data gathered via a survey of 509 employees of a large South African Bank was analyzed using Structural Equation Modelling. The results of the model confirmed that corporate reputation perceptions are an important predictor of employee engagement. It was also found that psychological contract breach is negatively related to employee perceptions of reputation and to their engagement. The results of the study demonstrate the importance of managing employee perceptions of corporate reputation both directly and indirectly through the management of the psychological contract. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 276-292 Issue: 3 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1318023 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1318023 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:3:p:276-292 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peggy Simcic Brønn Author-X-Name-First: Peggy Simcic Author-X-Name-Last: Brønn Author-Name: Carl Brønn Author-X-Name-First: Carl Author-X-Name-Last: Brønn Title: Systems Thinking: A Method for Reducing Reputation Risk Abstract: As firms strive to meet stakeholder demands and expectations, gaps can occur between various organizational members’ understanding of what these expectations are and what behavior organizations should deliver to meet the expectations. Fulfilling expectations is important, as it is the basis for building reputation. Furthermore, minimizing gaps between expectations and behavior delivery reduces reputation risk. However, getting everyone in the organization to pull together to minimize gaps requires an organizational mindset that is not easy to achieve. In this conceptual article, we argue for a holistic approach to reputation risk, an approach best represented by systems thinking. The systems thinking methodology is concerned with developing and testing operational explanations of organizational behavior and as such requires an understanding of the “whole” through the relationships between “organizational pieces.” We use the PZB service quality model (named for its creators Parasuraman, Zeithaml, and Berry 1985) as a framework to illustrate the inter-relationship between internal organizational pieces where stakeholder expectations, if unknown, misinterpreted or simply ignored can create gaps that provide potential hot spots for reputation risk. We also argue that the complexity of the relationships, illustrated by the PZB model coupled with the nature of reputation, make recent arguments for establishing a chief reputation officer or a single function in charge of reputation unrealistic and untenable. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 293-305 Issue: 3 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1318024 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1318024 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:3:p:293-305 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Moshe Banai Author-X-Name-First: Moshe Author-X-Name-Last: Banai Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-4 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656698 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656698 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:1:p:3-4 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Thomas C. Taylor Author-X-Name-First: Thomas C. Author-X-Name-Last: Taylor Author-Name: Alexander Y. Kazakov Author-X-Name-First: Alexander Y. Author-X-Name-Last: Kazakov Author-Name: C. Michael Thompson Author-X-Name-First: C. Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson Title: Business Ethics and Civil Society in Russia Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 5-18 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656699 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656699 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:1:p:5-18 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Africa Ariño Author-X-Name-First: Africa Author-X-Name-Last: Ariño Author-Name: Mikhail Abramov Author-X-Name-First: Mikhail Author-X-Name-Last: Abramov Author-Name: Irina Skorobogatykh Author-X-Name-First: Irina Author-X-Name-Last: Skorobogatykh Author-Name: Irina Rykounina Author-X-Name-First: Irina Author-X-Name-Last: Rykounina Author-Name: Joaquim Vilà Author-X-Name-First: Joaquim Author-X-Name-Last: Vilà Title: Partner Selection and Trust Building in West European–Russian Joint Ventures Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 19-37 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656700 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656700 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:1:p:19-37 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Igor Gurkov Author-X-Name-First: Igor Author-X-Name-Last: Gurkov Author-Name: Elena Avraamova Author-X-Name-First: Elena Author-X-Name-Last: Avraamova Author-Name: Galina Boulychkina Author-X-Name-First: Galina Author-X-Name-Last: Boulychkina Author-Name: Giorgio Inzerilli Author-X-Name-First: Giorgio Author-X-Name-Last: Inzerilli Title: Russian Enterprises’ Adaptation to New Business Realities Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 39-60 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656701 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656701 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:1:p:39-60 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Judith B. Sedaitis Author-X-Name-First: Judith B. Author-X-Name-Last: Sedaitis Title: Networks in Market Transitions Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 61-83 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656702 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656702 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:1:p:61-83 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Detelin S. Elenkov Author-X-Name-First: Detelin S. Author-X-Name-Last: Elenkov Title: Differences and Similarities in Managerial Values between U.S. and Russian Managers Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 85-106 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656703 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656703 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:1:p:85-106 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jan Van Den Ende Author-X-Name-First: Jan Van Den Author-X-Name-Last: Ende Author-Name: Nachoem Wijnberg Author-X-Name-First: Nachoem Author-X-Name-Last: Wijnberg Author-Name: Harry Commandeur Author-X-Name-First: Harry Author-X-Name-Last: Commandeur Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-6 Issue: 1 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656804 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656804 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:1:p:3-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Martin W. Wielemaker Author-X-Name-First: Martin W. Author-X-Name-Last: Wielemaker Author-Name: Tom Elfring Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Elfring Author-Name: Henk W. Volberda Author-X-Name-First: Henk W. Author-X-Name-Last: Volberda Title: How Well-Established Firms Prepare for the New Economy Abstract: In this study we irrvestigated 30 ventures infour largefirms. We categorized four projects as characterized by “new economy” principles. These were projects that focused on increasing returns. We compared these four projects to four “traditional economy” initiatives in terms of their trajectories and characteristics. We found that the “new economy” initiatives irrvolved more cooperation across firm boundaries, required flexible organizational forms of venturing, used more pilot projects, and involved top management as a crucial element in their success. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 7-29 Issue: 1 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656805 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656805 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:1:p:7-29 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jan Van Den Ende Author-X-Name-First: Jan Van Den Author-X-Name-Last: Ende Author-Name: Nachoem Wunberg Author-X-Name-First: Nachoem Author-X-Name-Last: Wunberg Title: The Organization of Innovation in the Presence of Networks and Bandwagons in the New Economy Abstract: Many contemporary markets, particularly markets of information technology products and information services, are characterized by increasing returns, including those resultingfrom bandwagon and network effects. At the same time, in larger firms innovation often takes place in distinct units that are semiau-tonomous and that have the responsibility for more than one phase in the product development process. In the most extreme case, a separate profit center is created within which R&D, production, and related activities are fully integrated and which has its own responsibility for external relations: an internal innovative venture.The central issue in this paper is the way firms—in the organization of their innovative activities—deal with the dynamics caused by bandwagon and network effects. We focus on the interrelation between decision-making actors and propose a categorization of causes of increasing returns and definitions of bandwagon and network effects that are consistent with this aim. We investigate the extent of internal autonomy of the unit; of the integration of R&D, production, and other activities in the product development process; and of external autonomy. Cases of two firms, one in packaged software development, the other in public services, demonstrate that higher autonomy of teams, particularly in managing external relations, is important to cope with bandwagon and network effects. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 30-45 Issue: 1 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656806 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656806 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:1:p:30-45 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jo M. L. van Engelen Author-X-Name-First: Jo M. L. Author-X-Name-Last: van Engelen Author-Name: Derk Jan Kiewiet Author-X-Name-First: Derk Jan Author-X-Name-Last: Kiewiet Author-Name: Pieter Terlouw Author-X-Name-First: Pieter Author-X-Name-Last: Terlouw Title: Improving Performance of Product Development Teams through Managing Polarity Abstract: The new economy urges product development cycles to become shorter. At the same time, the accompanying new communication technology offers the opportunity to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of product development because it is no longer necessary for the members of product development teams to be in the same geographic location. As a result, product development teams become virtual. The concept of polarity is introduced as a measure of conflict and as an instrument to manage these virtual teams more effectively and to enhance the performance of teams.The relationship between polarity and performance is modeled on data provided by 35 product development teams. Polarity is broken down into several factors; and the polarity-performance relationship is presented for every factor. Three sets of different factor polarity curves were found. One set shows a clearly positive effect of polarity on performance, although another set shows a clearly negative effect. A third set shows a more complicated relationship, which indicates that these factors can be further distilled. These relationships are explainable and provide input for further research leading to a useful polarity-performance strategy for virtual product development teams. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 46-63 Issue: 1 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656807 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656807 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:1:p:46-63 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hans van Kranenburg Author-X-Name-First: Hans Author-X-Name-Last: van Kranenburg Author-Name: Myriam Cloodt Author-X-Name-First: Myriam Author-X-Name-Last: Cloodt Author-Name: John Hagedoorn Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Hagedoorn Title: An Exploratory Study of Recent Trends in the Diversification of Dutch Publishing Companies in the Multimedia and Information Industries Abstract: In this exploratory study we investigate the investment strategies of companies in a traditional sector that faces important challenges from new technologies. We focus on the various forms of investment and divestment that are used by companies to achieve diversification. Using data from a small sample of leading Dutch publishing companies, we apply a multinomial logit analysis to model the investment preferences of these firms. Our data show that these leading companies in the industry diversify into new activities that are centered around the Internet, e-business, and other electronic products and services. These firms are found to prefer a gradual diversification through related activities. In terms of international diversification, the current strength of the new economy, expressed in major new technological developments and the creation of new businesses, affects the investment strategies of these companies through their strong preference for North American activities. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 64-86 Issue: 1 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656808 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656808 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:1:p:64-86 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Windrum Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Windrum Title: Late Entrant Strategies in Technological Ecologies Abstract: This paper examines the way in which Microsoft, a late entrant in the browser market, was able to exploit linkages between the complementary elements forming a technological ecology in order to overcome the lock-in advantages initially enjoyed by Netscape. The case study forces us to critically appraise three related research questions. First, what strategies can be employed by late market entrants to overcome the lock-in advantages enjoyed by dominant incumbents? Second, are cooperative alliances preferable to the in-house, cross-product optimization of interrelated technologies? Third, is there a tendency for unbundling over the course of the industry life cycle? A coupled Polya Urn model is developed in order to clarify the strategies employed by Microsoft and Netscape in the browser wars. The findings highlight the gains from leveraging installed user bases across interrelated product markets, with cross-product optimization being a key source of strategic advantage for firms competing in technological ecologies. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 87-105 Issue: 1 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656809 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656809 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:1:p:87-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Henk J. de Vries Author-X-Name-First: Henk J. Author-X-Name-Last: de Vries Author-Name: George W. J. Hendrikse Author-X-Name-First: George W. J. Author-X-Name-Last: Hendrikse Title: The Dutch Banking Chipcard Game Abstract: The banks in the Dutch chipcard market initially agreed on one chipcard system. One system is attractive for companies as well as consumers. Companies, banks, and retailers prevent costs of duplication, while consumers enjoy the benefits of a widespread acceptance of one card and do not face uncertainty regarding the chipcard standard. Two standards could harm the development of the chipcard market. However, Postbank withdrew from the initial agreement and introduced its own chipcard system in December 1995. This has resulted in a costly battle between the two banking chipcard standards, duplication costs for retailers, the introduction of a gateway technology in order to establish compatibility for users, and low market acceptance of chipcards. In March 2001, after a struggle of more than five years, the banks decided to return to one chipcard. The rationality of Postbank’s decision to withdraw, despite the prospect that everybody may be worse off, will be analyzed from the perspective of game theory and the theory regarding standards battles. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 106-125 Issue: 1 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656810 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656810 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:1:p:106-125 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Wojciech Czakon Author-X-Name-First: Wojciech Author-X-Name-Last: Czakon Author-Name: Giovanni Battista Dagnino Author-X-Name-First: Giovanni Battista Author-X-Name-Last: Dagnino Author-Name: Frédéric Le Roy Author-X-Name-First: Frédéric Author-X-Name-Last: Le Roy Title: Guest Editors’ Introduction Abstract: We adopt the view of coopetition as a research program, way more than just a stream of literature. A growing community of researchers investigates coopetition’s nature, process, impact on strategies and subsequent performance. This special issue marks a step in the research program development. By identifying the four levels of analysis i.e. macro, meso, micro and microfundamental we frame the questions that guide coopetition theorizing. Three papers have been selected to illuminate current progress, focused on value creation. First, a study on common value creation offers insights into how firms are able to generate benefits available to coopetitors. Secondly, conceptual insights into the coopetition strategy process are developed. Thirdly, an in-depth study of value creation in coopetition settings offers a multilevel typology of seven coopetition forms. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 75-79 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1093788 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1093788 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:2-3:p:75-79 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Wojciech Czakon Author-X-Name-First: Wojciech Author-X-Name-Last: Czakon Author-Name: Karolina Mucha-Kuś Author-X-Name-First: Karolina Author-X-Name-Last: Mucha-Kuś Author-Name: Maciej Sołtysik Author-X-Name-First: Maciej Author-X-Name-Last: Sołtysik Title: Coopetition Strategy—What is in It for All? Abstract: Coopetition is an increasingly established concept in the literature, with a growing number of empirical works detailing it many facets, results, and nature. Prior research adopts mainly an individual level of analysis, focusing on private benefits. Studies at the collective level of analysis, exploring common benefits arising from coopetition, remain very rare. We address this gap by studying the contribution of coopetition to common benefit generation in the Polish energy balancing market. Our evidence suggests that the more the 31 megastores in Poland coopete, the lower the energy balancing costs they are able to achieve. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 80-93 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1093792 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1093792 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:2-3:p:80-93 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Johanna Dahl Author-X-Name-First: Johanna Author-X-Name-Last: Dahl Author-Name: Sören Kock Author-X-Name-First: Sören Author-X-Name-Last: Kock Author-Name: Eva-Lena Lundgren-Henriksson Author-X-Name-First: Eva-Lena Author-X-Name-Last: Lundgren-Henriksson Title: Conceptualizing Coopetition Strategy as Practice: A Multilevel Interpretative Framework Abstract: This study uses a strategy-as-practice approach to define coopetition strategy. Coopetition strategy forms, arguably, through the intersection of the organization’s internal and external value networks, giving rise to simultaneous cooperative and competitive activities of a more or less intended nature. Four scenarios encompassing propositions are put forth to explain how coopetition strategy as a deliberate and emergent activity is manifested in the organization. By approaching coopetition from the strategy-as-practice perspective, current conceptualizations of its deliberate and emergent nature are unified under a common framework. The practice approach advances existing understandings of coopetition by shedding light on strategic actors and their actions at multiple levels, the social embedding of the strategic activities, and the dynamic nature of the strategy. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 94-109 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1093794 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1093794 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:2-3:p:94-109 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Chiambaretto Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Chiambaretto Author-Name: Herve Dumez Author-X-Name-First: Herve Author-X-Name-Last: Dumez Title: Toward a Typology of Coopetition: A Multilevel Approach Abstract: Most articles studying coopetition focus on horizontal relationships between homogenous actors using a single level of analysis. However, several recent theoretical contributions have emphasized that coopetition is a more complex phenomenon and could imply vertical relations or heterogeneous actors. We contribute to this debate on the nature of coopetition by constructing a typology of coopetition. This typology is the result of an abductive process in which we mobilize the concept of “level.” Using the airline industry, we combine activity levels and organizational levels to identify seven forms of coopetition. Finally, we discuss the implications of a multilevel analysis to gain a better understanding of coopetition. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 110-129 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1093797 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1093797 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:2-3:p:110-129 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Frédéric Le Roy Author-X-Name-First: Frédéric Author-X-Name-Last: Le Roy Author-Name: Giovanni Battista Dagnino Author-X-Name-First: Giovanni Battista Author-X-Name-Last: Dagnino Author-Name: Wojciech Czakon Author-X-Name-First: Wojciech Author-X-Name-Last: Czakon Title: Guest Editors’ Introduction Abstract: This editorial introduces the papers presented in the special issue. In a first point we show the coopetition research rise. Coopetition research really begins with the 21th century. Since the first academic papers on coopetition there is a fast growing trend which is looked as an opportunity for publications. Researches are now specialized in narrow topics, as the link between coopetition and innovation. The second point of this editorial introduces the main elements of the discussion on this topic. The link between coopetition and innovation is driven by “coopetitive dilemma” as a paradox between the need of cooperation to create value, and the attraction to compete for value appropriation. Coopetition should be a real opportunity to develop innovation, but also creates a risk of knowledge transfer to the coopetitors. So cooperating with competitor for innovation is a strategy under tension in a situation of instable equilibrium. The question is to know if firms must or not follow this kind of strategy. The question is also to know if risk created by coopetition for innovation could be successfully managed. Papers presented in this special issue are dedicated to these questions. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 130-135 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2016.1112141 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2016.1112141 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:2-3:p:130-135 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Frédéric Le Roy Author-X-Name-First: Frédéric Author-X-Name-Last: Le Roy Author-Name: Marc Robert Author-X-Name-First: Marc Author-X-Name-Last: Robert Author-Name: Frank Lasch Author-X-Name-First: Frank Author-X-Name-Last: Lasch Title: Choosing the Best Partner for Product Innovation Abstract: Innovation strategies are increasingly inter-organizational, and yet firms may find it difficult to choose the appropriate type of cooperation: with competitors (coopetition) or with non-competitors (suppliers, customers, universities, etc.). Coopetition is frequently considered to be a riskier venture, which may lead to the conclusion that this strategy is not the most appropriate for increasing a firm’s innovation. The literature on the topic is inconclusive so we try to clarify this issue by introducing a new dimension to the nexus of inter-organizational cooperation and innovation, namely, the geographical location of the cooperation partner. We analyze cooperation strategies with different types of partners and we test our hypotheses on 3,933 firms sampled from the French CIS 04 database. We find that the choice of cooperation strategy depends on the type of cooperation partner (non-rival or competitor), on the type of innovation (radical or incremental); and on the geographical location of the competitor. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 136-158 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2016.1112148 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2016.1112148 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:2-3:p:136-158 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: André Nemeh Author-X-Name-First: André Author-X-Name-Last: Nemeh Author-Name: Saïd Yami Author-X-Name-First: Saïd Author-X-Name-Last: Yami Title: The Determinants of the Emergence of Coopetition Strategy in R&D Abstract: This study aims to reveal the determinants of the emergence of coopetition strategy in R&D programs. This qualitative research is based on an exploratory case study: the cluster Celtic-Plus, dedicated to wireless telecommunications within the Eureka program. Our results show that several factors are necessary for coopetitive projects to emerge: a favorable context for collaboration, research-oriented objectives, consistency with the strategy of member firms, and a portfolio of R&D projects represented in several European, national, and regional R&D programs. This research shows how the degree of maturity of technology shapes a firm’s choice of coopetition strategy. Competitors work together to render technology maturer but without arriving at the development of final products and services stage. This strategy creates a time-lag between the cooperative and the competitive behaviors of the coopetition strategy. The study concludes with guidance for firms choosing a coopetition strategy. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 159-178 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2016.1112151 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2016.1112151 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:2-3:p:159-178 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Daniela Baglieri Author-X-Name-First: Daniela Author-X-Name-Last: Baglieri Author-Name: David Carfì Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Carfì Author-Name: Giovanni Battista Dagnino Author-X-Name-First: Giovanni Battista Author-X-Name-Last: Dagnino Title: Asymmetric R&D Alliances in the Biopharmaceutical Industry Abstract: In this study we propose a multistage mathematical model of coopetitive games to show how the adoption of a coopetitive framework, which considers cooperation and competition simultaneously, may advance our understanding of the study of asymmetric research and developemnt (R&D) alliances. Those alliances are aimed at exploring and/or exploiting knowledge between young and small firms and large multinational enterprises (MNEs). We selected this model, which is particularly suitable for exploring complex types of asymmetric R&D alliances that epitomize the biopharmaceutical industry, based upon the literature on asymmetric R&D cooperation and coopetition. In particular, we propose a formal coopetitive approach, where coopetition is a vector variable belonging to an n-dimensional Euclidean space. We graphically show that cooperative efforts are required and beneficial even though partners are potentially competitors in the marketplace and shape the common payoff space that they commonly create. By doing so, we highlight the requirement that coopetitive partners should balance effectively their interaction dynamics, interactions that affect both the value creation and value capture processes. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 179-201 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2016.1112154 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2016.1112154 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:2-3:p:179-201 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: En Xie Author-X-Name-First: En Author-X-Name-Last: Xie Author-Name: K.S. Reddy Author-X-Name-First: K.S. Author-X-Name-Last: Reddy Title: Call for Papers Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 202-204 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2016.1140525 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2016.1140525 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:2-3:p:202-204 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Simonne Vermeylen Author-X-Name-First: Simonne Author-X-Name-Last: Vermeylen Author-Name: Aimé Heene Author-X-Name-First: Aimé Author-X-Name-Last: Heene Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-6 Issue: 2 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656704 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656704 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:2:p:3-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rudy Martens Author-X-Name-First: Rudy Author-X-Name-Last: Martens Author-Name: Ilse Bogaert Author-X-Name-First: Ilse Author-X-Name-Last: Bogaert Author-Name: André Van Cauwenbergh Author-X-Name-First: André Author-X-Name-Last: Van Cauwenbergh Title: Preparing for the Future as a Situational Puzzle Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 7-20 Issue: 2 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656705 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656705 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:2:p:7-20 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ron Sanchez Author-X-Name-First: Ron Author-X-Name-Last: Sanchez Author-Name: Aimé Heene Author-X-Name-First: Aimé Author-X-Name-Last: Heene Title: Managing for an Uncertain Future Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 21-42 Issue: 2 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656706 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656706 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:2:p:21-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul J.H. Schoemaker Author-X-Name-First: Paul J.H. Author-X-Name-Last: Schoemaker Title: Disciplined Imagination Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 43-70 Issue: 2 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656707 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656707 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:2:p:43-70 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ron Sanchez Author-X-Name-First: Ron Author-X-Name-Last: Sanchez Title: Preparing for an Uncertain Future Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 71-94 Issue: 2 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656708 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656708 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:2:p:71-94 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Charles Baden-Fuller Author-X-Name-First: Charles Author-X-Name-Last: Baden-Fuller Author-Name: Henk W. Volberda Author-X-Name-First: Henk W. Author-X-Name-Last: Volberda Title: Strategic Renewal Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 95-120 Issue: 2 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656709 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656709 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:2:p:95-120 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ricardo Recht Author-X-Name-First: Ricardo Author-X-Name-Last: Recht Author-Name: Celeste Wilderom Author-X-Name-First: Celeste Author-X-Name-Last: Wilderom Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-17 Issue: 2 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656731 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656731 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:2:p:3-17 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nureya Abarca Author-X-Name-First: Nureya Author-X-Name-Last: Abarca Author-Name: Nicolás Majluf Author-X-Name-First: Nicolás Author-X-Name-Last: Majluf Author-Name: Darío Rodríguez Author-X-Name-First: Darío Author-X-Name-Last: Rodríguez Title: Identifying Management in Chile Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 18-37 Issue: 2 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656732 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656732 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:2:p:18-37 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Valdecy Faria Leite Author-X-Name-First: Valdecy Faria Author-X-Name-Last: Leite Author-Name: Frederico A. de Carvalho Author-X-Name-First: Frederico A. Author-X-Name-Last: de Carvalho Title: Franchising as an Alternative to Public Management in Brazil Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 38-53 Issue: 2 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656733 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656733 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:2:p:38-53 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joyce S. Osland Author-X-Name-First: Joyce S. Author-X-Name-Last: Osland Author-Name: Monteze M. Snyder Author-X-Name-First: Monteze M. Author-X-Name-Last: Snyder Author-Name: Leslie Hunter Author-X-Name-First: Leslie Author-X-Name-Last: Hunter Title: A Comparative Study of Managerial Styles among Female Executives in Nicaragua and Costa Rica Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 54-73 Issue: 2 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656734 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656734 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:2:p:54-73 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Sargent Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Sargent Author-Name: Linda Matthews Author-X-Name-First: Linda Author-X-Name-Last: Matthews Title: Expatriate Reduction and Mariachi Circles Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 74-96 Issue: 2 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656735 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656735 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:2:p:74-96 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sandra M. Martínez Author-X-Name-First: Sandra M. Author-X-Name-Last: Martínez Author-Name: Peter W. Dorfman Author-X-Name-First: Peter W. Author-X-Name-Last: Dorfman Title: The Mexican Entrepreneur Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 97-124 Issue: 2 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656736 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656736 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:2:p:97-124 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Frank Boons Author-X-Name-First: Frank Author-X-Name-Last: Boons Author-Name: Lars Strannegård Author-X-Name-First: Lars Author-X-Name-Last: Strannegård Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-6 Issue: 3 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656791 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656791 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:3:p:3-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Frank Boons Author-X-Name-First: Frank Author-X-Name-Last: Boons Author-Name: Lars Strannegård Author-X-Name-First: Lars Author-X-Name-Last: Strannegård Title: Organizations Coping with Their Natural Environment Abstract: Through their activities, organizations have an impact upon the natural environment. When organizational members and stakeholders perceive this impact as problematic, organizations are motivated to develop routines to deal with it. In this article, we argue that the emergence and diffusion of these routines provide a rich empirical testing ground for institutional theory. We identifY three specific areas of institutional theory that could be advanced using this testing ground: (1) the relation between efficiency and institutionalization processes, (2) the link between micro and macro processes of institutionalization, and (3) the distinction between diffusion and translation. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 7-17 Issue: 3 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656792 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656792 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:3:p:7-17 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Frank Boons Author-X-Name-First: Frank Author-X-Name-Last: Boons Author-Name: Leo Baas Author-X-Name-First: Leo Author-X-Name-Last: Baas Author-Name: Jan Jaap Bouma Author-X-Name-First: Jan Jaap Author-X-Name-Last: Bouma Author-Name: Anja De Groene Author-X-Name-First: Anja De Author-X-Name-Last: Groene Author-Name: Kees Le Blansch Author-X-Name-First: Kees Le Author-X-Name-Last: Blansch Title: Trajectories of Greening Abstract: In the Netherlands. there has been an ongoing effort by business firms and government organizations to deal with the ecological impact of industrial activities. Over the years. the set of organizational routines that firms employ to deal with their ecological impact is changing. In this article, we analyze first of all the change in this set of routines in the period 1986-1995. Then we address the question by what mechanisms these changes are brought about. Institutional theory provides us with three possible mechanisms (i.e., forms of isomorphism) by which such changes occur. Our analysis suggests that, in addition to these three forms, there are two distinct mechanisms of change. We also suggest that each mechanism leads to a certain kind of organizational change. We thus develop the concept of trajectories of change. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 18-40 Issue: 3 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656793 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656793 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:3:p:18-40 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lanni Füssel Author-X-Name-First: Lanni Author-X-Name-Last: Füssel Author-Name: Susse Georg Author-X-Name-First: Susse Author-X-Name-Last: Georg Title: The Institutionalization of Environmental Concerns Abstract: We offer an account of the process of“greening,” exploring how an environmental management tool becomes embedded in organizational rhetoric and practice. This is depicted as a process of translation in which the “original” tool is transformed to fit the context. Theoretically, we seek to complement new institutional theory by providing an understanding of the institutionalization of environmental concerns in organizations. Sensemaking and actor-network theories are used to conceptualize the process of institutionalization as it goes on inside organizations. The empirical basis is a study of the introduction of green accounting in a public hospital in Denmark. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 41-58 Issue: 3 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656794 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656794 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:3:p:41-58 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bino Catasús Author-X-Name-First: Bino Author-X-Name-Last: Catasús Title: Silent Nature Becomes Normal Abstract: This article examines the state of normalization of the environmental issue in Swedish organizations. This is investigated through an examination of statements in annual reports and the use of actor-network theory. This article suggests that the environmental issue is becoming normal in organizations by referring to present organizational activities. By coining the idea of linguistic actants, the article highlights the fact that words, expressions, and concepts can be viewed as actors in the greening process. The study illustrates that choosing the right concepts as allies is crucialfor organizations trying to turn the environmental issue into a normal business issue. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 59-82 Issue: 3 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656795 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656795 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:3:p:59-82 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kristina Eneroth Author-X-Name-First: Kristina Author-X-Name-Last: Eneroth Author-Name: Rikard Larsson Author-X-Name-First: Rikard Author-X-Name-Last: Larsson Title: The Human Side of Strategic Change Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-15 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656671 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656671 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:1:p:3-15 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: J.-C. Spender Author-X-Name-First: J.-C. Author-X-Name-Last: Spender Author-Name: P.H. Grinyer Author-X-Name-First: P.H. Author-X-Name-Last: Grinyer Title: Organizational Renewal Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 17-40 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656672 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656672 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:1:p:17-40 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael J. Driver Author-X-Name-First: Michael J. Author-X-Name-Last: Driver Author-Name: Katarina Svensson Author-X-Name-First: Katarina Author-X-Name-Last: Svensson Author-Name: Roy P. Amato Author-X-Name-First: Roy P. Author-X-Name-Last: Amato Author-Name: Larry E. Pate Author-X-Name-First: Larry E. Author-X-Name-Last: Pate Title: A Human-Information-Processing Approach to Strategic Change Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 41-58 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656673 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656673 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:1:p:41-58 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Philippe Very Author-X-Name-First: Philippe Author-X-Name-Last: Very Author-Name: Michael Lubatkin Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Lubatkin Author-Name: Roland Calori Author-X-Name-First: Roland Author-X-Name-Last: Calori Title: A Cross-National Assessment of Acculturative Stress in Recent European Mergers Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 59-86 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656674 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656674 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:1:p:59-86 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Lorange Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Lorange Title: A Strategic Human Resource Perspective Applied to Multinational Cooperative Ventures Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 87-103 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656675 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656675 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:1:p:87-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rikard Larsson Author-X-Name-First: Rikard Author-X-Name-Last: Larsson Author-Name: Kristina Eneroth Author-X-Name-First: Kristina Author-X-Name-Last: Eneroth Author-Name: Ingo König Author-X-Name-First: Ingo Author-X-Name-Last: König Title: On the Folly of Rewarding Domestic Stability while Hoping for International Expansion Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 105-133 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656676 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656676 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:1:p:105-133 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chong Ju Choi Author-X-Name-First: Chong Ju Author-X-Name-Last: Choi Title: Global Competitiveness and National Attractiveness Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-13 Issue: 1 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656754 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656754 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:1:p:3-13 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Julia G. Djarova Author-X-Name-First: Julia G. Author-X-Name-Last: Djarova Title: Foreign Investment Strategies and the Attractiveness of Central and Eastern Europe Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 14-33 Issue: 1 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656755 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656755 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:1:p:14-33 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Costas T. Grammenos Author-X-Name-First: Costas T. Author-X-Name-Last: Grammenos Author-Name: Chong Ju Choi Author-X-Name-First: Chong Ju Author-X-Name-Last: Choi Title: The Greek Shipping Industry Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 34-52 Issue: 1 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656756 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656756 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:1:p:34-52 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lakis C. Kaounides Author-X-Name-First: Lakis C. Author-X-Name-Last: Kaounides Title: Science, Technology, and Global Competitive Advantage Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 53-79 Issue: 1 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656757 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656757 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:1:p:53-79 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter J. Buckley Author-X-Name-First: Peter J. Author-X-Name-Last: Buckley Author-Name: Martin J. Carter Author-X-Name-First: Martin J. Author-X-Name-Last: Carter Title: Managing Cross-Border Complementary Knowledge Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 80-104 Issue: 1 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656758 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656758 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:1:p:80-104 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Julian Birkinshaw Author-X-Name-First: Julian Author-X-Name-Last: Birkinshaw Author-Name: Örjan Sölvell Author-X-Name-First: Örjan Author-X-Name-Last: Sölvell Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-9 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656785 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656785 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:2:p:3-9 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tony Frost Author-X-Name-First: Tony Author-X-Name-Last: Frost Author-Name: Changhui Zhou Author-X-Name-First: Changhui Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou Title: The Geography of Foreign R&D Within a Host Country Abstract: Recent research on multinational firms emphasizes the learning and knowledge-creating aspects of foreign direct investment. According to this view, multinationals may be pulled abroad in order to “harness the new sources of knowledge and ideas embedded in regionally based centers of innovation” (Florida and Kenney 1994). This paper develops and tests a set of hypotheses linking the technological characteristics of regions within a host country to levels of R&D investment in those regions by foreign multinationals. We argue that the economic geography offoreign R&D investment can be understood through an evolutionary lens in which the tacit and embodied characteristics of knowledge give rise to its locational boundedness—and hence an incentivefor firms to be proximate to these resources. We further argue that the existing “site-selection” literature is misplaced in focusing solely on the geography of new facilities and investments by multinational firms. When viewed through an evolutionary lens, the economic geography of foreign R&D can be understood as a cumulative process of expansion, contraction, and adaptation by firms of existingfacilities in host-country locations. Firms, in essence, make an ongoing series of joint location-technology choices that largely determine the observable pattern of FDI in R&D. To test our hypotheses, we utilize a comprehensive database of patenting activity by US.-based subsidiaries between 1977 and 1990. Results show broad-level support for our claims. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 10-43 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656786 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656786 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:2:p:10-43 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ivo Zander Author-X-Name-First: Ivo Author-X-Name-Last: Zander Author-Name: Örjan Sölvell Author-X-Name-First: Örjan Author-X-Name-Last: Sölvell Title: Cross-Border Innovation in the Multinational Corporation Abstract: This paper addresses an increasingly debated issue in international business literature: the emergence of cross-border innovation in the multinational corporation. It identifies duplication and diversification of advanced technological capabilities as increasingly important dimensions of the multinational network, and proceeds to investigate how growth along these dimensions has led to the formation of cross-border innovation processes in the multinational corporation. Based on a review of existing empirical studies, we suggest three research avenues to shed further light on innovation processes in the multinational corporation: (1) a more thorough investigation of patterns of knowledge exchange in the multinational network; (2) how these patterns are influenced by industry-, fim-, and technology-related variables; and (3) how cross-border innovation may constitute a significant competitive advantage of the multinational corporation. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 44-67 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656787 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656787 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:2:p:44-67 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ewen Peters Author-X-Name-First: Ewen Author-X-Name-Last: Peters Author-Name: Neil Hood Author-X-Name-First: Neil Author-X-Name-Last: Hood Title: Implementing the Cluster Approach Abstract: The focus of this article is on the challenges faced by policymakers in implementing the Porterian cluster approach in an economic development context. Among the issues which are addressed conceptually and in some detail are those of cluster selection, characterization, and assessment. The article is firmly rooted in the experience gleaned from applying a cluster approach in Scotland. Its central empirical thrust lies in exploring the relevance of cluster methodology in two distinctly different industrial sectors, namely semiconductors and software in the Scottish context. Among its conclusions are that suboptimal future policy outcomes are likely to occur if they are based on cluster methodology applied without analytical rigor. Specific advice is given as to how this can be avoided. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 68-92 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656788 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656788 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:2:p:68-92 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Julian Birkinshaw Author-X-Name-First: Julian Author-X-Name-Last: Birkinshaw Title: Upgrading of Industry Clusters and Foreign Investment Abstract: This article examines the impact of foreign investment on the evolution of industry clusters. We put forward a framework for analyzing industry clusters according to their dynamism and the life-cycle stage of the industry. Foreign investment has a mostly positive impact on cluster upgrading but presents some risks, particularly when the cluster in question has low dynamism. This contention is exploredfurther through an analysis of the Information Technology (IT) cluster in Stockholm. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 93-113 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656789 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656789 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:2:p:93-113 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael J. Enright Author-X-Name-First: Michael J. Author-X-Name-Last: Enright Title: Regional Clusters and Multinational Enterprises Abstract: This article outlines a model of regional cluster development in which the clusters and foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) are interdependent. Such clusters are characterized by a strong or dominant presence of foreign MNEs as well as a strong contribution by cluster-based subsidiaries to the overall strategy of the MNEs. The case of the Hong Kongfinancial-services cluster is used to demonstrate that interdependent clusters provide types of investment opportunities, particularly for “marketplace-seeking” and “information-seeking” investments, and benefits to foreign multinationals that go beyond those usually contemplated in the MNE literature, while the locations housing such clusters receive benefits that also go beyond those usually contemplated. The article concludes with implications for economic policy, firm strategy, and further research on the interaction between clusters and MNEs. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 114-138 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656790 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656790 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:2:p:114-138 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Morten Huse Author-X-Name-First: Morten Author-X-Name-Last: Huse Author-Name: Hans Landström Author-X-Name-First: Hans Author-X-Name-Last: Landström Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-12 Issue: 3 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656710 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656710 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:3:p:3-12 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chris Steyaert Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Steyaert Title: A Qualitative Methodology for Process Studies of Entrepreneurship Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 13-33 Issue: 3 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656711 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656711 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:3:p:13-33 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hermann Frank Author-X-Name-First: Hermann Author-X-Name-Last: Frank Author-Name: Manfred Lueger Author-X-Name-First: Manfred Author-X-Name-Last: Lueger Title: Reconstructing Development Processes Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 34-63 Issue: 3 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656712 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656712 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:3:p:34-63 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Åge Mariussen Author-X-Name-First: Åge Author-X-Name-Last: Mariussen Author-Name: Jane Wheelock Author-X-Name-First: Jane Author-X-Name-Last: Wheelock Author-Name: Susan Baines Author-X-Name-First: Susan Author-X-Name-Last: Baines Title: The Family Business Tradition in Britain and Norway Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 64-85 Issue: 3 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656713 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656713 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:3:p:64-85 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giuseppe Delmestri Author-X-Name-First: Giuseppe Author-X-Name-Last: Delmestri Title: Convergent Organizational Responses to Globalization in the Italian and German Machine-Building Industries Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 86-108 Issue: 3 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656714 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656714 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:3:p:86-108 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bengt Johannisson Author-X-Name-First: Bengt Author-X-Name-Last: Johannisson Author-Name: Mette Mønsted Author-X-Name-First: Mette Author-X-Name-Last: Mønsted Title: Contextualizing Entrepreneurial Networking Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 109-136 Issue: 3 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656715 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656715 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:3:p:109-136 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sylvaine Castellano Author-X-Name-First: Sylvaine Author-X-Name-Last: Castellano Author-Name: Vincent Dutot Author-X-Name-First: Vincent Author-X-Name-Last: Dutot Title: Guest Editors’ Introduction Abstract: E-reputation represents a growing concept in the academic sphere. Previous studies on online reputation were mainly focusing on definition and measurement issues. This special issue builds on past research and aims at further investigating the specificities of e-reputation. More specifically, we are interested in grasping the challenges of e-Reputation by analyzing its antecedents and consequences such as empowerment and e-word-of-mouth; and in different settings such as online communities and international business activities. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 1-3 Issue: 1 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1241085 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1241085 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:1:p:1-3 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ludivine Chalençon Author-X-Name-First: Ludivine Author-X-Name-Last: Chalençon Author-Name: Ana Colovic Author-X-Name-First: Ana Author-X-Name-Last: Colovic Author-Name: Olivier Lamotte Author-X-Name-First: Olivier Author-X-Name-Last: Lamotte Author-Name: Ulrike Mayrhofer Author-X-Name-First: Ulrike Author-X-Name-Last: Mayrhofer Title: Reputation, E-Reputation, and Value-Creation of Mergers and Acquisitions Abstract: This article investigates the effects of reputation and e-reputation on the value created by mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Building on the resource-based view, we study the impact of the acquirer’s reputation on financial market reactions to M&A announcements. The empirical study is based on a sample of 187 M&As involving French multinationals of the CAC 40 index and an online survey of their reputation. The statistical analysis shows that reputation has a significant, positive influence on M&A value-creation. The findings also highlight the fact that reputation matters regardless of the geographic location of the target companies. Our study makes theory of the role of intangible assets in firm performance more specific by highlighting the positive impact of reputation on the financial evaluation of M&A operations. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 4-22 Issue: 1 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1241086 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1241086 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:1:p:4-22 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Insaf Khelladi Author-X-Name-First: Insaf Author-X-Name-Last: Khelladi Author-Name: Amelie Boutinot Author-X-Name-First: Amelie Author-X-Name-Last: Boutinot Title: The Role of Wikipedia on Corporate E-Reputation: Evidence from French Companies Abstract: This study complements previous research on e-reputation by exploring how social media influence corporate e-reputation by extending the circle of stakeholders who can influence, even indirectly, a company’s e-reputation. We also suggest a new way of measuring corporate e-reputation and its determinants. We quantitatively analyze the effect of Wikipedia and its key features on the corporate e-reputation of companies that are listed on the French stock market SBF 120®. Our results show that Wikipedia has an impact on corporate e-reputation across several dimensions, including the articles’ quality and reputation, the latter resulting from a combination of the authors’ rigor and diversity, and the immediacy of information provision. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 23-41 Issue: 1 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1241087 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1241087 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:1:p:23-41 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sylvaine Castellano Author-X-Name-First: Sylvaine Author-X-Name-Last: Castellano Author-Name: Vincent Dutot Author-X-Name-First: Vincent Author-X-Name-Last: Dutot Title: Investigating the Influence of E-Word-of-Mouth on E-Reputation Abstract: In real life, the recommendation of peers has the strongest influence on our decisions. Word-Of-Mouth (WOM) has become a major component of communication strategies and also influences reputation. But does WOM have an equally strong influence online? The current study aims to fill the gap in the literature regarding the influencing factors of e-reputation by studying the impact of e-WOM on e-reputation. Using a quantitative approach based on 251 French consumers, the results show that e-WOM influences e-reputation. More precisely, the study reveals that tie strength, valence, degree of influence, trust message quality, and source credibility have a positive impact on e-reputation. Homophily and content quality do not influence e-reputation. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 42-60 Issue: 1 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1241088 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1241088 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:1:p:42-60 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Caroline Morrongiello Author-X-Name-First: Caroline Author-X-Name-Last: Morrongiello Author-Name: Gilles N’Goala Author-X-Name-First: Gilles Author-X-Name-Last: N’Goala Author-Name: Dominique Kreziak Author-X-Name-First: Dominique Author-X-Name-Last: Kreziak Title: Customer Psychological Empowerment as a Critical Source of Customer Engagement Abstract: Interpersonal influence today includes an extension in cyberspace in the form of e–word-of-mouth (eWOM), thereby transforming customers into information producers. Companies nonetheless continue to experience difficulty in encouraging customers to engage online respecting company brands or to participate in co-creating value and promoting company products via the Web. This research examines how customer psychological empowerment, namely the extent to which customers feel that they exert power in the marketplace, potentially enhances brand engagement. Using structural equation modeling, each of a qualitative and quantitative study has been conducted at a French ski resort (N = 753). Findings demonstrate that customers engage for three reasons: belief that they can help companies without resorting to the venting of negative feelings (punishment), brand attachment, and reciprocity based on the perceived sincerity of online comments penned by other customers. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 61-87 Issue: 1 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1241089 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1241089 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:1:p:61-87 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lionel Maltese Author-X-Name-First: Lionel Author-X-Name-Last: Maltese Author-Name: Frank Pons Author-X-Name-First: Frank Author-X-Name-Last: Pons Author-Name: Frédéric Prévot Author-X-Name-First: Frédéric Author-X-Name-Last: Prévot Title: Managing E-Reputation and Key Stakeholders in the Context of Sport Expressive Organizations Abstract: Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative data collected in a professional sports organization from two key stakeholder groups, namely fans and owner/managers, this article investigates the perceived importance and management principles of reputation and e-reputation. It provides a better understanding of the challenges of managing e-reputation in highly expressive contexts (sports organizations) and proposes a model of e-reputation management in this specific context. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 88-105 Issue: 1 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1241090 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1241090 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:1:p:88-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Taran Patel Author-X-Name-First: Taran Author-X-Name-Last: Patel Title: Guest Editor’s Introduction: Innovative Trends in Cultural Studies Abstract: Abstract: This article introduces the special issue (SI) on innovative trends in cultural studies. This SI showcases examples of path-breaking works among contemporary cultural scholars. The first two articles are interesting in their use of innovative and social anthropology-based cultural theories, and the third article is pioneering by drawing attention to critical cross-cultural management and often-neglected topics in extant literature. The fourth article’s originality comes from exposing advances in the field of Cross-Cultural Psychology in conceptualizing culture differently, and the fifth article remarkably offers illustrations of multiparadigmatic and nonlinear asymmetrical cultural studies. This article ends by offering future avenues for innovative cultural studies. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 353-357 Issue: 4 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1504476 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1504476 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:4:p:353-357 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Taran Patel Author-X-Name-First: Taran Author-X-Name-Last: Patel Author-Name: Ahmad Salih Author-X-Name-First: Ahmad Author-X-Name-Last: Salih Title: Cultural Intelligence: A Dynamic and Interactional Framework Abstract: Cultural Intelligence (CQ) scholars’ continuing reliance on static geo-ethnic (mostly national) conceptualizations of culture raises three dilemmas: (1) the practical challenge of managers having to adapt to as many national cultures as they encounter, (2) a superficial understanding of how cultural intelligence manifests itself in everyday life, and (3) the inability to elaborate upon the nature (transient versus profound) of and potential pathways for cultural adaptations. There is, therefore, an urgent need to liberate the CQ discourse from geo-ethnic confines a need which is met in our present article through the introduction of transactional anthropology-based Douglasian Cultural Framework (DCF). The DCF conceptualizes human behavior as grounded in social transactions as opposed to geo-ethnic affiliations. According to this framework, the ongoing interactions between an individual’s preferences on two social dimensions (grid and group) and social context results in the emergence of four worldviews. Integrating these four worldviews of DCF with the four dimensions of CQ (motivational, cognitive, metacognitive, and behavioral) results in an innovative DCF-based CQ framework. This framework not only refrains from constraining the CQ discourse to geo-ethnic confines but also satisfactorily resolves the three dilemmas emerging from conventional CQ literature. Thus, our article contributes toward enriching extant CQ and DCF literatures and simultaneously combines insights from anthropology and psychology, but it also recognizes this is one small step in the right direction and calls for efforts toward generating other geo-ethnicity-free cultural frameworks that will further enrich our understanding of CQ. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 358-385 Issue: 4 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1504474 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1504474 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:4:p:358-385 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Johannes Marcelus Kraak Author-X-Name-First: Johannes Marcelus Author-X-Name-Last: Kraak Author-Name: Yochanan Altman Author-X-Name-First: Yochanan Author-X-Name-Last: Altman Author-Name: Aziza Laguecir Author-X-Name-First: Aziza Author-X-Name-Last: Laguecir Title: Psychological Contract Meets Cultural Theory: A Study of Self-Initiated Expatriates Abstract: This qualitative study explores the psychological contracts of self-initiated expatriates regarding their perceived work context through recourse to Cultural Theory (Grid/Group analysis) and brings together a Social Exchange theory with a neo-Durkheimian theory, with the potentiality to enrich each other. Employing in-depth semi-structured interviews and follow-ups, we studied 16 self-initiated expatriates working in the French hospitality sector. In the interviews, we focused on their work environments and career/life contexts and addressed specific questions about contract fulfillment, breach, and violations. To do that, we developed and validated an interview schedule that builds on the bodies of knowledge of both theories. Our findings suggest four distinct types of psychological contracts that correspond with Grid/Group classification. Following high/low structuration and sociality differentiation, study participants described sets of psychological contract contents, evaluations, and reactions to psychological contract breach. The study findings demonstrate both the utility of examining Cultural Theory with psychological contract tools and the benefits of including distinctive worldview formulations from Cultural Theory in psychological contract research and theorizing. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 386-402 Issue: 4 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1504478 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1504478 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:4:p:386-402 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Laurence Romani Author-X-Name-First: Laurence Author-X-Name-Last: Romani Author-Name: Jasmin Mahadevan Author-X-Name-First: Jasmin Author-X-Name-Last: Mahadevan Author-Name: Henriett Primecz Author-X-Name-First: Henriett Author-X-Name-Last: Primecz Title: Critical Cross-Cultural Management: Outline and Emerging Contributions Abstract: Abstract: Critical perspectives on cross-cultural management (CCM) are increasingly present in our research community; however, they are spread over multiple research fields (e.g., international business, International Human Resource Management (IHRM), diversity, and gender and/or race studies). Critical researchers tend to have agendas and foci that address topics others consider beyond CCM’s scope, such as gender in intercultural training, religion in the multi-cultural workplace, or the relationship between CCM knowledge and the military. We intend to sketch here the contours of this stream of research we call critical CCM and to clarify the broadly shared research studies’ agenda. By using Burrell and Morgan (1979) matrix and stressing critical studies’ inspirations in two paradigms, radical structuralism and radical humanism, we propose a paradigmatic positioning of the studies. Subsequently, we articulate Critical CCM research agenda around denaturalization, reflexivity, and emancipation. We conclude by asserting a critical performative agenda in a dialog with practitioners. In brief, our ambition is to specifically outline Critical CCM research and show its emergent contribution to CCM research. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 403-418 Issue: 4 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1504473 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1504473 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:4:p:403-418 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Harris Bond Author-X-Name-First: Michael Harris Author-X-Name-Last: Bond Author-Name: Peter B. Smith Author-X-Name-First: Peter B. Author-X-Name-Last: Smith Title: Discovering Culture’s Influence in Studies of Individual Behavior in Organizational Settings: A Challenging Proposal Abstract: To broaden our understanding of culture-as-operative in organizational settings and make these cultural influences tractable to empirical analysis, we focus upon individual behavior as the outcome of interest and acknowledge the embeddedness of an organizational member in a nested and multiple array of cultures be they national, regional, organizational, or local-interpersonal. At any one of these levels, we may expect cross-cutting impacts of cultural identities built around ethnicity, organization type, company, work function, team, dyad, gender, education level and type, and age-generational cohort. We distinguish between the positioning and the moderating effects of culture, thus enabling an appreciation of the role that each type and level of culture plays in shaping individuals' actions in their immediate work environments. Our goal is not only to describe but also to explain how culture operates upon organizational members at each level of cultural influence and for each type of culturally shaped identity. This is a challenging task, but a broadened cultural appreciation and the availability of big data and the necessary statistical techniques to analyze its complexity make undertaking this initiative practicable in the 21st century. This current project on work-life balance hopes to inspire further work using this perspective. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 419-434 Issue: 4 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1504475 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1504475 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:4:p:419-434 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Taran Patel Author-X-Name-First: Taran Author-X-Name-Last: Patel Title: Innovative Trends in Culture in International Business Literature: Toward Multiparadigmatic and Nonlinear Studies of Culture Abstract: Culture in International Business (CIB) literature has traditionally been dominated by the objectivist tradition, resulting in the following three problems: (1) grounded in the realist ontology, these studies detach culture from its social context, (2) since every paradigm has “blind-spots,” an excessive reliance on one paradigm results in a body of knowledge that is partial at best, and (3) such studies oversimplify culture by reducing it to linear cause–effect relations. Consequently, some scholars have shifted from this dominant trend toward multiparadigmatic studies of culture, some of which are grounded in post-positivism and facilitate nonlinear and asymmetrical analyses of culture. This conceptual article offers four examples of multiparadigmatic studies of culture, which, it argues, offer more innovative insights into cultural phenomena than is possible through monoparadigmatic and linear cause–effect studies. Insights gleaned from this article are geared toward CIB scholars, but they are just as relevant to scholars in other management subdisciplines. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 435-456 Issue: 4 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1504477 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1504477 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:4:p:435-456 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nicola Marziliano Author-X-Name-First: Nicola Author-X-Name-Last: Marziliano Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-11 Issue: 3 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656737 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656737 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:3:p:3-11 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John M.T. Balmer Author-X-Name-First: John M.T. Author-X-Name-Last: Balmer Author-Name: Alan Wilson Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson Title: Corporate Identity Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 12-31 Issue: 3 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656738 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656738 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:3:p:12-31 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Barbara Czarniawska Author-X-Name-First: Barbara Author-X-Name-Last: Czarniawska Author-Name: Rolf Wolff Author-X-Name-First: Rolf Author-X-Name-Last: Wolff Title: Constructing New Identities in Established Organization Fields Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 32-56 Issue: 3 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656739 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656739 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:3:p:32-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: P. Robert Duimering Author-X-Name-First: P. Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Duimering Author-Name: Frank Safayeni Author-X-Name-First: Frank Author-X-Name-Last: Safayeni Title: The Role of Language and Formal Structure in the Construction and Maintenance of Organizational Images Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 57-85 Issue: 3 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656740 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656740 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:3:p:57-85 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mats Alvesson Author-X-Name-First: Mats Author-X-Name-Last: Alvesson Title: The Business Concept as a Symbol Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 86-108 Issue: 3 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656741 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656741 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:3:p:86-108 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Niraj Dawar Author-X-Name-First: Niraj Author-X-Name-Last: Dawar Title: Product-Harm Crises and the Signaling Ability of Brands Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 109-119 Issue: 3 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656742 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656742 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:3:p:109-119 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Morten Thanning Vendelø Author-X-Name-First: Morten Thanning Author-X-Name-Last: Vendelø Title: Narrating Corporate Reputation Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 120-137 Issue: 3 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656743 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656743 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:3:p:120-137 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zaheer Khan Author-X-Name-First: Zaheer Author-X-Name-Last: Khan Author-Name: Yong Kyu Lew Author-X-Name-First: Yong Kyu Author-X-Name-Last: Lew Author-Name: Rekha Rao-Nicholson Author-X-Name-First: Rekha Author-X-Name-Last: Rao-Nicholson Title: The role of dynamic capabilities in global strategy of emerging economies’ multinationals Abstract: The internationalization of firms from emerging economies have attracted significant research interest. Yet, there is limited research that has examined the role of dynamic capabilities in the global strategy of these firms, and how these firms develop and use different set of dynamic capabilities in their foreign operation. This article provides key insights of the special issue and highlights important areas for future studies on this important topic. The six articles shed light on the nature and role of dynamic capabilities in the context of firms from emerging markets. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 1-4 Issue: 1 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1703375 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1703375 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:1:p:1-4 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Manuel Portugal Ferreira Author-X-Name-First: Manuel Portugal Author-X-Name-Last: Ferreira Author-Name: Nuno Rosa Reis Author-X-Name-First: Nuno Rosa Author-X-Name-Last: Reis Author-Name: Cláudia Frias Pinto Author-X-Name-First: Cláudia Frias Author-X-Name-Last: Pinto Title: Two decades of management research on emerging economies: a citation and co-citation review Abstract: Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented increase in scholars’ interest in emerging economies, with an increasing number of articles published. This study investigates the knowledge base that has formed the foundation for research on emerging economies. Using bibliometric techniques of citations and co-citations, we reviewed the extant management/business research on emerging economies to identify the intellectual structure and the main research concentrations of the field over the past two decades, from 1992 to 2013. The findings reveal that an institutional perspective has been foundational to the research on emerging economies multinationals. Yet, there is a growing emphasis on firms’ strategic choices and the use of resource, and dynamic capabilities-based views – entering and exiting emerging economies. Institutional perspectives complement a greater emphasis on the global strategies of firms in and out of emerging economies as scholars delve into the emerging countries multinationals’ dynamic capabilities as sources of competitive advantage. This study extends the current comprehension of the theories and themes researched, how the research agenda has progressed, and the conceptual idiosyncrasies of emerging economies studies. We provide scholars and practitioners with a global rear view of the field, organize, classify and systematize the stock of accumulated knowledge and the trends of theorizing, as a foundation to spawn future research endeavors. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 5-26 Issue: 1 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2020.1724470 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2020.1724470 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:1:p:5-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pervaiz Akhtar Author-X-Name-First: Pervaiz Author-X-Name-Last: Akhtar Author-Name: Subhan Ullah Author-X-Name-First: Subhan Author-X-Name-Last: Ullah Author-Name: Saman Hassanzadeh Amin Author-X-Name-First: Saman Hassanzadeh Author-X-Name-Last: Amin Author-Name: Gaurav Kabra Author-X-Name-First: Gaurav Author-X-Name-Last: Kabra Author-Name: Sarah Shaw Author-X-Name-First: Sarah Author-X-Name-Last: Shaw Title: Dynamic capabilities and environmental sustainability for emerging economies’ multinational enterprises Abstract: The purpose of this study is to enhance our understanding of how macro (country)—level dynamic capabilities (DC), such as government environmental policies, legal and market requirements, and technological advances, and micro (firm)—level DC, such as organizational size, culture, and managerial characteristics, are related to emerging economies multinationals’ environmental sustainability policies and practices. Limited studies explore linkages between macro-and micro-level DC and environmental sustainability, which urge emerging economies’ multinationals to reconsider their environmental policies and practices in order to compete with enterprises from developed countries. We develop a theoretical framework and offer propositions about the fundamental links between macro and micro DC and emerging economies environmental sustainability efforts. The propositions can be empirically tested in subsequent studies using country-level and firm-level data to examine the interactions between macro-and micro-level capabilities, in relation to sustainable policies and procedures, for multinationals in emerging economies. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 27-42 Issue: 1 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1703376 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1703376 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:1:p:27-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joseph Amankwah-Amoah Author-X-Name-First: Joseph Author-X-Name-Last: Amankwah-Amoah Author-Name: Ellis L. C. Osabutey Author-X-Name-First: Ellis L. C. Author-X-Name-Last: Osabutey Title: New challenges and opportunities in the global marketplace: learning from developed-country multinationals’ failures Abstract: In this article, we integrate the attention-based view of the firm and the organizational ambidexterity literature to develop a perspective on the effects of unbalanced attention to both domestic and foreign expansion. We utilize the case of British supermarket Tesco’s expansions in the UK and USA to demonstrate divestment as an unintended outcome of unbalanced attention to both domestic and foreign markets. We demonstrate how emerging-market multinationals could learn from historical international expansion strategic failures by developed-country multinationals. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 43-56 Issue: 1 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1703377 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1703377 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:1:p:43-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Byung Il Park Author-X-Name-First: Byung Il Author-X-Name-Last: Park Author-Name: Shufeng (Simon) Xiao Author-X-Name-First: Shufeng (Simon) Author-X-Name-Last: Xiao Title: Is exploring dynamic capabilities important for the performance of emerging market firms? The moderating effects of entrepreneurial orientation and environmental dynamism Abstract: In spite of the prominence of dynamic capabilities (DCs) perspective it is still unclear whether and under what conditions DCs contribute to firm performance. This study develops and tests an interactive view emphasizing the moderating effects of internal entrepreneurial orientation and external environmental dynamism on the contribution of the exploration of emerging market firms’ (EMFs) DCs to their performance. Using a unique sample of manufacturing firms in China’s emerging market, the study provides general support for such moderating effects. We find that exploring the DCs of EMFs is positively associated with their performance. The results indicate that although exploring DCs fosters the performance of EMFs, the benefits are conditional on the internal and external conditions of the firms. That is, entrepreneurial orientation strengthens, whereas environmental dynamism impedes, the positive effect of exploring DCs on the performance of EMFs. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 57-73 Issue: 1 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1703378 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1703378 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:1:p:57-73 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yulong Liu Author-X-Name-First: Yulong Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Yuanfei Kang Author-X-Name-First: Yuanfei Author-X-Name-Last: Kang Title: Adapt to the wild: the effect of dynamic capabilities on international entry mode Abstract: The literature about the relationship between an emerging market enterprise (EME)’s dynamic capabilities and its international entry modes, such as cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and Greenfield investment, is limited. This study offers a model based on the dynamic capability perspective complemented by the industry-based view and institutional theory. The proposed hypotheses are tested using binary logistic models with survey data from 303 Chinese outward foreign direct investment firms. The findings confirm that an EME’s adaptive dynamic capabilities that are contingent upon industry and institutional actors influence its international entry mode strategic choices. Results show that adaptive dynamic capability can positively affect the likelihood of an EME opting for a Greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) rather than cross-border M&A. The host country’s institutional quality and home country industry conditions-–industry research and development (R&D) input–-also can positively influence an EME to opt for Greenfield investment. Suggestions for future research and managerial implications are also discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 74-90 Issue: 1 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1703379 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1703379 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:1:p:74-90 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Myropi Garri Author-X-Name-First: Myropi Author-X-Name-Last: Garri Author-Name: Lee A. Spicer Author-X-Name-First: Lee A. Author-X-Name-Last: Spicer Author-Name: Vijay Pereira Author-X-Name-First: Vijay Author-X-Name-Last: Pereira Author-Name: Yama Temouri Author-X-Name-First: Yama Author-X-Name-Last: Temouri Author-Name: Ashish Malik Author-X-Name-First: Ashish Author-X-Name-Last: Malik Author-Name: Shlomo Tarba Author-X-Name-First: Shlomo Author-X-Name-Last: Tarba Title: Building dynamic capabilities for high margin product development: a corporate control style perspective Abstract: This article contributes to the dynamic capabilities (DCs) literature by exploring the link between sensing, seizing and reconfiguring and firm performance defined as commercially successful high margin products development (HMPD). Our qualitative findings are based on semi-structured interviews conducted within a multinational telecommunication corporation. Our qualitative findings show that the sensing, seizing and reconfiguring aspects of DCs positively influence firm performance. Moreover, the level of positive influence of DCs on performance depends on the corporate control style (CCS) of the firm, since CCS directly affects the seizing and reconfiguring activities of DCs. CCS also regulates the link between sensing and seizing DCs activities and firm performance. We find evidence that there is no specific order in which the sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring activities occur. We also find that the identification of ’Surge’ and ‘Lurch‘events is a key channel for managers to enhance DCs in their firms. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 91-106 Issue: 1 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1703380 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1703380 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:1:p:91-106 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David S. A. Guttormsen Author-X-Name-First: David S. A. Author-X-Name-Last: Guttormsen Author-Name: Jakob Lauring Author-X-Name-First: Jakob Author-X-Name-Last: Lauring Title: Fringe Voices in Cross-Cultural Management Research: Silenced and Neglected? Abstract: This introductory article asks if there are silenced and neglected voices in current cross-cultural management research, and if so, what we can learn from them. Taking departure in the six articles selected for this guest issue we argue that there are indeed valuable fringe voices and that some are neglected while others are instead silenced. From there we proceed to propose new avenues for future research that allow fringe exploration to compete for the attention so far mainly held by the dominant mainstream cross-cultural management literature. We argue that in moving across paradigms cross-cultural management research should confront and oppose excessively simplified notions on culture, nations and individuals. Moreover, we maintain a need for cross-cultural management researchers to question, ourselves and the literature we read, if knowledge produced actually challenges preconceptions or rather comforts the readers. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 239-246 Issue: 3 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1480465 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1480465 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:3:p:239-246 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Laurence Romani Author-X-Name-First: Laurence Author-X-Name-Last: Romani Author-Name: Christoph Barmeyer Author-X-Name-First: Christoph Author-X-Name-Last: Barmeyer Author-Name: Henriett Primecz Author-X-Name-First: Henriett Author-X-Name-Last: Primecz Author-Name: Katharina Pilhofer Author-X-Name-First: Katharina Author-X-Name-Last: Pilhofer Title: Cross-Cultural Management Studies: State of the Field in the Four Research Paradigms* Abstract: Cross-cultural management research is often confined to the positivist tradition, which is archetypically illustrated by the seminal work of Hofstede. However, this gives an incomplete overview of the field to which three additional research paradigms contribute: interpretivist, postmodern, and critical. Our ambition is to raise awareness of the presence of multiple paradigms in cross-cultural management research. This meta-theoretical positioning allows researchers to consider the insights and contributions from the different paradigms. We aim to achieve this by presenting a brief overview of the state of the field in each paradigm, thus, stressing areas of studies that enrich our understanding of the interaction between culture and management (at the national, organizational, interpersonal, and individual levels). We then highlight the specific contributions of these four paradigms, drawing especially upon the postmodern and critical works, as they have been repeatedly overlooked in reviews. The article concludes by mentioning how more interactions between the paradigms can be developed and can lead to further knowledge development. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 247-263 Issue: 3 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1480918 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1480918 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:3:p:247-263 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jakob Lauring Author-X-Name-First: Jakob Author-X-Name-Last: Lauring Author-Name: Toke Bjerregaard Author-X-Name-First: Toke Author-X-Name-Last: Bjerregaard Author-Name: Anders Klitmøller Author-X-Name-First: Anders Author-X-Name-Last: Klitmøller Title: Understanding Culture in International Management: Functionalism, Constructivism, and the Emerging Practice Turn Abstract: Abstract: The understanding of culture in international management (IM) research has often been approached from two different theoretical orientations. One stream of research has proposed that culture is a set of relatively stable collective values that are transmitted to the individual in a straightforward and linear manner. In this functionalist perspective, culture is perceived to be a fixed entity firmly delimited by the nation state. Hence, the cross-national distance between comparable values has been a central scholarly focus in this tradition. An alternative and less pervasive line of research has adopted a constructivist approach. Here culture is considered a complex, dynamic interpersonal process. These two perspectives have developed relatively independently and offer scholars and students of IM different analytical insights. In this article we account for key characteristics of the two approaches and offer an alternative, integrative perspective that takes into account some central insights of both research trends, namely practice theory. In doing so, we avoid some of the inherent analytical pitfalls associated with the more radical functionalist and constructivist perspectives. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 264-276 Issue: 3 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1480869 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1480869 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:3:p:264-276 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Karsten Jonsen Author-X-Name-First: Karsten Author-X-Name-Last: Jonsen Title: Beyond Nation-state Thinking and other Stubborn Facts in Cross-cultural Research Abstract: Abstract: In this article on cross-cultural management research, I share personal reflections on relevance, reflexivity, and challenges in advancing our epistemological and ontological thinking in cross-cultural management. I argue that we should maintain and preserve our status as subjective thinkers, with time to think. I propose an end to static nation-state thinking, and suggest that we move on with a different, multidisciplinary, and more dynamic set of assumptions, approaches, and research questions. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 277-293 Issue: 3 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1480870 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1480870 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:3:p:277-293 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gundula Lücke Author-X-Name-First: Gundula Author-X-Name-Last: Lücke Author-Name: Åsa-Karin Engstrand Author-X-Name-First: Åsa-Karin Author-X-Name-Last: Engstrand Author-Name: Lena Zander Author-X-Name-First: Lena Author-X-Name-Last: Zander Title: Desilencing Complexities: Addressing Categorization in Cross-Cultural Management with Intersectionality and Relationality Abstract: A central focus of cross-cultural management research is how individuals and organizations differ across national cultures and how that fundamentally shapes their thoughts and actions and serves as a unit of identification. In this article, we critically reconsider the essential categorical nature of culture, problematizing categorization and questioning national culture as the primary basis of differentiation. We draw on intersectionality, an approach that helps understand how multiple categories are experienced by the individual, and on relationality, an approach that conceptualizes people, organizations, and their actions within dynamic patterns of relations and cultural meanings. Both approaches challenge the primacy, unity, and separateness of any given category, the a priori determination of categories (and associated boundaries) in research, and the nature and stability of boundaries. Based on this we advance notions of boundary work and boundary shifting that help explore how today’s sociocultural groups and categories, and the boundaries that separate them, emerge and change. We conclude that, while the extant cross-cultural literature has come far in identifying differences, relationality and intersectionality can enable cross-cultural scholars to engage in research practice that better reflects the complexities of sociocultural life. We contribute to theory by suggesting why and how these two approaches can be used to explore complex cross-cultural management phenomena. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 294-313 Issue: 3 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1480872 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1480872 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:3:p:294-313 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David S. A. Guttormsen Author-X-Name-First: David S. A. Author-X-Name-Last: Guttormsen Title: Advancing Otherness and Othering of the Cultural Other during “Intercultural Encounters” in Cross-Cultural Management Research Abstract: This article argues that theorising Otherness and Othering of the cultural Other is integral to identity construction during intercultural encounters, but has largely been neglected in Cross-Cultural Management (CCM) research. Intercultural encounters entail the exchange of cultural identities and ideas when individuals from different cultures interact with each other or multicultural organizations. Otherness signals the ascribed qualities attributed to the Other and is expressed through conceptual boundary markers regarding what constitutes Us and Them. Othering, however, reflects the above boundary-production as an underlying cultural process which maintains (and reproduces) such boundaries. Consequently, the CCM research agenda has overly focused on “cultural differences,” values and broad-stroke dimensions of fixed “national cultures” at the expense of identity constructions that transpire when individuals from different cultures are interacting. This article builds theory through advancing the Otherness and Othering concepts, which are key missing interrelationships to Self in CCM research. This is achieved by coupling CCM theory with intellectual developments in Social Anthropology and Sociology. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 314-332 Issue: 3 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1480874 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1480874 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:3:p:314-332 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Markus Kittler Author-X-Name-First: Markus Author-X-Name-Last: Kittler Title: Do We Understand Each Other? Discussing Academic Exchange from a Cross-Cultural Communication Perspective Abstract: This article takes a communication perspective to explore the divide between practitioners and academics and also looks at the exchange within the scholarly community. While the relevance debate for business and management related research is frequently pointing at communication problems, there is little systematic inclusion of communication research. We look at contributions in other fields and disciplines and adopt insights from communication theory and cross-cultural communication research to explain (mis)communication in exchanges with practitioners and the academic peer group. This article contributes to a more systematic understanding of academic exchange focusing on how source, recipient, message, channel, and context as prominent communication inputs affect the communication outcomes. This allows a better understanding of the process of research as well as its dissemination, suggesting areas of potential misunderstanding and pointing at the benefits of a cross-cultural communication lens. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 333-351 Issue: 3 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1480877 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1480877 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:3:p:333-351 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Acknowledgments Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 352-352 Issue: 3 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1480885 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1480885 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:3:p:352-352 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Ebers Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Ebers Author-Name: J. Carlos Jarillo Author-X-Name-First: J. Carlos Author-X-Name-Last: Jarillo Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-21 Issue: 4 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656716 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656716 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:4:p:3-21 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luis Araujo Author-X-Name-First: Luis Author-X-Name-Last: Araujo Author-Name: Carlos Brito Author-X-Name-First: Carlos Author-X-Name-Last: Brito Title: Agency and Constitutional Ordering in Networks Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 22-46 Issue: 4 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656717 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656717 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:4:p:22-46 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jörg Sydow Author-X-Name-First: Jörg Author-X-Name-Last: Sydow Author-Name: Bennet Van Well Author-X-Name-First: Bennet Author-X-Name-Last: Van Well Author-Name: Arnold Windeler Author-X-Name-First: Arnold Author-X-Name-Last: Windeler Title: Networked Networks Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 47-75 Issue: 4 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656718 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656718 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:4:p:47-75 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Amalya L. Oliver Author-X-Name-First: Amalya L. Author-X-Name-Last: Oliver Author-Name: Julia Porter Liebeskind Author-X-Name-First: Julia Porter Author-X-Name-Last: Liebeskind Title: Three Levels of Networking for Sourcing Intellectual Capital in Biotechnology Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 76-103 Issue: 4 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656719 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656719 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:4:p:76-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pierre Dussauge Author-X-Name-First: Pierre Author-X-Name-Last: Dussauge Author-Name: Bernard Garrette Author-X-Name-First: Bernard Author-X-Name-Last: Garrette Title: Anticipating the Evolutions and Outcomes of Strategic Alliances between Rival Firms Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 104-126 Issue: 4 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656720 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656720 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:4:p:104-126 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: James E. Brown Author-X-Name-First: James E. Author-X-Name-Last: Brown Author-Name: Chris Hendry Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Hendry Title: Industrial Districts and Supply Chains as Vehicles for Managerial and Organizational Learning Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 127-157 Issue: 4 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656721 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656721 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:4:p:127-157 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jürgen Peters Author-X-Name-First: Jürgen Author-X-Name-Last: Peters Author-Name: Wolfgang Becker Author-X-Name-First: Wolfgang Author-X-Name-Last: Becker Title: Vertical Corporate Networks in the German Automotive Industry Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 158-185 Issue: 4 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656722 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656722 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:4:p:158-185 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Author Index to Volume 27 Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 186-188 Issue: 4 Volume: 27 Year: 1997 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1997.11656723 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1997.11656723 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:27:y:1997:i:4:p:186-188 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dong-Sung Cho Author-X-Name-First: Dong-Sung Author-X-Name-Last: Cho Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-4 Issue: 4 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656744 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656744 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:4:p:3-4 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kee Young Kim Author-X-Name-First: Kee Young Author-X-Name-Last: Kim Author-Name: Tae Hyun Kim Author-X-Name-First: Tae Hyun Author-X-Name-Last: Kim Title: Manufacturing Strategies of Korean Companies Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 5-18 Issue: 4 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656745 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656745 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:4:p:5-18 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Il-Chung Whang Author-X-Name-First: Il-Chung Author-X-Name-Last: Whang Title: Awareness of Social Responsibility by Korean Managers in Marketing Practices Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 19-25 Issue: 4 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656746 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656746 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:4:p:19-25 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hak-Chong Lee Author-X-Name-First: Hak-Chong Author-X-Name-Last: Lee Title: Transformation of Employment Practices in Korean Businesses Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 26-39 Issue: 4 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656747 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656747 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:4:p:26-39 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yoo Keun Shin Author-X-Name-First: Yoo Keun Author-X-Name-Last: Shin Title: The Traits and Leadership Styles of CEOs in Korean Companies Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 40-48 Issue: 4 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656748 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656748 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:4:p:40-48 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Suck-Chul Yoon Author-X-Name-First: Suck-Chul Author-X-Name-Last: Yoon Title: A Successful Strategy of Follow the Leader Combined with Cultural Adaptation Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 49-56 Issue: 4 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656749 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656749 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:4:p:49-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Seongjae Yu Author-X-Name-First: Seongjae Author-X-Name-Last: Yu Title: The Growth Pattern of Samsung Electronics Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 57-72 Issue: 4 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656750 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656750 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:4:p:57-72 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Linsu Kim Author-X-Name-First: Linsu Author-X-Name-Last: Kim Author-Name: Gihong Yi Author-X-Name-First: Gihong Author-X-Name-Last: Yi Title: Reinventing Korea’s National Management System Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 73-83 Issue: 4 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656751 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656751 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:4:p:73-83 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dong-Sung Cho Author-X-Name-First: Dong-Sung Author-X-Name-Last: Cho Title: The Mechanism for Industry Leadership Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 84-100 Issue: 4 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656752 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656752 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:4:p:84-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Author Index to International Studies of Management & Organization, Volume 28 (Spring 1998–Winter 1998–99) Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 101-103 Issue: 4 Volume: 28 Year: 1998 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1998.11656753 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1998.11656753 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:28:y:1998:i:4:p:101-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Shlomo Y. Tarba Author-X-Name-First: Shlomo Y. Author-X-Name-Last: Tarba Author-Name: Tamar Almor Author-X-Name-First: Tamar Author-X-Name-Last: Almor Title: Guest Editors’ Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 137-139 Issue: 2 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1443734 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1443734 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:2:p:137-139 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tamar Almor Author-X-Name-First: Tamar Author-X-Name-Last: Almor Title: International Investment Strategies Utilized by International New Ventures: The Role of Exogenous and Endogenous Uncertainty Abstract: This conceptual article brings forth the argument that combinations of endogenous and exogenous uncertainties affect the decisions that high-tech, international new ventures (INVs) make in relation to investment decisions in the international arena. Using real option theory, it holds that uncertainty not only poses risks but also opportunities for INVs. Four propositions are offered regarding international investments by high-tech INVs, which are related to various combinations of levels of endogenous and exogenous uncertainties. Endogenous uncertainty is argued to result from technological changes and organizational growth and exogenous uncertainty is argued to result from the existence of Free Trade Agreements and level of economic development. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 140-156 Issue: 2 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1443736 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1443736 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:2:p:140-156 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stine Øyna Author-X-Name-First: Stine Author-X-Name-Last: Øyna Author-Name: Ilan Alon Author-X-Name-First: Ilan Author-X-Name-Last: Alon Title: A Review of Born globals Abstract: This article synthesizes and categorizes twenty years of research on “International New Ventures” and “Born Globals” (INV/BG). A total of 7,793 citations are used to create a citation map consisting of the field’s top contributions. These citations are, then, used to identify the most influential articles—276 articles published in 45 ISI ranked journals. We employ bibliometric co-citation analysis to distinguish six distinct research streams including “International intensity and Global diversity,” “Market Orientation,” “Entrepreneurial Perspectives,” “Capabilities,” “Networks and Social Capital,” and finally, “Strategic Choices and Environmental factors.” Based on our findings, we propose 23 research questions to consider for future research. The article contributes to our understanding of the evolution of the INV/BG construct over the past two decades. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 157-180 Issue: 2 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1443737 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1443737 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:2:p:157-180 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Miria Lazaris Author-X-Name-First: Miria Author-X-Name-Last: Lazaris Author-Name: Susan Freeman Author-X-Name-First: Susan Author-X-Name-Last: Freeman Title: An Examination of Global Mindset and International Market Opportunities among SMEs Abstract: In this study, we refine theories of global mindset and strategy complexity by using a multiple case study approach to comparatively examine global mindset and internationalization among different types of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including INVs, late international SMEs and domestic SMEs. We focus on a relatively low-technology knowledge-intensive sector, food and beverages, as a direct comparison. The findings demonstrate two distinct dimensions of global mindset, cultural (cosmopolitanism), and strategic (cognitive complexity), which contribute directly toward SME internationalization and should be considered in future research. This study extends our knowledge of the inextricable influence of global mindset on the internationalization of SMEs and illustrates how managerial cognitions can enable them to overcome resource and knowledge constraints required to enter and compete in international markets. We refine theory, offer theoretical propositions, and develop a conceptual framework, underpinned by the dynamic capabilities perspective, and show that among low-technology knowledge-intensive SMEs, cosmopolitanism and cognitive complexity have different effects on internationalization, and that cosmopolitanism is more salient for explaining early and rapid internationalization. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 181-203 Issue: 2 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1443739 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1443739 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:2:p:181-203 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fiona Xiaoying Ji Author-X-Name-First: Fiona Xiaoying Author-X-Name-Last: Ji Author-Name: Catherine N. Axinn Author-X-Name-First: Catherine N. Author-X-Name-Last: Axinn Author-Name: Luísa Antunes Garcia de Campos Author-X-Name-First: Luísa Author-X-Name-Last: Antunes Garcia de Campos Title: Exploring High-Commitment International Growth of High-Technology New Ventures: The Contingent Model of Formal Alliances Abstract: Although the importance of alliances to international entrepreneurs’ international growth is well acknowledged, we know little about how INVs benefit from both alliance partnership and their own capabilities for a high-commitment international growth. Using a sample of 231 international high-technology ventures, we find that technological knowledge drives high-commitment international growth of new ventures, and this relationship is moderated by both domestic and foreign alliances joined by the INVs we studied. Discussion and conclusions are offered. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 204-220 Issue: 2 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1443740 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1443740 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:2:p:204-220 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nurul Efifi Mohamad Ngasri Author-X-Name-First: Nurul Efifi Mohamad Author-X-Name-Last: Ngasri Author-Name: Susan Freeman Author-X-Name-First: Susan Author-X-Name-Last: Freeman Title: Conceptualizing Network Configurations as Dynamic Capabilities for Emerging Market Born Globals Abstract: The literature on international entrepreneurship (IE) provides insufficient understanding on network-based capabilities that born globals (BGs) undertake to maintain post-entry competitive advantages. Most organizational studies to date seem to address only network positioning, therefore providing inadequate understanding on network dynamics. More importantly, configuration of network dynamics from the perspective of the focal firm has been underexplored. This study seeks to fill this gap by asking the following question: How do emerging market (EM) BGs undertake network configuration during internationalization? We suggest network configuration as a primary construct to provide better understanding of network management based on the dynamic capabilities view (DCV). Particularly, in the face of increasing emerging market turbulence, network configuration provides an understanding of a BG’s growth despite a high degree of environmental dynamism. Propositions are developed and future research directions are offered. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 221-237 Issue: 2 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1443742 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1443742 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:2:p:221-237 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Irena Grugulis Author-X-Name-First: Irena Author-X-Name-Last: Grugulis Author-Name: David Knights Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Knights Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-11 Issue: 4 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656796 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656796 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:4:p:3-11 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Irena Grugulis Author-X-Name-First: Irena Author-X-Name-Last: Grugulis Author-Name: David Knights Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Knights Title: Glossary Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 12-24 Issue: 4 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656797 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656797 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:4:p:12-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephen J. Jaros Author-X-Name-First: Stephen J. Author-X-Name-Last: Jaros Title: Labor Process Theory Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 25-39 Issue: 4 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656798 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656798 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:4:p:25-39 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Thompson Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson Author-Name: Chris Smith Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Smith Title: Follow the Redbrick Road Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 40-67 Issue: 4 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656799 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656799 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:4:p:40-67 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Knights Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Knights Title: Hanging out the Dirty Washing Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 68-84 Issue: 4 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656800 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656800 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:4:p:68-84 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Rowlinson Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Rowlinson Author-Name: John Hassard Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Hassard Title: Marxist Political Economy, Revolutionary Politics, and Labor Process Theory Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 85-111 Issue: 4 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656801 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656801 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:4:p:85-111 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Damian O’Doherty Author-X-Name-First: Damian Author-X-Name-Last: O’Doherty Author-Name: Hugh Willmott Author-X-Name-First: Hugh Author-X-Name-Last: Willmott Title: The Question of Subjectivity and the Labor Process Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 112-132 Issue: 4 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656802 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656802 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:4:p:112-132 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Author Index to International Studies of Management & Organization, Volume 30 (Spring 2000–Winter 2000–2001) Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 133-134 Issue: 4 Volume: 30 Year: 2000 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656803 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656803 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:4:p:133-134 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John M. T. Balmer Author-X-Name-First: John M. T. Author-X-Name-Last: Balmer Author-Name: Trine S. Johansen Author-X-Name-First: Trine S. Author-X-Name-Last: Johansen Author-Name: Anne Ellerup Nielsen Author-X-Name-First: Anne Ellerup Author-X-Name-Last: Nielsen Title: Guest Editors’ Introduction Abstract: This issue provides an overview of stakeholder theory and corporate identity scholarship marshalling insights from the corporate marketing and corporate communications fields. In examining the corporate identity-stakeholder interface the authors compare and contrast endogeneous and exogenous approaches to the territory. The first, endogeneous and institutional, approach represents the orthodox and dominant perspective which focusses on an organization’s inherent corporate identity traits, ethos, and capabilities: an approach informed, in part, by stakeholder theory. The second, exogenous and relationnal, approach exemplies a critical and construcionist perspective where corporate identities are seen to be constituted by interactions with stakeholders. It is argued that both perspectives can be of value in comprehending contemporary organisations. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 205-215 Issue: 4 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2016.1140517 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2016.1140517 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:4:p:205-215 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Trine S. Johansen Author-X-Name-First: Trine S. Author-X-Name-Last: Johansen Author-Name: Anne Ellerup Nielsen Author-X-Name-First: Anne Ellerup Author-X-Name-Last: Nielsen Title: Constructing Non-profit Identity in the Midst of Stakeholder Complexity Abstract: The purpose of the study is to conceptualize the identity of nonprofit organizations as suspended between various stakeholders who present the organizations with different challenges, paradoxes, and dilemmas. Thus, it seeks to answer the questions: How do we define and study the relational identity of a nonprofit organization (NPO)? How do stakeholders participate in NPO identity constructing practices? Theoretically, the study draws on and contributes to the relational conceptualization of organizational identity as a discursive accomplishment. Based on a discourse analysis of an online discussion on the micro-lending NPO Kiva, the study’s findings point to complex articulations of both the organization and its stakeholders. Conclusively, the study suggests that NPO identity can be defined and studied through multiple discourses articulated by stakeholders. In addition, it points to understanding NPO identity alongside stakeholder identities, as stakeholders construct a number of different identities simultaneously. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 216-227 Issue: 4 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2016.1140518 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2016.1140518 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:4:p:216-227 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Helen Stuart Author-X-Name-First: Helen Author-X-Name-Last: Stuart Title: Managing a Corporate Brand in a Challenging Stakeholder Environment: Charity Branding Abstract: The modern charity is increasingly forced to contend with a limited pool of resources to carry out its core social mission. Decline in government support (Hibbert and Horne 1995) and direct donations (Williamson 2003), as well as the growing number of charities (Liao, Foreman, and Sargeant 2001), has seen the charity industry become increasingly competitive. This has led to a redefinition of what it means to be a charity in terms of the internal structure of the organization and the resultant complexity of the stakeholder environment. To better appreciate the fundamental tensions inherent in modern religious charity organizations and how these challenges affect their corporate branding strategies, the institutional logics framework is used to interpret the underlying pressures. The impact of these pressures is a complex stakeholder environment where the expectations of two somewhat disparate groups—those who need care and provide care, and those who provide the resources to enable that care to continue—must be contemplated. The implications of this institutional pluralism (Kraatz and Block 2008) and consequent complex stakeholder environment for the management of corporate branding of charities are exemplified using the case of a religious charity that changed its corporate brand name. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 228-234 Issue: 4 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2016.1140519 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2016.1140519 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:4:p:228-234 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Daysen Govender Author-X-Name-First: Daysen Author-X-Name-Last: Govender Author-Name: Russell Abratt Author-X-Name-First: Russell Author-X-Name-Last: Abratt Title: Multiple Stakeholder Management and Corporate Reputation in South Africa Abstract: This article investigates senior managers’ perceptions of stakeholders and the importance of multiple stakeholder management in the world’s second largest beer producer. There are unique issues in this industry as they produce products that cause chronic harm to society if misused. A qualitative research design was employed. We interviewed senior executives to establish their awareness levels and importance of different stakeholder groups that influence the operations of that organization. The corporate identity, corporate reputation, and stakeholder theory literatures are reviewed as they inform this study. Our findings showed that a number of senior managers did not understand the concept of stakeholder theory and they failed to identify some important stakeholder groups. Implications for managers in all organizations are discussed and recommendations are made. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 235-246 Issue: 4 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2016.1140520 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2016.1140520 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:4:p:235-246 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John M. T. Balmer Author-X-Name-First: John M. T. Author-X-Name-Last: Balmer Author-Name: Wei-Yue Wang Author-X-Name-First: Wei-Yue Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Title: Why Business School Managers are a Key Corporate Brand Stakeholder Group Abstract: This study focuses on senior management cognitions of corporate brand building within leading (Financial Times-ranked) British business schools. The study reveals stakeholder theory to be highly apposite for corporate brand management and, importantly, confirms the pivotal role of senior managers in terms of corporate brand building and custodianship. The cognitions of senior business school managers confirmed the orthodox approach to corporate brand building and management where a multidisciplinary, service-focused, strategic-orientated, and organizational-wide commitment is stressed. The Mitchell, Agle, and Wood (1997) tripartite typology of stakeholders (power, legitimacy, and urgency) is broadened in order to include necessity and responsibility, which are highly germane for senior managers. The instrumental insights of this study demonstrate that in managing a corporate brand, senior managers should focus on organizational activities, institutional attitude, senior management advocacy, and adherence on the part of organizational members. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 247-255 Issue: 4 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2016.1140521 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2016.1140521 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:4:p:247-255 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Blombäck Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Blombäck Author-Name: Olof Brunninge Author-X-Name-First: Olof Author-X-Name-Last: Brunninge Title: Identifying the Role of Heritage Communication: A Stakeholder-Function Framework Abstract: This article uses the case of family business to distinguish the range of potential aims and outcomes of corporate heritage communication. In family businesses, the challenges of heritage communication are particularly salient as the past of the firm is simultaneously that of the controlling family. Based on a study of 55 websites of Swedish and German family-owned firms, we classify aims and outcomes of heritage communication with reference to different stakeholders. Our findings elucidate the need to consider various stakeholders when planning heritage communications, and the value of such communication for different corporate functions, such as marketing, management and governance. To aid decision making, we offer a framework to map aims and stakeholders of heritage communication related to a company’s functions. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 256-268 Issue: 4 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2016.1140522 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2016.1140522 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:4:p:256-268 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Diana Tshivase Author-X-Name-First: Diana Author-X-Name-Last: Tshivase Author-Name: Nicola Kleyn Author-X-Name-First: Nicola Author-X-Name-Last: Kleyn Title: Stakeholder Evaluations of Corporate Reputation: Findings from Industrial Buyers in the South African Steel Industry Abstract: Although an extensive body of literature shows the importance of managing and measuring corporate reputation (CR), empirical studies investigating how stakeholder evaluations of reputation are influenced by the external business environment in which they operate has received scant attention. This study explores the extent to which country and industry drivers influence the assessment of CR. We use a mixed-methods design to investigate the perceptions of industrial buyers in the South African steel industry. Comparisons of our findings with normative measures of CR suggest that whilst some dimensions of standardized measures of CR are universal across contexts, others such as innovation may not be as relevant. Findings show that industrial buyers consider a number of country and industry drivers that are not included in standardized CR measures when evaluating CR. These results underscore the need for those who manage and measure CR to investigate how the countries and industries in which they operate influence their stakeholders’ evaluations of CR. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 269-281 Issue: 4 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2016.1140523 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2016.1140523 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:4:p:269-281 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zaheer Khan Author-X-Name-First: Zaheer Author-X-Name-Last: Khan Author-Name: Yong Kyu Lew Author-X-Name-First: Yong Kyu Author-X-Name-Last: Lew Author-Name: Rekha Rao-Nicholson Author-X-Name-First: Rekha Author-X-Name-Last: Rao-Nicholson Title: Call for Papers Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 282-285 Issue: 4 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2016.1150725 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2016.1150725 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:4:p:282-285 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board EOV Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 4 Volume: 46 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2016.1166913 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2016.1166913 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:46:y:2016:i:4:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Segalla Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Segalla Author-Name: Angelo DeNisi Author-X-Name-First: Angelo Author-X-Name-Last: DeNisi Title: International Perspectives On Employee Engagement: Are American Firms Leading The Way Or Walking Alone? Abstract: This article introduces four types of employee engagement, Active Employee Engagement, Unsatisfied Employee Engagement, No Employee Engagement, and Abusive Employee Engagement. These categories are derived from the diverse literature on employee engagement and through discussions with foreign human resource management scholars. One key assessment of the non-American focused academics is that employee engagement is principally a concern of American businesses. Foreign researchers focus more deeply on creating engagement in the workforce, work groups, and professions. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 1-6 Issue: 1 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1565090 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1565090 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:1:p:1-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vincent Onyemah Author-X-Name-First: Vincent Author-X-Name-Last: Onyemah Title: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You More Engaged: Rethinking the Link between Organizational Hardship and Organizational Commitment Abstract: Research has consistently shown that organizational hardship (e.g., role ambiguity and conflict, work overload, organizational injustice) has a negative effect on organizational commitment. However, we posit that receiving help when combatting hardship can reverse that effect. More specifically, employees who face hardship, but receive supervisory support to oppose it, are even more engaged than employees who do not face hardship. These ideas are confirmed by empirical tests on a multinational sample of 2,742 salespeople who participated in a survey, and on a sample of 45 business students who participated in a vignette experiment. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 7-22 Issue: 1 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1565091 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1565091 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:1:p:7-22 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mika Vanhala Author-X-Name-First: Mika Author-X-Name-Last: Vanhala Author-Name: Graham Dietz Author-X-Name-First: Graham Author-X-Name-Last: Dietz Title: How Trust in One’s Employer Moderates the Relationship Between HRM and Engagement Related Performance Abstract: Trust can be seen as important element for the effectiveness of organizational engagement. In particular, in order to be engaged to their work, employees’ trust in their employer organization plays a crucial role. This study adopts Dirks and Ferrin’s somewhat neglected model of trust as a moderator on the link between human resource management (HRM) and performance. Using a Finnish data-set from a forestry company, we find that trust in the employer moderates the relationship between HRM and unit-level performance. In three out of six HRM practices studied (communication, career opportunities, and job design) the moderation effect was as expected: in a climate where the employer is highly trusted, the effect of the HRM practice on performance was enhanced. However, for three practices (learning and development, performance evaluation and rewards, participation) the effect of HRM was contrary to our hypotheses. We consider the implications of these results for both the trust and HRM literatures, and for HR practitioners. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 23-42 Issue: 1 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1565092 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1565092 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:1:p:23-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lea Rutishauser Author-X-Name-First: Lea Author-X-Name-Last: Rutishauser Author-Name: Anna Sender Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Sender Title: Effect of Team-Member Exchange on Turnover Intention: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on a Selected Aspect of Employee Engagement Abstract: Research indicates that engaged employees demonstrate higher job satisfaction and lower turnover intention. However, employee engagement itself is influenced by and consists of a number of different factors. This study focuses on one specific aspect of employee engagement: the social interaction of team-members (i.e., team-member exchange, TMX) as a source of employee engagement. Drawing on social exchange theory, social information processing theory, and engagement literature, we investigate the role of societal culture on TMX, and we argue that the negative relationship of TMX and turnover intention is stronger in cultures high in collectivism and high in power distance. We combined the individual-level data of 6,664 employees from 14 countries with country-level data regarding the cultural values collectivism and power distance. Multilevel analysis supported the hypothesis that culture moderates the relationship between TMX and turnover intention such that the effect was stronger in cultures high in collectivism. However, power distance did not moderate the relationship between TMX and turnover intention. This study contributes to the research field by adding a cross-cultural perspective and testing country-level moderation effects. The practical implications of our findings are discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 43-62 Issue: 1 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1565093 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1565093 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:1:p:43-62 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hanna Salminen Author-X-Name-First: Hanna Author-X-Name-Last: Salminen Author-Name: Merja Miettinen Author-X-Name-First: Merja Author-X-Name-Last: Miettinen Title: The Role of Perceived Development Opportunities on Affective Organizational Commitment of Older and Younger Nurses Abstract: The research concerning human resource management (HRM) and organizational commitment is extensive. However, few studies have examined whether the relationship between employee perceptions of an organization's HR practices and work-related attitudes such as organizational commitment is moderated by age or career stage. This study examines the influence of perceived development opportunities and supervisory support on affective organizational commitment and whether this relationship is moderated by age or career stage. We collected the survey data from nurses in a Finnish university hospital (N = 937). The response rate was 54.4%. Our results show that the oldest nurses and those who had the longest organizational tenure were most affectively committed to the organization and had the highest rate of intention to remain at their current workplace. Affective organizational commitment was predicted by organizational tenure, skills that are appropriate for present work demands, supervisory support for development, and opportunities to use one's competencies. We detected no significant age-related interaction effects. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 63-78 Issue: 1 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1565094 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1565094 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:1:p:63-78 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Živilė Stankevičiūtė Author-X-Name-First: Živilė Author-X-Name-Last: Stankevičiūtė Author-Name: Asta Savanevičienė Author-X-Name-First: Asta Author-X-Name-Last: Savanevičienė Title: Can Sustainable HRM Reduce Work-Related Stress, Work-Family Conflict, and Burnout? Abstract: The effect of human resource management (HRM) on organizations and human resources is mainly explained by the perspective of mutual gain or that of conflicting outcomes. Recently, sustainable HRM is introduced as a perspective suggesting that HRM can benefit both organizations and individuals. However, sustainable HRM is still at an emerging phase. The paper defines the concept of sustainable HRM and explores the principles of sustainable HRM arguing that sustainable HRM allows reducing the negative impact of HRM on employees. Moreover, sustainable HRM fosters employee engagement in contributing to employees’ well-being. The empirical findings suggest that when the principles of sustainable HRM are more clearly expressed in the organizations, employees experience less work-related stress, work-family conflict, and burnout. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 79-98 Issue: 1 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1565095 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1565095 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:1:p:79-98 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Shiva Taghavi Author-X-Name-First: Shiva Author-X-Name-Last: Taghavi Title: Mental Construal and Employee Engagement: For More Engagement Look at the Big Picture Abstract: This article links research in cognitive and social psychology to that in human resources management by proposing a conceptual model of the impact of mental construal on employee engagement. Based on construal-level theory, I suggest that an abstract mindset can facilitate the process of employee engagement in task work. Specifically, I address the effect of abstract representation of the work situation in an individual’s mind on the features of engagement as being cognitive (attention, self-regulation, commitment, and job involvement), affective (positive affectivity), and behavioral (organizational citizenship behavior, role extension, and prosocial behavior). I also briefly discuss the importance of task characteristics. The proposed model offers new possibilities for human resources practices by introducing relatively new psychological techniques that can impact employees’ attitudes and behaviors in the workplace. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 99-107 Issue: 1 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1565096 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1565096 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:1:p:99-107 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jennifer R. Burnett Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer R. Author-X-Name-Last: Burnett Author-Name: Timothy C. Lisk Author-X-Name-First: Timothy C. Author-X-Name-Last: Lisk Title: The Future of Employee Engagement: Real-Time Monitoring and Digital Tools for Engaging a Workforce Abstract: At no other time have organizations had so much opportunity to measure and evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of their workforce. While not all companies have yet to embrace the tools and technology available to them, leading companies have been able to capitalize on new technologies that track productivity, sales, customer satisfaction, work flows, quality, and workplace interactions on a frequent, sometimes real time basis. Additionally, the tools to synthesize and analyze this data has also rapidly advanced in the last few years with the more mainstream availability of statistical modeling, machine learning technology, and artificial intelligence applications. Yet, when it comes to measuring and tracking employee engagement, most companies still evaluate engagement on an annual, or longer, basis using traditional survey techniques. While these practices have provided a wealth of insight into the dimensions and impact of engagement, it is time to rethink how we are measuring engagement and, more importantly, how the same digital tools can be applied towards improving the productivity, retention, and satisfaction of the workforce. We propose a series of research topics to address this modern trend of the impact of technological advances on both the measurement of engagement and the application of human resource management (HRM) practices to improve engagement. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 108-119 Issue: 1 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1565097 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1565097 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:1:p:108-119 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luca Gnan Author-X-Name-First: Luca Author-X-Name-Last: Gnan Title: Guest Editor’s Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 1-5 Issue: 1 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1005991 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1005991 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:1:p:1-5 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mariateresa Torchia Author-X-Name-First: Mariateresa Author-X-Name-Last: Torchia Author-Name: Andrea Calabrò Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Calabrò Author-Name: Michèle Morner Author-X-Name-First: Michèle Author-X-Name-Last: Morner Title: Board of Directors’ Diversity, Creativity, and Cognitive Conflict Abstract: In this study, we examine the relationship between board diversity in terms of member background and personality (deep-level diversity) and board creativity and cognitive conflict, controlled for the mediating role of board members’ interactions. Using a sample of 385 Norwegian companies, the results provide strong support for the notion that the higher the level of board diversity with respect to the board members’ backgrounds and personalities, the higher the degree of board creativity and cognitive conflict during the decision-making process. Moreover, our empirical evidence supports the mediating role of interactions among board members. The study supports the increasing importance of going beyond “surface level diversity” (e.g., diversity in term of gender) and investigating characteristics that are less visible and that are labelled “deep-level” diversity attributes. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 6-24 Issue: 1 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1005992 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1005992 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:1:p:6-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alan Walker Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Walker Author-Name: Silke Machold Author-X-Name-First: Silke Author-X-Name-Last: Machold Author-Name: Pervaiz K. Ahmed Author-X-Name-First: Pervaiz K. Author-X-Name-Last: Ahmed Title: Diversity and Conflict in Boards of Directors Abstract: This study seeks to contribute to the debate on board behavior by investigating how deeper-level diversity, specifically differences in personality, interacts with demographic diversity to explain board cognitive and affective conflict. Using survey data from a pilot study of 98 directors in 16 UK boards, we show that dissimilarities in personality traits are negatively related to cognitive conflict, but this relationship is moderated by gender and tenure diversity. Personality differences do not explain affective conflict. The study provides insights into how theories from psychology may help us understand antecedents to board behaviors. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 25-42 Issue: 1 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1005995 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1005995 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:1:p:25-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alessandro Hinna Author-X-Name-First: Alessandro Author-X-Name-Last: Hinna Author-Name: Danila Scarozza Author-X-Name-First: Danila Author-X-Name-Last: Scarozza Title: A Behavioral Perspective for Governing Bodies Abstract: This article provides a framework and investigates how conflicts in the boardroom may be different from other conflicts in public decision-making groups. Five distinct perspectives are adopted in the conceptual framework: the agency, stakeholder, and board strategic involvement perspectives for the first level of analysis, and the administrative behavior and public value perspectives for the second one. The study contributes to advancing research on the processes and the behavioral dimensions that influence the actions and the decisions of public boards. The study’s results suggest that the elements that provide a fundamental role to a governing board in leading public organizations are relationships with both the external and the internal actors and conditions that enable the board’s decision-making processes to carry out its own tasks effectively. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 43-59 Issue: 1 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1005996 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1005996 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:1:p:43-59 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dmitri Melkumov Author-X-Name-First: Dmitri Author-X-Name-Last: Melkumov Author-Name: Violetta Khoreva Author-X-Name-First: Violetta Author-X-Name-Last: Khoreva Title: The Effect of Board Capital and Conflict on the Tasks of the Board of Directors Abstract: This study analyzes the effect of directors’ human and external social capital on the monitoring and resource provision tasks of the board. Furthermore, this study examines the moderating effect of cognitive and affective conflicts among the directors on these relationships. Based on a sample of 92 cases, we find that the human and external social capital of the directors is positively associated with board’s monitoring and resource provision tasks. The results suggest that cognitive conflict positively moderates the relationship between directors’ external social capital with the monitoring and negatively with the resource provision tasks. Affective conflict was found to moderate the relationship between directors’ external social capital and the resource provision tasks negatively, and positively moderate the relationship between directors’ human capital and resource provision tasks. This study suggests that the behavioral perspective, which takes into account the dynamics and interaction in the board, has considerable predictive power. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 60-79 Issue: 1 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1005998 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1005998 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:1:p:60-79 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Janicke Rasmussen Author-X-Name-First: Janicke Author-X-Name-Last: Rasmussen Title: Do Board Evaluations Measure Board Effectiveness? Abstract: The purpose of this study is to assess to what extent implemented board evaluation processes in Norwegian listed companies have contributed to board effectiveness. Board effectiveness has been measured by using three levels of accountability, namely, board performance, conformance to content, and conformance to context. Multiple case studies were performed in nine large listed companies using the board evaluation process as the unit of analysis. The characteristics of the implemented board evaluation process were compared and contrasted with the characteristics of the board evaluation process identified in the literature. From a value creation perspective, the implemented board evaluations appeared to represent value creation for the board members rather than measuring board effectiveness. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 80-98 Issue: 1 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1005999 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1005999 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:1:p:80-98 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Timothy Clark Author-X-Name-First: Timothy Author-X-Name-Last: Clark Author-Name: David Grant Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Grant Author-Name: Marielle Heijltjes Author-X-Name-First: Marielle Author-X-Name-Last: Heijltjes Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-5 Issue: 4 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656772 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656772 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:4:p:3-5 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Timothy Clark Author-X-Name-First: Timothy Author-X-Name-Last: Clark Author-Name: David Grant Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Grant Author-Name: Marielle Heijltjes Author-X-Name-First: Marielle Author-X-Name-Last: Heijltjes Title: Researching Comparative and International Human Resource Management Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 6-23 Issue: 4 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656773 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656773 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:4:p:6-23 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jaime Bonache Author-X-Name-First: Jaime Author-X-Name-Last: Bonache Title: The International Transfer of an Idea Suggestion System Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 24-44 Issue: 4 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656774 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656774 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:4:p:24-44 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Niklas Lindholm Author-X-Name-First: Niklas Author-X-Name-Last: Lindholm Title: National Culture and Performance Management in MNC Subsidiaries Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 45-66 Issue: 4 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656775 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656775 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:4:p:45-66 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Muller Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Muller Title: Employee Representation and Pay in Austria, Germany, and Sweden Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 67-83 Issue: 4 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656776 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656776 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:4:p:67-83 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Timothy Clark Author-X-Name-First: Timothy Author-X-Name-Last: Clark Author-Name: Derek Pugh Author-X-Name-First: Derek Author-X-Name-Last: Pugh Title: Similarities and Differences in European Conceptions of Human Resource Management Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 84-100 Issue: 4 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656777 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656777 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:4:p:84-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Author Index to International Studies of Management & Organization, Volume 29 (Spring 1999–Winter 1999–2000) Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 101-102 Issue: 4 Volume: 29 Year: 1999 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1999.11656778 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656778 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:29:y:1999:i:4:p:101-102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Malcolm Chapman Author-X-Name-First: Malcolm Author-X-Name-Last: Chapman Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-29 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656692 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656692 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:4:p:3-29 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Philippe d’Iribarne Author-X-Name-First: Philippe Author-X-Name-Last: d’Iribarne Title: The Usefulness of an Ethnographic Approach to the International Comparison of Organizations Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 30-47 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656693 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656693 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:4:p:30-47 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jane Salk Author-X-Name-First: Jane Author-X-Name-Last: Salk Title: Partners and Other Strangers Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 48-72 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656694 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656694 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:4:p:48-72 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John D. Aram Author-X-Name-First: John D. Author-X-Name-Last: Aram Author-Name: Krista Walochik Author-X-Name-First: Krista Author-X-Name-Last: Walochik Title: Improvisation and the Spanish Manager Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 73-89 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656695 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656695 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:4:p:73-89 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jean-Claude Usunier Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Claude Author-X-Name-Last: Usunier Title: Atomistic versus Organic Approaches Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 90-112 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656696 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656696 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:4:p:90-112 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Author Index to International Studies of Management & Organization, Volume 26 (Spring 1996–Winter 1996–97) Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 113-115 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 1996 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.1996.11656697 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.1996.11656697 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:26:y:1996:i:4:p:113-115 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Linda M. Sama Author-X-Name-First: Linda M. Author-X-Name-Last: Sama Author-Name: Abraham Stefanidis Author-X-Name-First: Abraham Author-X-Name-Last: Stefanidis Author-Name: Sven Horak Author-X-Name-First: Sven Author-X-Name-Last: Horak Title: Business ethics for a global society: Howard Bowen’s legacy and the foundations of United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals Abstract: This article builds on Howard R. Bowen’s seminal treatise “Social Responsibilities of the Businessman” to portray how Bowen’s 11 Economic Goals for responsible business practice are visionary and remarkably evocative of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Drawing on the articles included in this guest issue, we reflectively discuss recent developments of corporate social responsibility and business ethics research and identify several avenues for future research. We maintain that the institutionalization of sustainable, responsible, and ethical business practices in any organization is not only achievable but also morally imperative if the subsumed contract between business and society for the effective functioning of both is to be upheld. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 201-208 Issue: 3 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2020.1811526 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2020.1811526 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:3:p:201-208 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: James Barrese Author-X-Name-First: James Author-X-Name-Last: Barrese Author-Name: Cynthia Phillips Author-X-Name-First: Cynthia Author-X-Name-Last: Phillips Author-Name: Victoria Shoaf Author-X-Name-First: Victoria Author-X-Name-Last: Shoaf Title: Why do U.S. public companies continue to join the UN global compact: Ethics or economics? Abstract: Not long after the formation of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) in 2000, two opposing theories emerged regarding its efficacy and why organizations continue to join UNGC. The critics take the position that because it has low barriers to entry and no enforcement of compliance, it attracts organizations with low CSR performance who merely want to enhance their reputations. The advocates reject these arguments because of their belief in the purpose of the UNGC, to offer a platform for learning and improvement, especially for under-resourced organizations. Haack, Martignoni, and Schoeneborn have offered a conceptual framework that has the potential to bridge the differences between these two opposing theoretical positions by suggesting that CSR can be adopted ceremonially under conditions of opacity and evolve to substantive adoption over time as transparency increases. In this study, we use the Haack et al. conceptual framework to empirically test this proposition by investigating U.S. corporations that have joined UNGC. We expand the analysis to examine the motivations for ceremonially adopting CSR. Our results support the conditions proposed by Haack et al., and we emphasize the importance of organizational learning to achieve substantive adoption of CSR practices over time. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 209-231 Issue: 3 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2020.1811525 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2020.1811525 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:3:p:209-231 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Regina Bento Author-X-Name-First: Regina Author-X-Name-Last: Bento Author-Name: Lasse Mertins Author-X-Name-First: Lasse Author-X-Name-Last: Mertins Author-Name: Lourdes F. White Author-X-Name-First: Lourdes F. Author-X-Name-Last: White Title: Calculation, principle or bias? Information preference and ethical decision-making Abstract: This study proposes a novel information preference perspective to integrate ethics, managerial decision-making and risk. It argues that individuals confronting complex decisions, which involve risk, tend to process the available information through filters that reflect different ethical frames. We used an experiment where participants were asked to play the role of the co-owner of a car racing company who had to decide whether to run a crucial race, under various kinds of potential risk. The results revealed three key findings. First, participants had indeed filtered the information they received, with significant differences not only in what they considered most important, but also what they saw as least important. Moreover, factor analysis revealed that such individual filtering had configured three distinct patterns of preferences and that there was an internal logic to these patterns, characterizing what we called “Patterns in Information Preference (PIPs): “Expected Value”, “Responsibility” and “Autopilot.” Second, the PIPs that emerged from participants’ filtering processes reflected different ethical approaches to decision-making under conditions of risk (utilitarian, deontological and psychological), as the filtering favored information that supported an ethical approach over the others and discounted information not aligned with that particular approach. Third, participants’ PIPs influenced the decisions they made (and thus their respective potential ethical implications): we found that the “Responsibility” PIP had a significant association with the decision to forfeit the car race, whereas the “Autopilot” PIP was significantly associated with the decision to run. We discuss these findings from the perspective of descriptive and normative ethics, examine the limitations of the study, and explore implications and directions for future research. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 232-252 Issue: 3 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2020.1811524 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2020.1811524 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:3:p:232-252 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dirk Holtbrügge Author-X-Name-First: Dirk Author-X-Name-Last: Holtbrügge Author-Name: Marcus Conrad Author-X-Name-First: Marcus Author-X-Name-Last: Conrad Title: Decoupling in CSR reports: A Linguistic Content Analysis of the Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal Abstract: This study examines whether and how Corporate Social Responsibility reports of firms in the automobile industry differ in regards to their linguistic composition and their decoupling tendencies. Based on Basu and Palazzo’s process model, the Volkswagen emission scandal (‘Dieselgate’) is analyzed from a linguistic content perspective by comparing Volkswagen’s CSR reports with those of its biggest competitors. By applying the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count Software, we identify linguistic characteristics that can help to detect deception markers. More specifically, we show how CSR reports of de-couplers and implementors differ in terms of morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics by developing and applying a linguistic analysis’ framework. The data provided mixed support for our hypotheses. The analysis revealed that de-couplers, among other factors, use more articles, more words per sentences, a more negative emotional tone and fewer words connected to risks and anxiety, while verb tense and informal language only had ambiguous or even no influence. The study contributes to the current understanding of CSR reporting, the debate on CSR decoupling, and the linguistic perspective of CSR research. Moreover, it specifies the linguistic domain of Basu and Palazzo’s process model. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 253-270 Issue: 3 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2020.1811523 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2020.1811523 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:3:p:253-270 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Manning Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Manning Author-Name: Nigel Baker Author-X-Name-First: Nigel Author-X-Name-Last: Baker Author-Name: Peter Stokes Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Stokes Title: The ethical challenge of Big Tech’s “disruptive philanthropy” Abstract: This article provides a review of research into global philanthropy and the disruptive practices of new technology companies. In this article we detail how “Big Tech” has created a new marketization of philanthropy, based on its sectoral values of innovation, entrepreneurialism and focus on financial and performance metrics. Consequently, we argue for a new ontology of philanthropy that acknowledges marketization as its guiding principle. The study examines and compares different market-focused, philanthropic paradigms, which have evolved through the business values of Big Tech and examines their moral motivations. The topic is viewed through the lens of ‘hybrid organizations’; a model for nonprofit entities and social businesses which, in turn, are seeking a market-oriented pathway of balancing the twin demands of managing mission and money. A conceptual framework is then provided to inform practitioners in nonprofit organizations about the issues and risks of engaging with the new types of philanthropy, to which we collectively refer as ‘disruptive philanthropy’. The article concludes by recommending further research into the ethics of Big Tech to understand the true motivations behind its philanthropic practices at a time when the sector is under intense governmental and media scrutiny. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 271-290 Issue: 3 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2020.1811522 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2020.1811522 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:3:p:271-290 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gili S. Drori Author-X-Name-First: Gili S. Author-X-Name-Last: Drori Author-Name: Janne Tienari Author-X-Name-First: Janne Author-X-Name-Last: Tienari Author-Name: Arild Wæraas Author-X-Name-First: Arild Author-X-Name-Last: Wæraas Title: Guest Editors’ Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 99-104 Issue: 2 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1006004 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006004 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:2:p:99-104 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Martin Kornberger Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Kornberger Title: Think Different Abstract: The purpose of this essay is to analyze the brand as an organizing device that structures not only the sphere of consumption but also that of production. The essay takes its point of departure in an analysis of values. It suggests that values are a correlate of valuation devices and that these evaluation devices constitute a semantic space that is called, for want of a better term, “brand.” The brand as a semantic space makes values visible, providing a platform upon which claims, calculations, and categorizations compete, collide, and sometimes coalesce. The essay concludes by discussing the implications of this argument for, among other things, the higher education sector. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 105-113 Issue: 2 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1006005 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006005 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:2:p:105-113 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alison Hearn Author-X-Name-First: Alison Author-X-Name-Last: Hearn Title: The Politics of Branding in the New University of Circulation Abstract: This short article reviews contemporary forms and practices of university branding and marketing, and links these to the broad-based neoliberal structural transformations taking place in all aspects of university education around the globe. It argues that the ascendance of university branding and marketing practices is both symptomatic and constitutive of the new raison d’être of universities, which is to serve as points for the circulation and reinvestment of overaccumulated finance capital. Given the university’s new role as private business, corporate entity, and investment bank, we can no longer imagine that its branding and marketing practices are politically or ideologically neutral; indeed, the position we take in relation to university branding efforts has broad implications for the future of free research and education around the globe. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 114-120 Issue: 2 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1006007 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006007 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:2:p:114-120 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giuseppe Delmestri Author-X-Name-First: Giuseppe Author-X-Name-Last: Delmestri Author-Name: Achim Oberg Author-X-Name-First: Achim Author-X-Name-Last: Oberg Author-Name: Gili S. Drori Author-X-Name-First: Gili S. Author-X-Name-Last: Drori Title: The Unbearable Lightness of University Branding Abstract: This study investigates how universities brand themselves and in what ways visual self-representation varies cross-nationally. We trace differences in the icons (emblems and logos) used in the Internet self-representation of 821 universities and higher education institutions in 20 countries in 5 continents. Emerging from content analyses of the icons were three main visual types (guilded, national, and organizational), arranged in five subtypes (classic, science/technology, local, abstract, and just-text). Generally, the visual expression of abstract or text-based organizational type is the least visually loaded, such lightness matching modern principles of corporate branding; the other types are rich in references to the national or guilded professional field of universities. We find that while the abstract organizational type of visual expression has become dominant in Western countries, including France, Germany, and the United States, heterogeneity prevails in other nations such as Australia, Italy, or South Africa. We develop possible explanations of the observed distribution of types across countries and discuss the implication of our findings for world society institutionalism and the institutional logics approach. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 121-136 Issue: 2 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1006012 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006012 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:2:p:121-136 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Kosmützky Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Kosmützky Author-Name: Georg Krücken Author-X-Name-First: Georg Author-X-Name-Last: Krücken Title: Sameness and Difference Abstract: In their mission statements, universities are trying to differentiate themselves from other universities that are perceived as their competitors as well as highlight organizational specificities and brand unique images. However, at the same time, mission statements rely heavily on institutional specificities. On the basis of a combined discourse analysis, sequential analysis, and content analysis of mission statements of German universities, this article provides empirical evidence to the conclusion that mission statements allow universities to position themselves in particular niches and competitive groups, in which group similarities are highlighted vis-à-vis other groups’ differences. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 137-149 Issue: 2 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1006013 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006013 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:2:p:137-149 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chris Chapleo Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Chapleo Title: Brands in Higher Education Abstract: This study explores the challenges of university branding and the qualities that make university branding different from commercial branding in terms of cultural issues, branding concepts and frameworks, and brands architecture. The literature about branding in the university sector is described and viewed in the context of exploratory interviews with 55 university managers. The results present the differences between university and commercial brandings as well as culture, brand concepts, and brand architecture. The study was conducted in U.K. universities, but similar issues in many other countries mean that the results are comparable internationally. Overall, the findings presented in this research offer a valuable contribution to our understanding of the complexities of higher education branding. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 150-163 Issue: 2 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1006014 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006014 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:2:p:150-163 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hanna-Mari Aula Author-X-Name-First: Hanna-Mari Author-X-Name-Last: Aula Author-Name: Janne Tienari Author-X-Name-First: Janne Author-X-Name-Last: Tienari Author-Name: Arild Wæraas Author-X-Name-First: Arild Author-X-Name-Last: Wæraas Title: The University Branding Game Abstract: In this article, we argue that university branding can be understood as a political game. Analyzing a new university created in a merger, we demonstrate how branding is characterized by different interests among players with different means to influence brand development. We suggest that university branding is a fundamental question of organizational purpose, connected to identities and (dis-)identification of internal and external players in a particular socio-cultural and societal context, not a mere marketing and communications exercise. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 164-179 Issue: 2 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1006015 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006015 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:2:p:164-179 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ingalill Holmberg Author-X-Name-First: Ingalill Author-X-Name-Last: Holmberg Author-Name: Lars Strannegård Author-X-Name-First: Lars Author-X-Name-Last: Strannegård Title: Students’ Self-Branding in a Swedish Business School Abstract: The premise of this article is that brands help people create their identities. When institutions of higher education engage in explicit branding activities, an appearance-focused brand culture, in which a coherent system of symbols, actions, and meaning, may emerge. This article explores how students in a Swedish business school use the school’s brand for self-branding. The branding processes have implications for student postures toward their university education and the development of their self-conceptualizations. The article presents a theoretical framework for branding and for student self-branding at the studied school, demonstrates how the school is the focal point for this self-branding, identifies the branding vocabulary used at the school, and analyzes how students develop self-conceptualizations in a meaning system infused by branding. The article concludes by posing questions on the significance of self-branding in higher education. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 180-192 Issue: 2 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1006017 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006017 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:2:p:180-192 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tian Wei Author-X-Name-First: Tian Author-X-Name-Last: Wei Author-Name: Maoliang Bu Author-X-Name-First: Maoliang Author-X-Name-Last: Bu Title: Global Networks and Innovation in China—International Linkages and Indigenous Efforts Abstract: After almost twenty years of internationalization, Chinese firms have demonstrated their ability to benefit from both international linkages and indigenous efforts in product and process innovation. However, how Chinese firm innovation is facilitated at the international and domestic levels remains to be understood. This article provides an overview of our special issue, exploring this important topic of global networks and innovation in China. Through five empirical studies employing a variety of research methods (e.g., case study, secondary data, survey, and fuzzy-set analysis), we present some recent research on balancing and manipulating internal and external networks to enhance Chinese firm innovation. These selected articles contribute to the field of networks and innovation in China. We hope these articles play a role in encouraging further research on this important and interesting field. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 121-125 Issue: 2 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1608398 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1608398 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:2:p:121-125 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joanna Scott-Kennel Author-X-Name-First: Joanna Author-X-Name-Last: Scott-Kennel Author-Name: Haolin Yin Author-X-Name-First: Haolin Author-X-Name-Last: Yin Author-Name: Michele E. M. Akoorie Author-X-Name-First: Michele E. M. Author-X-Name-Last: Akoorie Title: Innovation Through Linkage, Leverage, and Learning: The Case of Monk Fruit Corporation Abstract: This study investigates the role of Chinese-foreign linkages in the innovation trajectory of Guilin GFS Monk Fruit Corporation (Monk Fruit Corp.). Using the linkage-leverage-learning (LLL) framework as our starting point for analysis and integrating complementary theory, we build a relationally and contextually oriented framework for assessing innovation. Longitudinal analysis of archival data, and insights from key respondents, demonstrates that the firm’s innovative and organizational development is inextricably entwined with the process of learning, achieved overtime by leveraging linkages with both domestic and foreign partners. The results also reveal how independent research and development (R&D), coupled with skill in relationship building, applied by the Chinese firm and the individuals within it, can provide an equally important support structure to Sino-foreign innovation. Our results reaffirm the importance of collaboration, but also demonstrate its limits as collaborative organizational relationships evolve from being socially to equity-based over time. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 126-150 Issue: 2 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1608399 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1608399 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:2:p:126-150 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zhi Yang Author-X-Name-First: Zhi Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Author-Name: Tian Wei Author-X-Name-First: Tian Author-X-Name-Last: Wei Title: Foreign Ownership and External Knowledge Acquisition: A Comparison between International Subsidiaries and Local Firms in China Abstract: This study examines the relationship between foreign ownership and External Knowledge Acquisition (EKA) in China, and posits that international subsidiaries and local firms exhibit different rationales with regard to EKA. Using nationwide enterprise survey data on 320 Chinese firms, this study tests a model developed from resource dependency theory and institutional theory. We find that foreign ownership positively affects EKA, and that this relationship is moderated by both institution legislation hazards and contract enforcement hazards but with contrasting effects: the positive moderation of the former but the negative one of the latter. This study also provides important implications for the managers of international subsidiaries and local firms regarding their knowledge acquisition strategies. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 151-172 Issue: 2 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1608400 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1608400 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:2:p:151-172 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jorge A. Heredia Pérez Author-X-Name-First: Jorge A. Heredia Author-X-Name-Last: Pérez Author-Name: Xiaohua Yang Author-X-Name-First: Xiaohua Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Author-Name: Ou Bai Author-X-Name-First: Ou Author-X-Name-Last: Bai Author-Name: Alejandro Flores Author-X-Name-First: Alejandro Author-X-Name-Last: Flores Author-Name: Walter Heredia Heredia Author-X-Name-First: Walter Heredia Author-X-Name-Last: Heredia Title: How Does Competition By Informal Firms Affect The Innovation In Formal Firms? Abstract: This study applies a resource-based perspective to investigate how competition by informal firms affects innovation in formal firms in China. By analyzing survey data, collected from 1,686 Chinese manufacturing firms, we find that formal firms tend to increase their rate of innovation when faced with informal competition. However, formal firms’ access to increased global supply chain collaboration mitigates the challenges presented to their rate of innovation by the informal firms. We present implications for future research, practice, and policy-making. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 173-190 Issue: 2 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1608402 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1608402 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:2:p:173-190 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zhe Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Zhe Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: Yuansi Hou Author-X-Name-First: Yuansi Author-X-Name-Last: Hou Author-Name: Yongmin Zhu Author-X-Name-First: Yongmin Author-X-Name-Last: Zhu Title: Applying Complexity Theory To Understand Chinese Consumers’ Decision-Making In Innovative Products Abstract: This study is the first to apply complexity theory to identify antecedent paths, involving perceived risks (functional risk and emotional risk), innate consumer innovativeness, and consumers’ demographics related to information search (ongoing search and pre-purchase search), in the innovative products context. This study contributes a new perspective to Chinese innovation literature, using a configurational analysis, namely, fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), which is based on an asymmetrical mode of thinking about the relationships among variables. The findings demonstrate the tenets (equifinality, complexity, and asymmetry) of configurational analysis and reveal configurations of antecedents that are sufficient for consistently predicting the conditions when perceived risk associates with information search in the innovative products context. Namely, perceived risk (functional risk and emotional risk) in recipes with innate consumer innovativeness and/or demographic antecedents are sufficient in predicting a high or low level of ongoing and pre-purchase information search. This research contributes to the literature on perceived risk, information search, and innovation management, particularly in the context of Chinese innovation. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 191-212 Issue: 2 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1608401 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1608401 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:2:p:191-212 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zhenzhong Ma Author-X-Name-First: Zhenzhong Author-X-Name-Last: Ma Author-Name: Quan Jin Author-X-Name-First: Quan Author-X-Name-Last: Jin Title: Success Factors for Product Innovation in China’s Manufacturing Sector: Strategic Choice and Environment Constraints Abstract: This study examines what factors contribute to firm innovation performance as a result of successful launch of new products in China. Rather than simply applying theories of product innovation often developed in the West, this study takes an indigenous perspective to explore what product strategies and which environment factors, defined by Chinese managers, contribute to the improved firm performance. With the data of Chinese firms from over 40 cities across the country, this study surveys more than 700 manufacturing firms that have introduced new products to the market. The result shows that while a defensive product strategy is negatively related to a firm’s patent application, a prospector strategy helps increase its market share in China. In addition, innovation policy and total R&D investment drive a firm to sell more products overseas and increase its new product sales across the globe. Local talent market can also help improve a firm’s patent application but often drive the firm to focus more on domestic markets. Implications of the results for theory and practice are discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 213-231 Issue: 2 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1608397 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1608397 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:2:p:213-231 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mohammad F. Ahammad Author-X-Name-First: Mohammad F. Author-X-Name-Last: Ahammad Author-Name: Keith W. Glaister Author-X-Name-First: Keith W. Author-X-Name-Last: Glaister Title: Guest Editors’ Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 1-2 Issue: 1 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1407079 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1407079 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:1:p:1-2 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Daniel Rottig Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Author-X-Name-Last: Rottig Author-Name: Taco H. Reus Author-X-Name-First: Taco H. Author-X-Name-Last: Reus Title: Research on Culture and International Acquisition Performance: A Critical Evaluation and New Directions Abstract: This article critically reviews and synthesizes the current state of the literature on culture and international acquisition performance, and sketches out new directions for research that are promising to advance knowledge in the field. The literature on acquisition performance is categorized and discussed along three streams of research: the contingency literature, process-oriented research, and the cultural stream. Particular emphasis is placed in the latter stream to take account of the vast amount of work on this topic. In so doing, this article relates the cultural stream to both the contingency literature and process-related research to gain a more inclusive understanding of culture’s consequences for international acquisition performance. The article concludes by offering a research agenda to stimulate new insights and novel work on the variables that determine the success of international acquisitions. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-42 Issue: 1 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1407082 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1407082 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:1:p:3-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christina Öberg Author-X-Name-First: Christina Author-X-Name-Last: Öberg Title: Customer Roles in M&A Integration Abstract: The article describes and discusses what roles customers play in M&A integration. Based on studies of eight domestic and international M&As, it is concluded that customers may: (1) limit integration intentions; (2) be reasons for pre-integration reconsiderations; (3) be used as an argument against integration; (4) not act according to integration intentions; and (5) actively work against integration. Customers’ actual activities, as well as how the M&A parties believe and argue that customers will act, impact the integration. The article highlights how integration is an embedded activity where actions, assumptions and argumentation impact integration. The findings contribute to research on M&As by pointing to how customers impact decisions and outcomes in M&A integration, and by describing integration as an iterative process with several impacting parties. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 43-70 Issue: 1 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1407084 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1407084 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:1:p:43-70 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paulina Junni Author-X-Name-First: Paulina Author-X-Name-Last: Junni Author-Name: Riikka M. Sarala Author-X-Name-First: Riikka M. Author-X-Name-Last: Sarala Author-Name: Shlomo Y. Tarba Author-X-Name-First: Shlomo Y. Author-X-Name-Last: Tarba Title: The Role of Target Firm Power in M&A Knowledge Transfer Abstract: This study examines the role of target firm power in mergers and acquisitions (M&As). We investigate the effects of the position, referent and expert bases of power of the target firm on reverse knowledge transfer. We test our hypotheses on a sample of 123 responses from 106 domestic and foreign acquisitions conducted by Finnish companies. We find that a moderate level of target firm power supports reverse knowledge transfer. Also, we show that referent and expert bases of power are particularly important in explaining the overall degree of target firm power. This study contributes to the M&A literature by elaborating on the role of target firm power. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 71-87 Issue: 1 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1407085 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1407085 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:1:p:71-87 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alkis Thrassou Author-X-Name-First: Alkis Author-X-Name-Last: Thrassou Author-Name: Demetris Vrontis Author-X-Name-First: Demetris Author-X-Name-Last: Vrontis Author-Name: Stefano Bresciani Author-X-Name-First: Stefano Author-X-Name-Last: Bresciani Title: The Agile Innovation Pendulum: Family Business Innovation and the Human, Social, and Marketing Capitals Abstract: This article constitutes the first of two parts of a research aiming to investigate innovation in family businesses (FBs) and to present a consumer-focused conduit to agility in the strategic marketing multicultural context. The current article studies FBs’ innovativeness in the context of their “familiness,” focusing on the question of how FBs’ human, social/multicultural, and marketing capitals fare in comparison to non-FBs. The research findings are supportive of FBs’ potentialities, indicating an inherent “genetic” disposition towards agile innovation. The research further underlines the need for a new agility framework for FBs, to bear into consideration their transformed (agile) innovation factors and the marketing realities of contemporary business, a task undertaken by the second part of this study. Methodologically, the research retains a scientifically founded exactitude, balancing the primary, the theoretical, and the conceptual countenances through a mixed inductive-deductive approach. The current article is based on a narrative theoretical and quantitative primary data (survey) analyses. The research’s contribution relates to its uncovering of the true FBs’ innovation potentialities; its theoretical linkage to the subjects of agility, strategic marketing and consumer behavior; and their conceptual incorporation into a unified framework (the “Agile Innovation Pendulum”) with explicit scholarly and executive implications. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 88-104 Issue: 1 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1407086 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1407086 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:1:p:88-104 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alkis Thrassou Author-X-Name-First: Alkis Author-X-Name-Last: Thrassou Author-Name: Demetris Vrontis Author-X-Name-First: Demetris Author-X-Name-Last: Vrontis Author-Name: Stefano Bresciani Author-X-Name-First: Stefano Author-X-Name-Last: Bresciani Title: The Agile Innovation Pendulum: A Strategic Marketing Multicultural Model for Family Businesses Abstract: This article constitutes the second of two parts of a research project aiming to investigate innovation in family businesses (FBs) and to present a consumer-focused conduit to agility in the strategic marketing multicultural context. The current article explores theoretically the notion of Agile Innovation giving birth to the idea of the Dynamic Equilibrium of Agile Innovation. It subsequently introduces the “missing link” of the Agile Consumer to construct the FB Strategic Marketing Multicultural Agility Pendulum, conceptually and conclusively, while drawing in parallel significant theoretical and executive insights and implications. The research findings and contribution are supportive of family firms’ potentialities, indicating that these organizations have an inherent disposition towards agile innovation, with multicultural management acting as the agent of equilibrium. Caution, however, is demanded in developing the proper value propositions and “softer” agility features that will not perturb the often-delicate balances and unique bundle of features defining FBs. Methodologically, the research retains a scientifically founded exactitude, balancing the primary, the theoretical, and the conceptual countenances through a mixed inductive-deductive approach. The current article is conceptual and is based on a combination of narrative literature review, meta-synthesis literature review, and qualitative primary data (interviews). Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 105-120 Issue: 1 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1407178 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1407178 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:1:p:105-120 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jessica Lichy Author-X-Name-First: Jessica Author-X-Name-Last: Lichy Author-Name: Peter Stokes Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Stokes Title: Questioning the Validity of Cross-Cultural Frameworks in a Digital Era: The Emergence of New Approaches to Culture in the Online Environment Abstract: Cross-cultural management research has consistently employed a number of well-cited frameworks that categorize organizational behavior within national contexts. While popular, these frameworks have also been subjected to well-received critiques identifying their weaknesses. This article develops the field by questioning the assumptions of such frameworks in relation to rapid Internet and social media-based technological innovation. Drawing on cross-cultural primary survey data and Internet interviews, the study traces the impact of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in relation to online behavior in the varying cultural settings of France and the United Kingdom. It argues that cross-cultural frameworks only partially succeed in explaining these domains and identifies new directions for research in the field. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 121-136 Issue: 1 Volume: 48 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2018.1407179 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2018.1407179 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:48:y:2018:i:1:p:121-136 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Varda Muhlbauer Author-X-Name-First: Varda Author-X-Name-Last: Muhlbauer Author-Name: Aharon Tziner Author-X-Name-First: Aharon Author-X-Name-Last: Tziner Title: Guest Editors’ Introduction Abstract: Overwork has long captivated the attention of researchers and practitioners, as it is commonly associated with a negative impact on family life and family problems, and can provoke many adverse health effects such as stress and burnout (Kossek, Kalliath, and Kalliath 2012; Tomazevic, Kozjek, and Stare 2014; Hino et al. 2015). This theme raises even larger concern as reportedly an estimated 22 percent of the global workforce, or 614.2 million workers, work more than 48 hours per week (Lee, McCann, and Messenger 2007). This is why we wanted to make it the focus of this issue in an effort to contextualize the special place of overwork within macro political, economic, and cultural trends, and to enhance understanding of the connection between the length of the workday and psychological well-being. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 307-310 Issue: 4 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1382267 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1382267 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:4:p:307-310 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrew Schein Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Schein Author-Name: Nava Haruvi Author-X-Name-First: Nava Author-X-Name-Last: Haruvi Title: The Relationship between the Average Workweek Length and Per Capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Abstract: A fundamental question in the labor market is, “What is the optimum number of hours a person should work?” There is no definitive answer to this question, but in this study we provide some clarifications to assist in answering this question. First, we present a brief historical review of the number of hours worked in the last two centuries and note that the 40-hour workweek and 8-hour workday are not based on any scientific analysis that proves that these are the optimum hours of work. Second, we review various studies that argue that working an extreme number of hours has little benefit. Third, we present data that show that workers in wealthier countries work on average fewer hours than workers in poorer countries and that a reduction in the average weekly hours worked in a country does not cause per capita GDP of the country to decline. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 311-323 Issue: 4 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1382268 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1382268 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:4:p:311-323 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Edna Rabenu Author-X-Name-First: Edna Author-X-Name-Last: Rabenu Author-Name: Sharona Aharoni-Goldenberg Author-X-Name-First: Sharona Author-X-Name-Last: Aharoni-Goldenberg Title: Understanding the Relationship between Overtime and Burnout Abstract: This study examines the apparent inconsistent relationship between overtime and burnout, and proposes a tentative model for conceptualizing it. We suggest that, in examining the relationship between overtime and burnout, attention should be paid to the categorization of working hours that includes work of up to 12 hours per day and work exceeding 12 hours per day. The categorization assumes that workers in the latter category have fewer opportunities for recovery and are, therefore, more prone to burnout. We postulate two moderators that can shed light on the contradictory findings concerning the relationship between overtime and burnout. First, we elaborate on the definition of the term “heavy work investment” and emphasize the importance of distinguishing between the various levels of work investment by workers who work long hours, namely, excessive work investment (EWI), moderate work investment (MWI), and low work investment (LWI). Second, we analyze the importance of autonomy, distinguishing between perceived and actual autonomy of the employees with regard to their schedule. Propositions as well as theoretical and practical implications are offered. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 324-335 Issue: 4 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1382269 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1382269 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:4:p:324-335 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ronit Waismel-Manor Author-X-Name-First: Ronit Author-X-Name-Last: Waismel-Manor Author-Name: Asaf Levanon Author-X-Name-First: Asaf Author-X-Name-Last: Levanon Title: Time to Reconsider Work: Dual-Earner Couples’ Work-Related Adaptive Strategies and Preferences for Reduced Work Hours Abstract: In this study, we use the life course perspective and the paradigm of the social construction of gender to examine the relationships between dual-earner couples’ adaptive strategies, such as their work-hour arrangements, conjoint occupational status, and relative earnings, and men’s and women’s own preferences for reduced work hours as well as their desire for reduced work hours of their spouses. Using the 2010 European Social Survey, we document a pervasive preference for reduced work hours in European countries, which is common to both men and women. Our findings indicate that, regardless of their actual work hour arrangements, conjoint occupational status, and relative earnings, couples generally report preferences for working hours for themselves and their spouses that conform to a modified male breadwinner/female homemaker template. More specifically, the ideal couple-level working time arrangement combines a husband who has a full-time job but does not work long hours and a wife working shorter hours, either in a part-time or full-time job. We discuss the impact of these findings on gender inequality, individuals, and organizations. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 336-359 Issue: 4 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1382270 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1382270 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:4:p:336-359 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Erich C. Fein Author-X-Name-First: Erich C. Author-X-Name-Last: Fein Author-Name: Natalie Skinner Author-X-Name-First: Natalie Author-X-Name-Last: Skinner Author-Name: M. Anthony Machin Author-X-Name-First: M. Anthony Author-X-Name-Last: Machin Title: Work Intensification, Work–Life Interference, Stress, and Well-Being in Australian Workers Abstract: The need to better understand the impact of changes in work conditions is paramount. While greater flexibility has considerable benefits, there may also be unintended consequences such as greater work intensification leading to poorer health and well-being. This research focuses on the unique variance in measures of well-being that is accounted for by work intensification, after accounting for the influence of working hours. The sample involved 391 participants who were employed at the time of the study. Using hierarchical multiple regression, we found that work intensification accounted for 7 percent of the unique variance in work–life integration and 5 percent of the unique variance in a measure of global life stress. In addition, our study provides evidence that work intensification operates to predict employee stress above and beyond the effects of work–life integration alone, while together both constructs account for 9 percent of the unique variance in a measure of global life stress. These results highlight the value of differentiating between different types of work demands and how these combine to predict employees’ well-being. In order to achieve better work–life balance, we need to consider both the structural aspects of work such as working hours, place of work, and working conditions, as well as the pace of work. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 360-371 Issue: 4 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1382271 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1382271 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:4:p:360-371 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sugumar Mariappanadar Author-X-Name-First: Sugumar Author-X-Name-Last: Mariappanadar Author-Name: Ina Aust Author-X-Name-First: Ina Author-X-Name-Last: Aust Title: The Dark Side of Overwork: An Empirical Evidence of Social Harm of Work from a Sustainable HRM Perspective Abstract: This is the first study that attempts to understand the moderation effects of employee work recovery experiences on overwork and the dimensions of social harm of work. The data for the study was collected using the social harm of work and work recovery experience questionnaires from a total of 187 full-time employees from Australia with more than five years of work experience. Our study revealed that divisionary strategies of work recovery experiences have a very limited role in reducing the social harm of work caused by the overwork context. Future research should combine problem-focused coping strategies along with the divisionary strategies of work recovery experiences to reduce the social harm of overwork to plan and introduce sustainable human resource management (HRM) practices. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 372-387 Issue: 4 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1382272 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1382272 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:4:p:372-387 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lior Oren Author-X-Name-First: Lior Author-X-Name-Last: Oren Author-Name: Abira Reizer Author-X-Name-First: Abira Author-X-Name-Last: Reizer Author-Name: Avital Berger Author-X-Name-First: Avital Author-X-Name-Last: Berger Title: ERI and Psychological Strain Among Interns: Does Anticipating Future Career Rewards Moderate the Associations? Abstract: According to the Effort–Reward Imbalance (ERI) model, employees may accept high-cost/low-gain conditions in their work for a certain time because they anticipate career promotion and related rewards at a later stage (i.e., strategic choice). The current study examines the associations between ERI and psychological strain among interns who seem to fit this condition. In addition, intention to work in their future profession, and therefore receive the aforementioned rewards, was investigated as a moderator of the relationships between ERI and psychological strain. A questionnaire measuring ERI, psychological strain (social dysfunction and anxiety/depression), and intention to pursue a career in accountancy was administered to 172 accounting interns. Regression analyses were conducted to test the proposed relationships and moderating hypotheses. Overcommitment (but not ERI nor ERI × overcommitment) was positively correlated with both social dysfunction and anxiety/depression. Intention moderated the relationships between overcommitment and both social dysfunction and anxiety/depression. The findings emphasize the important role of career dynamics and raise the possibility that employees may show resiliency toward ERI as well as overcommitment when they expect career rewards at a later stage. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 388-401 Issue: 4 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1382274 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1382274 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:4:p:388-401 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Acknowledgement of Reviewers Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 402-402 Issue: 4 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1401791 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1401791 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:4:p:402-402 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board EOV Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 4 Volume: 47 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2017.1401792 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2017.1401792 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:47:y:2017:i:4:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Lorenzen Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Lorenzen Title: Preface Abstract: This preface introduces the core problems that need to be incorporated into a theory of clusters and clustering and are addressed in the articles in this issue of International Studies of Management and Organization. Even if the phenomenon of clusters has received considerable current attention from both economics and management scholars, theoretical accounts of the processes of clustering are still rare. This issue focuses upon mature, low-tech clusters, arguing that knowledge of such clusters is highly relevant for reaching an understanding of all clustering of economic activity, in functional—and sometimes geographical—space. The articles included in the issue provide detailed empirical accounts for selected clustered economic activities in European countries like Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway; and they use these empirical case studies to discuss and develop theoretical propositions that pertain to clusters and the processes of clustering. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-13 Issue: 4 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656824 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656824 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:4:p:3-13 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Lorenzen Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Lorenzen Title: Ties, Trust, and Trade Abstract: Industrial clusters are associated with positive economies of networking only because the benefits of specialization and trade among clustered firms are not offset by coordination costs. This article, drawing upon a diversity of theoretical sources, elaborates on this insight, explaining why coordination is particularly efficient in industrial clusters compared to other trade contexts. It argues that in clusters, firms are able to lower coordination costs of networking by means of social trust, while firms outside clusters have to rely on more costly coordination mechanisms. It defines and discusses trust and its origin, defines and discusses coordination and coordination problems, and explains the dominance of social trust within clusters through focusing upon information costs and social ties. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 14-34 Issue: 4 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656825 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656825 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:4:p:14-34 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Arnt Fløysand Author-X-Name-First: Arnt Author-X-Name-Last: Fløysand Author-Name: Stig-Erik Jakobsen Author-X-Name-First: Stig-Erik Author-X-Name-Last: Jakobsen Title: Clusters, Social Fields, and Capabilities Abstract: This article addresses how the economic organization and evolution of industrial clusters is affected by how firms are embedded in social fields—dense agent networks with shared rules of conduct, coordinating interfirm relations. The article points out that while clusters represent a local form of economic organization, they do not depend solely upon local social fields. Rather, some clusters are influenced by regional and national, as well as global, social fields, and it is argued that this may explain the ability of these clusters to restructure and adapt to changing market conditions. The importance of various social fields for three Norwegian fish-processing clusters is analyzed. Very different local and national, as well as global, networks affect these clusters. Consequently, the clusters have evolved quite differently. The case studies presented in the article suggest that while a local social field may facilitate coordination among firms in a cluster, it may also create collusion and create economic lock-in. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 35-55 Issue: 4 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656826 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656826 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:4:p:35-55 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kevin Heanue Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Author-X-Name-Last: Heanue Author-Name: David Jacobson Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobson Title: Organizational Proximity and Institutional Learning Abstract: This article differentiates between the evolution of trust in two main situations: where firms are geographically clustered and where they are spatially dispersed. While the former has received a lot of research attention, the latter has not. Drawing on the theoretical literature on economies of agglomeration, economies of association, trust, and social networks, we argue that organizational proximity is an alternative to spatial proximity as a context within which ascribed trust can develop, even in the absence of direct interaction. We apply these ideas to the case of a spatially diffuse network of three furniture firms in Ireland. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 56-72 Issue: 4 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656827 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656827 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:4:p:56-72 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Leif Gjesing Hansen Author-X-Name-First: Leif Gjesing Author-X-Name-Last: Hansen Title: Transportation and Coordination in Clusters Abstract: This article describes the role of transportation for industrial clusters. It analyzes the interdependence between production systems (transportation demand) and transportation systems, and argues that for some clusters consisting of small and medium-sized enterprises, transportation plays a crucial role in coordinating the activities and capabilities of firms, thus underpinning external economies. Hence, instead of viewing transportation as a generic infrastructure underlying industrial organization within such clusters, we should treat transportation as a specific and collective resource—a capability—constituting an integrated part of competitive advantage for this type of industrial clusters. The paper illustrates its point with an empirical case study of the Danish Salling furniture cluster. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 73-88 Issue: 4 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656828 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656828 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:4:p:73-88 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anders Melander Author-X-Name-First: Anders Author-X-Name-Last: Melander Author-Name: Mattias Nordqvist Author-X-Name-First: Mattias Author-X-Name-Last: Nordqvist Title: Investing in Social Capital Abstract: The article analyzes how social capital—social networks and trust—is created, addressing different levels of economic organization. Contrary to much literature on trust and social capital, the article also generates a role for policy efforts in creating social capital. It argues that social capital at the level of a national industry may accumulate when social learning processes centered on a few formalized economic networks change the dominant beliefs of managers. Core groups of successful social capital investors may thus inspire industry-wide imitation, as well as draw local firms into investment processes. The paper supports its theoretical observations with three empirical case studies of economic networking within the Swedish furniture industry. In this industry, which is poor in social capital, political efforts to promote economic networking may be an appropriate way of facilitating bottom-up institutional change. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 89-108 Issue: 4 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656829 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656829 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:4:p:89-108 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Author Index to International Studies of Management & Organization, Volume 31 (Spring 2001–Winter 2001/2002) Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 109-111 Issue: 4 Volume: 31 Year: 2001 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2001.11656830 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2001.11656830 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:31:y:2001:i:4:p:109-111 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rachel Taylor Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Author-X-Name-Last: Taylor Author-Name: Nuttaneeya (Ann) Torugsa Author-X-Name-First: Nuttaneeya (Ann) Author-X-Name-Last: Torugsa Author-Name: Anthony Arundel Author-X-Name-First: Anthony Author-X-Name-Last: Arundel Title: Transformed management scholarship and ways forward for exploring social innovation in organizations Abstract: Inspired by recent calls for a transformation of management scholarship, we conduct a scoping review of empirical studies during 1998–2015 on the phenomenon of social innovation within organizations. Social innovations are novel solutions that address social problems and create value for society as a whole. We make several problem-based observations and suggest how the social innovation phenomenon can be empirically grounded and contextualized to make future research intellectually relevant and meaningful for practice. We propose that the way forward lies in using abduction as a logic of discovery, adopting complexity theorizing, and using set-theoretic analytical methods to reflect multiple realities. The application of these three methods will help link theory and research methods with practice, thereby improving the ability of research to tackle managerial and societal issues and hence strengthening management scholarship. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 107-129 Issue: 2 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2020.1758420 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2020.1758420 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:2:p:107-129 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ann Sophie K. Löhde Author-X-Name-First: Ann Sophie K. Author-X-Name-Last: Löhde Author-Name: Andrea Calabrò Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Calabrò Author-Name: Mariateresa Torchia Author-X-Name-First: Mariateresa Author-X-Name-Last: Torchia Title: Understanding the main drivers of family firm longevity: the role of business family learning Abstract: Through an exploratory study of three long-standing German family firms, we propose a theoretical framework to study family firm longevity. Whereas research so far has mainly focused on the firm’s level of analysis, this study aims to elucidate the role of the business family learning in the longevity of these long-standing family firms. Moreover, the business family is considered as an independent organizational entity capable of learning and developing. Drawing upon the concept of organizational learning, we find higher-level learning as a vehicle for defining the purpose of the business family—transgenerational control—and the implementation of necessary structures—succession processes. Lower-level learning ensures these successions processes are adaptable to environmental changes. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 130-152 Issue: 2 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2020.1758421 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2020.1758421 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:2:p:130-152 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sven Horak Author-X-Name-First: Sven Author-X-Name-Last: Horak Author-Name: Bindu Arya Author-X-Name-First: Bindu Author-X-Name-Last: Arya Title: Cultural context and cross-country behavioral differences in group decision-making Abstract: This study tests the influence of culture on group decision-making behavior among respondents in Korea and Germany. For our field experiment we are using an ultimatum game design, played among participants in Korea and in a benchmark experiment in Germany. We find evidence that taking the mosaic view of culture and making subjects aware of shared affective ties, based on age, educational-institution and regional origin, leads to differences in economic decisions, contrary to what neoclassical economic theory would suggest. Our results indicate that awareness of common group membership in some cultural contexts orients decision-makers toward upholding social norms that induces a greater preference for more selfless, in-group interested decisions, while anonymity makes personal identity salient and promotes more self-interested economic decisions. These effects are more pronounced in Korean participants compared with German participants. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 153-173 Issue: 2 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2020.1758423 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2020.1758423 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:2:p:153-173 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Caroline Gauthier Author-X-Name-First: Caroline Author-X-Name-Last: Gauthier Author-Name: Marianela Fornerino Author-X-Name-First: Marianela Author-X-Name-Last: Fornerino Author-Name: Carolina O. C. Werle Author-X-Name-First: Carolina O. C. Author-X-Name-Last: Werle Author-Name: Alain Jolibert Author-X-Name-First: Alain Author-X-Name-Last: Jolibert Author-Name: Min Seong Lee Author-X-Name-First: Min Seong Author-X-Name-Last: Lee Author-Name: Trina Sego Author-X-Name-First: Trina Author-X-Name-Last: Sego Title: Social and personal values in advertising: evidence from food advertising in South Korea Abstract: Extant research has shown that advertising is more effective when the advertised message is congruent with the cultural values of the targeted population. However, this research has not explored which values are activated when consumers view the advertising and, in particular, if there is a match between values conveyed by advertising and values activated by consumers. Moreover, little research has examined the effects of culturally-relevant (e.g., socially-oriented values) versus globally-relevant (e.g., personally-oriented values) advertising messaging in emerging global markets with deeply-held cultural traditions (e.g., Confucian values in South Korea). Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, this research compares advertising-conveyed values with consumer-activated values and explores the effects of socially-oriented and personally-oriented values on perceptions of advertising and product effectiveness. Results suggest that the often singular values conveyed in South Korean food advertisements do not precisely match the multiplicity of values that are activated by South Korean consumers. Furthermore, South Korean consumers are more responsive to advertisements that emphasize social values than they are to those that emphasize personal values. Results provide theoretical and managerial insights into the design of effective global and local advertisements. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 174-200 Issue: 2 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2020.1758422 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2020.1758422 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:2:p:174-200 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Helmut K. Anheier Author-X-Name-First: Helmut K. Author-X-Name-Last: Anheier Author-Name: Gorgi Krlev Author-X-Name-First: Gorgi Author-X-Name-Last: Krlev Title: Guest Editors’ Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 193-206 Issue: 3 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1006026 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006026 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:3:p:193-206 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ben Jongbloed Author-X-Name-First: Ben Author-X-Name-Last: Jongbloed Title: Universities as Hybrid Organizations Abstract: Today’s public universities are increasingly becoming like enterprising nonprofits. Partly because of financial reasons, they are turning to the private sector to boost or replace their traditional—predominantly public—sources of funding. University-industry alliances in research and development (R&D) are the result of deliberate strategies implemented by national and international (e.g., EU) governing bodies, as well as the university leadership itself, to promote a more direct involvement of universities in research-based innovation and economic development. This multiplication of stakeholders is leading to new organizational—more hybrid—models of governance that help the university cope with the increased complexity of networks and linkages with which it is involved. This article addresses some of the drivers and manifestations of universities as hybrid organizations, as well as examples of (public-private partnership) models of knowledge linkages between university and industry, such as the ones currently promoted across Europe. The article concludes by highlighting some of the challenges of the increased hybridization of universities, including challenges for research on university governance. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 207-225 Issue: 3 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1006027 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006027 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:3:p:207-225 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christopher Low Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Low Title: The Role of Governmental Decision Makers in Hybridization Abstract: The literature on hybridity primarily examines nongovernmental organizations and explores how they acquire hybrid forms and behaviors as a consequence of shifts in policy. The activities of government in these policy changes receive less attention. This article aims to help address this gap through the capturing and theorizing of the role played by government boards at the local level in enacting national policy on hybridization processes within public services. The UK health sector is used as the context for this research as it has been subject to a marketization policy designed to allow local health boards to divest their community health services, which has resulted in the creation of new hybrid organizations. A framework is used that draws on governance theory to conceptualize board actions during these processes. The findings of the case study show a board using a stewardship model of governance, which manifests itself through the exclusion of other stakeholders, such as employees, from making decision about divestiture. However, the board is also shown to offer the prospect of a very different model of governance within the new organization that can more readily be identified as a stakeholder participation model. This case study extends the theory of hybridization by analyzing a governmental context in which a combination of both techniques was deemed necessary. This necessity arises because key stakeholders, such as employees and trade unions, are broadly against these changes and their enactment. Therefore, the sole employment of coercion would be unlikely to succeed in securing employee commitment once hybridization had taken place, hence, incentives are needed, too. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 226-240 Issue: 3 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1006028 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006028 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:3:p:226-240 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Björn Schmitz Author-X-Name-First: Björn Author-X-Name-Last: Schmitz Title: Beyond Structural Governance Abstract: This article introduces a subtype of hybrid organizations, namely, democratic enterprises that are characterized by a high degree of stakeholder participation. More specifically, the article looks at enterprises that are active in commercial markets and, at the same time, closely attached to social movements. Second, the research focuses on governance particularities of this kind of organization. Tension moments in the history of three organizations are analyzed to uncover dominant stakeholder groups and their function as preservers of the core values of the organizations. The analysis thereby moves away from a structural perspective to a content-based investigation of governance in hybrid organizations. The conceptual differentiation introduced in this article, the “socio-economic lighthouses” as sub-types of hybrid organizations, enhances the precision of the analysis and allows comparability within the broad field of hybridity. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 241-258 Issue: 3 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1006029 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006029 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:3:p:241-258 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andreas Schröer Author-X-Name-First: Andreas Author-X-Name-Last: Schröer Author-Name: Urs Jäger Author-X-Name-First: Urs Author-X-Name-Last: Jäger Title: Beyond Balancing? Abstract: This study theoretically conceptualizes leadership challenges in hybrid organizations. In general, leadership is understood as a social relation where an actor influences the action of a second actor to fulfill the first actor’s intention, where the intention is usually a defined goal. However, because hybrid organizations operate at the intersection of different sectors, their leaders often need to lead without the option to set a single clear goal. Our study explores these questions: How do hybrid organizational environments affect leaders, and how can actors lead effectively in hybrid organizations? Introducing Bourdieu’s concept of fields and routine practice, we describe the organizational role of leadership in hybrid organizations as a “game” (Bourdieu) between the opposing logics of markets and civil society. The article concludes with a research agenda for further empirical examination of leadership practices in hybrid organizations, one that goes beyond simply balancing conflicting objectives and institutionalizes new practices that incorporate the logics both of markets and of civil society. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 259-281 Issue: 3 Volume: 45 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2015.1006032 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006032 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:45:y:2015:i:3:p:259-281 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Esther Solomon Author-X-Name-First: Esther Author-X-Name-Last: Solomon Title: Guest Editors’ IntroductionFacet Theory in Organizational Research Abstract: Conceived by Professor Louis E. Guttman, Facet Theory is a comprehensive research strategy for the social and behavioral sciences with important applications in organizational studies. As a metatheory, it offers a systematic framework for coordinating theory and research. It integrates the formal design of empirical observations expressed in a mapping sentence to holistically define the measurement space with intrinsic data analysis procedures. The discovery of lawfulness in structures characterizing qualitative areas enhances both rigor and the practical usefulness of research. The methodology of Facet Theory has been applied in a variety of disciplines with contributions to theory construction and cumulative research. As a metatheory for the behavioral sciences, it can help integrate research efforts among scholars in diverse disciplines and domains of relevance to the study of individuals, groups, and organizations. The five articles included in this issue on Facet Theory provide detailed descriptions of the methodology and examples of applications in organizational and strategy research. This should spark new ideas and connections, advancing and invigorating Facet Theory applications for collaborative multilevel research on organizational phenomena. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 233-246 Issue: 3 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1623977 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1623977 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:3:p:233-246 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Samuel Shye Author-X-Name-First: Samuel Author-X-Name-Last: Shye Title: Organizational Quality: A Systemic Functioning Theory† Abstract: A conceptual framework for evaluating the quality of organizations is developed, based on the view that an organization constitutes a behavioral action system. Applying the general Faceted Action System Theory (FAST) to the case of organizations, 16 organizational functioning modes, as well as their interrelationships, are identified. Organizational quality is defined as the effective functioning in these 16 modes. Principles and procedures of Facet Theory are employed (1) for explicating the axiomatic foundation of “organizations as systems” in terms of elementary content facets (classifications); (2) for sampling observations needed for organizational quality evaluation, by means of a mapping sentence; (3) for testing hypotheses empirically validating the conceptual constructs of organizational functioning modes and their interrelationships, using faceted Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) (faceted Smallest Space Analysis (SSA)); and (4) for suggesting a rationalized procedure (Multiple Scaling by Partial Order Scalogram Analysis by base Coordinates (POSAC)) for compiling the 16 modal scores into an optimal organizational quality profile consisting of the smallest number of scales commensurate with organizational functioning complexity. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 247-264 Issue: 3 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1623978 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1623978 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:3:p:247-264 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Canter Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Canter Title: Qualitative Structural Theory: A Basis for Decision-Making Abstract: The development of analyses of qualitative data that reveal their underlying structure, using the facet framework, are reviewed in the present article. These provide the basis for a general theory of the inherent structure of most qualitative data, an aspect that other approaches typically only allow for with quantitative data. This broadens the application of Facet Theory beyond its usual remit with quantitative measures. It also provides a conceptual model, or “theory,” that combines ordered (modulating) and non-ordered (radial) facets for many different contexts. Results from “qualitative structural theory” (QST) are shown to be open to interpretation as a form of Narrative Action System. Although the power of QST has been illustrated in many areas, in this article three contrasting areas of application are discussed, which each uses a different form of non-metric multidimensional scaling (MDS). One is the exploration of variation in the actions of arsonists revealed through Smallest Space Analysis (SSA). A second is the modeling of consumer choice of chocolates using Multidimensional Scalogram Analysis (MSA). The third is the differentiation of genuine and false claims of rape using Partial Order Scalogram Analysis by Co-ordinates (POSAC). The practical implications of these QST models to assist decision making are briefly discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 265-282 Issue: 3 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1627705 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1627705 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:3:p:265-282 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ingwer Borg Author-X-Name-First: Ingwer Author-X-Name-Last: Borg Author-Name: Guido Hertel Author-X-Name-First: Guido Author-X-Name-Last: Hertel Author-Name: Stefan Krumm Author-X-Name-First: Stefan Author-X-Name-Last: Krumm Author-Name: Wolfgang Bilsky Author-X-Name-First: Wolfgang Author-X-Name-Last: Bilsky Title: Work Values and Facet Theory: From Intercorrelations to Individuals Abstract: The article proposes a new mapping sentence (MS) for values, including negative values and moral virtues. The MS allows defining work values and discriminating them from work attitudes. Previous studies on work values proposed essentially two facets, namely, type of work outcome and performance relatedness, to explain their structure, but these facets are unreliable when classifying work values. It is suggested to utilize job facets from job satisfaction research as an alternative for the work outcome facet. Using a sample of 471 employees who rated the 21 work values of the Munster Work Value Measure (MWVM), the item intercorrelations reflect such job facets as sectors of a circumplex that approximates a circle in multidimensional scaling (MDS) space. The principal components of the items can be represented as vectors in the same space. An unfolding model is then proposed that allows testing the extent to which the work value circle also holds within, and not just across, individuals. We show that this model holds for almost all individuals. The scatter of the persons in unfolding space is related to gender, educational level, and age of the respondents. For HR practitioners, these findings offer various diagnostic springboards, such as an economical way of diagnosing a person’s main work values and identifying individuals with typical and unusual work value profiles. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 283-302 Issue: 3 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1623980 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1623980 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:3:p:283-302 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gisela Böhm Author-X-Name-First: Gisela Author-X-Name-Last: Böhm Author-Name: Rouven Doran Author-X-Name-First: Rouven Author-X-Name-Last: Doran Author-Name: Annika Rødeseike Author-X-Name-First: Annika Author-X-Name-Last: Rødeseike Author-Name: Hans-Rüdiger Pfister Author-X-Name-First: Hans-Rüdiger Author-X-Name-Last: Pfister Title: Pathways to Energy Transition: A Faceted Taxonomy Abstract: The article deals with the public perception of energy transition pathways, that is, of strategies towards sustainable ways of energy use. Implementing sustainable pathways poses a major challenge for organizations and society. Using a facet theoretical approach, we investigate the structure of people’s mental models of such pathways. Three facets are defined capturing the conceptual structure of transition pathways. Facet A (Level) distinguishes three elements: individual behaviors, societal actions, and technologies. Facet B (Type) distinguishes energy efficiency from curtailment pathways. Facet C (Impact domain) distinguishes five domains of potential impact of an energy transition pathway: economy, community, human health, nature, and life quality. A computer-administered survey with items derived from the facet design was administered to a student sample (N = 106). A multidimensional scaling analysis yields regional regularities for Facets A and B. For Facet A polar regions can be clearly distinguished according to the facet elements. Facet B shows regions exhibiting a modular structure with curtailment pathways located in the center and efficiency pathways in the periphery. Facet C shows a less clear pattern, showing the two elements economy and nature at opposing ends of an axial structure. Implications for the communication and management of sustainable energy transitions in society and organizations are discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 303-319 Issue: 3 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1623981 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1623981 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:3:p:303-319 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Esther Solomon Author-X-Name-First: Esther Author-X-Name-Last: Solomon Author-Name: Morten Huse Author-X-Name-First: Morten Author-X-Name-Last: Huse Title: Corporate Governance and Paradoxical Tensions: Leadership Dynamics Through Facet Theory Abstract: Relying on a sample of 841 respondents who are board members of Norwegian firms, this study applied Dr. Guttman’s Facet Theory along with nonmetric multidimensional scaling to propose and empirically test structural hypotheses about perceptions of boardroom dynamics. The application of this formal methodology to studying corporate governance processes offers unique insights into leadership dynamics and paradoxical tensions as board members experience them in the boardroom.A facet framework defining the content universe formed the basis for facet profile configurations expressing classes of boardroom dynamics. Results overall confirmed the structural hypotheses and the lawfulness of a radex structure representing boardroom processes. Three facets differentiated among classes of boardroom processes in terms of whether they represent opportunities or threats for cooperation, board asserting or acquiescing roles, and approaching or distancing orientations. These facets represented the qualitative differentiation and jointly played the polarizing role, while a fourth ordered facet on specificity played the modulator role.Director’s perceptions of shared leadership and monitoring comprise enabling orientations and are differentiated from inhibiting orientations that include dominating leadership and biases. The findings have implications for director’s motivation and ability to engage in their monitoring and resource provision roles, or alternatively, contribute to governance inertia. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 320-339 Issue: 3 Volume: 49 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1623982 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2019.1623982 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:49:y:2019:i:3:p:320-339 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Moshe Banai Author-X-Name-First: Moshe Author-X-Name-Last: Banai Author-Name: Abraham Stefanidis Author-X-Name-First: Abraham Author-X-Name-Last: Stefanidis Author-Name: Jean J. Boddewyn Author-X-Name-First: Jean J. Author-X-Name-Last: Boddewyn Title: International studies of management and organization: half a century of advancing scholarship Abstract: To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of International Studies of Management & Organization (ISMO), the Founding Editor, Jean J. Boddewyn, the past Editor-in-Chief, Moshe Banai, and the current Editor-in-Chief, Abraham Stefanidis, compile this issue that describes the journal’s half-a-century journey. In this article, we present ISMO’s evolution from a platform that included translations of non-US-published articles in the 1970s to an internationally renowned journal that represents a truly universal scholarship of management and organization research. Drawing on contributions from six prominent scholars, we further reflect on the themes of culture, expatriation, employment, and leadership that have shaped international business scholarship during the past fifty years and are expected to herald future streams of research in the years to come. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 291-299 Issue: 4 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2020.1850977 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2020.1850977 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:4:p:291-299 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Oded Shenkar Author-X-Name-First: Oded Author-X-Name-Last: Shenkar Title: ISMO and international business: past and future Abstract: ISMO’s legacy is that of putting on stage authors whose voices have not been heard, a goal admirably fulfilled. Now, the future of the journal lies in sounding new voices: Topics, firms, locations, disciplines and methodologies that have not been targeted by other management journals. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 300-302 Issue: 4 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1883260 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1883260 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:4:p:300-302 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chris Rowley Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Rowley Title: Perspectives on work, employment and management: Asia, comparisons and convergence Abstract: This article outlines my long-term research and publication journey over what I consider to be important terrain, both academically and practically. The main contours of this revolve around the areas of work, employment and management in the context of Asia, comparisons and convergence. This retrospective has helped me to recall past publications—and with hindsight to focus more on their overall general implications and recommendations. These range from the macro down to the micro. These are that work and employment and its management remain important and a core parts of life, giving not only a sense of purpose, routine and meaning, but also independence and ability to connect and contribute to the lives of others and society. Within this, comparisons and cultural relativism are useful for contextualization in understanding not only change but also continuity around the area of work. This then requires broader and more nuanced views and perspectives with finer grain investigation and analysis using graduated concepts such as level, degree and speed in changes and continuities. Finally, the importance of not only managing change but also effective leadership and skills in the area runs through my traversing of the field. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 303-316 Issue: 4 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2020.1850979 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2020.1850979 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:4:p:303-316 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Markus Pudelko Author-X-Name-First: Markus Author-X-Name-Last: Pudelko Title: Bringing context back into international business studies: own research experiences, reflections and suggestions for future research Abstract: This paper argues for the inclusion of (cultural and institutional) context into International Business studies. It is based on own research experiences, findings, reflections and conclusions. Particular emphasis is put, among others, on (1) universalities, particularities and singularities in cross-national management research; (2) the superior explanatory power of detailed description of cultural differences compared to the mere provision of cultural distance scores; (3) the relevance of language differences as a topic for International Business studies; and (4) the importance of qualitative research for in-depth, contextualized International Business studies. This paper also calls for more phenomena driven, emic and interdisciplinary International Business research that focuses on real business problems as well as their societal implications. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 317-333 Issue: 4 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2020.1850976 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2020.1850976 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:4:p:317-333 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yvonne McNulty Author-X-Name-First: Yvonne Author-X-Name-Last: McNulty Author-Name: Chris Brewster Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Brewster Title: From ‘elites’ to ‘everyone': re-framing international mobility scholarship to be all-encompassing Abstract: This article argues that the view of international mobility in the management and organization literature has been too restrictive in focusing only on high-status workers. This view needs to be widened to an all-encompassing perspective that is not limited or restricted in terms of the number, types or status of people engaged in working internationally. In particular, it argues that there are millions of low-status international workers that, with some few exceptions, we have largely ignored. Not only does it mean that scholars are failing to explore the complete picture, it adds to the research-practice gap between those scholars and the practitioners who have to manage workers of all status levels. The article points out the areas where our knowledge is lacking and suggests a “road-map” for future research to overcome these critical gaps. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 334-356 Issue: 4 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2020.1850978 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2020.1850978 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:4:p:334-356 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lena Zander Author-X-Name-First: Lena Author-X-Name-Last: Zander Title: Interpersonal leadership across cultures: a historical exposé and a research agenda Abstract: Culture has a profound impact on interpersonal leadership, which refers to an everyday type of leadership involving leader interaction with subordinates. Typical interpersonal leadership actions include empowering, providing support and development, directing, following-up and giving feedback, as well as communicating and encouraging collaboration in teamwork. In early comparative leadership studies, variation in leadership behavior across countries was assumed to be due to cultural differences. This assumption was later empirically supported by cross-cultural leadership research. As leadership behaviors in multi-country studies did not demonstrate similar associative patterns regarding interpersonal leadership in different countries, the use of mainstream single-country derived leadership meta-categories was invalidated. New reliable, robust and culturally endorsed interpersonal leadership dimensions were developed and measured in large-scale, multi-country studies. These emerged from different perspectives: that of leader-centeredness measuring ideal leadership prototypes, and that of employee-centeredness, where subordinate preferences for interpersonal leadership are essential to granting the leader the “License to Lead.” Deliberations on fundamental issues in studying interpersonal leadership across national borders in combination with contemporary trends, such as distance leadership, global virtual teams and intersectionality, led to the formulation of research implications and a research agenda for a better understanding of interpersonal leadership in the future. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 357-380 Issue: 4 Volume: 50 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2020.1850980 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2020.1850980 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:4:p:357-380 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marleen Granow Author-X-Name-First: Marleen Author-X-Name-Last: Granow Author-Name: Frank Asbrock Author-X-Name-First: Frank Author-X-Name-Last: Asbrock Title: A framework for culturally diverse teams and the importance of agility: findings from a qualitative study Abstract: In this study, we investigated the conditions for successful collaboration in culturally diverse teams from a Positive Organizational Scholarship perspective. As a result of globalization, organizations increasingly rely on culturally diverse teams. Based on 19 semi-structured interviews with international managers of a large German car manufacturer, we analyzed how these teams work together and which factors promote collaboration. Our findings result in a new framework for understanding culturally diverse teams, which indicates that agile team behavior is an important factor for performance in culturally diverse teams. Agile forms of collaboration enable better adaption to change through iterative learning processes. Agile methods have strong structural elements, but in between, allow the greatest possible scope for continuous adjustment. These structuring and flexible elements seem to meet the requirements of culturally diverse teams in particular. The minimal structure provides the opportunity to bring in all perspectives and views of a culturally diverse team. In addition, we confirm the influence of well-studied factors such as openness, perspective taking and leadership behavior. Our findings help to further sharpen the understanding of culturally diverse teams and point to a fruitful future research direction on agile behavior and cultural diversity in teams. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 47-68 Issue: 1 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1898103 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1898103 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:1:p:47-68 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: List of Reviewers Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 93-93 Issue: 1 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1900658 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1900658 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:1:p:93-93 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Şükrü Özen Author-X-Name-First: Şükrü Author-X-Name-Last: Özen Author-Name: Çetin Önder Author-X-Name-First: Çetin Author-X-Name-Last: Önder Title: Diffusion of foreign management practices across Turkish business organizations: a contextualized theory Abstract: This paper advances a contextualized theory concerning the spread of foreign management practices across Turkish business organizations. Drawing on the pertinent empirical literature, we expand acclaimed models of diffusion that typically address early-industrialized source countries and develop propositions that address late-industrializing recipients like Turkey. We argue that foreign practice diffusion across Turkish business organizations is driven by two contextual forces, namely the division between the modernizing elite and the more traditional non-elite business organizations and active engagement of the elite in importing and dissemination of foreign practices, typically those that are already well-established in the source country. This context features particular situational opportunities and constraints, most notably moral, as well as pragmatic and coginitive, legitimacy of foreign practices, that shape diffusion within Turkey. Based on these arguments we reconsider motivational and implementational claims in extant literature. Specifically, we suggest that, relative to the non-elite, the elite are more likely to be earlier adopters, boast stronger moral legitimacy concerns, and engage in high-fidelity implementation. We also predict widespread decoupling across elite and non-elite organizations, suggesting the possibility of deinstitutionalization after diffusion. As we conclude, we offer contingent generalizations to similar other contexts, which we argue are more likely to be observed in particular late-industrializing countries. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 69-92 Issue: 1 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1898100 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1898100 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:1:p:69-92 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Scott David Williams Author-X-Name-First: Scott David Author-X-Name-Last: Williams Author-Name: John A. Martin Author-X-Name-First: John A. Author-X-Name-Last: Martin Author-Name: Yongjun Choi Author-X-Name-First: Yongjun Author-X-Name-Last: Choi Author-Name: Oliver Stoutner Author-X-Name-First: Oliver Author-X-Name-Last: Stoutner Author-Name: Rachel Sturm Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Author-X-Name-Last: Sturm Title: The role of information or the information from roles? A meta-analysis of planning and performance Abstract: We use meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) to examine how organizational planning leads to managerial performance. Specifically, we test a theoretically-driven model of how participative budgeting and strategic performance measurement systems can positively impact managerial job performance through role clarity. Our analyses of 60 studies (containing 99 effect sizes) from multidisciplinary literature indicate role clarity mediates the relationship between planning implementation processes and managerial job performance. Additionally, and contrary to previous research, path analysis suggests job-relevant information mediates the relationship between role clarity and managerial job performance. We explain how participation in planning may prompt managers who are clear about their roles to seek additional information in order to perform well. Finally, we identify a need in future research for a greater diversity of the operationalizations of the constructs, levels of analysis, and data collection methods. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 1-25 Issue: 1 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1898101 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1898101 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:1:p:1-25 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Saima Ahmad Author-X-Name-First: Saima Author-X-Name-Last: Ahmad Author-Name: Amrik Sohal Author-X-Name-First: Amrik Author-X-Name-Last: Sohal Author-Name: Julie Wolfram Cox Author-X-Name-First: Julie Author-X-Name-Last: Wolfram Cox Title: Bullying in the workplace: a cross-cultural and methodological perspective Abstract: Whilst research on workplace bullying has substantially increased internationally, there appears to be a contention of whether individuals in hierarchical or individualistic societies are at higher risk of exposure to such behavior. This paper reports an investigation of relative exposure to workplace bullying between the two societies through a survey of Australians and Pakistanis. In so doing, this paper advances the cross-cultural workplace bullying literature in two main ways. First, by examining the methodological issue of equivalence, this paper shows that despite workplace bullying’s constant meaning across cultures, there are stark differences in employee exposure and tolerance toward it between the assessed cultures. Second, it provides evidence of relative risks of workplace bullying in cross-cultural contexts by revealing a higher risk of exposure to such behavior in a hierarchical rather than an individualistic society. The paper concludes with a detailed discussion of the theoretical and international management practice implications of the research findings. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 26-46 Issue: 1 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1898099 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1898099 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:1:p:26-46 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Julia Goede Author-X-Name-First: Julia Author-X-Name-Last: Goede Author-Name: Dirk Holtbrügge Author-X-Name-First: Dirk Author-X-Name-Last: Holtbrügge Title: Methodological issues in family expatriation studies and future directions Abstract: As scholars uncovered the crucial role of the family in the relocation of organization-assigned expatriates, the investigation of the expatriate’s family became of interest to management researchers and practitioners alike. While recently the number of studies evaluating the family interface of international assignments has risen significantly, the topic remains at an emerging stage. In order to support the future development of trustworthy and credible empirical research, this article examines the research methodology and the associated issues of the extant literature. To investigate the family expatriation topic, we included articles by pre-defined criteria with a management focus from the international business, (international) human resource, as well as management and psychology disciplines. By critically assessing how research has been conducted in family expatriation studies, we provide a foundation from which future studies can infer the appropriate choice and application of research methods. In order to achieve this objective, we discuss the research methodology of 69 published articles, identify methodological issues, and offer recommendations. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 95-115 Issue: 2 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1927310 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1927310 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:2:p:95-115 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Uchenna Uzo Author-X-Name-First: Uchenna Author-X-Name-Last: Uzo Author-Name: Johanna Mair Author-X-Name-First: Johanna Author-X-Name-Last: Mair Title: How informality affects habitual improvisation in firms: insights from the Nigerian movie industry Abstract: Research has often underestimated the pervasive and global occurrence of informality because studies largely define informality as illegal economic practices. This study adopts a multidimensional view of informality to explain how and why firms habitually improvise even when they do not experience unexpected or extreme eventualities. We addressed this concern through a comparative ethnographic study of three film production crews in the Nigerian movie industry. Our findings unravel the multiple dimensions of informality and define habitual improvization. We build a theoretical model that traces the organizing principles of informality and how they affect the modes of implementation and outcomes of habitual improvization. Finally, we offer an agenda for future theoretical and empirical research on informality and organizational improvization. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 162-184 Issue: 2 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1898102 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1898102 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:2:p:162-184 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Aspasia Pastra Author-X-Name-First: Aspasia Author-X-Name-Last: Pastra Author-Name: Dimitrios N. Koufopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Dimitrios N. Author-X-Name-Last: Koufopoulos Author-Name: Nikola Samac Author-X-Name-First: Nikola Author-X-Name-Last: Samac Author-Name: Tafsir Johansson Author-X-Name-First: Tafsir Author-X-Name-Last: Johansson Title: Conflict in the boardroom: perceptions of board members in the Nordic Region Abstract: The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between conflict in the boardroom and board performance in the Nordic Region. Embracing the information-processing perspective, we conceptualize board of directors as information processing systems that process large amounts of data and any type of conflict could affect their performance. Using primary data from 184 member of different boards, we conducted exploratory factor analyses of the used scales in order to confirm their proposed factor structure. After confirming their validity and reliability, hierarchical multiple regressions were applied. Results indicate that: (1) Relationship conflict has a negative effect on the performance of the board in providing strategic leadership and readiness; and (2) Process conflict negatively predicts strategic leadership. The above findings advance theoretical understanding of conflict in the boardroom and underline the need for a clear distinction between relationship conflict and process conflict since the two exist at different levels of the ‘conflict’ structure and instigated by different factors hinting different effects on board performance. Our study has several contributions to managerial practice, such as that personal friction among directors at the board meetings impacts both the strategic leadership of the board and its readiness in anticipating threats. In addition, process conflict in the boardroom may lead to misjudgments about shaping and implementing organizational strategy. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 116-135 Issue: 2 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1927312 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1927312 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:2:p:116-135 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lars Osterbrink Author-X-Name-First: Lars Author-X-Name-Last: Osterbrink Author-Name: Paul Alpar Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Alpar Title: Silence of crowdworkers—reasons and implications for work conditions and quality Abstract: Microtasks accomplished by humans are used in many corners of the Internet. They help to make decisions where it is not possible to rely on algorithms (yet) like insult detection or fake reviews. People conducting crowdwork, crowdworkers, are often recruited via platforms where employers have more power than crowdworkers. This is sometimes misused by offering poor work conditions, which can lead to poor work quality. Online feedback systems (OFS) can discipline employers to improve work conditions and subsequently work quality. Unfortunately, the majority of crowdworkers do not contribute to an OFS and remain silent. We develop and test a model based on self-determination theory with PLS-SEM to explain their silence. Perceived cost and perceived non-relevance are deterrents to contributions. However, satisfaction in helping others and the wish to belong to the community are significant motivational factors, which could be used in the design of an OFS to foster crowdworkers’ contributions. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 136-161 Issue: 2 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1927311 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1927311 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:2:p:136-161 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Child Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Child Author-Name: Sek Hong Ng Author-X-Name-First: Sek Hong Author-X-Name-Last: Ng Author-Name: Christine Wong Author-X-Name-First: Christine Author-X-Name-Last: Wong Title: Psychic Distance and Internationalization: Evidence from Hong Kong Firms Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 36-56 Issue: 1 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043656 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043656 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:1:p:36-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elizabeth Maitland Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth Author-X-Name-Last: Maitland Author-Name: Stephen Nicholas Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Nicholas Title: Modeling Multinationals from Small, Open Economies Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-15 Issue: 1 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043653 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043653 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:1:p:3-15 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter W. Liesch Author-X-Name-First: Peter W. Author-X-Name-Last: Liesch Author-Name: Lawrence S. Welch Author-X-Name-First: Lawrence S. Author-X-Name-Last: Welch Author-Name: Denice Welch Author-X-Name-First: Denice Author-X-Name-Last: Welch Author-Name: Sara L. McGaughey Author-X-Name-First: Sara L. Author-X-Name-Last: McGaughey Author-Name: Bent Petersen Author-X-Name-First: Bent Author-X-Name-Last: Petersen Author-Name: Peter Lamb Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Lamb Title: Evolving Strands of Research on Firm Internationalization: An Australian-Nordic Perspective Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 16-35 Issue: 1 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043652 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043652 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:1:p:16-35 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gabriel R.G. Benito Author-X-Name-First: Gabriel R.G. Author-X-Name-Last: Benito Author-Name: Jorma Larimo Author-X-Name-First: Jorma Author-X-Name-Last: Larimo Author-Name: Rajneesh Narula Author-X-Name-First: Rajneesh Author-X-Name-Last: Narula Author-Name: Torben Pedersen Author-X-Name-First: Torben Author-X-Name-Last: Pedersen Title: Multinational Enterprises from Small Economies: Internationalization Patterns of Large Companies from Denmark, Finland, and Norway Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 57-78 Issue: 1 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043654 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043654 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:1:p:57-78 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elizabeth Maitland Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth Author-X-Name-Last: Maitland Author-Name: Stephen Nicholas Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Nicholas Title: Internationalization of Australian Firms in Asia Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 79-108 Issue: 1 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043651 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043651 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:1:p:79-108 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David T. Merrett Author-X-Name-First: David T. Author-X-Name-Last: Merrett Title: Australia's Emergent Multinationals: The Legacy of Having a Natural-Resource Intensive, Small, and Closed Economy as Home Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 109-135 Issue: 1 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043655 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043655 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:1:p:109-135 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gibson Burrell Author-X-Name-First: Gibson Author-X-Name-Last: Burrell Title: Twentieth-Century Quadrilles Aristocracy,Owners, Managers, and Professionals Abstract: This article looks at the development of the professions and professionalism within a broad historical sweep. Concentrating on the Anglo-American experience, it takes as its stage the whole of the twentieth century and its dramatis personae as key groups associated with the rise of the professions. It asks what relationships might be discerned between the professions and each of the following: managers, owners, and aristocracy. It also addresses the question of whether the dynamic and content of such relationships changed over the century, and if so why? It is concluded that these quadrilateral relationships might be thought to represent a "quadrille" that transforms significantly, but not unrecognizably, over time. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 25-50 Issue: 2 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043657 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043657 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:2:p:25-50 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Professional Work and Management Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-24 Issue: 2 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043659 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043659 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:2:p:3-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kim Sutherland Author-X-Name-First: Kim Author-X-Name-Last: Sutherland Author-Name: Sandra Dawson Author-X-Name-First: Sandra Author-X-Name-Last: Dawson Title: Making Sense in Practice Doctors at Work Abstract: This article explores how membership in the medical profession shapes the propensity to, and the processes of, clinician behavior change. Grounded in a sensemaking perspective, it uses doctors' own words to describe and illustrate different features of their worlds. With reference to recent examples of egregious performance, it examines how fundamental features of professionalism - autonomy, self-regulation, trustworthiness, assured competency - may contribute negatively, as well as positively, to quality of care and the respect given to the profession. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 51-69 Issue: 2 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043658 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043658 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:2:p:51-69 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dan Kärreman Author-X-Name-First: Dan Author-X-Name-Last: Kärreman Author-Name: Stefan Sveningsson Author-X-Name-First: Stefan Author-X-Name-Last: Sveningsson Author-Name: Mats Alvesson Author-X-Name-First: Mats Author-X-Name-Last: Alvesson Title: The Return of the Machine Bureaucracy? - Management Control in the Work Settings of Professionals Abstract: Knowledge-intensive firms are frequently believed to operate under conditions that invalidate industrial-bureaucratic forms of managerial control. The nature of work, the professionalism of the workers makes traditional organizational structures and managerial techniques archaic and inefficient. However, empirical material from recent studies in two major knowledge-intensive firms indicates that traditional managerial forms of control have maintained and even reclaimed a seemingly vital space in organizational practice. The two cases belong to different branches, thus possibly prefiguring an emergent trend toward the industrialization of at least parts of knowledge work, involving standardization of tasks and methods of working, reinforcing the exchangeability of individuals and units, and increased efforts to manage by numbers and other criteria from the past. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 70-92 Issue: 2 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043661 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043661 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:2:p:70-92 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tony Watson Author-X-Name-First: Tony Author-X-Name-Last: Watson Title: Professions and Professionalism - Should We Jump Off the Bandwagon, Better to Study Where It Is Going? Abstract: Social scientists are invited to contemplate the possibility of abandoning the concepts of "profession" and "professionalism" as analytical resources for the study of occupations and occupational strategies. It might be more fruitful to treat the way the people in society generally, and spokespersons for occupational groupings in particular, use notions of profession and professionalism to achieve particular purposes. The language of professionalism is highly ambiguous, with its meaning constantly slipping from one emphasis to another. This alone makes it problematic as a source of concepts for the critical analysis of occupational activity. But it is made even more problematic by the fact that it is frequently deployed in the occupational world to serve sectional interests. It is unlikely that social scientists will abandon concepts of professionalism. But they would be wise to reflect on the analytical and critical implications of their using such a slippery and pejorative terminology. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 93-105 Issue: 2 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043660 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043660 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:2:p:93-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Corporate Identity: Crossing the Rubicon Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-9 Issue: 3 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043665 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043665 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:3:p:3-9 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Judy Motion Author-X-Name-First: Judy Author-X-Name-Last: Motion Author-Name: Shirley Leitch Author-X-Name-First: Shirley Author-X-Name-Last: Leitch Title: The Technologies of Corporate Identity Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 45-64 Issue: 3 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043664 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043664 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:3:p:45-64 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dennis B. Bromley Author-X-Name-First: Dennis B. Author-X-Name-Last: Bromley Title: An Examination of Issues That Complicate the Concept of Reputation in Business Studies Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 65-81 Issue: 3 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043666 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043666 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:3:p:65-81 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John M. T. Balmer Author-X-Name-First: John M. T. Author-X-Name-Last: Balmer Title: Of Identities Lost and Found Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 10-27 Issue: 3 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043662 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043662 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:3:p:10-27 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Helen Stuart Author-X-Name-First: Helen Author-X-Name-Last: Stuart Title: Employee Identification with the Corporate Identity - Issues and Implications Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 28-44 Issue: 3 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043663 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043663 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:3:p:28-44 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Robin Fincham Author-X-Name-First: Robin Author-X-Name-Last: Fincham Title: The Agent's Agent: Power, Knowledge, and Uncertainty in Management Consultancy Abstract: The existence of so many metaphors for the management consultant (e.g., as performer, as witchdoctor) betokens the fundamental uncertainty of consultancy work. This article suggests that the application of agency theory to the client-consultant relationship may be a useful way of exploring and mapping this uncertainty. The image of consultants as the "agent's agent" (hopefully, not just another metaphor) pictures consultancy as defined by an extended agency role: The consultant is the agent of management, which is itself the agent of capital. In seeing consultancy in this way, as a kind of extrusion of managerial power, attention is drawn to its tenuous legitimacy in client firms, as well as to a kind of parity between consultancy and management. The article highlights two central aspects of uncertainty--power and knowledge--and explores these in research conducted in large-scale firms like the Big Five. The data confirm the importance of consultancy as "relational work" and the subordination of consultancy. Typical agency problems were mirrored in the limits of power tactics employed in client firms and the difficulties of transfer between consultant and local managerial knowledge. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 67-86 Issue: 4 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043668 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043668 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:4:p:67-86 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Harry Scarbrough Author-X-Name-First: Harry Author-X-Name-Last: Scarbrough Title: The Role of Intermediary Groups in Shaping Management Fashion: The Case of Knowledge Management Abstract: This article seeks to analyze the role of intermediary groups, specifically professional groups and consultants, in the development of management fashion. Consideration of that role highlights the need to develop the institutional perspective on fashion to encompass not only diffusion, but also episodes of theorization and institutionalization. Based on available evidence on the importance of intermediary groups in these episodes, a number of propositions are advanced as to their roles and activities, and the implications that these have for the development of fashion. These propositions are illustrated and explored by drawing on experience with the knowledge management (KM) fashion. Here, evidence on the activities of professionals and consultants highlights the interplay between the colonizing efforts of professionals and the commodifying activities of consultants. Both constituencies are seen as benefiting from the ambiguity of KM, in that it allows particular groups to pursue competitive differentiation through the development of their own interpretations. The analysis of KM's development suggests that the factors that promote the diffusion of a new fashion may in turn limit its translation into practice. The role of intermediary groups is important here. The collusive interaction between and among consultants and professional groups to promote their own versions of KM may have accelerated its diffusion, but it also had the effect of reducing the legitimacy of KM-inspired changes to a narrowly technological domain--thereby rendering them ineffective, on the one hand, but intensifying the fashion cycle, on the other. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 87-103 Issue: 4 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043672 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043672 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:4:p:87-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Thomas Armbrüster Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Armbrüster Author-Name: Matthias Kipping Author-X-Name-First: Matthias Author-X-Name-Last: Kipping Title: Strategy Consulting at the Crossroads: Technical Change and Shifting Market Conditions for Top-Level Advice Abstract: In the 1990s, the market for strategy consulting firms changed markedly. The growth of IT-related advice, and the entrance of new competitors into strategic advice, emerged as new market determinants. In spite of stable growth, strategy-consulting firms are facing increasing competition from service providers that had originally specialized in other fields of consulting and related activities. This article outlines the changes that triggered the shifts in the consulting market structure, and refers to evolutionary economics, information economics and embeddedness theory in order to explain them. It discusses the possibilities for strategy consulting firms to cope with these challenges, and concludes with a discussion of the broader developments in the light of current events. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 19-42 Issue: 4 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043667 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043667 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:4:p:19-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andreas Werr Author-X-Name-First: Andreas Author-X-Name-Last: Werr Author-Name: Alexander Styhre Author-X-Name-First: Alexander Author-X-Name-Last: Styhre Title: Management Consultants - Friend or Foe? Understanding the Ambiguous Client-Consultant Relationship Abstract: How do managers discursively construct the consultant-client relationship? How do these constructions relate to managerial discourses of the bureaucratic and the network organization, and how can an observed ambiguous image of the consultant-client relationship among managers be understood? These are questions discussed in this article. It is concluded that managers discuss the actual use of and value creation in consulting in terms of the network discourse, while normative statements on how to manage consultants echo a bureaucratic discourse. We argue that research on management consulting must desert its anchoring in the bureaucratic discourse in order to contribute to a more constructive understanding of management consulting. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 43-66 Issue: 4 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043670 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043670 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:4:p:43-66 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Management Consultancy: Issues, Perspectives, and Agendas Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-18 Issue: 4 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043673 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043673 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:4:p:3-18 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Author Index to International Studies of Management & Organization, Volume 32 (Spring 2002 to Winter 2002-3) Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 123-124 Issue: 4 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043671 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043671 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:4:p:123-124 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stefan Heusinkveld Author-X-Name-First: Stefan Author-X-Name-Last: Heusinkveld Author-Name: Jos Benders Author-X-Name-First: Jos Author-X-Name-Last: Benders Title: Between Professional Dedication and Corporate Design: Exploring Forms of New Concept Development in Consultancies Abstract: Like any producer who seeks to renew their products, management consultancies need to generate research and develop efforts to keep their portfolio in tune with market demand, a process we refer to as "new concept development." Innovation literature suggests that such a development process involves moving through specific activities and inevitably generates managerial tensions. However, a concept's lack of a material component and the specific characteristics of consultancy work brings notable consequences for the process of developing a repertoire to support the commercialization and implementation of a new concept. To get an understanding about the way such innovation processes take shape in consultancies, this study explores different forms of new concept development and their managerial problems. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 104-122 Issue: 4 Volume: 32 Year: 2002 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2002.11043669 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2002.11043669 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:32:y:2002:i:4:p:104-122 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Improvisation in Organizations Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-9 Issue: 1 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043678 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043678 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:1:p:3-9 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ashly Pinnington Author-X-Name-First: Ashly Author-X-Name-Last: Pinnington Author-Name: Timothy Morris Author-X-Name-First: Timothy Author-X-Name-Last: Morris Author-Name: Claire Pinnington Author-X-Name-First: Claire Author-X-Name-Last: Pinnington Title: The Relational Structure of Improvisation - A Case Illustration from Corporate Video Production Abstract: Recent research on improvisation has led to development of the concept of minimal structures, which refers to social and technical resources applied in action. We examine the relational structure of improvisation by analyzing a case study of a pharmaceutical company conference and by applying Bourdieu's theory of practice in order to assess the significance of context. This analysis recommends greater investigation of commonplace work settings, and concludes with the salience of field and participant relational structures for improvisation. In this case study, the minimal structure of the performance is central to the specific form and content of the improvisation; but influences from the wider context also are found to demonstrate significant effects upon the participants' disposition to play. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 10-33 Issue: 1 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043674 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043674 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:1:p:10-33 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Miguel Pina E. Cunha Author-X-Name-First: Miguel Pina E. Author-X-Name-Last: Cunha Author-Name: Ken Kamoche Author-X-Name-First: Ken Author-X-Name-Last: Kamoche Author-Name: Rita Campos E. Cunha Author-X-Name-First: Rita Campos E. Author-X-Name-Last: Cunha Title: Organizational Improvisation and Leadership - A Field Study in Two Computer-Mediated Settings Abstract: Drawing on empirical evidence collected in two case studies, we present a tentative model of leadership in a context of organizational improvisation. This article discusses the role of leadership in the process of improvisation, suggesting that opposite leadership behaviors are simultaneously integrated when an important task has to be performed in a turbulent environment with flexible resources. This type of leadership creates "minimal" social and task structures that, together with a perception of the task at hand as individually important to group members, invites the team to improvise. This model builds the argument for a dialectical perspective on organizations, highlights the role of important events as action generators, and underscores the presence of curvilinear relationships in organizational phenomena where linear ones are conventionally assumed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 34-57 Issue: 1 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043677 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043677 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:1:p:34-57 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christophe Roux-Dufort Author-X-Name-First: Christophe Roux- Author-X-Name-Last: Dufort Author-Name: Bénédicte Vidaillet Author-X-Name-First: Bénédicte Author-X-Name-Last: Vidaillet Title: The Difficulties of Improvising in a Crisis Situation - A Case Study Abstract: Whereas certain crisis situations seem to favor the emergence of improvised modes of action, other situations highlight the actors' inability to improvise. So far, the literature remains unclear about what is at the origin of one or the other form of behavior. Furthermore, the studies that have dealt with the issue of improvisation in crisis situations are based on the analysis of the behavior of small groups of individuals who most often work in teams and share common referentials. But what happens when several groups of actors are involved, or when these groups have divergent methods and referentials, or different professional identities? Are the conditions for improvising, such as they occur within a small group, present in the same way when larger groups are involved? To deal with these questions, a case study of a crisis where four groups of actors were involved is presented. Even though the situation under study presents a combination of conditions that were likely to both favor and hinder improvisation, the observations of the case suggest a lack of improvisation in the management of the crisis. The analysis leads us to suggest that: (1) The emergence of improvisation depends on critical thresholds beyond which certain conditions favoring improvisation become conditions hindering improvisation; (2) the involvement of several groups with strong professional identities leads the actors to rely on their identities and to repeat the roles they have learned; and (3) the combination of an absence of interaction among the groups, and of maintenance of strong intra-group modes of interactions, hinders the process of collective sensemaking that is necessary to improvise. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 86-115 Issue: 1 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043675 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043675 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:1:p:86-115 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Manuela Faia-Correia Author-X-Name-First: Manuela Faia- Author-X-Name-Last: Correia Title: Mind the Gap Between Processes and Practice! - The Role of Improvisation in the Implementation of Information Technology Abstract: The implementation of a new information technology in the work setting is seldom unproblematic, and it can trigger unintended and unexpected behaviors. Studies of workplace practice have revealed tensions between the demands of process and the needs of practice. They pit the process-focused need for uniform organizational information against the practice-based struggle for locally coherent meanings. While employees are supplied with routines and information, they have to rely heavily on improvisational practices to close the gap between the world as they find it, and the inevitably limited model of the world embedded in the technology. Examples from case studies of two telebanking systems are described and analyzed. Findings indicate that the way identity is constructed inside the telebanking systems allows work design to be more or less flexible and this, in turn, facilitates or hinders different types of improvisations. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 58-85 Issue: 1 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043676 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043676 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:1:p:58-85 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: REINHARD BACHMANN Author-X-Name-First: REINHARD Author-X-Name-Last: BACHMANN Title: The Coordination of Relations Across Organizational Boundaries Abstract: This article discusses the shortcomings of the orthodox economic view on interorganizational relationships and suggests utilizing genuine sociological theory to gain a more realistic and elaborate understanding of the coordination of economic actors' behavior. The role of trust and power in business relationships is examined, and, with reference to these phenomena, it is shown that original sociological approaches (such as systems theory, structuration theory, and new institutionalism within sociology) can provide a major input to the analysis of the social dynamics and environmental influences that determine the nature and quality of economic transactions occurring in interorganizational settings. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 7-21 Issue: 2 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043681 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043681 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:2:p:7-21 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: HANS-JOACHIM GERGS Author-X-Name-First: HANS-JOACHIM Author-X-Name-Last: GERGS Title: Economic, Social, and Symbolic Capital: New Aspects for the Development of a Sociological Theory of the Market Abstract: Since the mid-1980s, economic sociology has experienced an enormous upturn. In this context, the notion of "social embeddedness" as the organizing principle of economic sociology was of particular importance. Ironically, the basic intuition that markets are socially embedded--while containing an important insight--has led economic sociologists to take the market itself for granted. Economic sociologists have focused their attention on the institutions that surround the market and on alternative mechanisms of economic governance. Relatively little attention has been directed toward the actors and social processes constituting markets. In the first section, the article presents results of a research project studying the market-entry process of East German enterprises after the reunification. It describes what ideas East German executives have concerning the ways in which capitalistic markets function. On the basis of the reconstruction of managers' orientation and their logic of action, in the second section the author determines the importance of the social and symbolic capital of a firm as well as trust and power in the market-entry process. In this context, the article intends to show the contribution of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of inequality for explaining the logic of market processes and for the further development of a sociological theory of the market. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 22-48 Issue: 2 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043680 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043680 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:2:p:22-48 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: JÖRG SYDOW Author-X-Name-First: JÖRG Author-X-Name-Last: SYDOW Author-Name: ARNOLD WINDELER Author-X-Name-First: ARNOLD Author-X-Name-Last: WINDELER Author-Name: JÖRG SYDOW Author-X-Name-First: JÖRG Author-X-Name-Last: SYDOW Author-Name: ARNOLD WINDELER Author-X-Name-First: ARNOLD Author-X-Name-Last: WINDELER Title: Knowledge, Trust, and Control: Managing Tensions and Contradictions in a Regional Network of Service Firms Abstract: Trust is often considered to be a constitutive property of interfirm networks in general and of regional networks of service firms in particular. Although important as a lubricant of interorganizational exchange, trust implies neither the absence of control nor the absence of knowledge. This is especially true in times of reflexive modernity in which agents are forced to monitor activities, relations, and processes more reflexively. Here trust, control, and knowledge often go hand in hand, and each usually requires the existence of the other. However, the relationship of knowledge, trust, and control is not only the medium and result of their more reflexive usage, but it is also characterized by tensions and contradictions. This becomes particularly obvious from a structurationist perspective. This perspective, which focuses on processes of system constitution based on social practices of knowledgeable agents, requires the analysis of any practice, including Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 69-100 Issue: 2 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043679 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043679 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:2:p:69-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: GEERT DUYSTERS Author-X-Name-First: GEERT Author-X-Name-Last: DUYSTERS Author-Name: CHARMIANNE LEMMENS Author-X-Name-First: CHARMIANNE Author-X-Name-Last: LEMMENS Title: Alliance Group Formation Enabling and Constraining Effects of Embeddedness and Social Capital in Strategic Technology Alliance Networks Abstract: We examine the role of embeddedness and social capital in the process of alliance group formation in strategic technology alliance networks. In particular, we study the social mechanisms that enable and enforce alliance group formation. We argue that the enabling effect of embeddedness during the first stages of the group formation process may turn into paralyzing effects as the group formation process progresses. Through the formation of subsequent ties, firms in social systems tend to rely heavily on their direct and indirect contacts in forming new partnerships. This so-called local search enables firms to create trustworthy and preferential relations. Over time, those relations tend to develop into strong ties, as firms rely on the same partners by replicating their existing ties. This enabling effect of embeddedness at the group level can, however, turn into a paralyzing effect as actors become locked-in, because they rely on partners only in their closed social system. Searching for, or switching to, partners outside of the alliance group is not likely, particularly when trustworthy partners are already available in this system. The firms in alliance groups tend to become more similar over time as a result of contagion and the replication of their existing ties. This so-called phe- Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 49-68 Issue: 2 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043683 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043683 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:2:p:49-68 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Networks, Social Capital, and Trust: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Interorganizational Relationships (Part I) Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-6 Issue: 2 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043682 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043682 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:2:p:3-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Preface: Networks, Social Capital, and Trust: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Interorganizational Relationships (Part II) Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-6 Issue: 3 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043684 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043684 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:3:p:3-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: CHRISTOPH CLASES Author-X-Name-First: CHRISTOPH Author-X-Name-Last: CLASES Author-Name: REINHARD BACHMANN Author-X-Name-First: REINHARD Author-X-Name-Last: BACHMANN Author-Name: THEO WEHNER Author-X-Name-First: THEO Author-X-Name-Last: WEHNER Title: Studying Trust in Virtual Organizations Abstract: The core objective of this article is to introduce the repertory grid technique as a powerful methodology into research on trust in virtual organizations. This technique is particularly capable of yielding insights into the subjective meaning of trust. Virtual organizations have been chosen as our empirical field because the literature shows a broad consensus that trust is one of the most important success factors for the initiation, development, and continuation of activities in these types of hybrid regimes. On the basis of a discussion of the literature on trust in networks and virtual organizations, we present our empirical case study of two Swiss virtual organizations. It reveals that the emergence of trust in virtual organizations depends strongly on personal bonds and shared experiences in the practical realization of projects, whereas generalized rules and contracts play only a supplementary role. Localized and experience-based commitments as well as the proactive behavior of the partners involved are identified as decisive denominators of trust. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 7-27 Issue: 3 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043687 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043687 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:3:p:7-27 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: ARJEN VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN Author-X-Name-First: ARJEN VAN Author-X-Name-Last: WITTELOOSTUIJN Title: A Game-Theoretic Framework of Trust Abstract: The key argument of this article is that, in principle, orthodox economics--starting from the homo economicus assumption--may have a lot to offer to the multidisciplinary study of trust. To limit its scope to an area more manageable than economics at large, I explore what is probably the most powerful device of modern economics' theory development--namely, game theory. In a way, a game emerges as soon as parties with conflicting interests start to interact. In the interorganizational world, conflicting interests are the rule rather than the exception, implying that games of trust abound. Whether or not such games of trust are associated with trustworthy behavior depends upon the players' features and the game's rules. Industrial organization's cartel theory, which is rooted in game theory, is very informative about the way in which the rules of the game impact upon the emergence and sustainability of competitive vis-à-vis cooperative behavior, which closely resembles the debate about trust. That is, trust in game theory indicates the conditions under which trustworthy behavior can be expected. In addition to that, the players' characteristics are crucial. Although a game theory with trust is flourishing in the context of behavioral economics, one that deals with organizational rather than individual behavior is yet to be developed. In this context, the literature about game theory and trust may offer a source of inspiration, since here ample evidence has been collected as to the origins and consequences of trust heterogeneity. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 53-71 Issue: 3 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043685 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043685 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:3:p:53-71 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: NIC BEECH Author-X-Name-First: NIC Author-X-Name-Last: BEECH Author-Name: CHRIS HUXHAM Author-X-Name-First: CHRIS Author-X-Name-Last: HUXHAM Title: Cycles of Identity Formation in Interorganizational Collaborations Abstract: In this article we consider how issues of identity may have relevance to the management of interorganizational collaborations, and the establishment and disestablishment on trust in such settings. The focus is on the forces for and against consistency and disruption of identity in collaborative settings and the process by which identities are formed and assigned to self and others. On the basis of emergent theorizing using data from a collaborative setting concerned with health promotion, we build up a picture of a complex, interwoven, and tangled mêlée of cycles of interaction in which the actions of participants are (consciously or subconsciously) at least partly determined by the identities that those participants assign to themselves and others and in which the identities are partly determined by the actions. The picture portrays identities as generally made up of a combination of social categories with different categories to the fore at any one time, so that any single actor might give a quite different sense of identity of any other single actor (or of self) on different occasions. The picture suggests that identities will be continually shifting but that sometimes identities will become crystallized for periods of time. These identities may become so deep rooted that they are seriously difficult to change, should that be deemed helpful to the progress of the collaboration. We argue that the processes of identity formation will affect almost every aspect of the nurturing that is the essence of productive collaborative practice. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 28-52 Issue: 3 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043686 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043686 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:3:p:28-52 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: EVA C. KASPER-FUEHRER Author-X-Name-First: EVA C. Author-X-Name-Last: KASPER-FUEHRER Author-Name: NEAL M. ASHKANASY Author-X-Name-First: NEAL M. Author-X-Name-Last: ASHKANASY Title: The Interorganizational Virtual Organization : Defining a Weberian Ideal Abstract: The concept of the virtual organization (VO) has engendered great interest in the literature, yet there is still little common understanding of the concept, as evidenced by the multitude of labels applied to VOs. In this article, we focus on a "Weberian-ideal-type" definition of the interorganizational VO, posited in our earlier work (Kasper-Fuehrer and Ashkanasy 2001). We argue, however, that this definition left unanswered critical questions relating to the nature and effects of interorganizational VOs. We answer these questions here by explicating the terms in the definition and deriving ten corollaries, or "natural consequences" of our definition. The corollaries posit that interorganizational VOs are temporary in nature, are network organizations, are independent, and are based on swift trust. We suggest further that interorganizational VOs enable small to medium enterprises to exploit market opportunities, and enable VO member organizations to create a value-adding partnership. We also identify information and communication technology (ICT) as the essential enabler of VOs. Finally, we argue that interorganizational VOs act as a single organizational unit and that they therefore constitute a uniquely distinguishable organizational form. We conclude with suggestions for further research, including trust, organizational behavior, transaction economics, virtual HRM, and business strategy. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 34-64 Issue: 4 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043688 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043688 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:4:p:34-64 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: JUKKA-PEKKA SALMENKAITA Author-X-Name-First: JUKKA-PEKKA Author-X-Name-Last: SALMENKAITA Title: Organizational Learning in Industrial Research : Innovative Productivity vs. Emergence of Technological Programs Abstract: Research can be a source of competitive advantage if the competitors cannot readily acquire research capabilities by market transactions or imitation. If research capability is based on idiosyncratic search routines or tacit knowledge, not only is it hard to transfer capability across firm boundaries but also the identification and nurturing of capabilities within firms are problematic. Earlier research suggests that research organizations need processes, both for exploitation of existing, as well as exploration of emerging, research capabilities. This theoretical dichotomy is elaborated by examining technology-based corporate venturing practices in industrial research environments. The results are presented in an evolutionary model in which boundary operations, including corporate research, are central to the renewal of the organization. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 8-33 Issue: 4 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043691 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043691 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:4:p:8-33 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: NICOLA MARZILIANO Author-X-Name-First: NICOLA Author-X-Name-Last: MARZILIANO Author-Name: JOÃO AMARO DE MATOS Author-X-Name-First: JOÃO AMARO DE Author-X-Name-Last: MATOS Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-7 Issue: 4 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043693 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043693 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:4:p:3-7 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: LUIS ALMEIDA COSTA Author-X-Name-First: LUIS ALMEIDA Author-X-Name-Last: COSTA Author-Name: JOÃO AMARO DE MATOS Author-X-Name-First: JOÃO AMARO DE Author-X-Name-Last: MATOS Author-Name: MIGUEL PINA E CUNHA Author-X-Name-First: MIGUEL PINA E Author-X-Name-Last: CUNHA Title: The Manager as Change Agent : Communication Channels, Timing of Information, and Attitude Change Abstract: To the extent that attitudes influence behavior, the object of aligning organizational goals and individual behavior translates into a problem of alignment of attitudes. This article proposes a deductive model to analyze how the organizational context affects a top manager's ability to disseminate a given attitude through the organization. We consider two elements of organizational context: (1) the system of formal and informal communication channels that characterize an organization, and (2) the timing of information flows. More specifically, this article focuses on the situations where the top manager is a strong change agent, whose attitude does not change as a result of the interaction with other organization members. Our results suggest that the organizational structure, the timing of information flows, and the prevailing configuration of attitudes are all intervening variables when it comes to the selection of the best approach to organizational change. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 65-93 Issue: 4 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043689 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043689 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:4:p:65-93 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Author Index to International Studies of Management & Organization, Volume 33 (Spring 2003-Winter 2003-4) Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 121-122 Issue: 4 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043692 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043692 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:4:p:121-122 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: MIGUEL PINA E CUNHA Author-X-Name-First: MIGUEL PINA E Author-X-Name-Last: CUNHA Author-Name: KEN KAMOCHE Author-X-Name-First: KEN Author-X-Name-Last: KAMOCHE Author-Name: NICOLA MARZILIANO Author-X-Name-First: NICOLA Author-X-Name-Last: MARZILIANO Author-Name: VIEIRA DA CUNHA Author-X-Name-First: VIEIRA DA Author-X-Name-Last: CUNHA Title: Minimal Network : A Contribution to the Understanding of Control in Trust-Based Organizations Abstract: The need for effectiveness in contexts of high performance ambiguity and high goal incongruence is in the foreground of management practice but almost absent from management theory. Moreover, trust-based forms, because of their strong cultures and their unobtrusive default controls, fail to deliver the effectiveness they promise. Minimal networks integrate elements of formal power and elements of trust in order to assure effectiveness, via (1) a minimal trust that derives from (2) minimal commitment and (3) minimal consensus, held together by (4) a minimal structure. These four elements are presented via a set of propositions, together with the case for there being an independent organizational form which combines elements from hierarchies and networks/clans in a way that can increase the effectiveness of trust-based organizations. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 94-120 Issue: 4 Volume: 33 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043690 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2003.11043690 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:4:p:94-120 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: DANIEL Z. DING Author-X-Name-First: DANIEL Z. Author-X-Name-Last: DING Author-Name: GLORIA L. GE Author-X-Name-First: GLORIA L. Author-X-Name-Last: GE Author-Name: MALCOLM WARNER Author-X-Name-First: MALCOLM Author-X-Name-Last: WARNER Title: HRM in China After the Asian Financial Crisis : Beyond the State Sector Abstract: The nationwide radical restructuring of ownership and corporate governance in China in the 1990s led its firms to adopt more market-oriented management systems. This article examines the consequent evolution of people-management practices in twenty Chinese township and village enterprises located in Southern China. The research was undertaken in the wake of the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and suggests that, compared with other countries' experiences in the region, the impact of the economic downturn in China was only marginal. The main findings pinpoint how human resource management practices in such firms developed more as a response to the longer-term challenges of an increasingly competitive economic and business environment. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 10-31 Issue: 1 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043695 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043695 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:1:p:10-31 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: JOHN BENSON Author-X-Name-First: JOHN Author-X-Name-Last: BENSON Author-Name: PHILIPPE DEBROUX Author-X-Name-First: PHILIPPE Author-X-Name-Last: DEBROUX Title: The Changing Nature of Japanese Human Resource Management : The Impact of the Recession and the Asian Financial Crisis Abstract: The Japanese economy after forty years of growth entered a period of sustained economic decline in the early 1990s. Increased global competition, a rigid employment and business system, and a banking system on the verge of collapse meant that the 1990s would act as a catalyst for change and regeneration. During the latter part of this period, a number of Asian countries became the "victims" of what is now referred to as the Asian financial crisis. This added further pressure for reform of the Japanese economy. How did these events impact on Japanese human-resource management (HRM)? This article addresses this question by reviewing HRM developments since 1990. While it is clear that changes have taken place, it is difficult to separate out the effects of economic forces from the more widespread changes in society and the natural limits of the Japanese business system. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 32-51 Issue: 1 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043696 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043696 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:1:p:32-51 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: CHRIS ROWLEY Author-X-Name-First: CHRIS Author-X-Name-Last: ROWLEY Author-Name: MALCOLM WARNER Author-X-Name-First: MALCOLM Author-X-Name-Last: WARNER Title: The Asian Financial Crisis: The Impact on Human Resource Management Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-9 Issue: 1 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043694 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043694 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:1:p:3-9 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: ORAWAN ANANVORANICH Author-X-Name-First: ORAWAN Author-X-Name-Last: ANANVORANICH Author-Name: ERIC W.K. TSANG Author-X-Name-First: ERIC W.K. Author-X-Name-Last: TSANG Title: The Asian Financial Crisis and Human Resource Management in Thailand : The Impact on Equity Perceptions Abstract: Thailand was the first country to suffer from the recent Asian financial crisis. The crisis had adverse impacts on all ranges of workforce in the country. This article reports an in-depth case study of a U.S. electronics company operating in Thailand. The study consisted of interviews and two surveys. The first survey was carried out in 1996 and the second in 1999, two years after the crisis started. Drawing on equity theory, this article discusses the effects of equity perceptions on pay and job satisfactions, job and organizational involvements, and voluntary turnover during this turbulent period. The findings generally supported the arguments of the theory. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 83-103 Issue: 1 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043697 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043697 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:1:p:83-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: CHRIS ROWLEY Author-X-Name-First: CHRIS Author-X-Name-Last: ROWLEY Author-Name: JOHNGSEOK BAE Author-X-Name-First: JOHNGSEOK Author-X-Name-Last: BAE Title: Human Resource Management in South Korea After the Asian Financial Crisis : Emerging Patterns from the Labyrinth Abstract: The 1997 Asian financial crisis impacted greatly on South Korean society generally and its human resources (HR) and HR management (HRM) specifically. This article examines the context and developments in HRM and locates the relative roles of several theoretical perspectives and the crisis in this situation. Several features of change are detailed. While the crisis undoubtedly had an influence on HRM, other forces were also at work. To allocate the crisis a primes inter pares role amongst these factors can be problematic. This perspective also has relevance for the literature on other factors seen as dramatically changing HRM, including convergence and, more recently, globalization. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 52-82 Issue: 1 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043698 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043698 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:1:p:52-82 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: HANS VAN EES Author-X-Name-First: HANS VAN Author-X-Name-Last: EES Author-Name: THEO J.B.M. POSTMA Author-X-Name-First: THEO J.B.M. Author-X-Name-Last: POSTMA Title: Dutch Boards and Governance: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Board Roles and Member (S)election Procedures Abstract: In this article, the pattern of institutional change affecting board roles and board member selection in the Netherlands is discussed. A set of propositions is developed concerning the relationships between three stakeholder groups related to capital, labor, and management. From the analysis of these propositions, we conclude that Dutch corporate management is the key stakeholder holding, largely, the control rights of their firms. Consistent with this position is a corporate governance structure that articulates the service role of the board of directors. However, recent higher-order institutional changes in the Netherlands may call for a more distant and detached board. From this perspective, the current situation in the Netherlands reflects a mismatch between corporate governance institutions. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 90-112 Issue: 2 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043702 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043702 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:2:p:90-112 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Preface : Perspectives from Europe on Boards and Governance: Contingency, Behavioral, and Evolutionary Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-10 Issue: 2 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043701 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043701 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:2:p:3-10 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: ANNIE PYE Author-X-Name-First: ANNIE Author-X-Name-Last: PYE Title: The Importance of Context and Time for Understanding Board Behavior : Some Lessons from Social Capital Research Abstract: The core objective of this article is to draw attention to the importance of context and time for developing an understanding of and theorizing about actual board behavior. The decision-making microcosm of a board exists in a complex network of relationships between executive (inside) directors, nonexecutive (outside) directors, and multiple external and internal stakeholders. These relationships have different value and impact on shaping board behavior in various ways and at different times, yet boards are usually treated in board theorizing as static, homogeneous groups. Using the lens of social capital, this article seeks to develop and differentiate our knowledge of these relationships by drawing on qualitative data from two studies conducted over thirteen years. In conclusion, social capital furthers our understanding of the impact of external relations on the internal working of boards and also alerts us to some important implications of context and time in the development of governance theorizing. This provides a valuable warning as well as an exciting challenge for governance theorizing, as researchers seek to develop a more integrative, process-oriented perspective in order to capture the complexity of board behavior. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 63-89 Issue: 2 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043700 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043700 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:2:p:63-89 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: KARIN JONNERGÅRD Author-X-Name-First: KARIN Author-X-Name-Last: JONNERGÅRD Author-Name: MATTS KÄRREMAN Author-X-Name-First: MATTS Author-X-Name-Last: KÄRREMAN Author-Name: CLAES SVENSSON Author-X-Name-First: CLAES Author-X-Name-Last: SVENSSON Title: The Impact of Changes in the Corporate Governance System on the Boards of Directors Experiences from Swedish Listed Companies Abstract: The core objective of this article is to develop and apply a framework based on institutional theory for investigating and exploring how boards of directors respond to changes in the national pattern of corporate governance. In contrast to most models of institutional changes that are based on the structure of the change process, our framework focuses on the content of institutional changes in terms of changing actions, values, and cognitions. By studying and comparing changes in actions, values, and cognition, we are able to comprehend the content and degree of institutionalization of new patterns of behavior. The framework is applied to the behavior of boards in Swedish publicly listed companies in 1994 and 1999. The results reveal significant changes in the decision criteria applied by the boards as well as their activities. At the same time, we find no significant changes concerning directors' attitudes toward the role of the stock market or other governance mecha- Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 113-152 Issue: 2 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043699 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043699 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:2:p:113-152 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: JONAS GABRIELSSON Author-X-Name-First: JONAS Author-X-Name-Last: GABRIELSSON Author-Name: MORTEN HUSE Author-X-Name-First: MORTEN Author-X-Name-Last: HUSE Title: Context, Behavior, and Evolution: Challenges in Research on Boards and Governance Abstract: In this article, we present an overview of empirical research on boards and governance in leading U.S. and international academic journals in general management. Samples, methods, theories, and main concepts are presented and compared. The contributions are positioned with respect to contingency perspectives, behavioral perspectives, and evolutionary perspectives. Through an analysis of 127 empirical articles, we find that most studies on boards and governance have been influenced by a research tradition that treats the board of directors as an isolated "black box." Only few studies explore boards in context or explore behavioral perspectives of boards. Almost no studies include evolutionary perspectives. Based on our analysis, we explore alternative research streams and outline various directions for future research. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 11-36 Issue: 2 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043704 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043704 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:2:p:11-36 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: PIERRE-YVES GOMEZ Author-X-Name-First: PIERRE-YVES Author-X-Name-Last: GOMEZ Title: On the Discretionary Power of Top Executives : Evolution of the Theoretical Foundations Abstract: The history of corporate governance systems is now well documented. It is, however, necessary to better understand the link between the theories and the evolution of effective practices of governance. In this article, it is demonstrated that the development of theories (property rights, agency theory, stakeholder theory, etc.) parallels the evolution of the governance of corporations. Taking three main periods into consideration, I examine how economic theories offer rational frameworks for each period that give scope to and delineate the discretionary power of top management. These theoretical constructs answer the need for understanding both the governance systems and the legitimizing practices in use. As a result, I show how the evolution of corporate governance since the 1970s challenges the use of agency theory as the mainstream model and paves the way for new theories of corporate governance in an era of mass shareholding. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 37-62 Issue: 2 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043703 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043703 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:2:p:37-62 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: OLIVER BREIDEN Author-X-Name-First: OLIVER Author-X-Name-Last: BREIDEN Author-Name: HAFIZ R. MIRZA Author-X-Name-First: HAFIZ R. Author-X-Name-Last: MIRZA Author-Name: ALEXANDER T. MOHR Author-X-Name-First: ALEXANDER T. Author-X-Name-Last: MOHR Title: Coping with the Job Abroad : A Correspondence Model of Expatriate Work Adjustment Abstract: This article presents a model of expatriate work adjustment in which the results obtained in previous investigations on expatriate adjustment are consolidated with the concepts and mechanisms introduced in the general Theory of Work Adjustment (Dawis and Lofquist 1984). It is held that correspondence has to be achieved between the abilities and needs of expatriate managers and the requirements and reinforcements of their jobs abroad in order to ensure that work adjustment can be reached and maintained during an international assignment. Furthermore, it is proposed that an expatriate's organizational commitment relates to the level of work adjustment achieved during the assignment. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 5-26 Issue: 3 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043707 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043707 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:3:p:5-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: MOSHE BANAI Author-X-Name-First: MOSHE Author-X-Name-Last: BANAI Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-4 Issue: 3 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043708 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043708 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:3:p:3-4 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: MOSHE BANAI Author-X-Name-First: MOSHE Author-X-Name-Last: BANAI Author-Name: WES HARRY Author-X-Name-First: WES Author-X-Name-Last: HARRY Title: Boundaryless Global Careers : The International Itinerants Abstract: This study extends the description and explanation of boundaryless careers to the global arena. It presents the case of a new breed of expatriate managers who are becoming more prevalent in multinational corporations--the international itinerant. It defines international itinerants, describes elements typical to their career management, proposes possible differences in career management between traditional expatriate managers and international itinerants, delineates the advantages and disadvantages to the organization and to the individual manager of their employment in multinational corporations (MNCs), and offers propositions regarding these itinerants' career management. Finally, implications for the research of career management and for MNCs' officials and international itinerants are suggested. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 96-120 Issue: 3 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043705 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043705 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:3:p:96-120 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: JOHANNA HOFBAUER Author-X-Name-First: JOHANNA Author-X-Name-Last: HOFBAUER Author-Name: IRIS C. FISCHLMAYR Author-X-Name-First: IRIS C. Author-X-Name-Last: FISCHLMAYR Title: Feminization of International Assignments : Conquering Empty Castles? Abstract: This article challenges Nancy Adler's findings on female expatriates due to deficiencies of the underlying theoretical framework. It deals with the "essentialist" implications of the notion of "female skills" and scrutinizes Adler's optimistic view on the career prospects of women. By introducing a sociological perspective, i.e., the notion of international assignments as a social practice that is embedded in gendered relations of power, it aims to explain why women entering the domain of international management may turn out to be the conquerors of "empty castles," as men actually deserted the terrain and moved on to more prestigious positions in international organizations. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 46-67 Issue: 3 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043706 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043706 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:3:p:46-67 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: YVONNE M. MCNULTY Author-X-Name-First: YVONNE M. Author-X-Name-Last: MCNULTY Author-Name: PHYLLIS THARENOU Author-X-Name-First: PHYLLIS Author-X-Name-Last: THARENOU Title: Expatriate Return on Investment : A Definition and Antecedents Abstract: Expatriate return on investment (ROI) is undoubtedly an important topic, as evidenced by the considerable efforts of multinational corporations (MNCs) to find cost-reducing alternatives to long-term international assignments. Yet no studies exist examining how expatriate ROI may be calculated and what factors may increase or decrease expatriate ROI for the firm. The purpose of this article is to advance our understanding of expatriate ROI by examining the following: (1) What is expatriate ROI, and how can it be defined, and (2) What are the antecedents of expatriate ROI in terms of the human resource (HR) activities that would increase or decrease ROI. In addressing the research questions, the article formulates hypotheses to guide future research to develop an understanding of expatriate ROI. It does so by adopting a multidisciplinary approach and considering the context of an assignment's purpose. The article covers the following: (1) a proposed definition of expatriate ROI, (2) the importance of an effective system of HR activities and its expected impact on ROI, (3) factors that should be considered in order to improve the accuracy of ROI calculations, and (4) why "one best" ROI formula may not result in a meaningful rate of return. It is intended that the findings of this article will enable scholars and practitioners to have a framework by which to advance research in this important area. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 68-95 Issue: 3 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043710 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043710 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:3:p:68-95 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: EEVA KOHONEN Author-X-Name-First: EEVA Author-X-Name-Last: KOHONEN Title: Learning Through Narratives About the Impact of International Assignments on Identity Abstract: Although foreign assignments have been used as a primary way to develop global leaders, not much is known about the consequences of an assignment on an expatriate manager's identity or identity development. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of international assignments on expatriate managers' identities. The article is based on narratives of expatriates who have been interviewed retrospectively. The study reveals that expatriate managers have reflected on their identities and experienced identity transformations during assignments. For some, identity change has been based mostly on cultural issues; for others, identity change weaved more around managerial competencies and mental maturation. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 27-45 Issue: 3 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043709 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043709 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:3:p:27-45 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: RODOLPHE DURAND Author-X-Name-First: RODOLPHE Author-X-Name-Last: DURAND Author-Name: JEAN MCGUIRE Author-X-Name-First: JEAN Author-X-Name-Last: MCGUIRE Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-6 Issue: 4 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043719 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043719 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:4:p:3-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: BRANDON H. LEE Author-X-Name-First: BRANDON H. Author-X-Name-Last: LEE Author-Name: MICHAEL LOUNSBURY Author-X-Name-First: MICHAEL Author-X-Name-Last: LOUNSBURY Title: Decoupling and the Cultures of Global Finance Abstract: Is there a global financial culture? Neo-institutional world polity researchers demonstrated a surprising amount of legitimacy-driven practice conformity across a wide range of transnational settings. While this research claims that observed isomorphism is mainly driven by global-level legitimacy processes, one of the major limitations of this line of work is its inattention to the actual content of nation-state practices. Drawing on an examination of the spread of stock and stock option exchanges, we argue that neo-institutional world polity research can be usefully expanded by shifting attention away from legitimacy and toward a focus on systematic variation in nation-state culture. Concentrating on financial institutions and surrounding infrastructures, we argue that a "modern" global financial culture unites some countries that have a robustly functioning financial sector that consists of active stock and stock option exchanges as well as a healthy endowment of financial expertise. The vast majority of countries, however, are united by a "ceremoniously modern" global financial culture in which stock markets exist but are weakly functioning entities that are decoupled from the core aspects of a country's economy. By highlighting these two cultures of global finance, we suggest that a focus on systematic dimensions of practice variation will enable researchers interested in globalization to develop a deeper understanding of the broader institutional sources of nation-state convergence and divergence. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 113-130 Issue: 4 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043714 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043714 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:4:p:113-130 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: JUHA-ANTTI LAMBERG Author-X-Name-First: JUHA-ANTTI Author-X-Name-Last: LAMBERG Title: Comment on "Contested Industry Dynamics" Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 83-86 Issue: 4 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043712 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043712 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:4:p:83-86 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: TIFFANY L. GALVIN Author-X-Name-First: TIFFANY L. Author-X-Name-Last: GALVIN Author-Name: MARC J. VENTRESCA Author-X-Name-First: MARC J. Author-X-Name-Last: VENTRESCA Author-Name: BRYANT A. HUDSON Author-X-Name-First: BRYANT A. Author-X-Name-Last: HUDSON Title: Contested Industry Dynamics Abstract: Research on legitimacy in studies of organizations, institutions, and industries is marked by a proliferation of terms and categories and often confounds issues of evaluation, contestation, and legality, particularly in addressing industries and legitimacy. We connect an institutional conception of societal logics with standard conceptions of industry belief systems to present a framework and research strategy for examining the multilevel enactment of belief systems and discursive struggles central to the legitimacy dynamics of industries. We illustrate this framework with evidence from the U.S. tobacco and gambling industries to identify and interpret recurring legitimacy struggles. As such, we offer an example of how to better understand legitimacy issues by expanding the levels through which we examine processes of debate and evaluation. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 56-82 Issue: 4 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043718 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043718 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:4:p:56-82 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: PHILIPPE MONIN Author-X-Name-First: PHILIPPE Author-X-Name-Last: MONIN Title: Comment on "Declining Legitimacy and Social Mobility" Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 52-55 Issue: 4 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043717 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043717 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:4:p:52-55 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: TESSA MELKONIAN Author-X-Name-First: TESSA Author-X-Name-Last: MELKONIAN Title: Top Executives' Reactions to Change Abstract: This article focuses on the role of justice and exemplarity perceptions on top executives' reactions to change. Drawing on extensive interview material from French top managers facing a requirement for change, the empirical analysis sheds light upon the importance of procedural justice and exemplarity in mitigating negative reactions to change. The empirical material suggests that procedural justice acts as a hygiene factor to prevent the change requirement being rejected as illegitimate, and that exemplarity acts as a motivator factor for top executives to enact the required change. These findings imply that special care should be dedicated to both procedural justice and exemplarity as key antecedents for change acceptance among top executives. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 7-28 Issue: 4 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043713 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043713 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:4:p:7-28 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: MICHAEL YAZIJI Author-X-Name-First: MICHAEL Author-X-Name-Last: YAZIJI Title: Toward a Theory of Social Risk Abstract: This paper introduces the concept of normative delegitimation--the process by which an organization's normative legitimacy is diminished through challenges by outside organizations. I frame the phenomenon as a unique form of firm exposure, social risk--exposure to possible loss or constraints on strategic choice resulting from normative delegitimation challenges by external organizations. Using the context of social movement organizations' normative delegitimation challenges of firm behavior, I put forward propositions concerning firm, institutional, and socioeconomic antecedents that drive social risk. After this analysis, I consider extensions to the theory--particularly in terms of interorganizational dynamic processes and the strategic management of social risk. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 87-107 Issue: 4 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043716 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043716 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:4:p:87-107 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: DAVID L. DEEPHOUSE Author-X-Name-First: DAVID L. Author-X-Name-Last: DEEPHOUSE Title: Comment on "Toward a Theory of Social Risk" Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 108-112 Issue: 4 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043715 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043715 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:4:p:108-112 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: KAI LAMERTZ Author-X-Name-First: KAI Author-X-Name-Last: LAMERTZ Title: Comment on "Top Executives' Reactions to Change" Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 29-31 Issue: 4 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043720 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043720 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:4:p:29-31 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: MARVIN WASHINGTON Author-X-Name-First: MARVIN Author-X-Name-Last: WASHINGTON Title: Declining Legitimacy and Social Mobility Abstract: Organizations in an association derive social identity by virtue of their membership in the association. They also obtain social identities from membership in lower-order groups in the association and cross-cutting groups in the association formed by shared demographic attributes. When peers leave the association to join a rival association, members of the association may find their social identity disconfirmed by such defections. A study of why colleges left the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and joined the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) shows that colleges were simultaneously influenced by defectors from a lower-order category (athletic conference) and from crosscutting categories (historically black colleges and religious denominations). The results also indicate that defectors from an athletic conference were more influential than defectors from the same religious denomination or racial group. Implications for the study of multiple social identities are outlined. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 32-51 Issue: 4 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043721 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043721 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:4:p:32-51 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: BERNARD FORGUES Author-X-Name-First: BERNARD Author-X-Name-Last: FORGUES Title: Comment on "Decoupling and the Cultures of Global Finance" Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 131-136 Issue: 4 Volume: 34 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2004.11043711 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2004.11043711 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:34:y:2004:i:4:p:131-136 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: WILHELM BARNER-RASMUSSEN Author-X-Name-First: WILHELM Author-X-Name-Last: BARNER-RASMUSSEN Author-Name: INGMAR BJÖRKMAN Author-X-Name-First: INGMAR Author-X-Name-Last: BJÖRKMAN Title: Surmounting Interunit Barriers Factors Associated with Interunit Communication Intensity in the Multinational Corporation Abstract: If multinational corporations (MNCs) can gain competitive advantage from interunit knowledge sharing, how to promote interunit communication in MNCs is a key question. We develop a model of factors that may influence communication in intra-MNC interunit relationships and test it on a sample of 308 dyadic relationships between Finnish and Chinese subsidiaries and their headquarters and sister units. Our results indicate that the intensity (frequency and perceived importance) of interunit communication is related to the extent of subsidiary managers' participation in corporate training programs, their fluency in the language in which the interunit communication takes place, and, to some extent, to the use of expatriate managers. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 28-46 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043725 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043725 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:1:p:28-46 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: REBECCA PIEKKARI Author-X-Name-First: REBECCA Author-X-Name-Last: PIEKKARI Author-Name: LENA ZANDER Author-X-Name-First: LENA Author-X-Name-Last: ZANDER Title: Preface : Language and Communication in International Management Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-9 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043726 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043726 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:1:p:3-9 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: DENICE WELCH Author-X-Name-First: DENICE Author-X-Name-Last: WELCH Author-Name: LAWRENCE WELCH Author-X-Name-First: LAWRENCE Author-X-Name-Last: WELCH Author-Name: REBECCA PIEKKARI Author-X-Name-First: REBECCA Author-X-Name-Last: PIEKKARI Title: Speaking in Tongues : The Importance of Language in International Management Processes Abstract: This paper considers recent research on language effects in some international management situations, specifically, intraorganizational interactions, such as interunit communication and subsidiary autonomy, and in postmerger integration. Within the multinational corporation (MNC), the need for control and coordination has driven the move toward language standardization, in the form of a common corporate language, with widespread effects on management processes. Our analysis indicates that, while important, language issues have been relatively ignored but may offer a rewarding research avenue regarding the functioning of the MNC, with potentially important implications for management. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 10-27 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043723 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043723 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:1:p:10-27 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: LENA ZANDER Author-X-Name-First: LENA Author-X-Name-Last: ZANDER Title: Communication and Country Clusters : A Study of Language and Leadership Preferences Abstract: This area of leadership-related communication is underresearched from the employees' perspective. In earlier research, leadership similarities across groups of countries generated a country cluster taxonomy argued to be based on country commonalities such as language similarities. The assumption is that employees in countries with similar languages will display similar preferences regarding leadership. This study examines whether these clusters can predict employees' interpersonal leadership communication preferences. Using a database of 15,000 employees in 16 countries across four country clusters, the analysis reveals that the country cluster taxonomy can be used to predict leadership preferences regarding empowering, coaching, and supervising, but not regarding general and personal communication, review of achievement, and positive feedback in the form of making people proud. Instead, six re-configured interpersonal communication clusters are presented. The results challenge an unreflected use of country clusters in international management and specifically indicate that language similarities do not imply similar communication preferences. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 83-103 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043727 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043727 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:1:p:83-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: PETER J. BUCKLEY Author-X-Name-First: PETER J. Author-X-Name-Last: BUCKLEY Author-Name: MARTIN J. CARTER Author-X-Name-First: MARTIN J. Author-X-Name-Last: CARTER Author-Name: JEREMY CLEGG Author-X-Name-First: JEREMY Author-X-Name-Last: CLEGG Author-Name: HUI TAN Author-X-Name-First: HUI Author-X-Name-Last: TAN Title: Language and Social Knowledge in Foreign-Knowledge Transfer to China Abstract: This paper establishes that transfer of knowledge across national borders within multinational enterprises depends both on a common language necessary for communication and on the shared social knowledge necessary to understand and predict the behavior of those engaged in the knowledge-transfer process. In a set of four case studies, it was found that knowledge transfer is more effective when technical and social knowledge are transferred together. Besides, ownership structure affects the understanding and transfer of social knowledge, while rich person-to-person contact in multinational teams provides an effective means of transferring social knowledge. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 47-65 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043724 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043724 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:1:p:47-65 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: JANE KASSIS HENDERSON Author-X-Name-First: JANE KASSIS Author-X-Name-Last: HENDERSON Title: Language Diversity in International Management Teams Abstract: This paper analyzes language diversity from a sociolinguistic perspective demonstrating how it operates in interactions between members of international management teams in multinational corporations (MNCs). A major challenge for teams composed of speakers of different languages is the building of trust and relationships that are language dependent. Based on published research and illustrative empirical data, findings indicate that language diversity has a significant impact on socialization processes and team building, influencing both communication acts and mutual perceptions. Results of investigations into multilingual teams using English as their language of communication show that many obstacles are encountered by native as well as nonnative speakers. There is clear evidence that if language diversity is to be a valuable resource for international management teams, the challenges it raises need to be identified. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 66-82 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043722 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043722 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:1:p:66-82 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: DOMINIQUE JACOMET Author-X-Name-First: DOMINIQUE Author-X-Name-Last: JACOMET Title: The Collective Aspect of Corporate Political Strategies : The Case of U.S. and European Business Participation in Textile International Trade Negotiations Abstract: We deal here with the creation and exploitation of political resources in the specific context of business collectives. We argue that political resources used in such organizations are not limited to pooled resources provided by individual firm members; collectives are also able to create specific political resources, namely, democratic legitimacy, private interest government arrangements, unity among members, and trade-offs between different political goals of the collective. We then illustrate the use of political resources by business collectives through two empiri-cal studies: the involvement of the U.S. textile association American Textile Manufacturers Institute (ATMI) in the Multifiber Agreements between 1950 and 1991, and the political participation of the European textile and apparel industries to the Uruguay round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations between 1986 and 1994. These cases confirm that business collectives not only exploit individual political resources supplied by their members but also create specific ones that are key to their political success. Thus, our paper contributes to explaining why firms not only rely on stand-alone routes for political influence but also seek coalition building with their peers. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 78-93 Issue: 2 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043731 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043731 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:2:p:78-93 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: EUGENE M. SALORIO Author-X-Name-First: EUGENE M. Author-X-Name-Last: SALORIO Author-Name: JEAN BODDEWYN Author-X-Name-First: JEAN Author-X-Name-Last: BODDEWYN Author-Name: NICOLAS DAHAN Author-X-Name-First: NICOLAS Author-X-Name-Last: DAHAN Title: Integrating Business Political Behavior with Economic and Organizational Strategies Abstract: External business political behavior characterizes all firms if one acknowledges both its well-known modes of conflict and partnership (called here "bargaining behavior") and its less visible "nonbargaining" forms of compliance, avoidance, and circumvention. We discuss the commonality and strategic nature of political behavior and relate it to economic and organizational strategies, and we demonstrate that the inclusion of political behavior can sharpen the match between the strategy discourse and the problem space where real firms compete. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 28-55 Issue: 2 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043732 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043732 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:2:p:28-55 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: NICOLAS DAHAN Author-X-Name-First: NICOLAS Author-X-Name-Last: DAHAN Title: Preface : Corporate Political Strategy Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3- Issue: 2 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043730 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043730 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:2:p:3- Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: NICOLAS DAHAN Author-X-Name-First: NICOLAS Author-X-Name-Last: DAHAN Title: Can There Be a Resource-Based View of Politics? Abstract: This paper evaluates recent contributions that have used the resource-based view of the firm as far as politics is concerned. We show that the resource perspective has been mobilized in two very different contexts. One is the use of political resources in corporate political behavior, while the second context corresponds to the issue of the exploitation of favorable public decisions that some authors see as corporate resources. We conclude that mobilizing the resource concept is more relevant in the first case than in the second one. This paper also provides an opportunity to offer a general framework on the process going from corporate political activity to superior economic performance, granting a central role to the notion of public-policy advantage. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 8-27 Issue: 2 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043729 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043729 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:2:p:8-27 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: BENOÎT DEMIL Author-X-Name-First: BENOÎT Author-X-Name-Last: DEMIL Author-Name: JABRIL BENSÉDRINE Author-X-Name-First: JABRIL Author-X-Name-Last: BENSÉDRINE Title: Processes of Legitimization and Pressure Toward Regulation : Corporate Conformity and Strategic Behavior Abstract: Organizations are embedded in a legal environment made of rules. Because these rules influence and constrain their behavior, organizations have incentives to act as institutional entrepreneurs by attempting to modify them or participate in their construction to their advantage. This strategy is of particular interest for scholars studying political strategies. In this influence process, power is a cornerstone concept but has traditionally been reduced to resource dependence ties. This paper sets up a theoretical framework to describe the power strategies that institutional entrepreneurs use to influence regulations. We argue that these strategies encompass both legitimization and pressure strategies. Legitimization consists of taking part in the political arena by trying to convince the other stakeholders, whereas pressure strategies attempt to influence political debates by using the dependence of the other stakeholders. Empirically, we examine how corporations managed to influence a regulatory process on industrial wastes in France in the 1990s. This in-depth and longitudinal case study shows that legitimization and pressure are complementary rather than mutually exclusive political strategies, and that they rely on a pool of resources that can be used jointly for implementing both strategies. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 56-77 Issue: 2 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043728 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043728 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:2:p:56-77 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: NICOLAS DAHAN Author-X-Name-First: NICOLAS Author-X-Name-Last: DAHAN Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-5 Issue: 3 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043733 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043733 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:3:p:3-5 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: MIKA SKIPPARI Author-X-Name-First: MIKA Author-X-Name-Last: SKIPPARI Title: Intrafirm Variation and Change in the Political Strategies of a Multidivisional Firm Abstract: This study contributes to the existing literature on corporate political activity (CPA) by providing insights into how the content of political strategies evolves over time in a multidivisional firm. The focus of this study is on examining how corporate political strategies vary across business divisions and how political strategies change over time. The influence of three contextual factors is examined: firm, industry, and institutional-environment characteristics. The empirical evidence is based on a historical single case study of a Finnish industrial conglomerate, Tampella Ltd., covering the period 1944-91. The results of the study show that not only the level but also the nature of political activity vary within a multidivisional firm over time. Moreover, I identify two generic processes through which a firm changes its political strategies. Implications for existing research are discussed, and avenues for further research are presented. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 82-110 Issue: 3 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043736 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043736 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:3:p:82-110 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: RAYMOND-ALAIN THIÉTART Author-X-Name-First: RAYMOND-ALAIN Author-X-Name-Last: THIÉTART Title: The Strategic Mix and Its Syndromes Abstract: Strategic management results from a careful balance of the economic, political, and organizational dimensions of the firm. Favoring one dimension to the detriment of another may give rise to incoherent or even destructive strategic behaviors. The author advances some thoughts on a "strategic-mix" approach and presents a method of reasoning that facilitates strategic analysis and formulation. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 6-24 Issue: 3 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043735 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043735 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:3:p:6-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: MOURAD ATTARÇA Author-X-Name-First: MOURAD Author-X-Name-Last: ATTARÇA Title: A Contribution to the Modeling of Corporate Political Environment Dynamics Abstract: This paper contributes to the conceptualization of the corporate political environment and corporate political behavior. In the first part, we present existing theoretical models of corporate political environment, and we discuss their usefulness as well as their limits. In the second part, we present our model and highlight its originality and complementary to the previous contributions. In the proposed model, the corporate political environment includes three types of stakeholders: public authorities, firms within the strategic arena, and other social-political stakeholders (interest groups, media, others firms, etc.). We contend that three types of relations link the firm to its political environment stakeholders: influence, agency, and market competition. We conclude by identifying five corporate political environment configurations depending on various environmental factors. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 25-49 Issue: 3 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043734 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043734 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:3:p:25-49 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: MICHEL GHERTMAN Author-X-Name-First: MICHEL Author-X-Name-Last: GHERTMAN Author-Name: ALLÈGRE L. HADIDA Author-X-Name-First: ALLÈGRE L. Author-X-Name-Last: HADIDA Title: Institutional Assets and Competitive Advantages of French over U.S. Cinema, 1895-1914 Abstract: This paper examines the influence of the complex interactions of the institutional environment, governance structures, and strategic assets on the creation and maintenance of the competitive advantages of leading firms. It introduces an original theoretical model combining the two complementary approaches of the new institutional economics (institutional environment and institutions of governance) with the resource-based view (strategic asset endowment of firms). This model is then used to investigate why French cinema gained and reinforced an initial competitive advantage over its U.S. counterpart from 1895 to 1914. Our findings show that a more favorable institutional environment explains the initial French advantage from 1895 to 1907. A culture of mutual forbearance between members of the elite combined with low levels of patent protection influenced the leading French cinema companies to concentrate on the creation of strategic assets such as supplies and studio facilities. Inside an environment of fierce competition and strong patent protection, U.S. cinema companies developed legal assets for patent wars on equipment. More economizing governance choices and contractual innovations by French firms at home and abroad reinforced the French advantage between 1908 and 1914. U.S. firms developed institutional assets to negotiate and enforce private cartels to the detriment of distribution assets. Later, U.S. antitrust law and conflicts of interests between cartel members influenced the emergence of independent U.S. firms with a strategic focus on cinema production and distribution assets. Ultimately, U.S. formal institutions reduced the transaction costs of local printed-film producers and provided more socially efficient forms of regulation than private cartel arrangements. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 50-81 Issue: 3 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043737 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043737 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:3:p:50-81 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: ALLAN BIRD Author-X-Name-First: ALLAN Author-X-Name-Last: BIRD Author-Name: JOYCE S. OSLAND Author-X-Name-First: JOYCE S. Author-X-Name-Last: OSLAND Title: Making Sense of Intercultural Collaboration Abstract: The rise of globalization is accompanied by an increase in alliances and collaboration. While firms are gaining in expertise and cultural sensitivity, some initiatives founder as people fail to fully consider culture’s impact. We adopt a cultural sense-making approach to intercultural collaboration, presenting a framework for analyzing cultural differences—value dimensions and communication styles rarely compiled in one location. Using these concepts, we explain cultural barriers to trust, a key component in collaboration, and demonstrate how cultural sense making is useful in analyzing intercultural situations. Fourteen strategies to help managers collaborate more effectively across cultures follow. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 115-132 Issue: 4 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043739 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043739 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:4:p:115-132 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: YOLA GEORGIADOU Author-X-Name-First: YOLA Author-X-Name-Last: GEORGIADOU Author-Name: SATISH K. PURI Author-X-Name-First: SATISH K. Author-X-Name-Last: PURI Author-Name: SUNDEEP SAHAY Author-X-Name-First: SUNDEEP Author-X-Name-Last: SAHAY Title: The Rainbow Metaphor: Spatial Data Infrastructure Organization and Implementation in India Abstract: The use of metaphors can provide useful insights into understanding the inherent technical and institutional complexities of spatial data infrastructures (SDI). In this paper, we examine how metaphors have been used in organization studies, information systems, and also in the information infrastructure domains. We examine some dominant metaphors being used to guide the research and practice of SDIs, including that of the “information superhighway,” “marketplace,” and the “rainbow.” We draw upon the rainbow metaphor, which has its origins in the analysis of information and communication infrastructure in Canada, adapt it to the Indian national SDI (NSDI) context, and develop implications to guide research and practice. We conclude that a judicious combination of metaphors can serve not only as a heuristic device for thinking about the development pattern of the emerging Indian NSDI infrastructure, but also as a culturally sensitive rhetorical argument for promoting the NSDI concept to political decision makers. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 48-70 Issue: 4 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043738 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043738 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:4:p:48-70 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: CHRISTINE S. NIELSEN Author-X-Name-First: CHRISTINE S. Author-X-Name-Last: NIELSEN Author-Name: JUAN GABRIEL MARIOTTO Author-X-Name-First: JUAN GABRIEL Author-X-Name-Last: MARIOTTO Title: The Tango Metaphor: The Essence of Argentina’s National Identity Abstract: This paper develops the tango as a cultural metaphor for Argentina. Analysis reveals that the tango metaphor has been forged through socioeconomic and political forces integral to the development of Argentine national identity. Examination of the tango’s four primary elements provides partial support for cultural dimensions ascribed by traditional frameworks. However, the tango metaphor goes beyond this to illuminate signifcant Argentine cultural characteristics that defy classification along simple dimensional lines. The metaphor method enables us to extend and deepen our knowledge of a culture’s more complex nature. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 8-36 Issue: 4 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043741 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043741 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:4:p:8-36 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: TONY FANG Author-X-Name-First: TONY Author-X-Name-Last: FANG Title: From "Onion" to "Ocean": Paradox and Change in National Cultures Abstract: Differing from the dominant bipolar paradigm of analyzing national cultures, this paper champions a dialectical approach that sees each national culture as having a life of its own full of dynamics and paradoxes. The paper calls for shifting our mindset from the Cold War “onion” way of analyzing culture to a new “ocean” way of understanding culture to capture the dynamics of national cultures and international cross-cultural management in the age of globalization. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 71-90 Issue: 4 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043743 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043743 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:4:p:71-90 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: JOYCE OSLAND Author-X-Name-First: JOYCE Author-X-Name-Last: OSLAND Author-Name: ASBJORN OSLAND Author-X-Name-First: ASBJORN Author-X-Name-Last: OSLAND Title: Expatriate Paradoxes and Cultural Involvement Abstract: This exploratory study articulates and describes nine paradoxes inherent in the expatriate experience based on data from a sample of 35 repatriated businesspeople. Factor analysis produced four factors: bridging cultures, self identity, cautious optimism, and cultural intelligence. They correlated with several measures of cultural involvement, an original concept that refers to the extent to which expatriates enter the foreign culture and work interdependently with host country nationals. This indicates that expatriates who are more involved in the local culture seem more likely to experience paradox. Content analysis described how expatriates handle and resolve paradox. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 91-114 Issue: 4 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043740 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043740 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:4:p:91-114 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: MARTIN J. GANNON Author-X-Name-First: MARTIN J. Author-X-Name-Last: GANNON Author-Name: EDWIN A. LOCKE Author-X-Name-First: EDWIN A. Author-X-Name-Last: LOCKE Author-Name: AMIT GUPTA Author-X-Name-First: AMIT Author-X-Name-Last: GUPTA Author-Name: PINO AUDIA Author-X-Name-First: PINO Author-X-Name-Last: AUDIA Author-Name: AMY L. KRISTOF-BROWN Author-X-Name-First: AMY L. Author-X-Name-Last: KRISTOF-BROWN Title: Cultural Metaphors as Frames of Reference for Nations: A Six-Country Study Abstract: A cultural metaphor is a major phenomenon, institution, or activity in a nation with which most citizens identify cognitively or emotionally and through which it is possible to describe the national culture and its frame of reference in depth, for example, the Japanese garden (Gannon 2004). Cultural metaphors for six nations are analyzed two nations at a time. Three questionnaires based on the cultural metaphors for two nations at a time were developed so that each of the three pairs of two nations could be analyzed and compared separately. These questionnaire items were derived from the descriptions provided by Gannon (2004). Respondents were 664 college students, in accordance with Smith and Schwartz’ 1997 argument that teachers and students represent the best populations for analyzing cultural values. Results strongly support the concept of the cultural metaphor as a frame of reference. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 37-47 Issue: 4 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043744 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043744 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:4:p:37-47 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: CHRISTINE S. NIELSEN Author-X-Name-First: CHRISTINE S. Author-X-Name-Last: NIELSEN Author-Name: MARTIN J. GANNON Author-X-Name-First: MARTIN J. Author-X-Name-Last: GANNON Title: Preface: Cultural Metaphors, Paradoxes, Cross-Cultural Dimensions Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 4-7 Issue: 4 Volume: 35 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2005.11043742 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2005.11043742 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:35:y:2005:i:4:p:4-7 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: LAURENCE DE CARLO Author-X-Name-First: LAURENCE Author-X-Name-Last: DE CARLO Title: Public Decision Processes, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis Abstract: Public decision processes in planning and environment management, in particular, should be creative in order to solve the frequent intractable conflicts that they cause. However, up to now, the concept of creativity has not been used in traditional approaches of public decision processes. Only learning and negotiation theories that can be used in this field deal with creativity. Yet, negotiation theories give advice to the parties, which the parties can find difficult to take, and learning theories either confront people with their own psychological defenses or are not prescriptive. Proposed in this paper is another conceptualization of creativity in this field, inspired by Winnicott’s psychoanalytical work. This conceptualization takes into account unconscious phenomena, in particular, psychological defenses, and allows for better understanding and improvement of public decision processes while refraining from giving advice to the parties. This conceptualization is illustrated in two different cultural contexts: in Québec and in France, where several cases are analyzed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 44-62 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360103 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360103 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:1:p:44-62 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: ANNICK BOURGUIGNON Author-X-Name-First: ANNICK Author-X-Name-Last: BOURGUIGNON Title: Preface: Creativity in Organizations Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-7 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360100 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360100 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:1:p:3-7 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: MELANIE LATIERS Author-X-Name-First: MELANIE Author-X-Name-Last: LATIERS Author-Name: NATHANAEL LAURENT Author-X-Name-First: NATHANAEL Author-X-Name-Last: LAURENT Author-Name: ANNE WALLEMACQ Author-X-Name-First: ANNE Author-X-Name-Last: WALLEMACQ Author-Name: VINCENT BRUYNINCKX Author-X-Name-First: VINCENT Author-X-Name-Last: BRUYNINCKX Author-Name: JEAN-MARIE JACQUES Author-X-Name-First: JEAN-MARIE Author-X-Name-Last: JACQUES Title: Evoq© Software: A Springboard to Creativity Abstract: : The focus of this paper is on two levels of creativity. The first level is that inherent to natural language; the second is organizational creativity. The purpose of the content analysis software we are developing (Evoq©) is to highlight the natural creativity of language in use (first level of creativity). By focusing on the links (associations and disjunctions) between terms in discourses, Evoq© uses “plurivocity” of contextual meaning as a source of creativity (first level). This cannot be done by classical language analysis methods that center on linear causality. The software is, therefore, an interesting tool for researchers who conduct organizational analysis. It enables them to enhance the second level of creativity—organizational creativity—thanks to the concepts and visualization offered by the tool. As illustrated by two empirical examples, Evoq© enables the researcher or consultant who focuses on discourses in one or many organizations to detect the terms of references and presuppositions in speech, the semantic universe in which speakers are embedded. And this is the first step in a process of creativity in organizations. By highlighting assumptions, contradictions, or paradoxes in organizations, it is then feasible to create alternatives in these settings. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 24-43 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360102 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360102 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:1:p:24-43 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: MICHELE GORGOGLIONE Author-X-Name-First: MICHELE Author-X-Name-Last: GORGOGLIONE Author-Name: ACHILLE CLAUDIO GARAVELLI Author-X-Name-First: ACHILLE CLAUDIO Author-X-Name-Last: GARAVELLI Title: Supporting Creative Teams in Organizations: An Approach Based on Technology Abstract: The purpose of this study is to explain why the use of information technology (IT) is so limited in supporting creativity in organizations and to propose an IT-based Creativity Support System (CSS). The authors analyze the main literature on creativity and critically review the existing technologies for creativity. It emerges that current IT applications either provide very little support to the cognitive processes of a creative team or are inapplicable to organizations. The proposed CSS is based on the idea that technology can take part in an iterative process where each team member contributes to recombine information until a new idea emerges. The CSS is presented with a practical example of application in a new product development process. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 8-23 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360101 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360101 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:1:p:8-23 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: ANJA KERN Author-X-Name-First: ANJA Author-X-Name-Last: KERN Title: Exploring the Relation Between Creativity and Rules: The Case of the Performing Arts Abstract: This research uses a cultural–historical psychology perspective and examples from performing arts to elucidate the relation between creativity and rules. The research assumes that the concepts of creativity and rules are inherently linked in the concept of activity. The relation between rules and creativity, which is neither antagonistic nor sequential but rather dialectical, is identified to be crucial for organizations. Rules are not only regarded as constraints and invariants for activity, but also as sources of creativity. They are, therefore, vectors for creativity. A set of informal rules, called genre, plays an important role in the articulation of the individual’s creativity within collective activity. An effective management of rules and creativity should not stop at the formulation of formal rules but should include their genesis. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 63-80 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360104 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360104 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:1:p:63-80 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: FEIWEL KUPFERBERG Author-X-Name-First: FEIWEL Author-X-Name-Last: KUPFERBERG Title: Creativity Regimes: Innovation Norms and Struggles for Recognition in the Early U.S. Car and Film Industries Abstract: This paper explores the dual element of innovation norms and struggles of recognition characterizing creativity regimes by comparing two historical cases, the rise of the U.S. car industry in Detroit and the rise of the U.S. film industry in Hollywood. Creativity is basically a social activity; it is defined and regulated within different institutionalized social orders that we can call creativity regimes. What is seen and accepted as creativity in one social order is not recognized as such outside that particular social order. Creativity regimes regulate what type of creativity is asked for through two main mechanisms, namely, innovation norms and struggles for legitimacy or recognition. Innovation norms define the criteria used to determine whether a given idea is rewarded or not within that particular creativity regime. Struggles for recognition determine the career of groundbreaking ideas that open up new domains, such as new paradigms, industries, or art styles. Implications for research and practice are offered. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 81-103 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360105 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360105 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:1:p:81-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: YUAN LU Author-X-Name-First: YUAN Author-X-Name-Last: LU Author-Name: SOO-HUNG TERENCE TSAI Author-X-Name-First: SOO-HUNG Author-X-Name-Last: TERENCE TSAI Title: The Emergence of the Environmental Protection System in the Transitional Economy of China Abstract: In this study, the critical events and activities that led to the birth of China’s environmental protection system (EPS) are examined, and the progress of the establishment of its regulative and normative institutional systems is assessed. China’s EPS formation process is characterized by a process in which state and government organizations monopolized its creation and progress. The tasks for building an EPS in China began with the legislation that laid the foundations for the regulative system; the building of the normative system was then carried out. We further identify in this study that institutional change stemming from China’s transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy had an impact on the progress of field formation. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 73-103 Issue: 2 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360204 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360204 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:2:p:73-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: THOMAS REVERDY Author-X-Name-First: THOMAS Author-X-Name-Last: REVERDY Title: Translation Process and Organizational Change: ISO 14001 Implementation Abstract: The purpose of this study is to find out how local translations of a generic management system reduce organizational uncertainties, produce technical and organizational knowledge, and introduce cooperative relations, cross-functional learning, and problem identification and solving. The study uses the organizational dynamics associated with the implementation of an environmental management system (EMS), according to ISO 14001, in a chemical plant to answer those questions. Based on an ethnographic study, this paper unravels the way in which ISO 14001 requirements are interpreted by environmental managers and production teams and are, then, translated to fit their organizational context (i.e., the specific industrial managerial cultures and organizational issues). The author concludes that the production and circulation of artifacts embodying extensive knowledge about the production activity and its impacts on the environment counterbalance the dependency of a company’s environment departments on other departments and increase the environment department’s ability to mobilize teams around the environmental stakes. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 9-30 Issue: 2 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360201 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360201 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:2:p:9-30 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: ANN-CHARLOTTE STENBERG Author-X-Name-First: ANN-CHARLOTTE Author-X-Name-Last: STENBERG Author-Name: CHRISTINE RAISANEN Author-X-Name-First: CHRISTINE Author-X-Name-Last: RAISANEN Title: The Interpretative "Green" in the Building: Diachronic and Synchronic Abstract: The aim of this paper is to link the historical development of green building on a national level to current actions and interpretations on an organizational level, addressing this issue from two perspectives: a diachronic perspective and a synchronic perspective. Using a social constructivist model as a theoretical framework, we analyzed the interplay between green discourse and green action in the management of the environment. We explore the interpretative flexibility of “green building” as it has been constructed, communicated, and interpreted through time and across institutional and organizational boundaries. The empirical basis consists of a literature review and a qualitative study of three municipal housing companies in western Sweden. We found that the plurality of meanings of “green building” allows competing ideologies and special interests to gain rhetorical prominence and to influence decision-makers’ views of what is to be prioritized. To conclude, there seem to be strong incentives to make use of ambiguity rather than clarity in relation to green building. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 31-53 Issue: 2 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360202 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360202 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:2:p:31-53 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: EMMANUEL RAUFFLET Author-X-Name-First: EMMANUEL Author-X-Name-Last: RAUFFLET Title: Re-Mapping Corporate Environmental Management Paradigms Abstract: This paper uses a radical approach to propose a classification of corporate environmental management that goes beyond technical jargon, corporate “mixed messages,” and short-term operations. The author proposes to map the paradigms underpinning the three main forms of corporate environmental management to be composed of (1) a specific of framing the issue of CEM, and correspondingly, to a set of representations of (2) the firm, of (3) the natural environment, and of (4) the relation between the firm and the natural environment. I identified three paradigms. The first form is incremental; it involves business operations and is essentially a reactive behavior, whereby companies reduce their direct impact on the biosphere. The second form is adaptive; it strives to design production and organizational systems along the lines of ecosystems dynamics. This second form of CEM attempts to reorganize corporate activities in terms of flow and energy processes integrated and interdependent with those of other firms. The third form of CEM is radical. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 54-72 Issue: 2 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360203 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360203 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:2:p:54-72 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: SUSSE GEORG Author-X-Name-First: SUSSE Author-X-Name-Last: GEORG Title: Preface: Mobilizing and Managing the Environment Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-8 Issue: 2 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360200 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360200 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:2:p:3-8 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: KAREN HOLM OLSEN Author-X-Name-First: KAREN Author-X-Name-Last: HOLM OLSEN Title: Why Planned Interventions for Capacity Development in the Environment Often Fail: A Critical Review of Mainstream Abstract: Capacity development in the subfield of the environment is a mode of planned intervention that has become one of the mainstays of development policy. Capacity development interventions are, however, characterized by a low level of success. Explored in this paper is the theoretical grounding for why planned interventions for capacity development in the environment often fail. Drawing on a review of mainstream systems theory and strategic management approaches, it is argued that these rely on overoptimistic assumptions about the institutional and social reality as manageable and controllable. An actor-oriented and constructivist approach is proposed as an alternative to improve our understanding of the unintended and unplanned outcomes of capacity development. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 104-124 Issue: 2 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360205 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360205 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:2:p:104-124 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter McKiernan Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: McKiernan Title: Exploring Environmental Context Within the History of Strategic Management Abstract: The different schools of thought that have dominated theory and practice in strategic management have treated the organization's environment differently. This paper investigates the stances of the planning, learning, positioning, and resource-based schools, tracing their heritage and key architects and seeking the reasoning behind their individual environmental treatments. Moreover, sometimes it seems that the nexus between organization and environment as explored by organization theorists has been in a parallel world and only interacted with the strategists at certain junctures in time. These interactions and the coevolution of the two approaches are examined using the impact of the changing Anglo-American context on their development. Finally, by introducing and explaining the influential issues in the environmental debate, the "context" for the collection of papers in this issue is created. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 7-21 Issue: 3 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360301 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360301 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:3:p:7-21 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Donatella Depperu Author-X-Name-First: Donatella Author-X-Name-Last: Depperu Author-Name: Luca Gnan Author-X-Name-First: Luca Author-X-Name-Last: Gnan Title: The Role of the Competitive Context in the Business Strategy-Formulation Process Abstract: This paper deals with the relationships that exist between the competitive context of the firm and the way it formulates its strategy at the business level. A research project surveyed a sample of strategic business areas from medium and large-sized firms in Italy. The main results are that two environmental factors are particularly relevant: changes in the needs of the firm's customers and demand growth rate. Moreover, it transpired that even larger firms do not use sophisticated tools to formulate their competitive strategy. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 110-130 Issue: 3 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360306 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360306 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:3:p:110-130 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Claus D. Jacobs Author-X-Name-First: Claus D. Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs Author-Name: Matt Statler Author-X-Name-First: Matt Author-X-Name-Last: Statler Title: Toward a Technology of Foolishness: Developing Scenarios Through Serious Play Abstract: Scenario planning has been advocated as a means for strategists to shift their mental models on strategic phenomena. While the process itself has traditionally involved the rational analysis of coherent narratives about a firm and its environmental context, there have been recent calls to consider scenario-development approaches that involve more creativity and intuition. In response to this debate, we recall March's distinction between the "technology of reason" and the "technology of foolishness" and pursue his suggestion to conceive of play as an archetype of foolishness. We then consider recent organizational and strategy research that develops the concept of serious play, and we explore the normative implications of this concept for scenario planning in practice. Finally, we present and discuss an empirical illustration of a strategy workshop involving serious play in a large European telecommunications service provider. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 77-92 Issue: 3 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360304 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360304 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:3:p:77-92 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: George Burt Author-X-Name-First: George Author-X-Name-Last: Burt Author-Name: George Wright Author-X-Name-First: George Author-X-Name-Last: Wright Author-Name: Ron Bradfield Author-X-Name-First: Ron Author-X-Name-Last: Bradfield Author-Name: George Cairns Author-X-Name-First: George Author-X-Name-Last: Cairns Author-Name: Kees van der Heijden Author-X-Name-First: Kees Author-X-Name-Last: van der Heijden Title: The Role of Scenario Planning in Exploring the Environment in View of the Limitations of PEST and Its Derivatives Abstract: Adapting to change in the contextual environment is one of the key challenges for managers as they try to ensure the survival and longevity of their organization. Yet, both the literature and the textbooks on the subject area of the contextual environment lack unequivocal conceptual and practical guidance for managers interested in this area of management practice. In this paper, we evaluate the seminal studies on understanding the environment, as well as the leading North American and European strategy textbooks, to determine the contemporary appropriateness of the approaches advocated for analyzing the contextual environment and the implications these have for the managers of an organization. We discuss the limitations of these approaches and posit an alternative framework—scenario planning—to help improve the process of analyzing and understanding the environment and to help in adapting to change in the environment. We illustrate the advantages of scenario planning over other approaches using a case example. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 50-76 Issue: 3 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360303 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360303 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:3:p:50-76 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Johan Frishammar Author-X-Name-First: Johan Author-X-Name-Last: Frishammar Title: Organizational Environment Revisited: A Conceptual Review and Integration Abstract: Innumerable books and articles state that "the environment" is important to organizations and merits attention, as it is thought to influence organizations' actions as well as outcomes. Still, little agreement exists on what the environment is and how to apprehend it. This paper presents a review of four different perspectives in organization-environment research: the adaptive, the resource-dependence, the cognitive, and the population-ecology perspectives. All perspectives present assumptions about environmental structure, sources of environmental change, level of analysis, and so forth, but they also imply different meta-theoretical assumptions that constitute distinct frames of references. In this paper, the author suggests that the ideas in the realist paradigm in strategy research, the logic of appropriateness, and high general applicability and prescriptive value contribute to explaining the dominant position of the adaptive perspective. It is further argued that viewing "environment" from only one angle is too limited a conceptualization, and constructivism is suggested to be a feasible avenue for combining and integrating characteristics from different perspectives in order to overcome limitations with a single-frame approach. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 22-49 Issue: 3 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360302 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360302 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:3:p:22-49 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Brad MacKay Author-X-Name-First: Brad Author-X-Name-Last: MacKay Author-Name: Peter McKiernan Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: McKiernan Title: Back to the Future: History and the Diagnosis of Environmental Context Abstract: Traditionally, scenario thinking has been a planning tool used for improving foresight by generating alternative stories of future contexts. Such stories should enable organizations to develop better contemporary strategies and policies. However, scenario thinking has been charged with a failure to identify weak signals in contextual environments, thereby placing its strategic reputation in the balance. In this paper, we examine the scenario-building process, expose the weaknesses inherent therein, and suggest remedies for improving the strategic narrative. In particular, we investigate the linkages between scenario thinking into the past—referred to as counterfactual reasoning in psychology—and scenario thinking into the future, and their role in generating and understanding context as an emergent phenomenon. The concept of causal fields is adapted from anthropology as a diagnostic technique for assessing the weak cues to causality that influence the generation of alternative contexts. Its incorporation into the scenario method is proposed as a partial solution to the previous travails of scenario thinking. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 93-109 Issue: 3 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360305 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360305 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:3:p:93-109 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter McKiernan Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: McKiernan Title: Understanding Environmental Context in Strategic Management Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-6 Issue: 3 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360300 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360300 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:3:p:3-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Henley Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Henley Title: Outsourcing the Provision of Software and IT-Enabled Services to India: Emerging Strategies Abstract: The debate about the competitive threat posed for European and North American employment by the evident preference of many multinational enterprises to relocate software development and information technology (IT)-enabled business services (ITES) offshore to India tends to be overly focused on cost comparisons. This is understandable given that cost considerations are a key driver behind the decision to relocate to India. It is argued in this paper that it is also important to analyze the wider strategic logic behind the offshoring impulse and the context from which Indian software and ITES providers have emerged, the business models being adopted, and their strengths and weaknesses. It is argued that successful Indian IT and ITES companies will pursue higher value-added activities through acquisition of related European- and North American-based companies in order to achieve greater credibility with major customers. Alternatively, Indian companies will become captives of European or North American companies. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 111-131 Issue: 4 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360405 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360405 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:4:p:111-131 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Markus Pudelko Author-X-Name-First: Markus Author-X-Name-Last: Pudelko Author-Name: Chris Carr Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Carr Author-Name: John Henley Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Henley Title: Preface: Globalization and Its Effects on International Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-8 Issue: 4 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360400 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360400 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:4:p:3-8 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Author Index to International Studies of Management & Organization, Volume 36 (Spring 2006-Winter 2006/7) Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 132-133 Issue: 4 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2006.11043765 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2006.11043765 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:4:p:132-133 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gerhard Fink Author-X-Name-First: Gerhard Author-X-Name-Last: Fink Author-Name: Anne-Katrin Neyer Author-X-Name-First: Anne-Katrin Author-X-Name-Last: Neyer Author-Name: Marcus Kölling Author-X-Name-First: Marcus Author-X-Name-Last: Kölling Title: Understanding Cross-Cultural Management Interaction: Research into Cultural Standards to Complement Cultural Value Dimensions and Personality Traits Abstract: Understanding why critical incidents emerge and interpreting their importance in cross-cultural interactions requires novel constructs of culture. Therefore, we suggest cultural standards as a new tool for research. With reference to the Parsons and Shils' theory of action, we reflect on the interrelations of cultural standards with cultural dimensions and personality traits, which constitute those constructs that are most widely used in the English-language literature. Finally, in the context of management, we develop a model of cross-cultural learning and adjustment, triggered by critical incidents and performance achieved. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 38-60 Issue: 4 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360402 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360402 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:4:p:38-60 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Omar Toulan Author-X-Name-First: Omar Author-X-Name-Last: Toulan Author-Name: Julian Birkinshaw Author-X-Name-First: Julian Author-X-Name-Last: Birkinshaw Author-Name: David Arnold Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Arnold Title: The Role of Interorganizational Fit in Global Account Management Abstract: In this paper, we apply the concept of interorganizational fit to the use of global account management programs in multinational corporations. It is predicted that greater fit between vendor and customer on a variety of strategic as well as structural aspects will result in higher performance of the relationship. This is contrasted with a bargaining perspective approach to managing customer relationships. Support for the hypotheses is found using a survey of 106 global account managers in 16 multinational corporations. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 61-81 Issue: 4 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360403 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360403 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:4:p:61-81 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chris Carr Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Carr Title: Russian Strategic Investment Decision Practices Compared to Those of Great Britain, Germany, the United States, and Japan: Diversity, Convergence, and Short-Termism Abstract: At the strategic level, international differences have proved important, especially during international collaborations. Since Dore's classic "British Factory: Japanese Factory," comparative values, behavior, and institutional settings have been extensively investigated, though attention has only recently switched to emerging markets such as that of Russia, which was not covered by Hofstede's comparative values study. Harvard's matched comparison of Soviet and U.S. decision making by Lawrence and Vlachoutsicos (around 1988) provided a classic study portraying behavioral differences just prior to transition. Coincidentally, my matched comparisons between the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Japan involved the same U.S. company investigated by Harvard, aiding comparisons in all five countries. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 82-110 Issue: 4 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360404 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360404 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:4:p:82-110 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Markus Pudelko Author-X-Name-First: Markus Author-X-Name-Last: Pudelko Title: Universalities, Particularities, and Singularities in Cross-National Management Research Abstract: It can be argued that the main debate within cross-cultural or cross-national management research is between two opposite approaches labeled here as universalism and particularism. This theoretical debate is vital for scholars and managers alike, as it is not only of conceptual relevance but also has practical consequences. The first question is whether there are "best practices" in management that are of universal validity and can be borrowed by companies of one country from companies of another country (universalism) or whether differences in particular cultures and other contextual factors make this impossible (particularism). The second question is whether multinational corporations (MNCs) should use universally standardized practices when doing business around the world (universalism) or whether they should adapt to each particular local context (particularism). This paper contributes to overcoming this dualism, not by declaring one position more valid than the other, but by integrating the opposing approaches in a way that allows scholars and managers alike to structure universal and particular contextual factors into one framework. The proposed model should ultimately assist in determining what makes a national economy competitive. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 9-37 Issue: 4 Volume: 36 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360401 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825360401 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:36:y:2006:i:4:p:9-37 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: V. Suchitra Mouly Author-X-Name-First: V. Suchitra Author-X-Name-Last: Mouly Author-Name: Jayaram K. Sankaran Author-X-Name-First: Jayaram K. Author-X-Name-Last: Sankaran Title: Public- Versus Private-Sector Research and Development: A Comparative Analysis of Two Indian R&D Project Groups Abstract: The present study undertakes a comparative analysis of a government R&D team and an in-house R&D team of a listed company and analyzes how and why a public-sector R&D team failed where a comparable private-sector R&D team succeeded. The findings speak to the influence of sector/environmental context on the behavior of R&D project groups. The public R&D organization, to which the government R&D team belonged, was different from the private company on the dimensions of ownership, funding, and nature of the R&D product. These differences influenced the relative success of the private R&D team through differential processes for project selection and the recruitment of R&D personnel. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 80-102 Issue: 1 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370104 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370104 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:1:p:80-102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Angathevar Baskaran Author-X-Name-First: Angathevar Author-X-Name-Last: Baskaran Author-Name: Rebecca Boden Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca Author-X-Name-Last: Boden Title: Prometheus Bound: Accounting and the Creation of the New Science Paradigm Abstract: The argument presented in this paper is that accounting has been significantly implicated in the changing location of science as a social practice in the United Kingdom during the past two decades. Accounting has facilitated the commodification of scientific knowledge products, making science a closed and private activity rather than an open and codifiable one. This shift has adversely disrupted the preexisting trust in science exhibited by the public. In an ironic twist, it appears that accounting may now offer the prospect of creating a new public governance of science via economic and financial market mechanisms. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 9-26 Issue: 1 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370101 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370101 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:1:p:9-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Laurie Cohen Author-X-Name-First: Laurie Author-X-Name-Last: Cohen Author-Name: Joanne Duberley Author-X-Name-First: Joanne Author-X-Name-Last: Duberley Title: Preface: Organizing Science Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-8 Issue: 1 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370100 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370100 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:1:p:3-8 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Louise Ackers Author-X-Name-First: Louise Author-X-Name-Last: Ackers Author-Name: Liz Oliver Author-X-Name-First: Liz Author-X-Name-Last: Oliver Title: From Flexicurity to Flexsecquality?: The Impact of the Fixed-Term Contract Provisions on Employment in Science Research Abstract: Recruitment and retention problems in academic science careers-have led to a focus on career decision making. One key factor is contractual insecurity. In practice, the quality of positions and their place in the career shape their impact. Implementing the European Directive on Fixed-Term Work has important implications for both the quality and longevity of positions. This directive seeks to reconcile the objectives of promoting security and flexibility or "flexicurity." Considered in this paper is the use of fixed-term contracts and the potential impact of the new legislation on the ability to attract and retain high-quality researchers and sustain a vibrant, competitive research system. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 53-79 Issue: 1 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370103 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370103 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:1:p:53-79 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bruce Small Author-X-Name-First: Bruce Author-X-Name-Last: Small Author-Name: Mary Mallon Author-X-Name-First: Mary Author-X-Name-Last: Mallon Title: Science, Society, Ethics, and Trust: Scientists' Reflections on the Commercialization and Democratization of Science Abstract: The political imperative of increasing commercialization of science is frequently viewed as contributing to a problem of public mistrust in science. One proposed solution, favored in political circles, is increased public engagement and participation in the science agenda. This study aims at exploring and explaining scientists' responses to calls for increased dialogue and engagement with the public on the social and ethical implications of scientific research. Findings are presented from interviews with scientists regarding their views on the democratization of science and on the impacts of the increasing commercialization of science. Scientists supported the democratization of science but were divided on the extent of the public's role. There was evidence of the deficit theory of public understanding of science influencing some scientists' thinking about democratization. Generally, negative beliefs were expressed about commercialization, but a sense of resignation was also evident. Some apparent contradictions between the aims of democratization and the consequences of commercialization are noted. Implications for science careers and science management are discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 103-124 Issue: 1 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370105 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370105 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:1:p:103-124 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Laura Cruz-Castro Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: Cruz-Castro Author-Name: Luis Sanz-Menéndez Author-X-Name-First: Luis Author-X-Name-Last: Sanz-Menéndez Title: New Legitimation Models and the Transformation of the Public Research Organizational Field Abstract: The public research sector is changing all over Europe. New semi-public research centers have emerged and now coexist with the traditional public research centers in the same organizational field. It is argued that these changes are mostly policy driven and that the main mechanism is the emergence of new legitimation models of what research and research centers should be for, with a strong emphasis on excellence in science, technology transfer, and service to society. Governments have changed the way they distribute resources or create research structures according to these changing models. As in many other events of the history of science and technology policy, the boundary struggles and changes are underlying issues in this paper. This transformation in the institutional environments of the research centers has instigated changes in the structure of the organizational field of research, mainly reflecting the emergence of new types of organizations and their search for management flexibility and the diversification of funding sources. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 27-52 Issue: 1 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370102 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370102 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:1:p:27-52 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giovanna Padula Author-X-Name-First: Giovanna Author-X-Name-Last: Padula Author-Name: Giovanni Battista Dagnino Author-X-Name-First: Giovanni Battista Author-X-Name-Last: Dagnino Title: Untangling the Rise of Coopetition: The Intrusion of Competition in a Cooperative Game Structure Abstract: Strategy research on inter-firm cooperation has been commonly affected by a collaborative bias, implicitly assuming that firms interact among each other on the basis of fully converging interests and goals. Yet, plenty of empirical evidence shows that cooperation is affected by the intrusion of competitive issues and that consequently results in a game structure that actually moves away from the ideal circumstance of complete convergent interests. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it proposes the notion of cooperation as a truly coopetitive game, where firms interact among each other on the basis of a partially convergent interest structure. Second, it develops a series of propositions linking the rise of coopetition to a set of, respectively, environment-related and firm-related factors in order to explain the drivers of the intrusion of competitive issues within a cooperative game structure. The study eventually provides relevant implications for strategy research that we discuss in the final section. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 32-52 Issue: 2 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370202 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370202 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:2:p:32-52 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcello M. Mariani Author-X-Name-First: Marcello M. Author-X-Name-Last: Mariani Title: Coopetition as an Emergent Strategy: Empirical Evidence from an Italian Consortium of Opera Houses Abstract: In the advancing coopetition strategy literature, firms are often seen as organizations making coopetitive arrangements in an intentional fashion. Drawing on the received distinction between deliberate and emergent strategies, this paper innovatively analyzes the formation of coopetition as an unintended and therefore emergent strategy. More specifically, an in-depth case study on a renowned consortium of Italian opera houses is proposed to illustrate the role played by the external environment (e.g., the institutional one) in triggering coopetitive strategies through the imposition of cooperation. Accordingly, the specific strategic learning processes that actually intervene in the formation of coopetition are identified, and the two related brand-new concepts of imposed cooperation and induced coopetition are introduced and discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 97-126 Issue: 2 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370205 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370205 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:2:p:97-126 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elena Bonel Author-X-Name-First: Elena Author-X-Name-Last: Bonel Author-Name: Elena Rocco Author-X-Name-First: Elena Author-X-Name-Last: Rocco Title: Coopeting to Survive; Surviving Coopetition Abstract: This study is based on an inductive study, and it aims to present the theoretical distinctions of the possible unintended effects caused by coopetition. The study focuses on San Benedetto SpA, an Italian drinks and bottling company that survived competition in the soft drinks and beverages industry thanks to a coopetition-driven strategy. In addition to competitors such as Ferrero and Schweppes, big players such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi Co. signed contracts with San Benedetto. However, following coopetition, there emerged several differently originated interferences in the firm's original business model. This study highlights that the inability to fully foresee the effects of coopetition, and eventually to metabolize them, might in the long run turn coopetition from opportunity into a trap. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 70-96 Issue: 2 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370204 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370204 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:2:p:70-96 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Keith Walley Author-X-Name-First: Keith Author-X-Name-Last: Walley Title: Coopetition: An Introduction to the Subject and an Agenda for Research Abstract: The traditional view of inter-firm dynamics suggests that relationships are either competitive or cooperative in nature. However, it is apparent that in practice, firms can compete and cooperate with each other at the same time. The term used to refer to a relationship between two firms that simultaneously involves both competition and cooperation is "coopetition." Although there is evidence to suggest that organizations have been involved in coopetitive relationships for some considerable time, it is only relatively recently that the subject has found increased favor in the academic literature. It would appear, however, that the literature concerning coopetition is still limited in scope, and in order to address the issue, this paper presents an agenda for researchers interested in the subject of coopetition. The agenda is generated by reconciling a review of the literature on coopetition with a similar review of the literature relating to competition and cooperation. The agenda also incorporates two innovative ideas based on anecdotal evidence and personal observations. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 11-31 Issue: 2 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370201 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370201 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:2:p:11-31 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mahito Okura Author-X-Name-First: Mahito Author-X-Name-Last: Okura Title: Coopetitive Strategies of Japanese Insurance Firms A Game-Theory Approach Abstract: This paper examines how coopetition affects the level of investment in Japanese insurance companies. This investment has two types of effects: one is the "spillover effect" arising from an insurance firm's benefit from the effect of rivals' investments regardless of its own investments, and the other is the "demand-changing effect" arising from change to potential demand. The study uses the case of the Japanese insurance market, where insurance firms coopitate by investing cooperatively through an insurance association to lower the accident probability of the insured, and by selling insurance policies competitively to increase their own profit.The study's conclusion is that each insurance firm tends to choose underinvestment when the spillover effect is relatively large and when the demand-changing effect is nonnegative. In this case, achieving a coopetitive insurance market through the insurance association creates more value in the investment stage. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 53-69 Issue: 2 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370203 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370203 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:2:p:53-69 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giovanni Battista Dagnino Author-X-Name-First: Giovanni Battista Author-X-Name-Last: Dagnino Title: Preface: Coopetition Strategy—Toward a New Kind of Inter-Firm Dynamics? Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-10 Issue: 2 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370200 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370200 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:2:p:3-10 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kristiina Mäkelä Author-X-Name-First: Kristiina Author-X-Name-Last: Mäkelä Title: Knowledge Sharing Through Expatriate Relationships: A Social Capital Perspective Abstract: In this paper, knowledge sharing in expatriate relationships is explored from a social capital perspective, and it is argued that expatriate relationships provide strong ties that function as channels of knowledge sharing across borders. The empirical results of an exploratory case study show that when compared with other more arm's-length cross-border relationships, expatriate relationships have several typical characteristics that have direct consequences for knowledge sharing. First, expatriate relationships are, on average, richer and longer term than arm's-length cross-border relationships, creating more opportunities for knowledge sharing. They also have a higher multiplying effect, spreading ties more effectively across new units. Second, they are characterized by a higher level of trust and multiplexity, driven by shared experience, physical proximity, and prolonged face-to-face interaction. Finally, a lengthened participation in the assignment unit typically leads to a higher level of shared cognitive ground, effectively facilitating knowledge sharing. It is suggested that expatriation may have a sustained effect on knowledge sharing within the multinational corporation (MNC) beyond the knowledge transfer perspective discussed in previous research. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 108-125 Issue: 3 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370305 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370305 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:3:p:108-125 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kimmo Riusala Author-X-Name-First: Kimmo Author-X-Name-Last: Riusala Author-Name: Adam Smale Author-X-Name-First: Adam Author-X-Name-Last: Smale Title: Predicting Stickiness Factors in the International Transfer of Knowledge Through Expatriates Abstract: Building on recent theoretical developments on the notion of expatriates as knowledge transferors, the objectives of this quantitative study were (1) to identify the types of knowledge being transferred and the corresponding levels of expatriate participation in these transfers, and (2) to apply the theoretical model of stickiness factors presented in this paper to identify those factors that have particular significance for expatriates. From a sample of Finnish expatriates, the results reveal that expatriates are involved in transfers of several different types of knowledge, often requiring them to work across functions. Furthermore, knowledge-related and, to a lesser extent, organizational-related stickiness factors dominated those related to the social and relational contexts in explaining the difficulty of knowledge transfers from the expatriates' perspective. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 16-43 Issue: 3 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370301 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370301 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:3:p:16-43 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jaime Bonache Author-X-Name-First: Jaime Author-X-Name-Last: Bonache Author-Name: Chris Brewster Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Brewster Author-Name: Vesa Suutari Author-X-Name-First: Vesa Author-X-Name-Last: Suutari Title: Preface: Knowledge, International Mobility, and Careers Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-15 Issue: 3 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370300 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370300 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:3:p:3-15 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marian Crowley-Henry Author-X-Name-First: Marian Author-X-Name-Last: Crowley-Henry Title: The Protean Career: Exemplified by First World Foreign Residents in Western Europe? Abstract: This paper presents findings from a qualitative study exploring the career-related motivations and experiences of a sample of 20 expatriates living and working on a permanent basis in the south of France (Sophia Antipolis) and in Germany (Munich). By virtue of their having established local links in the host country, either in having local working contracts or being installed in the area on a permanent basis (home owners; children born/being schooled in the host country), these expatriates could also be termed foreign residents in the host country. The study's sample of highly educated workers originating from the United States or Western Europe (First World or "highincome economies" as they are called by Wikipedia contributors, 2006) who have chosen to remain in the host country on an indefinite basis differs from contemporary research samples in international careers. Argued in this paper is that this particular sample of the locally hired expatriates also warrants attention in the literature and in career research. The findings highlight the relevance of the subjective career and the lifestyle anchor to the career direction chosen by this sample within the context of both the traditional and boundaryless career. A marked inclination toward the protean career concept is underlined in the empirical research. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 44-64 Issue: 3 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370302 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370302 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:3:p:44-64 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Angelika Zimmermann Author-X-Name-First: Angelika Author-X-Name-Last: Zimmermann Author-Name: Paul Sparrow Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Sparrow Title: Mutual Adjustment Processes in International Teams: Lessons for the Study of Expatriation Abstract: Researchers have commonly regarded expatriate adjustment as a unidirectional process of one individual adjusting to a foreign environment. In contrast, we conceptualize the expatriate's adjustment to social interactions as part of a process of mutual adjustment within an international team. Eleven teams of four combinations of nationalities—German—English, German—Indian, German—Japanese, and German—Austrian—were examined in two German companies in a one-year longitudinal study. In-depth interviews and team observations were conducted with 116 participants. We developed a model that captures the mechanisms of mutual adjustment at the level of cognitive processes, attitudes, and behaviors of team members. We also explain how these internal adjustment components are influenced by a number of external context factors. These factors are seen to create power relationships between the members of the different nationalities in the team. This has a major influence on the direction of adjustment. Implications for models of adjustment and forms of capital accrued by global leaders are discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 65-88 Issue: 3 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370303 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370303 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:3:p:65-88 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Wolfgang Mayrhofer Author-X-Name-First: Wolfgang Author-X-Name-Last: Mayrhofer Author-Name: Michael Meyer Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Meyer Author-Name: Johannes Steyrer Author-X-Name-First: Johannes Author-X-Name-Last: Steyrer Author-Name: Katharina Langer Author-X-Name-First: Katharina Author-X-Name-Last: Langer Title: Can Expatriation Research Learn from Other Disciplines?: The Case of International Career Habitus Abstract: Even though there is a rich diversity of empirical research and theory building about particular aspects of international careers, more comprehensive theoretical models are rare. This paper contributes to career theory by outlining major elements of a comprehensive theoretical frame for describing and explaining international careers. It proposes a field and habitus perspective of careers based on the work of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Such a perspective enhances the insight into the structure-agency problem of international careers, offers an opportunity to exceed single personality factors through the concept of career habitus, and supports a differentiated view of the international career arena. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 89-107 Issue: 3 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370304 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370304 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:3:p:89-107 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Shirley Leitch Author-X-Name-First: Shirley Author-X-Name-Last: Leitch Author-Name: Sally Davenport Author-X-Name-First: Sally Author-X-Name-Last: Davenport Title: Corporate Brands and Social Brands: Co-Branding GM-Free and UK Supermarkets Abstract: In this paper, we introduce the concept of "social brands" and examine the potential for co-branding between corporate brands and social brands to enhance or damage the value of corporate brands. Co-branding has been theorized in terms of the relationship between the brands of organizations, products, and services. However, from a discourse perspective, issues may also be understood to function as what we term "social brands" that may be incorporated in a co-branding strategy. We deploy Leitch and Richardson's (2003) brand web model to analyze the potential benefits and dangers of forming co-branded relationships with social brands. We draw on the case of co-branding between UK supermarket brands and the GM-free social brand to investigate this relationship in practice. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 45-63 Issue: 4 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370402 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370402 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:4:p:45-63 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lars Ohnemus Author-X-Name-First: Lars Author-X-Name-Last: Ohnemus Author-Name: Per V. Jenster Author-X-Name-First: Per V. Author-X-Name-Last: Jenster Title: Corporate Brand Thrust and Financial Performance: An Examination of Strategic Brand Investments Abstract: A powerful brand is generally considered an effective way of generating shareholder wealth, but how is it actually measured and controlled? Today, there is still no empirical evidence of a link between a company's "brand thrust" (i.e., the amount of financial resources a company allocates over time to build its brand) and the financial return achieved by the company. This paper establishes an empirical link between brand thrust and financial return, whereby 2,158 companies within 11 different industries were analyzed in terms of their investments in supporting, developing, or maintaining their brand, against their return on assets or equity. The total sample size comprises over 10,300 corporations listed on U.S. and European stock exchanges. This study reveals that companies with a balanced corporate brand thrust, compared to their competitors, on average bring up to a three-percentage-point higher return to their shareholders. Furthermore, for the companies studied, the link between brand thrust and financial return can be described as a W-curve with five distinct strategic phases rather than a linear function. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 84-107 Issue: 4 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370404 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370404 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:4:p:84-107 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John M.T. Balmer Author-X-Name-First: John M.T. Author-X-Name-Last: Balmer Title: A Resource-Based View of the British Monarchy as a Corporate Brand Abstract: Drawing on the nascent literature on corporate brands, the economic theory of the resourced-based view of the firm and the extensive literature on the British monarchy, this paper examines the branding credentials of the British Crown. This is the first time that this most arcane of institutions has been examined from organizational and management perspectives. The synthesis of these literatures confirmed the branding credentials of the Crown. From this, it is deduced that if the British Crown is a corporate brand, then it ought to be managed as such. A conceptual model for the management of the monarchy is introduced, and this involves the dynamic orchestration of five elements (royal, regal, relevant, responsive, and respected). This is called "The Royal Branding Mix." The Royal and Regal elements equate to a brand's identity and have an explicit organizational focus. In contrast, the relevant, responsive, and respected dimensions have a public (stakeholder) focus. A "Corporate Branding Mix" is introduced that aims to have a more general utility and represents an adaptation of the "Royal Branding Mix." Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 20-44 Issue: 4 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370401 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370401 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:4:p:20-44 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Author Index to International Studies of Management & Organization, Volume 37 (Spring 2007-Winter 2007/8) Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 108-108 Issue: 4 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2007.11043793 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2007.11043793 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:4:p:108-108 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chris Lawer Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Lawer Author-Name: Simon Knox Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Knox Title: Reverse-Market Orientation and Corporate Brand Development Abstract: In this paper we explore reverse-market orientation which we define as a market strategy that seeks more explicitly to align with customers to assist them in developing their optimum solution in a given marketplace. Starting from the premise that customers are now more empowered, we develop a model of customer value drivers to demonstrate how organizations with a reversemarket orientation can create and deliver new forms of customer value. We then describe how firms with this reverse-market orientation are addressing these value drivers and illustrate them with examples of early reverse-market practices. From a recent analysis of the corporate brand literature on the value and vulnerabilities of corporate brands, we explore the circumstances in which a reverse-market orientation could become an attractive strategic option for certain brand-led organizations. Through a framework we developed for corporate brand management interested in adopting a reverse-market orientation, we identify the new capabilities such firms will require to build their brand successfully. We conclude by evaluating the distinctiveness and importance of a reverse-market orientation against the traditional view of how market orientation has been conceived in the literature. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 64-83 Issue: 4 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370403 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370403 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:4:p:64-83 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Avinandan Mukherjee Author-X-Name-First: Avinandan Author-X-Name-Last: Mukherjee Author-Name: John M.T. Balmer Author-X-Name-First: John M.T. Author-X-Name-Last: Balmer Title: Preface: New Frontiers and Perspectives in Corporate Brand Management: In Search of a Theory Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-19 Issue: 4 Volume: 37 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370400 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825370400 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:37:y:2007:i:4:p:3-19 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tamar Parush Author-X-Name-First: Tamar Author-X-Name-Last: Parush Title: From "Management Ideology" to "Management Fashion": A Comparative Analysis of Two Key Concepts in the Sociology of Management Knowledge Abstract: How is the emerging research into "management fashion" related to the more established study of "management ideology?" To tackle this question, this paper presents a comparative analysis of these two concepts, which are both key concepts in the sociology of management knowledge, and of the two respective literatures that build on them. I show that the two literatures have much in common, both theoretically and methodologically; at the same time, they reflect quite different, and even complementary, perspectives on the social mechanisms through which management knowledge is created and disseminated. Then, the hypothesis is raised that in recent years, the study of management fashions has come to replace, at least in part, the study of management ideologies. The rise of "management fashion" as a research subject, and the concomitant retreat of "management ideology," are therefore attributed to fashion dynamics and to ideological developments in the academic field of management and organization studies. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 48-70 Issue: 1 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380103 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380103 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:1:p:48-70 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chris Carter Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Carter Title: A Curiously British Story: Foucault Goes to Business School Abstract: In this paper, an understanding is sought of how and why Foucault was to become such a major figure within UK organization studies. Setting the argument within a fashion frame, the text addresses the possible reasons behind Foucault's journey into organization studies. The key currents in Foucauldian thought within British business schools are summarized, and an understanding is sought of what it was about the context of the time that made Foucault so attractive to organization studies. Demonstrating the spread of Foucault into this field, the text highlights various means through which Foucault became institutionalized into organization studies. The translation of Foucault that happened when the French philosopher became fashionable in organization studies is discussed, and speculations are made about the retranslation to French organization studies. The paper concludes by speculating about the future of Foucault's thought within organization studies. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 13-29 Issue: 1 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380101 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380101 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:1:p:13-29 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Carl Rhodes Author-X-Name-First: Carl Author-X-Name-Last: Rhodes Author-Name: Alexandra Pitsis Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra Author-X-Name-Last: Pitsis Title: Organization and Mimetic Excess: Magic, Critique, and Style Abstract: This paper presents a series of connected reflections that consider the process of representation, mimesis, and poiesis in textuality, with a particular focus on writing about management and organizations. The paper juxtaposes and partially connects stories, narrative fragments, and arguments ranging in source from, inter alia, fictionalizations of ancient Rome, reflections on the magical practices of native South Americans, lyrics of popular songs, considerations of Hindu gurus, and the phenomena of guru management books. This assemblage of different yet interconnected texts intends to suggest a critique of popular fashionable management, as well as a critique of its critique elsewhere. The point we arrive at is that management and its scholarship might eschew a desire for being either fashionable or scientific, and instead try just to be stylish. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 71-91 Issue: 1 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380104 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380104 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:1:p:71-91 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Barbara Czarniawska Author-X-Name-First: Barbara Author-X-Name-Last: Czarniawska Author-Name: Fabrizio Panozzo Author-X-Name-First: Fabrizio Author-X-Name-Last: Panozzo Title: Preface: Trends and Fashions in Management Studies Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-12 Issue: 1 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380100 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380100 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:1:p:3-12 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Karin Holmblad Brunsson Author-X-Name-First: Karin Holmblad Author-X-Name-Last: Brunsson Title: Some Effects of Fayolism Abstract: In the early twentieth century, the French industrialist and writer Henri Fayol argued that management consists of a set of activities that are common to all organizations. This has proved a durable idea. All over the world, universities and business schools, management consultants, and management gurus teach recommendations for good management. Disregarding the complexity and confusion of managerial practice, they recommend order. Recommendations that are found lacking provide arguments for new recommendations and new types of order. In this paper, it is argued that management fashions are a consequence of Henri Fayol's notion of general management and the general acceptance of this notion. It is suggested that a contingent notion of management—as the one proposed by the U. S. engineer and consultant Frederick Taylor—describes managerial practice more accurately. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 30-47 Issue: 1 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380102 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380102 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:1:p:30-47 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Margareta Bjurklo Author-X-Name-First: Margareta Author-X-Name-Last: Bjurklo Title: Narrative Accounting: A New Form of Management Accounting? Abstract: This paper tells the story of an attempt to introduce narrative accounting as a complement to traditional management accounting, especially regarding competence creation among employees. The paper concludes with suggestions for the contribution that narrative accounting can make as a new form of management accounting. If companies can come to appreciate such a contribution, narrative accounting might become a new managerial fashion, where the researchers involved in this work can be seen as those who initiated that fashion. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 25-43 Issue: 2 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380202 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380202 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:2:p:25-43 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrew Greenman Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Greenman Title: Brand New Talk: Constructing Fashionability in a Consulting Trend Abstract: This paper provides an account, based on participant observation, of how "ethnography" was combined with futurist research to construct a fashionable consulting trend. The central problem addressed is what management fashion setting reveals about the struggle to legitimize the framing of business problems. It questions the efficacy of sequential models of fashion that, while helping to promote the study of management fashion, may require some updating with recent theories of cultural production and consumption. It concludes that management scholars should seek ways to engage in the process of fashion setting, as this provides a valuable site from which to study the contemporary production of management discourse. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 44-70 Issue: 2 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380203 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380203 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:2:p:44-70 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Natcha Thawesaengskulthai Author-X-Name-First: Natcha Author-X-Name-Last: Thawesaengskulthai Author-Name: James Tannock Author-X-Name-First: James Author-X-Name-Last: Tannock Title: Fashion Setting in Quality Management and Continuous Improvement Abstract: The area of business improvement is particularly prone to the emergence of management fashions. This paper contributes to the understanding of this phenomenon, supported by empirical evidence concerning quality management (QM) and continuous improvement (CI) initiatives. Quantitative evidence of the trends of academic and management discourse on these themes is presented, based on annual publication numbers for a range of important QM and CI approaches. These trends in QM and CI initiatives from the literature are then compared with reported industrial practice, using data from an international company survey conducted by Bain and Company over several years. A quantitative comparison of publication trends with this usage data shows that publication and usage trends appear to resemble each other, but industrial usage tends to lag behind academic discussion and may endure after the latter declines. The article concludes by discussing how these facts help to explain fashions in QM and CI approaches and suggests that dissemination effects are important to global developments in these fields. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 5-24 Issue: 2 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380201 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380201 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:2:p:5-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Barbara Czarniawska Author-X-Name-First: Barbara Author-X-Name-Last: Czarniawska Author-Name: Fabrizio Panozzo Author-X-Name-First: Fabrizio Author-X-Name-Last: Panozzo Title: Preface: Trends and Fashions in Management Studies Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-4 Issue: 2 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380200 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380200 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:2:p:3-4 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Thomas Andersson Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Andersson Title: Personal Growth and Sensitivity Training as Fashions in Management and Management Research Abstract: Management fashion is often described as moving in cycles, but the role of research in these waves is rather unclear. This study compares two management fashions: sensitivity training and personal growth. Sensitivity training is described as the first wave in the 1960s-1970s and personal growth as the second wave in the 1990s-2000s, when similar forms and activities were revived under a new name. Two doctoral theses studying the two fashions in 1979 and 2005 are compared to describe research fashion. The study shows that research and management surf on the same, or at least parallel, fashion waves. Furthermore, research in general and a doctoral thesis project in particular are related to identity work. Researchers draw on various fashions (in research and management) in terms of repetition (following the example of others) and difference (deviating from tradition), just as managers do. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 71-96 Issue: 2 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380204 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380204 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:2:p:71-96 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Macus Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Macus Title: Board Capability; An Interactions Perspective on Boards of Directors and Firm Performance Abstract: Multitheoretic board research and research on board processes have, to date, been pursued in isolation. I argue that board interactions can serve as the conceptual basis for a combination of these two approaches to board research. I argue that board composition and board structure merely endow the board with a certain potential to contribute to firm performance but do not ensure that this potential actually comes to bear. Based on the insights from social psychology and group research, I propose board interactions as an enabling factor that allows boards to realize their problem-solving potential and to thus contribute to the firm's performance. Based on this theoretical argument, I suggest that boards with adequate configurations of composition, structure, and interactions can build "board capability" that would enhance the firm's competitive advantage. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 98-116 Issue: 3 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380304 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380304 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:3:p:98-116 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Martin Hilb Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Hilb Title: Preface: Development Levels of Boards Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-9 Issue: 3 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380300 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380300 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:3:p:3-9 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Morten Huse Author-X-Name-First: Morten Author-X-Name-Last: Huse Author-Name: Alessandro Zattoni Author-X-Name-First: Alessandro Author-X-Name-Last: Zattoni Title: Trust, Firm Life Cycle, and Actual Board Behavior: Evidence from "One of the Lads" in the Board of Three Small Firms Abstract: Processes outside and inside the boardroom and actual board behavior in small firms are investigated in this empirical study where one of the authors was a participant observer. A firm's life-cycle approach was used. The study shows that actual board behavior changes along the life-cycle phases: in the start-up phase, board involvement is in legitimacy tasks; in the growth phase, board's involvement is in advisory tasks; and in the firm crisis stage, the board's involvement is in control tasks. We argue, based on the observations, that boards are empowered to these tasks based on different types of trust relationships between internal actors, external actors, and the board members. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 71-97 Issue: 3 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380303 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380303 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:3:p:71-97 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hugh Grove Author-X-Name-First: Hugh Author-X-Name-Last: Grove Author-Name: Elisabetta Basilico Author-X-Name-First: Elisabetta Author-X-Name-Last: Basilico Title: Fraudulent Financial Reporting Detection: Key Ratios Plus Corporate Governance Factors Abstract: Prior research studies have examined the detection of fraudulent financial reporting using either financial ratios or nonfinancial factors relating to corporate governance. Are both types of factors relevant for such fraud detection? In this paper, we consider both types of factors, using experiences of fraudulent financial reporting companies as a learning opportunity for management, government regulators, investors, and auditors to develop early warning systems or red flags for fraudulent financial reporting. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 10-42 Issue: 3 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380301 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380301 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:3:p:10-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Coral Ingley Author-X-Name-First: Coral Author-X-Name-Last: Ingley Author-Name: Nick van der Walt Author-X-Name-First: Nick Author-X-Name-Last: van der Walt Title: Risk Management and Board Effectiveness Abstract: This study explores the relationship between corporate governance processes and the perceived management of risk by the board. Based on a large sample survey augmented by commentary on the results from focus groups comprising experienced directors, it considers the relative importance of board tasks within the context of the governance processes adopted by boards. In particular, it evaluates directors' assessment of their ability to influence the risk profile of the organization. It then considers their evaluation of other board members' expertise and experience as directors in relation to these processes. The findings highlight the fact that directors see other board members as lacking in key financial, accounting, and other skills and perceive them as being unable to influence key outcomes. These findings suggest that this lack of influence is a result of current governance architectures and is independent of board processes. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 43-70 Issue: 3 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380302 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380302 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:3:p:43-70 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Author Index to International Studies of Management & Organization, Volume 38 (Spring 2008-Winter 2008/9) Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 119-122 Issue: 4 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2008.11043815 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2008.11043815 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:4:p:119-122 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mehmet Erçek Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Author-X-Name-Last: Erçek Author-Name: Arzu İşeri Say Author-X-Name-First: Arzu İşeri Author-X-Name-Last: Say Title: Discursive Ambiguity, Professional Networks, and Peripheral Contexts: The Translation of Total Quality Management in Turkey, 1991-2002 Abstract: This study examines the role of professional networks in translating a fashionable management discourse in a peripheral setting, analyzing the total quality management (TQM) discourse in Turkey from 1991 to 2002. The findings suggest that when a well-coordinated expansionist strategy of the local professional network interacted with the ambiguous character of the incoming TQM discourse and the turbulent macro conditions of the Turkish environment, the result was a radical translation of the original TQM ideas. At the end of the period, TQM was significantly deprived of its original connotation as a managerial tool for the betterment of work practices and became an all-encompassing philosophy about good governance of social relations. Careful selection of external partners as well as effective management of its own internal governance structures were identified as key factors in accounting for the success of the local professional network in translating the TQM discourse. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 78-99 Issue: 4 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380404 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380404 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:4:p:78-99 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nidhi Srinivas Author-X-Name-First: Nidhi Author-X-Name-Last: Srinivas Title: Mimicry and Revival: The Transfer and Transformation of Management Knowledge to India, 1959-1990 Abstract: This paper examines the early transfer of management knowledge to India, with particular attention to the relationship between the institutional context and the content of management knowledge. It identifies a shift in the relationship with foreign management knowledge, from mimicry to revival, from adopting U.S. models to identifying uniquely Indian equivalents. The initial transfer process encouraged researchers to eventually identify a body of management knowledge recognizably "Indian." The argument is that rather than treating Indian management knowledge as a fixed essence, it should be seen as an active construction, the effect of the initial transfer process and the consequent creation of elite institutions and an academic class. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 38-57 Issue: 4 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380402 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380402 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:4:p:38-57 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ron Kerr Author-X-Name-First: Ron Author-X-Name-Last: Kerr Title: Transferring New Public Management to the Periphery: UK International Development Organizations Applying Project Technology to China Abstract: This paper addresses the following question: what happens when ideas from new public management from the West are used in the context of international development? Drawing on empirical data from the field of international development, it follows the trajectory of the "logical framework" as a governance technology from the level of government in the United Kingdom to the level of operations in China. This trajectory can be reconstructed as moving downward through a hierarchical structure of carrying organizations—from an ideology that is pervasive in government, through the government departments to the quasiindependent international development agencies, and then to the practitioners in the field. As shown in this paper, what is transferred to the periphery is not the only intended aims of the project—in this case, teacher training—but also the policy preoccupations of the central bureaucracy with how to perform accountability by translating the messy local context into uniform categories in order that the center may monitor and hold the periphery to account. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 58-77 Issue: 4 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380403 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380403 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:4:p:58-77 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michal Frenkel Author-X-Name-First: Michal Author-X-Name-Last: Frenkel Title: The Americanization of the Antimanagerialist Alternative in Israel: How Foreign Experts Retheorized and Disarmed Workers' Participation in Management, 1950-1970 Abstract: Grounded in a historical analysis of the processes of managerialization in Israel between the 1950s and the 1970s, this paper explores the ways in which well-integrated U.S. experts, in collaboration with their Israeli counterparts, retheorized and disarmed the well-institutionalized and antimanagerialist Israeli version of workers' participation in management. It demonstrates how through the bricolage of the radical local alternative with the U.S.-originated promanagerialist version of workers' participation in management, foreign intervention opened the way for the formerly unwelcome professionalization of corporate control in the country. In so doing, the importance of translation and theorizing are stressed as mechanisms of reproduction of geopolitical domination of the world system center over the periphery. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 17-37 Issue: 4 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380401 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380401 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:4:p:17-37 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nick Wailes Author-X-Name-First: Nick Author-X-Name-Last: Wailes Author-Name: Grant Michelson Author-X-Name-First: Grant Author-X-Name-Last: Michelson Title: The Transfer of Management Ideas to a Western "Periphery": The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility in Australia Abstract: Previous research has revealed that management knowledge can be transferred across national borders as a result of different carriers, but also acknowledges that the institutional context of different countries can shape how management knowledge is diffused. We demonstrate the importance of macro institutional arrangements on the transfer of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to Australia since the early 1990s. Taking examples of financial markets (socially responsible forms of investment) and international environmental management standards (International Standardization Organization certification) as illustrative of how CSR practices have been diffused in Australia, it is argued that the Australian institutional context has produced a limited transfer of CSR in a largely instrumental and legitimating form. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 100-118 Issue: 4 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380405 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380405 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:4:p:100-118 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Matthias Kipping Author-X-Name-First: Matthias Author-X-Name-Last: Kipping Author-Name: Lars Engwall Author-X-Name-First: Lars Author-X-Name-Last: Engwall Author-Name: Behlül Üsdiken Author-X-Name-First: Behlül Author-X-Name-Last: Üsdiken Title: Preface: The Transfer of Management Knowledge to Peripheral Countries Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-16 Issue: 4 Volume: 38 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380400 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825380400 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:4:p:3-16 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anne Wallemacq Author-X-Name-First: Anne Author-X-Name-Last: Wallemacq Author-Name: Jean-Marie Jacques Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Marie Author-X-Name-Last: Jacques Title: Exploring Semantic Fields Abstract: This paper offers a reflection on the nature of language and modes of visualizing it, and then presents the content analysis software Evoq©. We intend to reconceptualize language. Based on poststructural and phenomenological inspiration, language is not viewed as a means of communication that the speaker can completely master. Rather, it is viewed as a polysemic semantic environment in which the speaker is immersed. Isolating semantic fields make it possible to capture the way the perceived world is collectively constructed and taken for granted by an individual or a group within a language environment. By capturing enacted organizational language, we suggest that Evoq is a powerful tool for "deconstruction" and change on a practical level and a useful analytic tool for the field of organization studies. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 9-33 Issue: 1 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390101 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390101 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:1:p:9-33 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Annemette L. Kjærgaard Author-X-Name-First: Annemette L. Author-X-Name-Last: Kjærgaard Title: Organizational Identity and Strategy: An Empirical Study of Organizational Identity's Influence on the Strategy-Making Process Abstract: Continuous change is important for organizations' survival in a changing world, and the need for stability and continuity in the form of a clear and strong corporate identity is also acknowledged to be critical for organizational success. Organizations thus face a dilemma when they engage in strategy-making—namely, how to reconcile the perpetual tension between continuity and change. Provided in this paper are empirical insights from a longitudinal study of strategy-making that addresses this critical issue. Taking the perspective of the participants, the findings explain how their organizational cognition influenced their strategy-making action and show how a strong organizational identity guided their behavior and made it difficult for them to adapt to organizational change. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 50-69 Issue: 1 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390103 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390103 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:1:p:50-69 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anne Sigismund Huff Author-X-Name-First: Anne Sigismund Author-X-Name-Last: Huff Author-Name: Colin Eden Author-X-Name-First: Colin Author-X-Name-Last: Eden Title: Preface: Managerial and Organizational Cognition Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-8 Issue: 1 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390100 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390100 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:1:p:3-8 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elaine Harris Author-X-Name-First: Elaine Author-X-Name-Last: Harris Author-Name: Robin Woolley Author-X-Name-First: Robin Author-X-Name-Last: Woolley Title: Facilitating Innovation Through Cognitive Mapping of Uncertainty Abstract: The Skunkworks framework was developed and tested to solve problems managers face from the high level of uncertainty in the early stages of defining an innovative project. It combines cognitive mapping with other team processes in a sequence discovered by action research, forming a new management tool to identify and reduce unknowns. Described in this paper is the Skunkworks framework and the participants' response to it, contributing new insights into the managerial use of cognitive mapping tools as strategy in practice (Jarzabkowski 2005). Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 70-100 Issue: 1 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390104 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390104 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:1:p:70-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Phyl Johnson Author-X-Name-First: Phyl Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson Title: Swapping Collective Cognition for Experienced Collectivity in the Strategic-Management Literature Abstract: The cognitive perspective has moved from representing individual cognition to exploring cognitive aspects of collectives present in all aspects of organizational life, primarily from a representational (information-processing) perspective. An argument is developed in this paper that suggests this approach is not a sufficient application of current work in psychology. Focusing especially on understanding strategy development, the possibilities of a psychological concept of collectivity that incorporates cognition, emotion, intentionality, and interaction are outlined. Some first steps in swapping collective cognition for experienced collectivity are outlined, along with an agenda for further research. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 34-49 Issue: 1 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390102 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390102 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:1:p:34-49 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrew M. Chisholm Author-X-Name-First: Andrew M. Author-X-Name-Last: Chisholm Author-Name: Klaus Nielsen Author-X-Name-First: Klaus Author-X-Name-Last: Nielsen Title: Social Capital and the Resource-Based View of the Firm Abstract: This paper integrates the role of corporate social capital in the resource-based view of the firm. In the resource-based view, the firm is seen as a pool of resources, including vital intangible resources, which can create competitive advantage and superior profits. It is argued that social capital figures prominetly among such intangible resources. It is shown that an explicit inclusion of the role of social capital further strengthens the analytical powers of the resource-based view in relation to a number of issues. These issues include the relative merits of firms and markets as organizational forms, the ratinale of interfim networks as an alternative to spot market exchanges and coordination by a single centralized authority, and the role of social capital as a governance mechanism in such interfirm networks. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 7-32 Issue: 2 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390201 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390201 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:2:p:7-32 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Reinhard Bachmann Author-X-Name-First: Reinhard Author-X-Name-Last: Bachmann Author-Name: Klaus Nielsen Author-X-Name-First: Klaus Author-X-Name-Last: Nielsen Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-6 Issue: 2 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390200 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390200 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:2:p:3-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sjoerd Beugelsdijk Author-X-Name-First: Sjoerd Author-X-Name-Last: Beugelsdijk Title: A Multilevel Approach to Social Capital Abstract: The concept of social capital serves as a structural hole in the landscape of scholarly disciplines in social science. This article argues that the unifying strength of the concept is based mainly upon the semantics of trust and networks and is, therefore, superficial, and that various levels of analysis may yield fundamental differences in its applications. Micro and macro levels are used to analyze the concepts of trust and networks, and their measurement, and the acquired insights are used to offer avenues for future multilevel research of social capital. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 65-89 Issue: 2 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390203 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390203 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:2:p:65-89 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Petra Moog Author-X-Name-First: Petra Author-X-Name-Last: Moog Author-Name: Uschi Backes-Gellner Author-X-Name-First: Uschi Author-X-Name-Last: Backes-Gellner Title: Social Capital and the Willingness to Become Self-Employed Abstract: This paper employs the concept of "social capital" to empirically investigate the role of social capital in the occupational choice process about whether to become self-employed. We demonstrate that the willingness to become self-employed depends on a person's social capital and hypothesize that women invest differently in social capital than men and therefore exhibit different levels of willingness to become self-employed. We test our hypotheses by using three ordered probit estimates on a data set with 5,000 students. We find that the more social capital an individual obtains, the more willing he or she is to start his or her own business and that women invest less in social capital than men and are thus less willing to become self-employed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 33-64 Issue: 2 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390202 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390202 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:2:p:33-64 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Orly Yehezkel Author-X-Name-First: Orly Author-X-Name-Last: Yehezkel Author-Name: Miri Lerner Author-X-Name-First: Miri Author-X-Name-Last: Lerner Title: Born to Be Wild? Abstract: This study analyzes the relationships between organizational structure—namely, formalization, centralization, management style, and team solidarity—and the performance of technology start-ups (TSUs) in Israel. Employing a sample of 101 TSUs in Israel, the findings of regression analyses show that formalization, solidarity, and a laissez-faire management style can serve as predictors of TSU performance, controlling for TSU age, size, and industry. The research also reveals that the relationship between the level of formalization and TSU performance is nonlinear, with a negative slope at low and high levels of formalization. The laissez-faire style of management had the strongest positive effect on performance relative to other styles. These results point to dual managerial needs of the young TSU, seeking innovation and autonomy on the one hand, and needing some stable order on the other. The results of this study have the potential for wide generalization to TSUs in other countries and contexts. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 6-31 Issue: 3 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390301 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390301 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:3:p:6-31 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ana Shetach Author-X-Name-First: Ana Author-X-Name-Last: Shetach Title: The Four-Dimensions Model Abstract: This paper presents a new tool for the effective management of interpersonal conflicts—namely, the Four-Dimensions Model. It is based on the assumptions that people are naturally conflict bound and yet, at the same time, they could be trained to mitigate interpersonal conflicts that result from unawareness of personal traits and preferences. It has four dimensions: (1) "Northern Star," (2) "Conflict Evolvement Map," (3) awareness of the variety of the available response options, and (4) an awareness of one's personal conflict resolution style. Experience has demonstrated that managers who have been trained to use this model improved their conflict management style and tended to achieve better personal and organizational performance results. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 82-106 Issue: 3 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390304 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390304 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:3:p:82-106 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Orly Yehezkel Author-X-Name-First: Orly Author-X-Name-Last: Yehezkel Author-Name: Ana Shetach Author-X-Name-First: Ana Author-X-Name-Last: Shetach Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-5 Issue: 3 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390300 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390300 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:3:p:3-5 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Miri Lerner Author-X-Name-First: Miri Author-X-Name-Last: Lerner Author-Name: Israel Azulay Author-X-Name-First: Israel Author-X-Name-Last: Azulay Author-Name: Asher Tishler Author-X-Name-First: Asher Author-X-Name-Last: Tishler Title: The Role of Compensation Methods in Corporate Entrepreneurship Abstract: This paper analyzes the role of compensation methods in the process of fostering corporate entrepreneurship. Drawing on agency theory and expectancy theory, hypotheses relating compensation methods to employees' entrepreneurial behavior are empirically examined in the context of defense products firms aiming at encouraging their employees' innovations at the civilian markets. The results show that entrepreneurs prefer compensation that is related to the internal venture's performance. Managers' willingness to take on civilian projects is higher if they are assured that they will be personally compensated for the project's success. Surprisingly, the more entrepreneurial employees preferred staying in the defense market rather than converting to civilian markets. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 53-81 Issue: 3 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390303 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390303 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:3:p:53-81 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tamar Almor Author-X-Name-First: Tamar Author-X-Name-Last: Almor Author-Name: Shlomo Yedidia Tarba Author-X-Name-First: Shlomo Yedidia Author-X-Name-Last: Tarba Author-Name: Haim Benjamini Author-X-Name-First: Haim Author-X-Name-Last: Benjamini Title: Unmasking Integration Challenges Abstract: Management researchers and practitioners point out that integration processes during the postmerger integration period are critical to synergistic effects and performance of the merged companies over time. However, the relation between the postmerger integration process, synergy potential exploitation, and its influence on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deal success, especially in the case of international M&As, is not clear. Moreover, the results of empirical studies are inconsistent and even contradictory. Propositions regarding the postmerger integration process are presented in this paper and are exemplified by an in-depth exploration of Hungarian Biogal's acquisition by Israeli Teva Pharmaceutical Industries employing the narrative approach. In the discussion section, an analysis of the case in light of the propositions is presented, and further avenues for research are suggested. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 32-52 Issue: 3 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390302 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390302 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:3:p:32-52 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Constantine Iliopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Constantine Author-X-Name-Last: Iliopoulos Author-Name: George Hendrikse Author-X-Name-First: George Author-X-Name-Last: Hendrikse Title: Influence Costs in Agribusiness Cooperatives Abstract: This paper addresses the influence costs problem in the governance structure "agribusiness cooperative." Influence costs are higher in cooperatives than in investor-oriented firms due to the unique governance structure of the former. Hypotheses are formulated and tested regarding the relationship between influence costs and seven variables: membership size, member heterogeneity, average member age, singleness of purpose, managerial power over members, level of managerial compensation, and professional versus inside management. The main results are that heterogeneous member preferences, older average member age, and investment in multiple product lines all contribute to higher influence costs. At the same time, cooperatives with well-paid, powerful, and professional managers incur lower influence costs. The impact of membership size on the level of influence costs is undetermined. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 60-80 Issue: 4 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390404 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390404 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:4:p:60-80 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paulo Furquim de Azevedo Author-X-Name-First: Paulo Furquim Author-X-Name-Last: de Azevedo Title: Allocation of Authority in Franchise Chains Abstract: This paper investigates the determinants of the allocation of formal and real authority in franchise chains. Differences in business features, such as the required standardization and monitoring costs, explain the allocation of authority between the franchisor and franchisees. These variables affect the trade-off between the risk of brand name loss and the gains in knowledge sharing and learning within the network. The higher the need for standardization, the higher the risk of brand name loss, and, consequently, the more likely the franchisor is to adopt an organizational design that confers more control over the decisions of franchisees, such as business format franchising. This paper presents an empirical analysis of 223 franchise chains that provides support to the hypothesis of a negative effect of the required standardization on the level of delegation. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 31-42 Issue: 4 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390402 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390402 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:4:p:31-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yamei Hu Author-X-Name-First: Yamei Author-X-Name-Last: Hu Author-Name: George Hendrikse Author-X-Name-First: George Author-X-Name-Last: Hendrikse Title: Allocation of Decision Rights in Fruit and Vegetable Contracts in China Abstract: This paper empirically examines the determinants of the allocation of decision rights in the context of fruit and vegetable contracting. A multiple case study is used to investigate twelve fruit and vegetable contracts in order to test five hypotheses regarding the decision rights allocated to the farmer growers and to the downstream agricultural firms. The main conclusion is that under contract farming, many decision rights are shifted from farmers to firms. Quality, reputation, monopsony-oligopsony power and specific investments by firms positively influence the number of decision rights allocated to agribusiness firms under contract farming, whereas specific investments by farmers have no effect on the allocation of decision rights. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 8-30 Issue: 4 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390401 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390401 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:4:p:8-30 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Grandori Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Grandori Author-Name: Marco Furlotti Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Furlotti Title: Facio ut Facias Abstract: This exploratory study takes a look at the puzzle of what types of contracts are suitable for governing innovation, with particular attention to interfirm networks. It employs a conceptual framework that integrates organizational theory of formal coordination with economic perspectives on contracting, and innovates previous analyses in two ways: developing an assessment of alternative contractual forms in terms of knowledge governance and not only in terms of conflict resolution; analyzing contracts according to the intensity at which they incorporate not only market-like mechanisms, but also hierarchical and bureaucratic mechanisms, and a usually neglected array of associational and democratic mechanisms, as related to the level of uncertainty and innovation. A new class of "associational" and "constitutional" contract, resource based rather than action based, is singled out as particularly fit to the governance of innovation. The framework is empirically applied to content-analyze the written agreements regulating interfirm alliances for innovation using a comparative case study approach. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 81-100 Issue: 4 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390405 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390405 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:4:p:81-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Author Index to International Studies of Management & Organization, Volume 39 (Spring 2009 to Winter 2009-10) Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 101-102 Issue: 4 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2009.11043833 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2009.11043833 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:4:p:101-102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: George Hendrikse Author-X-Name-First: George Author-X-Name-Last: Hendrikse Author-Name: Josef Windsperger Author-X-Name-First: Josef Author-X-Name-Last: Windsperger Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-7 Issue: 4 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390400 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390400 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:4:p:3-7 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Josef Windsperger Author-X-Name-First: Josef Author-X-Name-Last: Windsperger Author-Name: Eva Kocsis Author-X-Name-First: Eva Author-X-Name-Last: Kocsis Author-Name: Miklos Rosta Author-X-Name-First: Miklos Author-X-Name-Last: Rosta Title: Exploring the Relationship Between Decision and Ownership Rights in Joint Ventures Abstract: By applying property rights theory, we argue that the structure of residual decision and ownership rights in joint ventures depends on the distribution of intangible knowledge assets between the joint venture partners. Our analysis derives three hypotheses. The empirical setting for testing these hypotheses was the Hungarian market. We used a questionnaire to collect the data from a sample of 530 Hungarian joint venture companies. We received 80 completed responses establishing a rate of return of 15 percent. Our data confirm the hypotheses that the joint venture partner's intangible assets positively influence the proportion of residual decision rights, and that residual decision rights are positively related to ownership rights. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 43-59 Issue: 4 Volume: 39 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825390403 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825390403 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:39:y:2009:i:4:p:43-59 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Guo-Hua Huang Author-X-Name-First: Guo-Hua Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Author-Name: Cynthia Lee Author-X-Name-First: Cynthia Author-X-Name-Last: Lee Author-Name: Susan Ashford Author-X-Name-First: Susan Author-X-Name-Last: Ashford Author-Name: Zhenxiong Chen Author-X-Name-First: Zhenxiong Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Xiaopeng Ren Author-X-Name-First: Xiaopeng Author-X-Name-Last: Ren Title: Affective Job Insecurity Abstract: Researchers who work on job insecurity (JI) have largely ignored the differences between cognitive job insecurity and affective job insecurity. In this study, we argue that it is conceptually important to study affective JI and cognitive JI as distinct constructs. Based on the conceptualization of stress and affective event theory, we propose that affective JI is an outcome of cognitive JI and that affective JI partially mediates the relationship between cognitive JI and employee outcomes. In two samples of working people, we found that affective JI partially explains the effect of cognitive JI on employees' job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and somatic well-being. Implications and recommendations for future research are discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 20-39 Issue: 1 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400102 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400102 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:1:p:20-39 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tahira M. Probst Author-X-Name-First: Tahira M. Author-X-Name-Last: Probst Author-Name: John O. Ekore Author-X-Name-First: John O. Author-X-Name-Last: Ekore Title: An Exploratory Study of the Costs of Job Insecurity in Nigeria Abstract: The vast majority of research on job insecurity has been conducted within Western Europe and North America. The purpose of the current research was to determine whether previously documented effects of job insecurity on attitudes, behaviors, and health-related outcomes would be replicated in a Nigerian sample of mill workers. Using survey data, results indicated that job insecurity was related to lower levels of coworker, work, and supervisor satisfaction; greater turnover intentions; and worse safety attitudes (knowledge and motivation), fewer safety compliance behaviors, and increased injuries. These results are discussed within the context of the Nigerian economy and culture. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 92-104 Issue: 1 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400106 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400106 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:1:p:92-104 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: William D. Reisel Author-X-Name-First: William D. Author-X-Name-Last: Reisel Author-Name: Tahira M. Probst Author-X-Name-First: Tahira M. Author-X-Name-Last: Probst Author-Name: Swee-Lim Chia Author-X-Name-First: Swee-Lim Author-X-Name-Last: Chia Author-Name: Cesar M. Maloles Author-X-Name-First: Cesar M. Author-X-Name-Last: Maloles Author-Name: Cornelius J. König Author-X-Name-First: Cornelius J. Author-X-Name-Last: König Title: The Effects of Job Insecurity on Job Satisfaction, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Deviant Behavior, and Negative Emotions of Employees Abstract: This research examines the effects of job insecurity on three outcomes: job attitudes (satisfaction), work behaviors (organizational citizenship behavior and deviant behavior), and negative emotions (anxiety, anger, and burnout). A total of 320 U. S. managers responded to a self-report electronic survey. Additionally, two independent referees have analyzed and rated a subset of the sample of managers' (N = 97) comments over an electronic discussion group about their job satisfaction, organizational citizenship behavior, and deviant behavior. Analyses of both sets of data show that job insecurity is negatively related to satisfaction and that job insecurity has both direct and indirect effects on work behaviors and emotions. We address these results in the context of growing pressures on business to improve efficiencies through human capital reductions bearing in mind the trade-offs that businesses must anticipate as employees respond to job insecurity in ways that are counterproductive to organizational purpose. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 74-91 Issue: 1 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400105 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400105 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:1:p:74-91 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hans De Witte Author-X-Name-First: Hans Author-X-Name-Last: De Witte Author-Name: Nele De Cuyper Author-X-Name-First: Nele Author-X-Name-Last: De Cuyper Author-Name: Yasmin Handaja Author-X-Name-First: Yasmin Author-X-Name-Last: Handaja Author-Name: Magnus Sverke Author-X-Name-First: Magnus Author-X-Name-Last: Sverke Author-Name: Katharina Näswall Author-X-Name-First: Katharina Author-X-Name-Last: Näswall Author-Name: Johnny Hellgren Author-X-Name-First: Johnny Author-X-Name-Last: Hellgren Title: Associations Between Quantitative and Qualitative Job Insecurity and Well-Being Abstract: Most studies on the relationship between job insecurity and well-being have focused on the effects of employees' overall concerns about the continued existence of the job as such (quantitative job insecurity). Comparatively little research has examined perceived threats to valued job features (qualitative job insecurity). The overall aim of this study was to investigate the relative strength of associations of quantitative and qualitative job insecurity with job-related (job satisfaction and burnout) and general (psychological distress and psychosomatic complaints) well-being, and health-related behavior (absenteeism and medical consultation). Controlling for sociodemographics, negative affectivity, and job characteristics, these relationships were tested in a sample of 7,146 Belgian employees in the banking sector. The results suggest that both quantitative and qualitative job insecurity are important stressors. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 40-56 Issue: 1 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400103 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400103 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:1:p:40-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Leonard Greenhalgh Author-X-Name-First: Leonard Author-X-Name-Last: Greenhalgh Author-Name: Zehava Rosenblatt Author-X-Name-First: Zehava Author-X-Name-Last: Rosenblatt Title: Evolution of Research on Job Insecurity Abstract: This paper provides an overview of how theory and research on job insecurity have evolved in the past 25 years. We trace the Greenhalgh and Rosenblatt (1984) model to its origins in a large-scale action research project, summarize the subsequent theoretical and empirical developments of the model, and suggest directions for future research to understand the perpetually important phenomenon of job insecurity. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 6-19 Issue: 1 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400101 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400101 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:1:p:6-19 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: William D. Reisel Author-X-Name-First: William D. Author-X-Name-Last: Reisel Author-Name: Tahira M. Probst Author-X-Name-First: Tahira M. Author-X-Name-Last: Probst Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-5 Issue: 1 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400100 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400100 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:1:p:3-5 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nele De Cuyper Author-X-Name-First: Nele Author-X-Name-Last: De Cuyper Author-Name: Hans De Witte Author-X-Name-First: Hans Author-X-Name-Last: De Witte Author-Name: Ulla Kinnunen Author-X-Name-First: Ulla Author-X-Name-Last: Kinnunen Author-Name: Jouko Nätti Author-X-Name-First: Jouko Author-X-Name-Last: Nätti Title: The Relationship Between Job Insecurity and Employability and Well-Being Among Finnish Temporary and Permanent Employees Abstract: The present article investigates the relationship between temporary and permanent employees' job insecurity and employability and their wellbeing. We hypothesize that job insecurity relates negatively to job satisfaction and self-rated health status among permanent but not temporary employees. Employability is hypothesized to contribute more in explaining job satisfaction and self-rated health status among temporary compared with permanent employees. Using a representative sample of Finnish employees (N = 4,104), the results show that quantitative job insecurity relates negatively to job satisfaction, and that qualitative job insecurity relates negatively to self-rated health status among permanent but not temporary employees. No such interactions between employment contract type and employability are found. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 57-73 Issue: 1 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400104 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400104 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:1:p:57-73 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter A. Gloor Author-X-Name-First: Peter A. Author-X-Name-Last: Gloor Author-Name: Daniel Oster Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Author-X-Name-Last: Oster Author-Name: Ornit Raz Author-X-Name-First: Ornit Author-X-Name-Last: Raz Author-Name: Alex Pentland Author-X-Name-First: Alex Author-X-Name-Last: Pentland Author-Name: Detlef Schoder Author-X-Name-First: Detlef Author-X-Name-Last: Schoder Title: The Virtual Mirror Abstract: This article offers managers a novel approach to increase creativity in their teams by measuring individual personality characteristics, crucial for creative people. We assess interpersonal interaction with sensor-equipped badges worn on the body. In a research project with 22 study subjects, who wore the badges during work for one month, we were able to predict extroversion, neuroticism, openness, and agreeability based on microscopic social network analysis. We obtained control measures of these values with a standard psychological test (NEO-FFI). As opposed to conventional personality tests, where people have to fill out lengthy questionnaires and surveys, our method offers an automated and potentially more reliable way to assess these personality characteristics. Once these characteristics are considered, teams could be reshuffled and team membership changed for higher creativity. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 74-94 Issue: 2 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400204 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400204 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:2:p:74-94 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Abraham Carmeli Author-X-Name-First: Abraham Author-X-Name-Last: Carmeli Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-5 Issue: 2 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400200 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400200 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:2:p:3-5 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tamara L. Friedrich Author-X-Name-First: Tamara L. Author-X-Name-Last: Friedrich Author-Name: Michael D. Mumford Author-X-Name-First: Michael D. Author-X-Name-Last: Mumford Author-Name: Brandon Vessey Author-X-Name-First: Brandon Author-X-Name-Last: Vessey Author-Name: Cheryl K. Beeler Author-X-Name-First: Cheryl K. Author-X-Name-Last: Beeler Author-Name: Dawn L. Eubanks Author-X-Name-First: Dawn L. Author-X-Name-Last: Eubanks Title: Leading for Innovation Abstract: Few organizational efforts are as critical to long-term survival as innovation. Leaders play an integral role in facilitating innovative efforts at multiple levels and across multiple stages of the creative process. However, research about the interventions that leaders may engage in has not produced consistent results. It is proposed that these inconsistent findings are a result of innovation being treated as a single phenomenon rather than multiple constructs. In this study, we review several influences that leaders may have on the innovation process across multiple levels, the individual leader and the group and organizational levels, and evaluate them with regard to different types of innovation, product and process innovations and complex and simple innovations. Interventions evaluated include the expertise and creative problem-solving skills of the individual leader, diversity and mission definition at the group level, and the organization's structure and scanning and monitoring activity. Propositions are made for the effects of "leader influences" across the different types of innovation. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 6-29 Issue: 2 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400201 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400201 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:2:p:6-29 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Guillermo D'Andrea Author-X-Name-First: Guillermo Author-X-Name-Last: D'Andrea Author-Name: Luciana Silvestri Author-X-Name-First: Luciana Author-X-Name-Last: Silvestri Author-Name: Leticia Costa Author-X-Name-First: Leticia Author-X-Name-Last: Costa Author-Name: Fernando Fernandes Author-X-Name-First: Fernando Author-X-Name-Last: Fernandes Author-Name: Fabio Fossen Author-X-Name-First: Fabio Author-X-Name-Last: Fossen Title: Spinning the Wheel of Retailing in Latin America Abstract: This exploratory study identifies key pillars upon which innovative business models rely on in the Latin American retail landscape. First, using qualitative research methods, we delve into the minds of Latin American emerging consumers to uncover their needs and paradigms. In a region where retail innovation has traditionally been targeted at high-income consumers, we find a new breed of retailers that cater to the large mass of emerging consumers. Second, we explore the avenues of innovation retailers have followed to serve this impoverished segment. We find that retailers' efforts to innovate have resulted in at least three original retail formats: one centered on providing access to durable goods, another centered on offering a wide assortment of goods and a convenient location, and the last one centered on incorporating design and quality. Based on the wheel of retailing theory, we show how these new formats are changing the structure of the retail industry in the region. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 52-73 Issue: 2 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400203 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400203 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:2:p:52-73 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jacob Goldenberg Author-X-Name-First: Jacob Author-X-Name-Last: Goldenberg Author-Name: Oded Lowengart Author-X-Name-First: Oded Author-X-Name-Last: Lowengart Author-Name: Shaul Oreg Author-X-Name-First: Shaul Author-X-Name-Last: Oreg Author-Name: Michael Bar-Eli Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Bar-Eli Title: How Do Revolutions Emerge? Abstract: In 1968, a young high jumper named Dick Fosbury revolutionized his field by winning the Olympic gold medal with a back-first flop that he himself had invented. Through an in-depth analysis of the case of the Fosbury flop, we explore the process through which radical innovations can be achieved. Observations relating to the evolution of radical innovations are highlighted, and similarities between this case and a variety of well-known business cases are discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 30-51 Issue: 2 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400202 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400202 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:2:p:30-51 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rebecca Barnes Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca Author-X-Name-Last: Barnes Author-Name: Nicholas Ashbolt Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas Author-X-Name-Last: Ashbolt Title: Development of a Planning Framework for Sustainable Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Abstract: Premature failure or abandonment of water and sanitation development interventions is a common phenomenon that has severely limited progress in developing regions. In searching for the causes, researchers have implicated decision-making and planning processes that neglect one or more key areas of sustainability (represented here by social, environmental, human health, economic, and technical criteria). This case study in the rural Philippines analyzes the relationship between the project planning processes of aid organizations and long-term project sustainability, and develops a locally appropriate framework by which to incorporate holistic consideration of sustainability into decision processes. Applying the "sustainability framework," the sustainability of project impacts was found to be most significantly affected by the extent to which the implementing agency allowed project identification and planning to be performed by the community, the attributes (such as experience, integrity, and commitment) of human players involved in the project, and the nature of the relationships between these individuals. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 78-98 Issue: 3 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400305 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400305 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:3:p:78-98 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christiana Weber Author-X-Name-First: Christiana Author-X-Name-Last: Weber Author-Name: Barbara Weber Author-X-Name-First: Barbara Author-X-Name-Last: Weber Title: Social Capital and Knowledge Relatedness as Promoters of Organizational Performance Abstract: In this article, we extend social capital theory by explicating two aspects of social capital neglected so far, cognitive fit and affective fit, and we combine social capital theory with the knowledge-based view of the firm and thereby demonstrate the interrelatedness and combined importance of the two concepts. Our proposed model show that social capital and knowledge relatedness, together referred to as "relational fit," facilitate knowledge transfer and creation, which in turn positively influence organizational performance. We empirically tested our model by analyzing the influence of relational fit on German corporate venture capital units (CVCs) and their portfolio companies. Our results show that relational fit facilitates knowledge transfer and creation, which in turn positively influences organizational performance (but CVC/corporate performance only to a limited extent). We suggest that a good relational fit has a positive impact on sustainability in and of organizations. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 23-49 Issue: 3 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400302 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400302 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:3:p:23-49 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marlen Arnold Author-X-Name-First: Marlen Author-X-Name-Last: Arnold Title: Stakeholder Dialogues for Sustaining Cultural Change Abstract: A multiplicity of firms and enterprises accept the challenge of sustainability and integrate these requirements in their daily activities without the introduction of cultural change. However, sustainable development demands cultural change, and stakeholder dialogue can enforce it. Yet the dialogue orientation of companies and their ability to initiate organizational change depends on corporate culture types. Therefore, the question arises as to whether different corporate culture types cause special levels of dialogue orientation and stakeholder participation. This article addresses this question based on an empirical qualitative analysis of companies. We demonstrate that different culture types can initiate an appropriate cultural change. However, to anchor sustainability permanently within a business, stakeholder dialogue is not enough. Structural and cultural factors such as cooperative leadership and group work are necessary to pass and implement the attained information, knowledge, and learning effects into the organization as well. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 61-77 Issue: 3 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400304 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400304 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:3:p:61-77 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Robin Fincham Author-X-Name-First: Robin Author-X-Name-Last: Fincham Author-Name: Michael Mohe Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Mohe Author-Name: David Seidl Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Seidl Title: Call for papers Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 99-100 Issue: 3 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2010.11043854 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2010.11043854 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:3:p:99-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Niels R. Faber Author-X-Name-First: Niels R. Author-X-Name-Last: Faber Author-Name: Kristian Peters Author-X-Name-First: Kristian Author-X-Name-Last: Peters Author-Name: Laura Maruster Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: Maruster Author-Name: Rob van Haren Author-X-Name-First: Rob Author-X-Name-Last: van Haren Author-Name: René Jorna Author-X-Name-First: René Author-X-Name-Last: Jorna Title: Sense Making of (Social) Sustainability Abstract: Although sustainability is often discussed solely in ecological terms, it cannot be disconnected from the way humans behave in their social environment. This article presents a theoretical approach toward sustainability that takes a human behavior and knowledge view on sustainability as a starting point. This approach requires that human behavior should change, individually and collectively, in order to achieve sustainability. Knowledge is identified as the driving force behind human behavior and its effect on the ecological and social environment. In connecting knowledge with sustainability, two concepts are introduced: knowledge of sustainability (KoS), which refers to the sustainability content of knowledge, and sustainability of knowledge (SoK), which denotes the dynamics of the continuing process of knowledge creation and application. To apply SoK and KoS, we argue that a cognitive interpretation of human behavior should be formulated within a knowledge management approach that incorporates the stages of knowledge creation, integration, and application and that ensures the critical evaluation of created knowledge. In order to show that our new approach is practical, we use existing research from the Dutch starch potato industry to reformulate possibilities for the enhancement of sustainability in terms of KoS and SoK. In addition, the research led to the development of a mechanism for evaluating knowledge. Group interaction, information technology, and decision support systems are used to realize knowledge integration. The combination of conceptual design and domain of application is common in the engineering sciences, where a design methodology is used to make the steps from conceptual design to functional design and technical implementation. A conceptual design may show ways to improve existing practices, which in turn might result in superior practices. Of course, it is necessary to empirically test the interventions in reality. For AGROBIOKON that has not been done, yet. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 8-22 Issue: 3 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400301 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400301 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:3:p:8-22 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: James P. Thompson Author-X-Name-First: James P. Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson Author-Name: Steven Cavaleri Author-X-Name-First: Steven Author-X-Name-Last: Cavaleri Title: Dynamic Knowledge, Organizational Growth, and Sustainability Abstract: System dynamics methodology and knowledge management can be integrated to enable managers to design and implement better policies for achieving sustainable organizational states. A system dynamics approach was used at a large manufacturing firm to address a critical sustainability issue. A decision maker and system dynamics consultant were interviewed to discover how the decision maker's understanding of the sustainability issue changed as a consequence of the consulting engagement. Our research reports that the engagement led to better understanding of sustainability issues and to improved stewardship of corporate assets and the environment. We propose the use of a knowledge management tool to further learning and offer six points to consider in future efforts aimed at assessing learning developed in a system dynamics consulting engagement with sustainability as a core issue. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 50-60 Issue: 3 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400303 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400303 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:3:p:50-60 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rene Jorna Author-X-Name-First: Rene Author-X-Name-Last: Jorna Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-7 Issue: 3 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400300 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400300 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:3:p:3-7 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Douglas A. Schuler Author-X-Name-First: Douglas A. Author-X-Name-Last: Schuler Author-Name: Thomas P. Murtha Author-X-Name-First: Thomas P. Author-X-Name-Last: Murtha Author-Name: Stefanie Ann Lenway Author-X-Name-First: Stefanie Author-X-Name-Last: Ann Lenway Title: Le Défi Belge Abstract: Jean Boddewyn has pioneered research on the political dimensions of corporate strategy. Beginning his academic career during a time when research indicated that most firms gave little organizational priority to government relations (Schollhammer 1975), Boddewyn found a rich context for his investigations of market and political strategies in the study of international business and the multinational corporation. We explicate three main positions that Boddewyn has advocated and sought to empirically support in this work: (1) The state can behave as an actor in business affairs; (2) all of a firm's behavior has political dimensions; and (3) effective organization for political action requires legitimacy and internal value infusion. We consider how Boddewyn's scholarly perspectives may have been conditioned by a personal, integrative framing of European social democracy, continental political discourse, and U. S.- style democratic pluralism. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 69-81 Issue: 4 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400406 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400406 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:4:p:69-81 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Robert Grosse Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Grosse Title: A Review of Jean Boddewyn's Contributions to the Theory of International Business-Government Relations Abstract: Jean Boddewyn has contributed to the literature on international business-government relations in a variety of contexts, from the conceptualization of the process of such relations to the identification of corporate strategies for managing government relations. His style is typically to attribute his insights to others but, upon careful reading of his work, it becomes evident that his advances to the understanding of government—multinational enterprise relations are quite significant. For example, he was among the first to recognize the dynamic nature of the relationship, which leads to changes in strategy/policy based on underlying conditions, motivating factors, and precipitating circumstances. He has been a leader in presenting the relationship as one that companies can manage in order to develop a competitive advantage relative to rival firms who are not as good at dealing with governments. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 25-36 Issue: 4 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400403 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400403 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:4:p:25-36 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Craig S. Fleisher Author-X-Name-First: Craig S. Author-X-Name-Last: Fleisher Title: Five Decades on the Periphery Abstract: The study of international public affairs (IPA), and its relationship with strategy, has mostly remained peripheral to the mainstreams of the academic community. Although acknowledged and recognized as important in its own right, IPA never achieved critical mass, evidenced by its relatively rare coverage in top business, management, and organizational journals, its absence from required instructional curricula in most top MBA programs, as well as the lack of a critical mass of scholars trained to effectively analyze IPA phenomena. The enduring work of J. J. Boddewyn provides a broad and substantial basis for moving IPA closer to the mainstream of international business, management, organizational, and strategy studies. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 82-93 Issue: 4 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400407 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400407 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:4:p:82-93 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael C. McDermott Author-X-Name-First: Michael C. Author-X-Name-Last: McDermott Title: Foreign Divestment Abstract: Foreign divestment (FD) has become an integral aspect of global strategy, yet it remains a neglected area among the international business and business strategy academies. It is now widely practiced by multinational corporations (MNCs) from a growing and diverse number of home countries in a larger number of host economies. Furthermore, it is now extensively used by MNCs engaged in all types of industrial activity. The FD decision and managing process represent major challenges for executives. Nonetheless, in MBA programs worldwide, there is a notable absence of attention paid to these issues. Further progress in developing knowledge and understanding of FD demands consideration of Jean J. Boddewyn's pioneering and enduring contributions to this subject of high and growing importance as well as the subsequent studies that his work inspired. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 37-53 Issue: 4 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400404 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400404 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:4:p:37-53 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Herbert Jack Rotfeld Author-X-Name-First: Herbert Jack Author-X-Name-Last: Rotfeld Title: Confusions, Contexts, and Foundations for Understanding Advertising Regulation as Related to the Research of Jean J. Boddewyn Abstract: As advertising regulation entered a phase of effective and strong government focus four decades ago, many studies published in business journals responded with consumer research inspired by those regulations. After businesses organizations established or increased their own self-regulatory activities, business faculties around the globe for the most part overlooked it or simply presumed it would rank as a "strong" force in consumer protection. Into this void, Jean J. Boddewyn provided comprehensive studies of advertising regulation and self-regulation that conceptualized, described, and analyzed these activities in the legal and cultural contexts of many countries starting in 1979. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 94-103 Issue: 4 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400408 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400408 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:4:p:94-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jean J. Boddewyn Author-X-Name-First: Jean J. Author-X-Name-Last: Boddewyn Title: Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 4-9 Issue: 4 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400401 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400401 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:4:p:4-9 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Biography of Jean J. Boddewyn Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 104-111 Issue: 4 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400409 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400409 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:4:p:104-111 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Moshe Banai Author-X-Name-First: Moshe Author-X-Name-Last: Banai Title: Preface Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-3 Issue: 4 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400400 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400400 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:4:p:3-3 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lorraine Eden Author-X-Name-First: Lorraine Author-X-Name-Last: Eden Author-Name: Li Dai Author-X-Name-First: Li Author-X-Name-Last: Dai Author-Name: Dan Li Author-X-Name-First: Dan Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: International Business, International Management, and International Strategy Abstract: In 1999, Jean Boddewyn, prompted by the relaunch of the Journal of International Management, published a provocative article, "The Domain of International Management," in which he critiqued current definitions of international management. More recently, the editors of the Journal of International Business Studies have been engaged in clarifying the domain of international business (Eden 2008), building on Boddewyn's (1997) work. With the announcement of a new journal,Global Strategy Journal, from the Strategic Management Society, the question arises: How do these three fields of inquiry differ? Where do they overlap? How does Boddewyn's work on defining international management and international business help us understand the distinctions? In this article, we build on Boddewyn's earlier research to explore the three fields of inquiry, develop new domain statements, and link them to one another. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 54-68 Issue: 4 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400405 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400405 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:4:p:54-68 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Moshe Banai Author-X-Name-First: Moshe Author-X-Name-Last: Banai Title: From Comparative Management to Supranational Management Abstract: This study reviews Jean Boddewyn's contribution to research in comparative management that includes a definition and framing of the field and the formulation of three major research questions: What should be the unit of analysis in comparative management studies, what variables should be measured and compared, and what should be the purpose of the measurements and the studies in general? His early theoretical and empirical answers to these questions are compared with the state of research in this field today. Proposals are made for further refinements of the questions and new methodologies for seeking answers. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 10-24 Issue: 4 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825400402 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825400402 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:4:p:10-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Author Index to International Studies of Management & Organization, Volume 40 (Spring 2010 to Winter 2010-11) Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 112-114 Issue: 4 Volume: 40 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2010.11043866 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2010.11043866 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:40:y:2010:i:4:p:112-114 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marie-Laure Djelic Author-X-Name-First: Marie-Laure Author-X-Name-Last: Djelic Title: From the Rule of Law to the Law of Rules Abstract: Globalization can be read as consequential reordering, where national rules of law increasingly have to confront the progress of a transnational law of rules. We use conceptual building blocks from political science and sociological institutionalism to approach two sets of issues. First, we explore the nature of this consequential reordering and some of its structuring dynamics. We underscore some of the key features of the emergent transnational law of rules system and contrast it with more traditional, nationally bound, rule of law systems. Second, we consider the potential local, or national, impact of such profound reordering. In the conclusion, we identify key channels and mechanisms of impact as well as potential sources of resistance or of local adaptation. An exploration of those early propositions would be useful to both scholars and practitioners as it would make it possible to read, understand, and even anticipate the variability of cases and situations. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 35-61 Issue: 1 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410102 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410102 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:1:p:35-61 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Max Boisot Author-X-Name-First: Max Author-X-Name-Last: Boisot Author-Name: John Child Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Child Author-Name: Gordon Redding Author-X-Name-First: Gordon Author-X-Name-Last: Redding Title: Working the System Abstract: Globalization—assisted by new information and communication technologies (ICTs)—is believed to facilitate convergence to a market order. We examine this belief by distinguishing between cultures and institutions. The former generate semantic fields within which the latter emerge and with which they interact. We draw on a conceptual framework, the Information-Space (I-Space), to describe semantic fields, to locate institutions within these fields, and to yield distinct sectors and organizational types. We also look at how ICTs modify semantic fields as well as the distribution of institutions interacting within them. Then, focusing on capital sourcing, we apply our analysis to China's evolving business systems. We conclude by exploring the theoretical and policy implications of our findings. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 62-95 Issue: 1 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410103 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410103 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:1:p:62-95 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Glenn Morgan Author-X-Name-First: Glenn Author-X-Name-Last: Morgan Title: Comparative Capitalisms Abstract: This study examines the contribution of the "comparative capitalisms" framework to the analysis of emerging economies. This framework focuses on how institutional structures within societies change and the impact of this change on the strategy and structure of firms and their ability to compete in global markets. In contrast to other forms of institutionalist analysis described herein, the comparative capitalisms framework focuses on the complexity of internal institutional structures and their degrees of complementarity and change brought about by powerful actors. It also examines how international pressures for homogeneity in institutional structures are mediated by politics and power. It illustrates these themes through examining the comparative capitalisms approach to the study of emerging economies in Eastern Europe and Asia and to the impact of multinationals and transnational systems of regulation on local institutional structures. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 12-34 Issue: 1 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410101 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410101 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:1:p:12-34 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rick Molz Author-X-Name-First: Rick Author-X-Name-Last: Molz Author-Name: Mehdi Farashahi Author-X-Name-First: Mehdi Author-X-Name-Last: Farashahi Title: Guest Editors' Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-11 Issue: 1 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410100 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410100 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:1:p:3-11 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joseph Ofori-Dankwa Author-X-Name-First: Joseph Author-X-Name-Last: Ofori-Dankwa Author-Name: Scott D. Julian Author-X-Name-First: Scott D. Author-X-Name-Last: Julian Title: Utilizing an Integrative Multilens Model Abstract: Numerous studies have examined firm performance primarily in emerging economies such as Central and Eastern Europe and China. These economies had institutional voids characterized by major institutional gaps associated with transitioning from command-based systems to free market systems. These economies, however, had moderate levels of factors of production. This study extends the literature on emerging economies in four distinct ways. First, we call for an examination of firm performance in a category of underresearched emerging economies that we call "double void." These have low levels of both market institutions and factors of production. Second, we develop a model integrating two theoretical perspectives used in current research (institutional theory and resource-based theory) with resource-dependence theory, which has not been used much but is particularly relevant to double-void emerging economies. Third, we use our integrative multilens model to highlight factors affecting firm performance in double-void contexts. Fourth, we explore and highlight several research implications of this study and propose further research in emerging economies. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 5-25 Issue: 2 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410201 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410201 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:2:p:5-25 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter J. Buckley Author-X-Name-First: Peter J. Author-X-Name-Last: Buckley Author-Name: Malcolm Chapman Author-X-Name-First: Malcolm Author-X-Name-Last: Chapman Author-Name: Jeremy Clegg Author-X-Name-First: Jeremy Author-X-Name-Last: Clegg Author-Name: Hanna Gajewska-De Mattos Author-X-Name-First: Hanna Gajewska-De Author-X-Name-Last: Mattos Title: Doing Business in Developing and Transitional Countries Abstract: This article challenges the dominant logic of the approach to the study of development and of transitional countries by examining the structure of oppositions by which global economic rationality is contrasted with traditional local rationality. The elements of these distinctions are delineated and analyzed using the example of the Germanic/Slavonic contrasts in the discourse on development. Drawing on material from the Wielkopolska district of Poland, the article provides a detailed analysis of the mentality of people in this region as they perceive themselves and others. We conclude that detailed two-country contrasts are an important complement to the standard approaches to understanding cultural differences in international business research and that social anthropological ideas about classification, structural opposition, and definition of the self and the other are fertile sources of insight for understanding such two-country contrasts. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 26-54 Issue: 2 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410202 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410202 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:2:p:26-54 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rick Molz Author-X-Name-First: Rick Author-X-Name-Last: Molz Author-Name: Mehdi Farashahi Author-X-Name-First: Mehdi Author-X-Name-Last: Farashahi Title: Guest Editors' Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-4 Issue: 2 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410200 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410200 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:2:p:3-4 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mike W. Peng Author-X-Name-First: Mike W. Author-X-Name-Last: Peng Author-Name: Hao Chen Author-X-Name-First: Hao Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Title: Strategic Responses to Domestic and Foreign Institutional Pressures Abstract: This study investigates how firms respond to domestic institutional constraints and to host country institutional frameworks. A substantial number of firms are active in international business, and yet they remain domestic by staying in their home countries—exporters and outsource service providers come to mind. How these firms react to changes in both domestic and foreign rules of the game, as well as the interactions between these two sets of rules, remains underexplored. Taking advantage of a product recall crisis, this exploratory study probes into how firms in the Chinese toy industry strategically react to the institutional pressures from both home and abroad. Implications for a strategic response framework are discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 88-105 Issue: 2 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410204 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410204 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:2:p:88-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andreas Schotter Author-X-Name-First: Andreas Author-X-Name-Last: Schotter Author-Name: Paul W. Beamish Author-X-Name-First: Paul W. Author-X-Name-Last: Beamish Title: General Manager Staffing and Performance in Transitional Economy Subsidiaries Abstract: Drawing from institutional theory, we address the issues that headquarters of multinational corporations (MNCs) face when selecting local versus expatriate subsidiary general managers (GMs). Our analysis of 2,315 MNC subsidiaries in China shows that foreign direct investment (FDI) legitimacy is a reliable measure of institutional environment differences at the subnational level and that the commonly used country-level measures, including institutional distance and cultural distance, mask pertinent withincountry differences. MNCs that invest in Chinese provinces with lower FDI legitimacy use more local nationals as subsidiary GMs, compared to MNCs that invest in provinces with higher FDI legitimacy. In provinces with low FDI legitimacy, subsidiaries with local GMs perform relatively better than subsidiaries with expatriate GMs. This effect is particularly strong for wholly owned subsidiaries, as compared with joint ventures, and applies to all provinces except the most developed coastal regions. In provinces with higher levels of FDI legitimacy, these effects are reversed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 55-87 Issue: 2 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410203 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410203 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:2:p:55-87 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Audrey Rouzies Author-X-Name-First: Audrey Author-X-Name-Last: Rouzies Title: Antecedents of Employees' Identification with a Merger Abstract: Research has shown that mergers and acquisitions (M&As) provoke a drop in psychological attachment, identification, and commitment in the affected organizations. Drawing on M&A literature, social identity theory, and social categorization theory, this paper answers the questions of what factors influence identification with a merger and how do these factors evolve over time. A longitudinal and mixed method design has been used to gather both quantitative and qualitative data through three rounds of data collection. The results show that identification with the previous organization, perception of opportunity, sense of belongingness to the dominant organization, and interaction intensity are significant factors explaining identification with the merger. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 25-41 Issue: 3 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410302 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410302 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:3:p:25-41 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yaakov Weber Author-X-Name-First: Yaakov Author-X-Name-Last: Weber Author-Name: Israel Drori Author-X-Name-First: Israel Author-X-Name-Last: Drori Title: Integrating Organizational and Human Behavior Perspectives on Mergers and Acquisitions Abstract: This article presents a conceptual framework for investigating merger and acquisition (M&A) performance through a multistage and multilevel approach. First, human resource challenges during the integration process following a merger are explored to help explain the inconsistencies among empirical findings about the effects of cultural differences on M&A performance. It is proposed that in addition to culture clash, organizational identification with the merger has a direct effect on acquired management attitudes and behaviors, thereby influencing postmerger success. We also elaborate how organizational identity acts to moderate the effects of culture clash in M&As, thus explaining contradictory findings in the literature. To conclude, we discuss the implications of our work for future research and managerial practices. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 76-95 Issue: 3 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410305 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410305 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:3:p:76-95 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yaakov Weber Author-X-Name-First: Yaakov Author-X-Name-Last: Weber Title: Guest Editor's Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-8 Issue: 3 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410300 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410300 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:3:p:3-8 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yaakov Weber Author-X-Name-First: Yaakov Author-X-Name-Last: Weber Author-Name: Shlomo Y. Tarba Author-X-Name-First: Shlomo Y. Author-X-Name-Last: Tarba Author-Name: Arie Reichel Author-X-Name-First: Arie Author-X-Name-Last: Reichel Title: A Model of the Influence of Culture on Integration Approaches and International Mergers and Acquisitions Performance Abstract: An extensive body of literature has suggested that the influence of culture on the postmerger integration process and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) performance is critical. However, the results of empirical studies are contradictory and confusing. In fact, the combined effects of corporate culture, national culture, and synergy potential on various integration approaches, as well as their influence on M&A performance, have never been simultaneously investigated. This study aims to fill this gap and to develop a theoretical model using a multidisciplinary approach that draws upon the literature from strategic management, international management, and anthropology. Furthermore, unlike most studies that focus on a single stage of M&A, this study combines variables of pre- and postmerger stages. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 9-24 Issue: 3 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410301 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410301 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:3:p:9-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mohammad F. Ahammad Author-X-Name-First: Mohammad F. Author-X-Name-Last: Ahammad Author-Name: Keith W. Glaister Author-X-Name-First: Keith W. Author-X-Name-Last: Glaister Title: Postacquisition Management and Performance of Cross-Border Acquisitions Abstract: This study investigates the impact of the postacquisition management process on the performance of cross-border acquisitions (CBAs) using data from a sample of CBAs made by U.K. firms. We find that knowledge transfer to and from the acquired firm is a significant positive determinant of CBA performance. The findings also indicate that the level of integration positively influences CBA performance. There is limited support for the view that employee retention positively influences CBA performance. There is also limited support for the view that organizational cultural differences negatively influence CBA performance. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 59-75 Issue: 3 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410304 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410304 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:3:p:59-75 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Athina Vasilaki Author-X-Name-First: Athina Author-X-Name-Last: Vasilaki Title: The Relationship Between Transformational Leadership and Postacquisition Performance Abstract: This empirical study investigates the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational performance as moderated by the degree of integration of the two merging organizations. This study covers the gap that exists in the literature regarding the leadership attributes that can enhance postacquisition performance by bringing transformational leadership theory into the acquisition literature. The findings reveal that intellectual stimulation attributes can enhance acquisition performance. These results contradict major findings in the transformational leadership literature. Moreover, the study failed to find any interactions between transformational leadership and the degree of integration. It is shown that leadership is important in the postacquisition integration process regardless of the degree of integration. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 42-58 Issue: 3 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410303 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410303 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:3:p:42-58 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vladimir Kossov Author-X-Name-First: Vladimir Author-X-Name-Last: Kossov Title: Investments as a Lever for Lifting the Economy out of Crisis Abstract: This article has three objectives: first, to present the results of what has been done in Russia to create the institutional underpinnings for fixed investment; second, to explore investment profitability by type of business activity; and, third, to describe the role of foreign direct investment in the overall fixed investments in the Russian economy. Our analysis reveals that despite all the efforts, two problems remain with the Russian economy. Investments in fixed assets have not decreased income inequality both in industrial sectors and regional aspects, and these investments do not endeavor to change the structure of the Russian economy, leading to the predominance of natural resources extraction and the weakness of modern services and high-tech industries. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 20-33 Issue: 4 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410401 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410401 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:4:p:20-33 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alexei V. Kuznetsov Author-X-Name-First: Alexei V. Author-X-Name-Last: Kuznetsov Title: The Development of Russian Multinational Corporations Abstract: Over the previous two decades of market reforms in Russia, a considerable number of large companies have not only succeeded in developing foreign trade activities but have also turned into full-fledged transnational corporations. This article explores the reasons for the rapid investment expansion of Russian companies abroad. The research is based on the analysis of annual reports and financial statements under the author's direction in the fall of 2009 at the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations and a questionnaire survey of 40 top Russian transnational corporations. The study analyzes the structure and motives of Russian direct investment abroad and assesses the outlook for the development of foreign economic activities of Russian companies as they emerge from the current world crisis. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 34-50 Issue: 4 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410402 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410402 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:4:p:34-50 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Igor Gurkov Author-X-Name-First: Igor Author-X-Name-Last: Gurkov Author-Name: Olga Zelenova Author-X-Name-First: Olga Author-X-Name-Last: Zelenova Title: Human Resource Management in Russian Companies Abstract: This article explores the distinctive characteristics of the Russian system of human resource management (HRM) in comparison to that in other countries. The overview of HRM systems in other countries is based on data available through CRANET research of comparative HRM. We discovered that the prevalent features of the Russian HRM system are the undisputed authority of line managers in selection, promotion, and personnel rewards; high horizontal and vertical differentiation of wages and benefits; extremely low formalization of performance assessment; and limited possibilities of collective bargaining. Although this system has helped Russian companies to adapt quickly to the conditions of declining demand and sales in the 2008-9 period, the economic recession caused a serious deterioration in the quality of employment, especially through the worsening of payment conditions and the creation of contractual terms unfavorable to employees. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 65-78 Issue: 4 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410404 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410404 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:4:p:65-78 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Igor Gurkov Author-X-Name-First: Igor Author-X-Name-Last: Gurkov Author-Name: Alexander Settles Author-X-Name-First: Alexander Author-X-Name-Last: Settles Title: Guest Editors' Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-19 Issue: 4 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410400 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410400 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:4:p:3-19 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tatiana Komissarova Author-X-Name-First: Tatiana Author-X-Name-Last: Komissarova Author-Name: Andreas F. Grein Author-X-Name-First: Andreas F. Author-X-Name-Last: Grein Title: The Impact of Market Reforms and Economic Conditions on Marketing in Russia Abstract: This study uses the case of the Russian economic downturn and promarket reforms to investigate the relationships between market conditions and organizations' adoption and use of marketing strategies and techniques. We administered a series of surveys to 500 company executives and marketing professionals. We demonstrate that after the initial disarray in the last months of 2008 the economic downturn provoked a shift to the most productive and effective marketing techniques such as the use of the Internet. We conclude that the role of economic conditions is very important in enhancing learning about these techniques and refocusing efforts on the most productive and effective uses of such marketing techniques. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 51-64 Issue: 4 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410403 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825410403 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:4:p:51-64 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Author Index to International Studies of Management & Organization, Volume 41 (Spring 2011 to Winter 2011-12) Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 79-80 Issue: 4 Volume: 41 Year: 2011 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2011.11043888 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2011.11043888 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:41:y:2011:i:4:p:79-80 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kiisa Hulkko-Nyman Author-X-Name-First: Kiisa Author-X-Name-Last: Hulkko-Nyman Author-Name: Daria Sarti Author-X-Name-First: Daria Author-X-Name-Last: Sarti Author-Name: Anu Hakonen Author-X-Name-First: Anu Author-X-Name-Last: Hakonen Author-Name: Christina Sweins Author-X-Name-First: Christina Author-X-Name-Last: Sweins Title: Total Rewards Perceptions and Work Engagement in Elder-Care Organizations Abstract: We investigate whether employees' perceptions of their total rewards, especially nonmonetary rewards perceptions, are positively connected to experienced work engagement in elder-care organizations. We used data from five Finnish organizations (n = 154) and seven Italian organizations (n = 137). The results indicate that nonmonetary rewards, especially a feeling that one's work is appreciated, are connected to all aspects of work engagement. In addition, dedication is explained by employee benefits perceptions reflecting material rewards and stability of employment perception. Total rewards perceptions explain vigor and dedication in the Finnish sample. In the Finnish sample, only appreciated work significantly explains the three dimensions of work engagement (vigor, dedication, and absorption), while in the Italian sample dedication is also explained by employee benefits and stability of employment perceptions. Our conclusions are that organizations should develop especially their nonmonetary rewards to increase employee work engagement and that the role of material rewards may vary in different country contexts. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 24-49 Issue: 1 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420102 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420102 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:1:p:24-49 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sara De Gieter Author-X-Name-First: Sara Author-X-Name-Last: De Gieter Author-Name: Rein De Cooman Author-X-Name-First: Rein Author-X-Name-Last: De Cooman Author-Name: Joeri Hofmans Author-X-Name-First: Joeri Author-X-Name-Last: Hofmans Author-Name: Roland Pepermans Author-X-Name-First: Roland Author-X-Name-Last: Pepermans Author-Name: Marc Jegers Author-X-Name-First: Marc Author-X-Name-Last: Jegers Title: Pay-Level Satisfaction and Psychological Reward Satisfaction as Mediators of the Organizational Justice-Turnover Intention Relationship Abstract: In this study, we examine whether satisfaction with two reward types (i.e., pay level and psychological rewards from the supervisor) mediates the relationships between organizational justice dimensions and turnover intention. Data collected from 322 teachers revealed that pay-level satisfaction does not mediate any of the relationships between organizational justice dimensions and turnover intention, whereas satisfaction with psychological reward from the supervisor does. Furthermore, only the direct relationship between the second-order factor procedural-interactional justice and turnover intention turned out to be significant. Study limitations and future research directions are discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 50-67 Issue: 1 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420103 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420103 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:1:p:50-67 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Conny H. Antoni Author-X-Name-First: Conny H. Author-X-Name-Last: Antoni Author-Name: Christine J. Syrek Author-X-Name-First: Christine J. Author-X-Name-Last: Syrek Title: Leadership and Pay Satisfaction Abstract: This article proposes differential mediating mechanisms regarding the relationship between transformational leadership and employee pay satisfaction, job satisfaction, and commitment. It supposes that transformational leadership influences pay satisfaction in part through transactional psychological contracts, whereas relational psychological contracts partially mediate the effects on job satisfaction and commitment. Employees (n = 421) of nine different German charitable institutions participated in this cross-sectional study. A multiple mediator model was tested using structural equation modeling. The estimation of contrasts between the indirect effects supported the assumptions: relational psychological contracts partially mediated the relationship between transformational leadership, job satisfaction, and commitment, while transactional psychological contracts partially mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and pay satisfaction. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 87-105 Issue: 1 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420105 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420105 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:1:p:87-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Shields Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Shields Author-Name: Dow Scott Author-X-Name-First: Dow Author-X-Name-Last: Scott Author-Name: James W. Bishop Author-X-Name-First: James W. Author-X-Name-Last: Bishop Author-Name: Paulo Goelzer Author-X-Name-First: Paulo Author-X-Name-Last: Goelzer Title: Pay Perceptions and Their Relationships with Cooperation, Commitment, and Intent to Quit Abstract: This study examines how perceived in-role (or horizontal) pay differences and understanding of the pay system influence three key performance-related attitudes, namely, organizational commitment, willingness to cooperate, and intent to quit, both directly and indirectly via perceived pay fairness. Toward this end, we apply structural equation modeling to self-report survey-based evidence collected from full-time employees in a major United States supermarket licensing group (n = 159). As expected, perception of wide pay differences was negatively related to pay fairness, while pay understanding was positively related to it. Pay fairness played a pivotal mediating role in strengthening organizational commitment and reducing intent to quit. Cooperation was also influenced directly and negatively by pay differences. Contrary to predictions, however, we found that pay fairness did not mediate the relationship between pay differences and cooperation. Implications for compensation theory and practice are considered. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 68-86 Issue: 1 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420104 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420104 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:1:p:68-86 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Conny H. Antoni Author-X-Name-First: Conny H. Author-X-Name-Last: Antoni Title: Guest Editor's Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-6 Issue: 1 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420100 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420100 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:1:p:3-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Aino Tenhiälä Author-X-Name-First: Aino Author-X-Name-Last: Tenhiälä Author-Name: Timo Vuori Author-X-Name-First: Timo Author-X-Name-Last: Vuori Title: Decoupling Compensation Practices from Human Resource Management Abstract: Organizations have two main types of reasons for adopting compensation systems: internal, effectiveness-related reasons and external, legitimacy-related reasons. This study examines if external motives decouple compensation practices from human resource (HR) management and how decoupling is related to internal and external outcomes for organizations. In an empirical test of Finnish companies based on survey responses from 137 HR managers, we find that decoupling takes place in organizations. There is no evidence of detrimental effects of decoupling on the internal effectiveness of compensation and mixed results considering the effect of decoupling on a firm's reputation. We conclude that researchers should not underestimate the prevalence and effects of symbolic motives in compensation development. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 7-23 Issue: 1 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420101 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420101 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:1:p:7-23 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luca Zan Author-X-Name-First: Luca Author-X-Name-Last: Zan Title: Guest Editor's Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-8 Issue: 2 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420200 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420200 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:2:p:3-8 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paola Dubini Author-X-Name-First: Paola Author-X-Name-Last: Dubini Author-Name: Ludovica Leone Author-X-Name-First: Ludovica Author-X-Name-Last: Leone Author-Name: Laura Forti Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: Forti Title: Role Distribution in Public-Private Partnerships Abstract: In this article we analyze how private partners can be actively involved in preservation-related activities without mining the overarching logic of unitary heritage preservation at the national level, so that public-private partnerships may become effective instruments of cultural policy. We use three Italian cases in which private actors are charged with activities typically under the domain of the public to demonstrate how tasks can be distributed among public and private stakeholders to cooperatively handle projects requiring a high level of coordination, intense competencies, sharing, and integration between partners of different natures. A clear definition of individual players' responsibility, timing and resource allocation criteria, shared commitment, and bottom-up approaches are important elements in fostering success in the public-private partnerships. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 57-75 Issue: 2 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420204 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420204 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:2:p:57-75 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Thomas Gstraunthaler Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Gstraunthaler Author-Name: Martin Piber Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Piber Title: The Performance of Museums and Other Cultural Institutions Abstract: This article investigates the performance measurement and evaluation practices of cultural organizations and inquires how "performance" is understood, measured, and communicated to various stakeholders. We analyze the practice of performance measurement in two in-depth case studies of European museums of contemporary art. The performance of museums consists of financial performance and qualitative issues, two sets of performance that are targeted by radically different measurement and evaluation practices. The former is more company-like and includes the measurement of organizational efficiency. The latter comprises professional judgments. As in any other organization, both sets of performance are the basis for operative and strategic decisions concerning strategies and budgets. In addition, they provide the basis for various reports to external constituencies. As the consequences stemming from these decisions are severe, an accurate information-generation process and adequate performance measurement systems are essential. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 29-42 Issue: 2 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420202 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420202 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:2:p:29-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rita Samiolo Author-X-Name-First: Rita Author-X-Name-Last: Samiolo Title: The Institutional Drama of Conservation Abstract: This study uses the case of the "Safeguard" of Venice—in which there is a continuous tension between the aspiration to "modernize" and to "restore" the city, its economy, and its surrounding lagoon environment—to highlight the symbolic function of heritage in shaping government policies. It demonstrates how the effectiveness of the national government as a guarantor of the Safeguard of Venice was questioned both in the name of tradition and of modernization and discusses the unintended consequences of this continuous dramatization of the state and its policies for the city. The study points at some challenges posed by heritage conservation on state identity at a time of increasing transnationalization of heritage policies and private sector involvement. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 76-91 Issue: 2 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420205 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420205 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:2:p:76-91 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katja Lindqvist Author-X-Name-First: Katja Author-X-Name-Last: Lindqvist Title: Effects of Public Sector Reforms on the Management of Cultural Organizations in Europe Abstract: This article investigates the effects that public sector reforms had in the cultural field in European countries over the past two decades. The study highlights changing conditions for public/nonprofit management due to governance and public sector reforms. It does so by applying a multidisciplinary literature survey methodology, which is rare in management studies. The literature survey identifies macrolevel trends such as projectification and shorter term employment; new organizational forms, decentralization, and fragmentation of control; frequent external audits; cultural governance replacing state culture in east European countries and the fact that museums are studied more than other types of organizations; and organizational-level trends, such as strategies of managerialization, policy attachment, and instrumentalization, managing to audit and symbolic management, and tensions within professional roles. The study, furthermore, points to the difficulty of reaching a deep understanding of the management of arts and cultural organizations from a general management perspective. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 9-28 Issue: 2 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420201 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420201 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:2:p:9-28 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Monica Calcagno Author-X-Name-First: Monica Author-X-Name-Last: Calcagno Author-Name: Claudio Biscaro Author-X-Name-First: Claudio Author-X-Name-Last: Biscaro Title: Designing the Interactions in the Museum Abstract: In cultural productions, and specifically in the context of museums and exhibitions, the process of construction of meanings has historically involved the audience in a relationship with the product. Nevertheless, this relationship is still designed using traditional language aimed at constraining the interpretation within the pattern suggested by the producer and reducing the room left for free interpretation by the user. Innovation, then, takes place in the offer of services and tools to support the process, and not in a proposal of a new approach to the construction of meaning. Our research discusses a case of an Italian cultural institution as a model for proposing a new approach to the process of interpretation of the relationship between the users and the product. The innovation in this case is the result of a redesign of the language offered to the users, and it is aimed at involving them in the process of sense making. Our article sheds light on the way in which innovation of language may impact the world of signs and symbols that determine the meaning of the product. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 43-56 Issue: 2 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420203 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420203 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:2:p:43-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Toru Kiyomiya Author-X-Name-First: Toru Author-X-Name-Last: Kiyomiya Title: Collaborative Organizational Communication and Its Impact on Ethical Dilemmas Abstract: This article explores how tacit knowledge used in organizational communication is related to unethical behavior through negative aspects of collaborative practices in Japanese organizations. While collaborative practices are conventionally recognized as a strength in Japanese organizations, this article explores the "dark side" of the application of tacit knowledge and collaborative organizational communication (kyocho-kodo). A content analysis is conducted to examine how organization members make sense of ethical dilemmas in business. A major finding is that interpretation of equivocal context and creation of equivocal messages are the key aspects of collaborative organizational communication in unethical situations and other circumstances in which customers, other stakeholders, and society can be harmed by the group cohesion of members of an organization. Although this article looks only at Japanese organizations, the collaborative practices are likely to be used in other situations where corporate governance and corporate social responsibility challenges are faced by groups with strong cohesion. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 49-68 Issue: 3 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420303 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420303 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:3:p:49-68 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kamel Mellahi Author-X-Name-First: Kamel Author-X-Name-Last: Mellahi Author-Name: Mehmet Demirbag Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Author-X-Name-Last: Demirbag Author-Name: Geoffrey Wood Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey Author-X-Name-Last: Wood Title: Regulatory Context and Corruption Abstract: We examine relationships between regulatory environment and government intervention in firms' decisions and corruption perception indexes (CPI). We draw from a large sample survey conducted by the World Bank on the impact of regulatory environment on firms' growth. The study also focuses on government interventions through regulations in firms' operational and strategic decisions. The study uses the World Business Environment Survey 1999-2000 database. Our findings indicate that whereas intervention in certain regulatory and decision areas increases the likelihood of deterioration of CPI for liberal market economies and coordinated market economies, in some cases intervention decreases the likelihood of CPI deterioration for transitional economies, particularly those are categorized as highly corrupt countries. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 13-34 Issue: 3 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420301 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420301 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:3:p:13-34 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrei Kuznetsov Author-X-Name-First: Andrei Author-X-Name-Last: Kuznetsov Author-Name: Olga Kuznetsova Author-X-Name-First: Olga Author-X-Name-Last: Kuznetsova Title: Business Legitimacy and the Margins of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Russian Context Abstract: Large and medium-size companies have failed to acquire legitimacy and respectability among the vast strata of Russian society. The resulting crisis of confidence may have serious consequences, including increasing intervention by the state. Our study, which is based on a survey of 129 firms in Russia, seeks, first, to establish whether Russian managers' attitudes toward and understanding of corporate social responsibility were similar to those of their Western counterparts and, second, to find out whether the conditions of low generalized public trust in Russian corporations would stimulate Russian firms to develop corporate social responsibility as a means of increasing their legitimacy with their stakeholders, as suggested in the literature. Our survey provides evidence of a discrepancy between attitudes predicted by theory and those revealed by managers. This leads us to consider a range of economic, social, and political factors in the search for an explanation for the discrepancy. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 35-48 Issue: 3 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420302 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420302 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:3:p:35-48 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Emmanuel Adegbite Author-X-Name-First: Emmanuel Author-X-Name-Last: Adegbite Author-Name: Chizu Nakajima Author-X-Name-First: Chizu Author-X-Name-Last: Nakajima Title: Institutions and Institutional Maintenance Abstract: This study is a data-driven attempt to explain why corporate governance systems remain largely unchanged despite regulatory reforms, especially in developing economies. It employs a qualitative research method triangulation to provide an informative and comprehensive account of Nigerian corporate governance complexity. The findings show that national corporate governance systems are endogenous responses to certain institutional environments. They further show the emergence of institutional maintenance in the wider Nigerian business environment. Consequently, the analysis and discussions not only forward a theory of corporate governance in sub-Saharan Africa but also add to the literature on the institutional theory of corporate governance, particularly, to the burgeoning literature on institutional work. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 69-88 Issue: 3 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420304 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420304 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:3:p:69-88 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chizu Nakajima Author-X-Name-First: Chizu Author-X-Name-Last: Nakajima Author-Name: Wes Harry Author-X-Name-First: Wes Author-X-Name-Last: Harry Title: Guest Editors' Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-12 Issue: 3 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420300 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420300 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:3:p:3-12 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: René Olie Author-X-Name-First: René Author-X-Name-Last: Olie Author-Name: Ad van Iterson Author-X-Name-First: Ad Author-X-Name-Last: van Iterson Author-Name: Zeki Simsek Author-X-Name-First: Zeki Author-X-Name-Last: Simsek Title: When Do CEOs Versus Top Management Teams Matter in Explaining Strategic Decision-Making Processes? Abstract: Theory on strategic leadership effects gives short shrift to the institutional context in establishing the impact of chief executive officers (CEOs) and top management teams (TMTs) on strategic decision making processes. In this article we develop the argument that the institutional context of the country in which they are embedded centrally shape the extent to which CEO or TMT characteristics provide more accurate predictions of strategic decision-making processes. We develop a set of exemplary propositions to substantiate this thesis and trace its implications for theory and testing on strategic leadership effects on the firm. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 86-105 Issue: 4 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420404 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420404 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:4:p:86-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tine Buyl Author-X-Name-First: Tine Author-X-Name-Last: Buyl Author-Name: Christophe Boone Author-X-Name-First: Christophe Author-X-Name-Last: Boone Author-Name: Paul Matthyssens Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Matthyssens Title: The Impact of the Top Management Team's Knowledge Diversity on Organizational Ambidexterity Abstract: Organizational ambidexterity, or the combination of exploratory and exploitative organizational behavior, is believed to be a key precursor for long-term organizational success. In this study, we explore the impact of the composition of the top management team (TMT), in particular the heterogeneity in the TMT members' knowledge bases (i.e., TMT knowledge diversity), on the organization's ambidextrous behavior. We propose that this relationship is mediated by a TMT attention focus that balances exploratory and exploitative issues. Furthermore, we suggest that the relationship between TMT knowledge diversity and the balance in the TMT's attention focus is moderated by TMT behavioral integration, chief executive officer power/dominance, and chief executive officer narcissism. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 8-26 Issue: 4 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420401 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420401 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:4:p:8-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Author Index to International Studies of Management & Organization, Volume 42 (Spring 2012 to Winter 2012-13) Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 106-108 Issue: 4 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2012.11043911 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2012.11043911 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:4:p:106-108 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alejandro Escribá-Esteve Author-X-Name-First: Alejandro Author-X-Name-Last: Escribá-Esteve Author-Name: Alessandro Minichilli Author-X-Name-First: Alessandro Author-X-Name-Last: Minichilli Author-Name: Sabina Nielsen Author-X-Name-First: Sabina Author-X-Name-Last: Nielsen Author-Name: Sibel Yamak Author-X-Name-First: Sibel Author-X-Name-Last: Yamak Title: Guest Editors' Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-7 Issue: 4 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420400 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420400 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:4:p:3-7 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mariano L. M. Heyden Author-X-Name-First: Mariano L. M. Author-X-Name-Last: Heyden Author-Name: Jatinder S. Sidhu Author-X-Name-First: Jatinder S. Author-X-Name-Last: Sidhu Author-Name: Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch Author-X-Name-First: Frans A. J. Author-X-Name-Last: Van Den Bosch Author-Name: Henk W. Volberda Author-X-Name-First: Henk W. Author-X-Name-Last: Volberda Title: Top Management Team Search and New Knowledge Creation Abstract: This article probes the vital role a top management team (TMT) plays in the coupling of knowledge elements assembled through local and nonlocal search into radically new, exploratory innovations and incrementally new, exploitative innovations. It theorizes that the materialization of exploratory and exploitative innovations from a firm's recombinatory stock of knowledge elements is contingent on the interplay between a TMT's experience diversity and its shared vision. Multigroup structural equation modeling of data from a large cross-section of firms in the Netherlands supports the theoretical model. We find that although greater variation in TMT experiences fosters exploratory innovations, lesser variation promotes exploitative innovations. A shared TMT vision moderates these relationships. We discuss the implications for research and practice. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 27-51 Issue: 4 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420402 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420402 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:4:p:27-51 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Conor O'Kane Author-X-Name-First: Conor Author-X-Name-Last: O'Kane Author-Name: James Cunningham Author-X-Name-First: James Author-X-Name-Last: Cunningham Title: Leadership Changes and Approaches During Company Turnaround Abstract: This study examines the effect of leadership changes on (1) the initiation of organizational turnarounds, (2) turnaround performance, and (3) the leadership approaches adopted. Set in an Irish context, we use four in-depth case studies purposefully selected at different stages of the turnaround process. In our findings we describe under what circumstances chief executive officer (CEO) changes are likely; the importance of humility, trust, and integrity to turnaround leadership; and why certain companies might purposefully delay the implementation of CEO changes. In addition, we found that newly appointed outsider CEOs and insider leaders who are not replaced are differentiated in the manner by which they manage expectations and implement retrenchment-oriented moves at the outset of the turnaround process. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 52-85 Issue: 4 Volume: 42 Year: 2012 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825420403 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825420403 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:42:y:2012:i:4:p:52-85 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joanna Scott-Kennel Author-X-Name-First: Joanna Author-X-Name-Last: Scott-Kennel Title: Selling to Foreign MNEs Abstract: Adopting the unconventional viewpoint of the acquired firm, we argue that selling to a multinational enterprise (MNE) addresses gaps in activities and resources already exacerbated by the size and distance of the small advanced economy (SAE). Four New Zealand firms were sampled and a longitudinal qualitative analysis was conducted using secondary data as well as interviews of relevant officials. Evidence reveals that in the short term, foreign ownership provides a timely solution to the problem of simultaneously financing internationalization and development of the acquired firms' activities and resources. In the long term, however, global strategic imperatives of the acquiring MNE prompt rationalization and relocation of local activities and resources. The study concludes that both the decision to sell and the changes to the acquired firms' locally based activities and resources are influenced by the SAE context, but are driven by the need for post-acquisition synergy with the acquiring MNEs' strategies. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 52-80 Issue: 1 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430103 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430103 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:1:p:52-80 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jan Selmer Author-X-Name-First: Jan Author-X-Name-Last: Selmer Author-Name: Jakob Lauring Author-X-Name-First: Jakob Author-X-Name-Last: Lauring Title: Globalizing Denmark Abstract: This exploratory article examines the paradox of being open-minded while ethnocentric as expressed in Danish international management practices at the micro level. With a population of 5.4 million, Denmark is one of the smallest European countries. The pressure on many small advanced countries to keep up the process of globalization may be substantial, and the economic gains for such countries from adjusting to a more internationally integrated world economy are clear. However, in small-population economies, especially social-democratic welfare states, the internal pressure to integrate counteracts to some extent the need to maintain openness to differences. Thus, a strong economy and a feeling of smug ethnocentrism in Denmark generate a central paradox in thinking about internationalization in Danish society. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 9-25 Issue: 1 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430101 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430101 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:1:p:9-25 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Birgitte Grøgaard Author-X-Name-First: Birgitte Author-X-Name-Last: Grøgaard Author-Name: Carmine Gioia Author-X-Name-First: Carmine Author-X-Name-Last: Gioia Author-Name: Gabriel R. G. Benito Author-X-Name-First: Gabriel R. G. Author-X-Name-Last: Benito Title: An Empirical Investigation of the Role of Industry Factors in the Internationalization Patterns of Firms Abstract: Research on companies' internationalization has mainly focused on firm-level and country-level factors in order to explain firms' cross-border activities. With the exception of a limited number of studies emphasizing rivalrous behavior in oligopolistic industries, industry factors have been neglected as potential determinants of companies' internationalization. We argue that differences across industries with regard to concentration, research intensity, tangibility of the products, and the existence of clusters should influence the impetus and opportunities to internationalize. This study examines the role of such factors using panel data covering the internationalization patterns of the 100 largest nonfinancial Norwegian companies over the period 1990 to 2000. We find that even for firms in a small, open, advanced economies where the limited market size in itself motivates firms to internationalize, industry factors still contribute significantly to explaining the internationalization of these companies. Furthermore, the effects of industry factors remain strong when firm-level characteristics are taken into account. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 81-100 Issue: 1 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430104 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430104 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:1:p:81-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Noelle Donnelly Author-X-Name-First: Noelle Author-X-Name-Last: Donnelly Title: The Emergence and Internationalization of Irish MNEs Abstract: The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of small-population advanced economic (SPAE) origins on the emergence of Ireland's indigenous multinational enterprises (MNEs) by focusing on the particular conditions and modes that have shaped their international behavior. Based on survey and in-depth case analysis, this article finds that factors highlighted in the "small countries" literature, including domestic market and organizational size, the form and pace of internationalization, sectoral clustering, and the importance of home bases, shape the international behavior of Irish MNEs. It also found that other characteristics particular to the Irish context—late industrialization and internationalization— play an important role in the emergence and internationalization of Irish MNEs. This article concludes by highlighting the importance of the national institutional context in understanding indigenous MNE behavior. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 26-51 Issue: 1 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430102 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430102 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:1:p:26-51 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter J. Dowling Author-X-Name-First: Peter J. Author-X-Name-Last: Dowling Author-Name: Elizabeth L. Rose Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth L. Author-X-Name-Last: Rose Author-Name: Noelle Donnelly Author-X-Name-First: Noelle Author-X-Name-Last: Donnelly Title: Guest Editors' Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-8 Issue: 1 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430100 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430100 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:1:p:3-8 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jorma Larimo Author-X-Name-First: Jorma Author-X-Name-Last: Larimo Title: Small and Medium-Size Enterprise Export Performance Abstract: The role of family firms in all member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is significant, yet their internationalization has been studied in only an extremely limited manner to date. This study compares the export performance of family versus non-family firms, and measures the extent to which the same variables relating to firm management and export strategy influence export performance both in family and non-family firms. This survey study, conducted among Finnish small and medium-size enterprises, has found that non-family-owned firms performed better than family-owned firms on two of the four different performance measures used. Furthermore, three of the thirteen variables reviewed—niche product/service, product adaptation, and communication adaptation—had exactly the same impact on export performance in both family and non-family firms, and seven additional variables—export age, international orientation, international commitment, international experience, price adaptation, timing of establishment, and born global—had mainly the same impact. The greatest differences were found in the impact of firm size, product/service quality, and market diversification. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 79-100 Issue: 2 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430204 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430204 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:2:p:79-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nitin Pangarkar Author-X-Name-First: Nitin Author-X-Name-Last: Pangarkar Author-Name: Sairah Hussain Author-X-Name-First: Sairah Author-X-Name-Last: Hussain Title: The Internationalization of Singaporean Small and Medium-Size Enterprises Abstract: How are the capabilities of a firm and the international orientation of its top management related to its degree of internationalization? How does the degree of internationalization influence the performance of a firm? These questions are the focus of this study. The authors predict that the international orientation of managers will positively impact the degree of internationalization, which, in turn, will positively impact performance. They propose a new operationalization measure for the degree of internationalization construct that extends to the depth (proportion of overseas sales) as well as breadth (spread of revenues across different geographic regions) of international operations. The analysis, based on survey data obtained from managers in small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore, provides partial support for the authors' predictions. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 30-55 Issue: 2 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430202 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430202 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:2:p:30-55 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tamar Almor Author-X-Name-First: Tamar Author-X-Name-Last: Almor Title: Conceptualizing Paths of Growth for Technology-Based Born-Global Firms Originating in a Small-Population Advanced Economy Abstract: This article presents a conceptual framework of corporate growth strategies for technology-based born-global companies that originate in small advanced economies. The framework is grounded in the analysis of two case studies of mature Israeli technology-based born-global companies. The proposed framework suggests that in order to continue successful growth, technology-based born global firms can continue along three axes: customer scope, country scope, and product scope. It is proposed that growth along the customer axis is more frequently implemented by means of greenfield strategies, growth along the country axis is more frequently implemented by means of network utilization, and growth along the product axis is more frequently implemented by means of mergers and acquisitions. It is further suggested that such firms will most frequently choose to develop along one axis of growth at a time. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 56-78 Issue: 2 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430203 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430203 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:2:p:56-78 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter J. Dowling Author-X-Name-First: Peter J. Author-X-Name-Last: Dowling Author-Name: Elizabeth L. Rose Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth L. Author-X-Name-Last: Rose Author-Name: Noelle Donnelly Author-X-Name-First: Noelle Author-X-Name-Last: Donnelly Title: Guest Editors' Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-5 Issue: 2 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430200 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430200 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:2:p:3-5 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tim Kastelle Author-X-Name-First: Tim Author-X-Name-Last: Kastelle Author-Name: Peter W. Liesch Author-X-Name-First: Peter W. Author-X-Name-Last: Liesch Title: The Importance of Trade in Economic Development Abstract: This article uses complex network analysis to investigate the question of the contribution international trade makes to growth in small-population, developed economies, with an emphasis on Australia. Using a longitudinal data set, the empirical work investigates the opportunities available to these economies to improve their position within the international trade network, looks at one common tool for doing so (free trade agreements), and discusses the role that firm-level actions play in the generation of the macro-level patterns of trade and development. The latter uses a complementary case study data from eighteen Australian firms regarding their process of integration with the international trade network. The findings indicate that economic growth is driven primarily by the formation of new international trade connections. However, such connections are difficult for small firms to make, which poses potential problems for countries with economies dominated by small firms. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 6-29 Issue: 2 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430201 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430201 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:2:p:6-29 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Frida Pemer Author-X-Name-First: Frida Author-X-Name-Last: Pemer Author-Name: Andreas Werr Author-X-Name-First: Andreas Author-X-Name-Last: Werr Title: The Uncertain Management Consulting Services Client Abstract: Management consultants are often said to be in the business of uncertainty reduction. By providing knowledge, expertise, simplifying views of reality, or affirming the managerial role, they are argued to reduce managers' anxiety and uncertainty. At the same time there are indications that the actual use of consultants creates uncertainties for the client. The current study sets out to explore these uncertainties created by the use of consultants. Based on interviews with high level managers, four types of clients are identified: the Controlling Client, the Instrumental Client, the Trustful Client and the Ambivalent Client. These clients have different views of the use of management consultants and the uncertainties involved in hiring and managing them. The article contributes to a nuanced and empirically grounded understanding of the uncertainties involved in the use of management consultants. This understanding questions universalistic images of client uncertainties deriving from stable characteristics of the service. The article suggests that client uncertainties should, rather, be viewed as a central aspect of the complex interplay between individual managers, consultants, and their organizational contexts. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 22-40 Issue: 3 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430302 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430302 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:3:p:22-40 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Robin Fincham Author-X-Name-First: Robin Author-X-Name-Last: Fincham Author-Name: Michael Mohe Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Mohe Author-Name: David Seidl Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Seidl Title: Guest Editors' Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-10 Issue: 3 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430300 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430300 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:3:p:3-10 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrew Sturdy Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Sturdy Author-Name: Nick Wylie Author-X-Name-First: Nick Author-X-Name-Last: Wylie Author-Name: Christopher Wright Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Wright Title: Management Consultancy and Organizational Uncertainty Abstract: This study analyzes one of the most neglected dimensions of uncertainty in the field of management consultancy—the fragile existence of consulting organizations and organizational units. Drawing on interview data from internal consulting units, the authors ask what the key sources of organizational uncertainty are that consultant actors face and how these actors address them. In doing so, a fourth, organizational, form of uncertainty is added to those already established in studies of consulting (namely, product, relationship, and institutional uncertainty). The findings also improve our understanding of uncertainty in the broader theoretical context of professionalization through non-traditional means by raising questions about the stability of securing legitimacy as a "corporate profession." Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 58-73 Issue: 3 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430304 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430304 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:3:p:58-73 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Onno Bouwmeester Author-X-Name-First: Onno Author-X-Name-Last: Bouwmeester Title: Consultant Jokes About Managing Uncertainty Abstract: Consultants and clients who experience difficulties in coping with challenges might start making coping jokes. This might happen, for example, when facing a challenge such as managing uncertainty. A content analysis of consultants' jokes reveals that both consultants and clients apply tactics to reduce, use, and increase uncertainty for each other. The humor in the jokes articulates the slightly immoral aspects of common tactics of coping with uncertainty. The article contributes to the literature on uncertainty by applying humor research to consultant-client interactions. It does so first by presenting an overview of consultant and client tactics to deal with uncertainty, and second by adding the perspective of relief theory, which has not been applied to consultant jokes before, as an analytical lens. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 41-57 Issue: 3 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430303 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430303 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:3:p:41-57 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Natalia Nikolova Author-X-Name-First: Natalia Author-X-Name-Last: Nikolova Author-Name: Stewart Clegg Author-X-Name-First: Stewart Author-X-Name-Last: Clegg Author-Name: Stephen Fox Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Fox Author-Name: Kjersti Bjørkeng Author-X-Name-First: Kjersti Author-X-Name-Last: Bjørkeng Author-Name: Tyrone Pitsis Author-X-Name-First: Tyrone Author-X-Name-Last: Pitsis Title: Uncertainty Reduction Through Everyday Performative Language Work Abstract: In this study, we focus on coaching in the context of small and medium-size enterprises in the creative industries. We draw on data collected from five business-coaching organizations over numerous coaching encounters with their clients. Using detailed conversational data drawn from these coaching encounters we analyze the ways in which business coaches practice "active listening" and "reflective questioning" in order to reduce the uncertainties they and their clients face when working together. We show that they do so through the strategy of positioning "performance" as central to their practice. Successful performances depend on the ability to convince clients that one's performance is what it represents itself to be: a performance that is brought off by detailed everyday language work, mimicking the client's language back on to the client. In this way, coaches demonstrate themselves as skilled analysts of everyday life and masters of listening. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 74-89 Issue: 3 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430305 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430305 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:3:p:74-89 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Barbara Czarniawska Author-X-Name-First: Barbara Author-X-Name-Last: Czarniawska Title: The Uncertainties of Consulting Abstract: In this article the author scrutinizes the texts of theoreticians she finds most instructive in matters related to consulting and uncertainty. The list includes Niklas Luhmann, James G. March, Gabriel Tarde, Karl E. Weick, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Obviously, not all of them were interested in management consulting, but they all offered profound insights into social life and organizing. The conclusion to be drawn is that the consultants' role is to aid organizing, but not to remove uncertainty. Management consultants can both reduce and increase uncertainty, and both reduction and increase can have positive or negative consequences for their clients. The failure or success of the consultants' interventions depends not only on their skills, but also on the right diagnosis of the degree of present uncertainty formulated by their clients. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 11-21 Issue: 3 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430301 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430301 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:3:p:11-21 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Author Index to International Studies of Management & Organization, Volume 43 (Spring 2013 to Winter 2013-14) Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 90-91 Issue: 4 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2013.11043931 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2013.11043931 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:4:p:90-91 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Xiaoshu Zhu Author-X-Name-First: Xiaoshu Author-X-Name-Last: Zhu Author-Name: Dianjun Gao Author-X-Name-First: Dianjun Author-X-Name-Last: Gao Title: Nothing Succeeds Like Success Abstract: This study aims to identify Chinese negotiators' views on the causes of failure in intercultural negotiations. Eighty-six Chinese negotiators were asked to rank the most frequently cited causes of failure, and 36 of them were further interviewed to provide examples about one case of successful and one case of failed business negotiations with their international counterparts and to analyze the causes of failure. The questionnaire's precursors to business negotiation failure were identified as not having enough information about the other party, not taking the initiative in negotiations, revealing one's own bottom line too early, extraneous factors, no BATNA (best alternative to no agreement) or emergency measures, and being impatient. Interestingly, the most frequent precursors to failure revealed in the interviews were Chinese negotiators' lack of communication skills, especially inadequate proficiency in English, lack of cultural awareness, the use of inappropriate business behavior and protocols, and failure to compromise on price, delivery deadlines, or payment terms. The interview results added details to the above precursors. The study concludes that negotiators should focus on more than just the negotiation process, as other elements contribute to the success of business negotiations. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 26-38 Issue: 4 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430402 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430402 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:4:p:26-38 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zhaleh Semnani-Azad Author-X-Name-First: Zhaleh Author-X-Name-Last: Semnani-Azad Author-Name: Wendi L. Adair Author-X-Name-First: Wendi L. Author-X-Name-Last: Adair Title: Watch Your Tone … Relational Paralinguistic Messages in Negotiation Abstract: This study examines how East Asian and North American negotiators convey relational cues using vocal paralanguage. Drawing upon the involvement-affective model of relational messages, the authors posit that vocal cues in negotiation connote level of involvement (passive-active) and affect (positive-negative). Since cultural norms influence emotional expression, they predict distinct patterns of vocal paralanguage accompanying relational status in the East versus the West. The authors manipulated relational approach and examined vocal paralanguage in a videotaped business negotiation simulation in an undergraduate academic course at a Canadian university. Their findings confirm that Canadian negotiators communicate positive perception of counterpart and active involvement in negotiation through faster speech rate and expressiveness in voice. Chinese negotiators exhibit self-control by remaining calm and suppressing emotion in vocal tone. Furthermore, warmth in voice predicts satisfaction with relationship in negotiation, especially when a negotiator is not actively involved. Theoretical and practical implications for cross-cultural negotiation and communication are discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 64-89 Issue: 4 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430404 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430404 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:4:p:64-89 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Wendi L. Adair Author-X-Name-First: Wendi L. Author-X-Name-Last: Adair Author-Name: Masako Taylor Author-X-Name-First: Masako Author-X-Name-Last: Taylor Author-Name: Jihyun Chu Author-X-Name-First: Jihyun Author-X-Name-Last: Chu Author-Name: Nicole Ethier Author-X-Name-First: Nicole Author-X-Name-Last: Ethier Author-Name: Tracy Xiong Author-X-Name-First: Tracy Author-X-Name-Last: Xiong Author-Name: Tetsushi Okumura Author-X-Name-First: Tetsushi Author-X-Name-Last: Okumura Author-Name: Jeanne Brett Author-X-Name-First: Jeanne Author-X-Name-Last: Brett Title: Effective Influence in Negotiation Abstract: These studies integrate research on social influence and negotiation to predict the effectiveness of influence strategies in the East and the West. Building on prior research documenting cultural differences in preferences for interests, rights, or power arguments (Tinsley 1998, 2001), we propose that framing such arguments as logical versus normative appeals will further explain cultural variation in influence-strategy effectiveness. We present results from a negotiation-vignette study demonstrating Canadian students are more responsive to arguments framed logically, whereas Chinese students are more responsive to arguments framed normatively, depending on the ethnicity of their counterpart. Then we present results from a negotiation simulation conducted by U.S. and Japanese dyads, indicating that these within-culture patterns of influence effectiveness support the social-psychological needs perspective and predict negotiation outcome. These findings offer extensions to existing theory on culture and negotiation and implications for managers in cross-cultural negotiation and conflict settings. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 6-25 Issue: 4 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430401 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430401 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:4:p:6-25 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Cheryl Rivers Author-X-Name-First: Cheryl Author-X-Name-Last: Rivers Title: Negotiating Ethics in China Abstract: This study extends our understanding of ethical decision-making in China by presenting an exploratory cross-cultural comparison of Australian and Chinese negotiators' views about laws and corporate codes of ethics in China. From the interpretation of interviews, a research agenda is proposed. Managerial implications of the findings suggest that neither Australian nor Chinese negotiators are concerned about Chinese laws and that there are cultural differences in how negotiators view codes of ethics. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 39-63 Issue: 4 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430403 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430403 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:4:p:39-63 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Terri R. Lituchy Author-X-Name-First: Terri R. Author-X-Name-Last: Lituchy Title: Guest Editor's Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-5 Issue: 4 Volume: 43 Year: 2013 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825430400 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825430400 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:43:y:2013:i:4:p:3-5 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Call for Papers Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 84-89 Issue: 1 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2014.11043934 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2014.11043934 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:1:p:84-89 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Enrico Bonetti Author-X-Name-First: Enrico Author-X-Name-Last: Bonetti Author-Name: Francesco Schiavone Author-X-Name-First: Francesco Author-X-Name-Last: Schiavone Title: Identifying and Mapping Strategic Groups in the Fashion Industry Abstract: This study surveys and classifies eleven types of strategic groups in the fashion industry in Campania, Italy, based on a list of critical success factors. The classification is based on three dimensions of ownership strategies, namely, type of manufacturing ownership, type of distribution ownership, and type of brand ownership. Added to that is a list of design approaches. The classification provides scholars, managers, and policymakers with a specific list of clusters of strategic groups, thereby improving the theory of strategic planning. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 55-69 Issue: 1 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440104 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440104 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:1:p:55-69 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luca Dezi Author-X-Name-First: Luca Author-X-Name-Last: Dezi Author-Name: Manlio Del Giudice Author-X-Name-First: Manlio Author-X-Name-Last: Del Giudice Title: Economic Performance and Capital Structure Choices Abstract: The aim of this research is to explore the relationship between the economic performance of a sample of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in the southern Italian textile-clothing industry and the different financial structures they may have chosen to adopt, and then to examine the extent to which the performance itself may change the economic burden imposed by the various financial sources available to these companies. Performance data were collected through the AIDA Bureau Van Dijk Electronic Publishing (BvDEP) database, while an online questionnaire allowed data collection of the other variables. The results of a Mann-Whitney U test show that the financial structures chosen by the SMEs under investigation are closely linked to their economic performance, which in turn changes the burden of some of the available funding sources. Limitations and recommendations for future research are presented. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 42-54 Issue: 1 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440103 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440103 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:1:p:42-54 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gianluca Marchi Author-X-Name-First: Gianluca Author-X-Name-Last: Marchi Author-Name: Giuseppe Nardin Author-X-Name-First: Giuseppe Author-X-Name-Last: Nardin Title: Organizing Creativity in the Italian Fashion Industry Abstract: This study investigates the forces that influence creativity management in the Italian fashion industry. Adopting a qualitative approach, the authors examine how the tensions between creativity and business interests are confronted. Their findings show that balancing these tensions requires organizational integration mechanisms that are contingent upon cognitive distance and time constraints. The variables that explain the transition toward new organizational solutions are discussed, and the central function of liaison roles, as knowledge intermediation mechanisms, is highlighted. Suggestions for further research are proposed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 7-20 Issue: 1 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440101 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440101 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:1:p:7-20 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Salvatore Esposito De Falco Author-X-Name-First: Salvatore Esposito Author-X-Name-Last: De Falco Author-Name: Michele Simoni Author-X-Name-First: Michele Author-X-Name-Last: Simoni Title: The Effect of Public Export Incentives on Italian Textile and Fashion SMEs Abstract: Public export incentives are common instruments used to promote firms' internationalization. The article provides an empirical analysis of their relevance to Italian small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in the textile and fashion industry. Results show that public economic and financial incentives stimulate firms that have no internationalization experience to enter foreign markets. Nevertheless, SMEs can fully benefit from these programs only if they satisfy some prerequisites. Theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 70-83 Issue: 1 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440105 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440105 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:1:p:70-83 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Antonella Zucchella Author-X-Name-First: Antonella Author-X-Name-Last: Zucchella Author-Name: Alfonso Siano Author-X-Name-First: Alfonso Author-X-Name-Last: Siano Title: Internationalization and Innovation as Resources for SME Growth in Foreign Markets Abstract: This research analyzes the link between innovation and internationalization in a regional system of small traditional firms in the clothing and textile industry, with special attention given to the role played by the sources of innovation in driving export performance. The study shows a positive relationship between innovation and international growth. Moreover, the findings highlight the role of key partners as the major source of information for innovation, which drives export performance. The innovation model of exporting firms—as opposed both to the open innovation model based on external R&D collaborations, and to the classical internal R&D based one—depends mainly on external sources of knowledge, such as strong ties with some pivotal industrial and commercial partners. The viable system approach in firms' management is confirmed as the most appropriate one for fully exploiting the potential of interorganizational ties for innovation and internationalization. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 21-41 Issue: 1 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440102 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440102 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:1:p:21-41 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Salvatore Esposito De Falco Author-X-Name-First: Salvatore Esposito Author-X-Name-Last: De Falco Author-Name: Francesco Schiavone Author-X-Name-First: Francesco Author-X-Name-Last: Schiavone Title: Guest Editors' Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-6 Issue: 1 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440100 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440100 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:1:p:3-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kathrin J. Hanek Author-X-Name-First: Kathrin J. Author-X-Name-Last: Hanek Author-Name: Fiona Lee Author-X-Name-First: Fiona Author-X-Name-Last: Lee Author-Name: Mary Yoko Brannen Author-X-Name-First: Mary Yoko Author-X-Name-Last: Brannen Title: Individual Differences Among Global/Multicultural Individuals Abstract: Drawing on psychological research, the authors examine how individuals who have been exposed to multiple cultures differ in their cultural experiences, cultural identities, and adaptation to foreign cultures. A survey of multicultural business students found that those who first moved to a foreign country at a relatively younger age and moved to relatively more countries over their lives constituted a distinct subset of multicultural individuals. Labeling these individuals "globals," they found that such individuals were less likely to identify with cultural groups and less culturally adaptive. These results suggest that there is no single type of "multiculturalism" and that having more and earlier multicultural experiences does not necessarily predict better adaptation outcomes. More nuanced examination of multicultural individuals' past experiences and psychology is needed to understand how they can better leverage their skills as global leaders. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 75-89 Issue: 2 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440204 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440204 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:2:p:75-89 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Charles M. Vance Author-X-Name-First: Charles M. Author-X-Name-Last: Vance Author-Name: Yvonne McNulty Author-X-Name-First: Yvonne Author-X-Name-Last: McNulty Title: Why and How Women and Men Acquire Global Career Experience Abstract: Building on prior research on expatriation, this qualitative study applies the Vance (2005) pre-expatriation international career development model to examine the experiences arising from women undertaking self-initiated expatriation (SIE). Utilizing a mixed sample of female and male expatriates, the authors interviewed 45 American expatriates in five major cities in Western and Central Europe to determine similarities and differences across gender in the selection and effective utilization of the SIE track to acquire international competencies and career development. Findings show that female expatriates: (1) experience fewer encounters with gender bias in the international business environment than prior research suggests; (2) have a tendency toward self-initiated expatriation over assigned expatriation as a way to obtain valuable international work experience; (3) rely heavily on entrepreneurship and on-site networking to further their self-initiated expatriate experience; (4) experience dual-career-couple issues; and (5) often gain important sources of support from local close personal relationships in the host location. Our study, which has important implications for both women and men in guiding international career planning, also addresses three limitations of the original Vance (2005) model upon which the study is based by: (1) extending the model beyond East Asia to another region (Europe) in order to enhance its generalizability; (2) broadening the concept of "expatriate" from the traditional narrow parent-country national characterization to include in our sample both company-assigned and self-initiated expatriates; and (3) significantly increasing female sample representation. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 34-54 Issue: 2 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440202 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440202 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:2:p:34-54 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yvonne McNulty Author-X-Name-First: Yvonne Author-X-Name-Last: McNulty Author-Name: Helen de Cieri Author-X-Name-First: Helen Author-X-Name-Last: de Cieri Title: Guest Editors' Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-8 Issue: 2 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440200 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440200 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:2:p:3-8 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Phyllis Tharenou Author-X-Name-First: Phyllis Author-X-Name-Last: Tharenou Author-Name: Pi-Shen Seet Author-X-Name-First: Pi-Shen Author-X-Name-Last: Seet Title: China's Reverse Brain Drain Abstract: This review examines why mainland Chinese students who study abroad repatriate to China, how they fare on reentry to China, and whether they reexpatriate. We show that Chinese students are motivated not only by career and economic considerations when deciding to repatriate, but also by social and psychological concerns. They are chiefly pulled home by China's attractions (e.g., career and economic opportunities, family and friends, national cultural identity) and, to a lesser extent, are pushed away from the host country by deterrents (e.g., dissatisfaction with career and economic opportunities, lack of cultural assimilation). They are also pulled to stay in their host country by its attractions (e.g., career opportunities, children's educational opportunities). On return, foreign graduates may suffer negative reactions, including reverse culture shock, poor cross-cultural readjustment, and unmet expectations, and a small but significant minority will reexpatriate. The study concludes with a set of potential research questions. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 55-74 Issue: 2 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440203 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440203 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:2:p:55-74 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mila Lazarova Author-X-Name-First: Mila Author-X-Name-Last: Lazarova Author-Name: Jean-Luc Cerdin Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Luc Author-X-Name-Last: Cerdin Author-Name: Yuan Liao Author-X-Name-First: Yuan Author-X-Name-Last: Liao Title: The Internationalism Career Anchor Abstract: International mobility, the volatile individual career trajectories it produces, and its implication for human resource management in organizations are not well understood. This article addresses this deficiency and introduces empirical evidence for an internationalism career anchor, a construct that can enhance our understanding of individual predisposition to undertake international mobility. We present a conceptualization and a measurement scale based on Schein's (1990) original career-anchors framework and Suutari and Taka's (2004) extension that suggested the presence of an internationalism career anchor. Our analyses, conducted using two samples, one of students and one of business professionals in France, provide evidence for construct validity and reliability of the proposed construct. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 9-33 Issue: 2 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440201 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440201 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:2:p:9-33 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jan Selmer Author-X-Name-First: Jan Author-X-Name-Last: Selmer Author-Name: Jakob Lauring Author-X-Name-First: Jakob Author-X-Name-Last: Lauring Title: Mobility and Emotions Abstract: Increasing global mobility has directed attention to the self-initiated relocation of workers from one country to another. However, not all individuals are equally suited to start up a new life in another country, and self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) could be particularly vulnerable due to having no support from a home organization. Accordingly, the personality of SIEs could be even more important than that of organizational expatriates. Moreover, extant research on the relation between the "Big Five" personality traits and expatriate adjustment has been inconclusive. Hence, there could be good reasons to investigate other personality traits that may more accurately predict adjustment. In this article we focus on the effect of the personality traits' dispositional affectivity on the adjustment of 329 SIEs in Denmark. Results showed consistent beneficial associations between positive affectivity and all the studied adjustment variables, and detrimental relationships between negative affectivity and the studied dependent variables. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 25-43 Issue: 3 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440302 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440302 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:3:p:25-43 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Thomas Hippler Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Hippler Author-Name: Paula Caligiuri Author-X-Name-First: Paula Author-X-Name-Last: Caligiuri Author-Name: Johanna Johnson Author-X-Name-First: Johanna Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson Title: Revisiting the Construct of Expatriate Adjustment Abstract: This article identifies concerns regarding the current conceptualization and operationalization of the construct "expatriate adjustment" that we believe are preventing our field from advancing further. Three central concerns, stemming from a lack of theoretical and methodological rigor surrounding the construct of expatriate adjustment, are discussed: (1) the ambiguity of the adjustment construct in both conceptualization and operationalization; (2) the lack of understanding of the full content domain of expatriate adjustment facets; and (3) the implicit assumption that expatriates perceive all environmental aspects to be of equal importance. Suggestions to address each concern are offered. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 8-24 Issue: 3 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440301 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440301 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:3:p:8-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maury Peiperl Author-X-Name-First: Maury Author-X-Name-Last: Peiperl Author-Name: Orly Levy Author-X-Name-First: Orly Author-X-Name-Last: Levy Author-Name: Michael Sorell Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Sorell Title: Cross-Border Mobility of Self-Initiated and Organizational Expatriates Abstract: Globalization in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has been marked by an increase in cross-border mobility of the highly skilled. Though self-initiated expatriation is a widespread phenomenon, it has received relatively little attention in the academic literature. Furthermore, large-scale studies that track self-initiated and organizational expatriates together, over time and across geographies, are noticeably absent from the literature. Consequently, our understanding of these two forms of mobility is relatively limited. This study, which is the first large-scale analysis of the trends in and patterns of the mobility of organization-initiated expatriates and self-initiated expatriates, attempts to fill this gap by analyzing the mobility patterns of 55,915 highly skilled individuals who made 76,660 cross-border moves between 1990 and 2006. Specifically, we analyze patterns of geographic mobility and then examine the rate, duration, and direction of self-initiated and organizational expatriation over time. Finally, we consider demographic differences in mobility between the two groups. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 44-65 Issue: 3 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440303 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440303 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:3:p:44-65 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nina Cole Author-X-Name-First: Nina Author-X-Name-Last: Cole Author-Name: Kimberly Nesbeth Author-X-Name-First: Kimberly Author-X-Name-Last: Nesbeth Title: Why Do International Assignments Fail? Abstract: Much has been said, and written, about failed international assignments, but few studies, if any, have explored the causes of failure from the perspective of the expatriates. In this article, we draw on a qualitative study of 64 expatriate families who self-identified as having prematurely returned from an international assignment. Our findings confirm prior research showing that family concerns is one cause of assignment failure, but that other reasons, primarily insufficient organizational support, exist. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 66-79 Issue: 3 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440304 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440304 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:3:p:66-79 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yvonne McNulty Author-X-Name-First: Yvonne Author-X-Name-Last: McNulty Author-Name: Helen De Cieri Author-X-Name-First: Helen Author-X-Name-Last: De Cieri Title: Guest Editors' Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-7 Issue: 3 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440300 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440300 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:3:p:3-7 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elise Tait Author-X-Name-First: Elise Author-X-Name-Last: Tait Author-Name: Helen De Cieri Author-X-Name-First: Helen Author-X-Name-Last: De Cieri Author-Name: Yvonne McNulty Author-X-Name-First: Yvonne Author-X-Name-Last: McNulty Title: The Opportunity Cost of Saving Money Abstract: In this exploratory study we draw on interviews with 12 expatriate staff, seven of whom are permanent transfers to a Singapore-based subsidiary of a global knowledge-based firm. Using goal congruence theory as an extension of agency theory, we compare the motivation, adjustment, retention, and careers of permanent transferees who subsequently localize in the host location to those of traditional expatriates in the same location. Our findings show that expatriates who are expected to work as "locals" in a host country not only receive less compensation, but also receive less preparation and support than traditional expatriates despite the fact that both groups of employees work under similar conditions and face similar challenges. Our study has important implications for research and practice in the planning and management of global mobility programs. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 80-95 Issue: 3 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440305 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440305 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:3:p:80-95 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Simone Guercini Author-X-Name-First: Simone Author-X-Name-Last: Guercini Title: Profiting from Creative Performance and Business Models over Time Abstract: This study examines the business models of firms exhibiting creative performance that is inordinately high with respect to their economic and financial position. The study asks: why have some firms performed exceptionally well in terms of creativity, but not economically? To this end, a select review of the literature provides the basis for discussing the relation between business models and creative results, and a relevant case study serves to highlight some of the aspects addressed. The case study involves an Italian design firm in which the top decision makers and management have perceived a clear imbalance between the creative results and economic performance achieved. It is hypothesized that such a discrepancy between creative and economic performance may depend on the firm's business model, which may have yet to fulfill its potential or may not change adequately to achieve further results. Creative performance seems to outstrip economic results in part because both entrepreneurs and management obtain direct benefits in terms of self-realization and the achievement of subjective cultural goals. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 26-42 Issue: 4 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440402 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440402 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:4:p:26-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Emilien Moyon Author-X-Name-First: Emilien Author-X-Name-Last: Moyon Author-Name: Xavier Lecocq Author-X-Name-First: Xavier Author-X-Name-Last: Lecocq Title: Rethinking Business Models in Creative Industries Abstract: The aim of this research is to identify new value-creation logics based on the exploitation of creative contents and to understand how firms in creative industries have changed their business models. We therefore adopt a longitudinal approach and investigate the case of the evolution of the record industry's dominant business model over the past decade. This research reveals different strategies that organizations in the music industry have adopted in order to exploit creative contents in new ways. More generally, our results provide insight to better understand value-creation and value-capture mechanisms that take place within an industry and at an interindustry level of analysis. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 83-101 Issue: 4 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440405 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440405 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:4:p:83-101 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Emmanuel Coblence Author-X-Name-First: Emmanuel Author-X-Name-Last: Coblence Author-Name: Valérie Sabatier Author-X-Name-First: Valérie Author-X-Name-Last: Sabatier Title: Articulating Growth and Cultural Innovation in Art Museums Abstract: In this article we question how organizations in the creative industries deal with the tension between the requirements for growth and for cultural innovation by revising their business models. Using a longitudinal study of the Louvre museum, we show how the pursuit of cultural innovation drove the museum's recent business model revision. In particular, we analyze the model's transformation from a growth-oriented business model to a global and innovative business model, and highlight the organization's efforts to create symbolic value from its unique art collections through innovative exhibitions and displays. We describe the different drivers behind the shifts in value propositions and in the organization, its resources, and competencies, and discuss how cultural innovation can be a powerful driver for revising and finetuning creative-industry business models. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 9-25 Issue: 4 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440401 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440401 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:4:p:9-25 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vanessa Warnier Author-X-Name-First: Vanessa Author-X-Name-Last: Warnier Author-Name: Andrea Runfola Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Runfola Title: Guest Editors' Introduction Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 3-8 Issue: 4 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440400 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440400 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:4:p:3-8 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Inna Lyubareva Author-X-Name-First: Inna Author-X-Name-Last: Lyubareva Author-Name: Pierre-Jean Benghozi Author-X-Name-First: Pierre-Jean Author-X-Name-Last: Benghozi Author-Name: Teaiki Fidele Author-X-Name-First: Teaiki Author-X-Name-Last: Fidele Title: Online Business Models in Creative Industries Abstract: In recent times creative industries management seems to have been reshaped by the influence of information and communication technology. Constant experimentation with business models and innovation in this area has become one of the key sources of firms' competitive advantage. As a result, traditional business models, which were dominant and stable in their respective industries, have given rise to multiple disruptive business models. Little is known about which elements structure and shape the diversity of new online business models and why no production sector has established a dominant business model. This article addresses these issues. It is based on an empirical study of the 34 cultural-content Web sites that combine digital output and technology in the production process to the greatest degree, in the music, video, film, book, image, and publishing sectors industries. By means of multiple correspondence analysis, three classes of online business models were identified: participative, distributive, and editorial. The article discusses these business models, as well as their influence on creativity and cultural diversity. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 43-62 Issue: 4 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440403 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440403 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:4:p:43-62 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lucia Naldi Author-X-Name-First: Lucia Author-X-Name-Last: Naldi Author-Name: Patrik Wikström Author-X-Name-First: Patrik Author-X-Name-Last: Wikström Author-Name: M. Bjørn Von Rimscha Author-X-Name-First: M. Bjørn Author-X-Name-Last: Von Rimscha Title: Dynamic Capabilities and Performance Abstract: This study tests Teece's conceptualization of dynamic capabilities in the context of small and medium-size firms competing in creative industries, in particular the European audiovisual production industry. This industry is characterized by immature and evolving markets where firms' dynamic capabilities are expected to lead to superior innovative performance. Using survey data from audiovisual producers in ten European countries we find that both sensing and seizing capabilities have a positive effect on firms' innovative performance. The effect, however, is curvilinear, and positive effects appear after when capabilities overcome a threshold level. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 63-82 Issue: 4 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440404 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2753/IMO0020-8825440404 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:4:p:63-82 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Author Index to International Studies of Management & Organization, Volume 44 (Spring 2014 to Winter 2014-15) Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 102-103 Issue: 4 Volume: 44 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2014.11043958 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2014.11043958 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:44:y:2014:i:4:p:102-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Moustafa Haj Youssef Author-X-Name-First: Moustafa Author-X-Name-Last: Haj Youssef Author-Name: Da Teng Author-X-Name-First: Da Author-X-Name-Last: Teng Title: Market entry strategies in the Middle East: unveiling the sponsorship strategy Abstract: The international entry mode strategies literature presents limited findings for the Middle East, particularly for Arab countries and the Gulf Cooperating Council Countries. Using a qualitative approach to understand the market entry strategies of multinational corporations, it is evident that the traditional entry modes are not the only form of entry strategy for MNCs in the Middle East. Semi-structured interviews were used to analyze data primary data collected from senior managers in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. Findings show that in addition to traditional entry modes, Multinational companies have developed an extra approach to entering Middle Eastern markets by forming joint ventures with individuals rather than with corporations. We label this entry mode as ‘sponsorship’ strategy. Implications for research and practice are offered. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 253-275 Issue: 3 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1959878 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1959878 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:3:p:253-275 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Enrico Battisti Author-X-Name-First: Enrico Author-X-Name-Last: Battisti Author-Name: Michael Christofi Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Christofi Author-Name: Demetris Vrontis Author-X-Name-First: Demetris Author-X-Name-Last: Vrontis Author-Name: Niccolò Nirino Author-X-Name-First: Niccolò Author-X-Name-Last: Nirino Title: Past, present, and future of mergers and acquisitions in the MENA region: a systematic review and integrative framework Abstract: Although the business strategies of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are investigated theoretically and practically, their diffusion and features in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are not clearly described in the literature. This is in particular due to the recent transformation that member countries have been going through since the financial crisis of 2008 and the Arab Spring. Through shareholder maximization theory, agency theory, and the resource-based view we identified the reasons and characteristics of M&As in the Middle East and North Africa regions. Following a systematic literature review methodology, we identified 37 articles related to M&A in MENA countries published in peer-reviewed journals and reported in CABS ranking (Chartered Association of Business Schools). Based on this analysis, we map the extant literature on the topic and present an integrative framework of these features for future researchers to further explore and expand the boundaries of the domain. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 276-296 Issue: 3 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1959876 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1959876 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:3:p:276-296 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Abdul-Nasser El-Kassar Author-X-Name-First: Abdul-Nasser Author-X-Name-Last: El-Kassar Author-Name: Manal Yunis Author-X-Name-First: Manal Author-X-Name-Last: Yunis Author-Name: Abdullah Alsagheer Author-X-Name-First: Abdullah Author-X-Name-Last: Alsagheer Author-Name: Abbas Tarhini Author-X-Name-First: Abbas Author-X-Name-Last: Tarhini Author-Name: Alessio Ishizaka Author-X-Name-First: Alessio Author-X-Name-Last: Ishizaka Title: Effect of corporate ethics and social responsibility on OCB: the role of employee identification and perceived CSR significance Abstract: The objective of this study is to examine the nature of the association that corporate ethics and CSR have with the two dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), OCB toward other individuals in the company (OCBI) and OCB toward the organization’s strategies and objectives (OCBO). Based on a framework involving the resource-based view of the firm and the social identity theory, the CSR-OCB relationship is investigated with regard to employees’ perceived significance of CSR practices as well as their identification (association level) with the organization. The proposed model depicting the relationships is tested empirically based on data collected from a survey instrument distributed to alumni from one of the leading universities in Lebanon employed in various companies belonging to different sectors in Lebanon and the region. Partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) is used to analyze the data and multi-group analysis is conducted to investigate the role of perceived CSR significance. Based on the data analysis results, the model is validated and the stated hypotheses are supported. Moreover, the moderating role of the perceived CSR significance in the relationship between CSR and OCB is highlighted. Theoretical and practical implications, study limitations, and further research recommendations are provided. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 218-236 Issue: 3 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1959880 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1959880 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:3:p:218-236 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pawan Budhwar Author-X-Name-First: Pawan Author-X-Name-Last: Budhwar Author-Name: Vijay Pereira Author-X-Name-First: Vijay Author-X-Name-Last: Pereira Author-Name: Yama Temouri Author-X-Name-First: Yama Author-X-Name-Last: Temouri Author-Name: Hoa Do Author-X-Name-First: Hoa Author-X-Name-Last: Do Title: International business research and scholarship in the Middle East: developments and future directions Abstract: In this introduction we review the extant literature that demonstrate the importance of the Middle Eastern institutional and cultural context in shaping international business’s (IB) strategies and practices across several countries. Drawing on the literature, as well as the five articles included in this special issue, we (1) outline the state of socio-cultural, historical and economic forces that shape international business in several Middle Eastern nations; (2) utilize institutional theory to evaluate the constraints of international business practices in the Middle East; and (3) highlight the key gaps in the literature and the challenges faced by IB scholars and practitioners in the Middle East. We subsequently propose an agenda for future research in order to lay the foundation for international business scholars to advance the theorizing and application of IB practices in the Middle East context. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 185-200 Issue: 3 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1959881 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1959881 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:3:p:185-200 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Belaid Rettab Author-X-Name-First: Belaid Author-X-Name-Last: Rettab Author-Name: Pietro Micheli Author-X-Name-First: Pietro Author-X-Name-Last: Micheli Author-Name: Matteo Mura Author-X-Name-First: Matteo Author-X-Name-Last: Mura Author-Name: Kamel Mellahi Author-X-Name-First: Kamel Author-X-Name-Last: Mellahi Author-Name: Vijay Pereira Author-X-Name-First: Vijay Author-X-Name-Last: Pereira Title: The perceived value of measuring the impact of CSR performance on CSR investment: evidence from the UAE Abstract: This study examines drivers of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) measurement and investment in CSR. Specifically, the study examines the links between the underlying motives for measuring CSR performance, namely to comply with regulation, to provide management support, and improve stakeholders’ satisfaction, and the impact thereof on CSR investments. The analysis of survey data of 307 companies based in Dubai identified five clusters of CSR measurements. The results show that while CSR measurement is a significant driver of CSR investments, there are varied associations between the three main drivers of CSR measurement and investment in CSR practices. Theoretical and practical implications of the study, are discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 201-217 Issue: 3 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1959879 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1959879 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:3:p:201-217 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Muatasim Ismaeel Author-X-Name-First: Muatasim Author-X-Name-Last: Ismaeel Author-Name: Abdul Razak Abdul Hadi Author-X-Name-First: Abdul Razak Author-X-Name-Last: Abdul Hadi Author-Name: Zarina Zakaria Author-X-Name-First: Zarina Author-X-Name-Last: Zakaria Title: Prevalence of CSR reporting in Arab countries: exploratory study and causal analysis Abstract: This study explores the prevalence of CSR reporting practice in the Arab region (Arab countries in the Middle East) and highlights the possible causes that affect companies to commit to this practice. The study includes thirteen countries in the region. It identifies the listed companies that publish stand-alone CSR reports, analyses the companies’ characteristics, and the effect of four independent variables on the commitment to CSR reporting, measured by continuity in publishing these reports. The four independent variables include: being a large company, having a global presence, belonging to an environmentally sensitive industry, and belonging to a highly visible industry. The Qualitative Comparative Analysis method is used for causal analysis. Theoretical analysis is informed by institutional theory. Findings show that CSR reporting is still at its early stages in the region. CSR reporting is driven by linkages and openness to the global economy or by high public visibility (because of size and belonging to visible industries) while belonging to environmentally sensitive industries seems not to affect CSR reporting. These findings support the view that CSR reporting is a global practice adopted by companies in developing countries either to respond to global stakeholders or to imitate a global trend. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 237-252 Issue: 3 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1959877 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1959877 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:3:p:237-252 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Misida Al Jahwari Author-X-Name-First: Misida Author-X-Name-Last: Al Jahwari Author-Name: Pawan Budhwar Author-X-Name-First: Pawan Author-X-Name-Last: Budhwar Title: Exploring influencers of strategic change processes: evidence from five government businesses in the Omani context Abstract: This article presents an exploratory multiple case study conducted on five different government businesses in Oman with the aim of developing a comprehensive framework of strategic change influencers and showing their impact on change implementation and change outcomes. Data was collected via in-depth semi-structured face-to-face interviews with forty-two managers from the top, middle and lower levels and staff from different divisions. The study utilizes the process approach and the contingency perspective to highlight the main influencers of multiple strategic change processes. The data was analyzed via thematic analysis. The findings revealed four main influencers across the five cases one of which was found to moderate the effects of the remaining influencers. This study contributes to the fields of organizational change, strategy, leadership and HRM. It offers new and compelling context-specific insights based on a deep understanding of practice. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 374-397 Issue: 4 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1969134 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1969134 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:4:p:374-397 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christopher Arz Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Arz Title: From family commitment to entrepreneurial orientation: exploring the role of cultural mechanisms in mature family firms Abstract: At a stage of life cycle maturity, the unique advantages of family influence are often outweighed by organizational conditions of conflict, risk-aversion, and inertia which makes it difficult to exploit entrepreneurial opportunities. Guided by the proposition that a positive culture enables the entrepreneurial spirit to be preserved over time, this study focuses on examining the cultural dynamics between family and business social systems to advance our understanding of the heterogeneity of mature family firms in terms of entrepreneurial orientation (EO). Specifically, it bridges the link between family commitment and firm-level EO by considering long-term orientation and stewardship climate to operate as organizational culture mechanisms. From a quantitative study of 208 family firms, the findings provide evidence for EO to be supported by the proposed serial mediation process. A family’s strong commitment toward the business thus seems to stimulate EO only when passing through long-term-oriented priorities among the firm’s dominant coalition and an organizational environment characterized by collective stewardship. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 297-327 Issue: 4 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1969137 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1969137 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:4:p:297-327 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Feim Blakçori Author-X-Name-First: Feim Author-X-Name-Last: Blakçori Author-Name: Alexandros Psychogios Author-X-Name-First: Alexandros Author-X-Name-Last: Psychogios Title: Sensing from the middle: middle managers’ sensemaking of change process in public organizations Abstract: At the core of sense-making is its fundamental function of creating discursive order to equivocal occurrences. Although researchers have emphasized the organizational and managerial factors that trigger sense-making in settings, fewer things are known on how middle managers’ discursive sensemaking is constructed during the process of change in the public sector. In this empirical study, we explore middle managers’ sense-making in public organizations, that constrain the flow of change in reforming public governance. The research draws on qualitative data garnered from 31 interviews with middle managers in three public organizations in two periods of time (2016 and 2017). We illustrate managing divergences and strategizing sensemaking of the change process as intricate and multidimensional means of middle managers’ sense-making framework of ensuring change in the public sector. We argue that middle managers intensify their commitment to learning from change and therefore live the organizational life that sometimes demands commiserating the lack of exerting structural power by highlighting the contextual myopic circumstances of institutional dependence. Theoretical and practical implications are also elaborated. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 328-353 Issue: 4 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1969136 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1969136 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:4:p:328-353 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Faith Jeremiah Author-X-Name-First: Faith Author-X-Name-Last: Jeremiah Author-Name: Colleen E. Mills Author-X-Name-First: Colleen E. Author-X-Name-Last: Mills Author-Name: Robert T. Hamilton Author-X-Name-First: Robert T. Author-X-Name-Last: Hamilton Title: ‘Who am I?’ Self-identity conflict and franchisor exit Abstract: Franchising is a popular business growth strategy, yet many franchisors choose to exit early. This exploratory study seeks to understand why this is the case, while also responding to the call for a more individual focus in franchise research. We analyze the narrative accounts of 53 franchisors—surviving, exited and nascent—all of whom transitioned to franchising in the previous 10 years. We find all these individuals experienced a tension between their original business-owner occupational self-concept and their self-identity as a franchisor. Those still operating as franchisors after five years were able to resolve this conflict by crafting a viable hybrid identity for themselves. Those who chose to exit franchising in earlier years were unable to do this, experiencing an unresolved misfit between a self-identity shaped by their previous entrepreneurial role and the franchisor identity. Similar tensions are revealed within the group of nascent franchisors in the initial stages of this transition. These findings and the conceptual model that emerged from them extend the sparse literature on franchisor experience by revealing a relationship between franchisor startup experience, self-identity and franchise continuity that has important implications, both theoretical and practical. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 354-373 Issue: 4 Volume: 51 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.1969135 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.1969135 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:51:y:2021:i:4:p:354-373 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Olukemi O. Sawyerr Author-X-Name-First: Olukemi O. Author-X-Name-Last: Sawyerr Author-Name: Bahman P. Ebrahimi Author-X-Name-First: Bahman P. Author-X-Name-Last: Ebrahimi Title: Executive environmental scanning and strategic uncertainty: the impact of institutional context Abstract: We examined perceived strategic uncertainty (PSU) and environmental scanning among Hong Kong, Nigerian, and U.S. executives. We posit that PSU and scanning will vary in ways that can be explained by the different institutional contexts, that is, the national environment, within which the decision-makers are embedded. We found that Nigerian decision-makers perceived greater strategic uncertainty in the political/legal, economic, and sources of resources sectors. Hong Kong and U.S. executives, however, perceived greater levels of uncertainty in the technology sector. Furthermore, U.S. decision-makers perceived greater strategic uncertainty in the socio-cultural sector. We discuss the research and managerial implications of the results. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 7-24 Issue: 1 Volume: 52 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.2023442 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.2023442 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:52:y:2022:i:1:p:7-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vijay Pereira Author-X-Name-First: Vijay Author-X-Name-Last: Pereira Title: ISMO: identifying and mapping the past, present and future Abstract: As the new incoming editor-in-chief (EIC) for this prestigious journal, I pen my opening editorial, through this piece. Here I lay out the fascinating and impressive journey of the journal till date, and plans to lead it into the future. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 2-6 Issue: 1 Volume: 52 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.2024119 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.2024119 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:52:y:2022:i:1:p:2-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mahour Mellat Parast Author-X-Name-First: Mahour Author-X-Name-Last: Mellat Parast Title: An examination of antecedents and performance outcomes of corporate social responsibility: evidence from the petroleum industry Abstract: This study examines the antecedents and performance outcomes of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in a quality management framework, using data from organizations in the oil and gas industry in Iran. Building upon the stakeholder theory of the firm, this study examines the relative importance of top management support and supplier quality in leading CSR. This study also examines whether CSR mediates the effect of top management support on internal quality results. Data were collected by administrating a survey to managers in the petroleum industry in Iran. We use structural equation modeling to examine our research questions. The findings show that both top management support and supplier quality drive CSR. The results present a new direction to how quality management and CSR can promote organizational quality, and the study provides a practical framework that shows how managers can design, develop, and maintain sustainable quality systems through emphasizing CSR. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 63-82 Issue: 1 Volume: 52 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.2023443 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.2023443 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:52:y:2022:i:1:p:63-82 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jean J. Boddewyn Author-X-Name-First: Jean J. Author-X-Name-Last: Boddewyn Title: Obituary Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 1-1 Issue: 1 Volume: 52 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2022.2038499 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2022.2038499 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:52:y:2022:i:1:p:1-1 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Moshe Banai Author-X-Name-First: Moshe Author-X-Name-Last: Banai Title: Toward a general theory of expatriates’ cross-cultural adjustment Abstract: This study employs a dynamic rather than a static and contextual rather than cultural conceptual framework for expatriate managers’ cross-cultural adjustment. It applies theories of learning-unlearning and of role behavior to explain what expatriates’ values, attitudes and behavior are being adjusted, how they are being adjusted and why they are being adjusted. A dynamic and contextual conceptualization of the process of cross-cultural adjustment refines theory by presenting adjustment as a continuous rather than as sporadic process; by providing a framework for identifying and prioritizing sources of the “push” and “pull” to adjust; and by generalizing theory of cross-cultural adjustment to include sojourners other than expatriates. Data were collected using an intensive literature search of publications in the English language. The study’s conceptual framework has the potential to enhance the development of a general theory of cross-cultural adjustment and to provide organizations with knowledge of how to define, measure and manage expatriate-managers’ adjustment, and, therefore, the ability to develop and employ tools to assist in the selection, training, performance management and evaluation and compensation of expatriates. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 25-43 Issue: 1 Volume: 52 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.2023444 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.2023444 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:52:y:2022:i:1:p:25-43 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Samuel Adomako Author-X-Name-First: Samuel Author-X-Name-Last: Adomako Author-Name: Joseph Amankwah-Amoah Author-X-Name-First: Joseph Author-X-Name-Last: Amankwah-Amoah Author-Name: Kwabena Kesse Author-X-Name-First: Kwabena Author-X-Name-Last: Kesse Author-Name: Ernestine Ning Author-X-Name-First: Ernestine Author-X-Name-Last: Ning Title: Where do they go for advice? Entrepreneurs’ advice-seeking behavior in Africa Abstract: Using time-lagged primary data from entrepreneurs in two developing countries (Ghana, N = 261 and Ethiopia, N = 166), we examine how institutional voids drive entrepreneurs’ advice seeking behavior. Our findings show that higher levels of institutional voids in these developing countries are negatively related to internal advice-seeking but positively associated with external advice-seeking. The results also show that a heightened perception of environmental dynamism negatively moderates the relationship between institutional voids and internal advice-seeking but positively moderates the effect of institutional voids and external advice-seeking. Furthermore, we find that the negative relationship between institutional voids and internal advice-seeking is positive when entrepreneurs develop ties with politicians. The positive relationship between institutional voids and external advice-seeking is amplified when political network connections are stronger. Implications and direction for future research are discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 44-62 Issue: 1 Volume: 52 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2021.2023441 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2021.2023441 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:52:y:2022:i:1:p:44-62 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2072068_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220804T044749 git hash: 24b08f8188 Author-Name: Marlon Fernandes Rodrigues Alves Author-X-Name-First: Marlon Author-X-Name-Last: Fernandes Rodrigues Alves Author-Name: Simone Vasconcelos Ribeiro Galina Author-X-Name-First: Simone Author-X-Name-Last: Vasconcelos Ribeiro Galina Title: Not all roads lead to Rome: non-equifinality in dynamic capabilities and process configuration Abstract: Although the literature indicates the relevance of dynamic capabilities (DCs) in explaining heterogeneity in firm performance, there is a limited understanding of why some firms deploy DCs better than others do. Using a configurational approach grounded in strategic management, this article argues that the configuration of processes that build DCs matters for performance. Results based on data from 3,632 Brazilian firm-year observations support the assertion that DCs rely on single-process configuration. This finding suggests that the assumption of equifinality does not apply to this aspect of DCs, which extends the literature by offering empirical evidence to a point of division between scholars and contributes to practitioners by shedding light on one locus of competitive advantage in DCs. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 121-137 Issue: 2 Volume: 52 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2022.2072068 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2022.2072068 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:52:y:2022:i:2:p:121-137 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2104020_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220804T044749 git hash: 24b08f8188 Author-Name: Vijay Pereira Author-X-Name-First: Vijay Author-X-Name-Last: Pereira Title: Mapping the past, present, and future of ISMO: a scoping review leading to future research objectives Abstract: My investigation here focuses on the critical components of the role of management and organizational behavior, as broad topical areas. I first provide a brief background to the field of management and organizational behavior in detail. The aim of this paper is to elaborate on the prevailing research and then identify future research suggestions in the field of management and organizational behavior research. I do this by drawing on existing research on this topic in prestigious journals. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 83-95 Issue: 2 Volume: 52 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2022.2104020 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2022.2104020 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:52:y:2022:i:2:p:83-95 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2072069_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220804T044749 git hash: 24b08f8188 Author-Name: Obinna Alo Author-X-Name-First: Obinna Author-X-Name-Last: Alo Author-Name: Sir Cary Cooper Author-X-Name-First: Sir Cary Author-X-Name-Last: Cooper Author-Name: Ahmad Arslan Author-X-Name-First: Ahmad Author-X-Name-Last: Arslan Author-Name: Shlomo Tarba Author-X-Name-First: Shlomo Author-X-Name-Last: Tarba Title: Exploring the impacts of transformational supervision on supermarket store managers’ creativity: evidence from Nigeria, South Africa, and the United Kingdom Abstract: The current article is one of the rare studies to specifically focus on the contextual conditions under which the learning-related actions of transformational supervisors’ help retailing supermarkets’ store managers to learn and engage in behaviors that produce creative outcomes. We use a qualitative research approach with the data based on in-depth semi structured interviews with 40 retailing supermarkets’ store managers in Nigeria, South Africa and the UK. Our findings show that transformational supervision significantly boosts store managers’ creativity, facilitated by fostering store managers’ learning orientation, creative role identity (CRI) and creative self-efficacy (CSE), in all three contexts. From our findings, we have developed a model that symbolize the role of transformational supervisors in fostering store managers’ creativity, which provides a baseline for supermarkets in (re)evaluating the significance of their leadership styles on follower creativity. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 138-161 Issue: 2 Volume: 52 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2022.2072069 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2022.2072069 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:52:y:2022:i:2:p:138-161 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2072067_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220804T044749 git hash: 24b08f8188 Author-Name: Sonia Ben Slimane Author-X-Name-First: Sonia Author-X-Name-Last: Ben Slimane Author-Name: Régis Coeurderoy Author-X-Name-First: Régis Author-X-Name-Last: Coeurderoy Author-Name: Hatem Mhenni Author-X-Name-First: Hatem Author-X-Name-Last: Mhenni Title: Digital transformation of small and medium enterprises: a systematic literature review and an integrative framework Abstract: The purpose of this article is two-fold. First it proposes an integrative approach based on reporting cross-disciplinary and complementary literature on effects of digital transformation on SMEs. Second, it identifies the salient managerial dimensions of building a digital transformation strategy at the organizational level for SMEs. For that purpose, we undertook a systematic review of the literature. Our descriptive analysis highlights diverse but diffuse streams of academic literature dealing with the implications of digitization in terms of managerial challenges, with a predominance of “information systems and knowledge management” and “strategic” perspectives. In the content analysis, we identify an integrative framework of three managerial dimensions that should be viewed interdependently to succeed digital transformation in SMEs and thus should drive strategic change in a transformational context: (1) Rethinking digital infrastructures and processes and digital manager involvement, (2) Implementing new organizational and managerial mechanisms and (3) Identifying the responsibility of senior management in orchestrating change. Finally, the article outlines avenues for future research and underscores the need for a cross-disciplinary approach to support SMEs digital transformation. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 96-120 Issue: 2 Volume: 52 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2022.2072067 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2022.2072067 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:52:y:2022:i:2:p:96-120 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2115369_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Dirk De Clercq Author-X-Name-First: Dirk Author-X-Name-Last: De Clercq Author-Name: Renato Pereira Author-X-Name-First: Renato Author-X-Name-Last: Pereira Title: Mitigating the risk that peer-initiated task conflict escalates into diminished helping: roles of passion for work and collectivistic orientation Abstract: This study unravels the link between employees’ exposure to peer-initiated task conflict—defined as the extent to which they perceive that coworkers systematically contest and attack their opinions—and their engagement in helping behavior. Beliefs about interpersonal conflict might mediate this link, and two personal resources, passion for work and collectivistic orientation, arguably have moderating roles. To test these predictions, this study relies on survey data from employees who work in the banking sector, which confirm that peer-initiated task conflict diminishes helping behavior, because the focal employees come to believe coworkers are responsible for their emotion-based quarrels. Employees’ passion for work and collectivistic orientation buffer this harmful dynamic. Organizations thus should recognize that exposure to overcritical colleagues can undermine voluntary work behaviors, as well as consider how they might help reduce the force of this negative dynamic by enabling employees to find ways to draw from their supportive personal resources. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 163-184 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 52 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2022.2115369 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2022.2115369 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:52:y:2022:i:3-4:p:163-184 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2131228_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Elena Tavella Author-X-Name-First: Elena Author-X-Name-Last: Tavella Title: Strategizing in pluralistic organizations: extending theoretical frames to include disrupted contexts Abstract: Strategy work in pluralistic organizations has been investigated from different perspectives, including Actor-Network Theory, Conventionalist Theory, and the social practice perspective. However, these perspectives have been used to understand and influence strategy work in “business-as-usual,” rather than disrupted contexts. There is a challenge in understanding practices and processes that underpin the strategy work of pluralistic organizations facing disrupted contexts. This paper uses a narrative literature review to suggest the “improvised order” perspective for studying such strategy work by synthesizing and connecting three theoretical concepts: (dis)order, space, and bricolage. The improvised order perspective offers a complementary lens to the literature on strategy work in pluralistic organizations by showing the complexity of navigating between disorder and order, transforming space, and bringing to the fore practices required for strategy work in disrupted contexts. This paper also offers a set of propositions, which can stimulate future research on strategy work in pluralistic organizations facing disrupted contexts. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 185-204 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 52 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2022.2131228 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2022.2131228 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:52:y:2022:i:3-4:p:185-204 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2131232_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Chin-Ju Tsai Author-X-Name-First: Chin-Ju Author-X-Name-Last: Tsai Title: Cross-cultural leadership behavior adjustment and leader effectiveness: a framework and implications Abstract: In this paper, we propose a theoretical framework delineating the conditions under which expatriate business leaders are likely to adjust their leadership behaviors and how leadership behavior adjustment is related to leader effectiveness. The adjustment of leadership behaviors in cross-cultural contexts has been argued to be crucial for the effectiveness of leadership; however, little effort has been made to conceptualize the relationship between leadership behavior adjustment and leader effectiveness. We propose that factors at multiple levels can influence leadership behavior adjustments and that there is a reciprocal relationship between leadership behavior adjustments, leadership behaviors, and leader effectiveness. The theoretical contributions and extensions of the framework and practical implications for expatriate business leaders and multinational companies are discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 205-225 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 52 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2022.2131232 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2022.2131232 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:52:y:2022:i:3-4:p:205-225 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2180219_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Elisabeth F. Mueller Author-X-Name-First: Elisabeth F. Author-X-Name-Last: Mueller Author-Name: Stefanie Fuchs Author-X-Name-First: Stefanie Author-X-Name-Last: Fuchs Title: What holds a regional cluster together? The role of cluster actors’ identification and citizenship behavior for the effectiveness of a regional cluster Abstract: Working across companies in regional clusters has become a common practice, but there is limited research on the socio-psychological processes that bind cluster actors. Therefore, this study investigates the factors that hold regional clusters and their actors together. We combine research on social identity theory and organizational citizenship behavior with cluster research to advance knowledge of identification processes and citizenship behaviors in regional clusters. The results of a survey of cluster actors in a sensor technology cluster in Germany show that not all antecedents of identification considered important in organizational contexts play a role in cluster actors’ identification with the cluster. Cluster distinctiveness, visible cluster affiliation, and group formation are relevant but cluster prestige and inter- and intra-cluster competition are not. The results also emphasize the importance of cluster identification for cluster actors’ willingness to exhibit citizenship behavior and the importance of these behaviors as predictors of sustained cluster effectiveness. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 40-62 Issue: 1 Volume: 53 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2180219 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2180219 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:53:y:2023:i:1:p:40-62 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2174924_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Chin-Ju Tsai Author-X-Name-First: Chin-Ju Author-X-Name-Last: Tsai Author-Name: Kun Qiao Author-X-Name-First: Kun Author-X-Name-Last: Qiao Title: A cross-cultural examination of the fit between expected and observed leadership behaviors and employee satisfaction: an empirical study of the expectations and satisfaction of Chinese employees toward the leadership behaviors of their expatriate supervisors Abstract: Building on person-supervisor fit and implicit leadership theories, we examined the effect of the fit between expected and observed leadership behaviors on employee satisfaction in a cross-cultural context. The data we analyzed had been collected from 237 Chinese employees who reported directly to 40 expatriate senior managers. The results of the polynomial regression analyses and response surface modeling showed that a high degree of fit was associated with a high degree of supervisor satisfaction and that such satisfaction was higher when the expected and observed leadership behaviors exhibited a high level of alignment. Our study’s theoretical contributions and practical implications are discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 19-39 Issue: 1 Volume: 53 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2174924 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2174924 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:53:y:2023:i:1:p:19-39 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2148388_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stefano Di Lauro Author-X-Name-First: Stefano Author-X-Name-Last: Di Lauro Author-Name: Aizhan Tursunbayeva Author-X-Name-First: Aizhan Author-X-Name-Last: Tursunbayeva Author-Name: Gilda Antonelli Author-X-Name-First: Gilda Author-X-Name-Last: Antonelli Author-Name: Luigi Moschera Author-X-Name-First: Luigi Author-X-Name-Last: Moschera Title: Alignment of employees’ competencies with espoused organizational values Abstract: Building on previous values- and competencies-related scholarly research, in this paper we aimed to explore the relationship between espoused organizational values and competencies. We drew on LinkedIn data and focused on the top ten companies with “the best LinkedIn company pages” according to the annual #BestofPages contest launched by LinkedIn. The analysis revealed that values emphasis varied between individual companies and that only one company, the winner of the best LinkedIn company page context, had employees’ competencies fully aligned with the espoused organizational values.From the scholarly perspective, this research offers a piece of empirical evidence on the emphasis placed on espoused values in international organizations and provides a nontraditional approach for understanding competencies almost in real-time, which was labeled by previous scholars as a difficult problem. The analysis also helps to shed light not only on the existing versus needed/wanted competencies or their gaps but also provides an alternative approach to understanding how the competencies can mirror organizational values, evolve with them over time, and be better aligned to help organizations achieve their strategic aims. This is the practical contribution of this study. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 1-18 Issue: 1 Volume: 53 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2022.2148388 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2022.2148388 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:53:y:2023:i:1:p:1-18 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2184119_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Obinna Alo Author-X-Name-First: Obinna Author-X-Name-Last: Alo Author-Name: Ahmad Arslan Author-X-Name-First: Ahmad Author-X-Name-Last: Arslan Title: Meta-organizations and environmental sustainability: an overview in African context Abstract: This paper offers a conceptual overview of meta-organizations' role for environmental sustainability in the under-researched African context. The current paper is one of the few studies to offer a specific differentiation regarding the role and activities of meta-organizations for environmental sustainability in developed vs. emerging economies’ settings. The paper further offers an in-depth assessment of meta-organizations’ role for environmental sustainability in Africa, along with discussing major hurdles in this concern. Our analysis reveals several problems with business only meta-organizations in Africa, which significantly limit their role in ensuring environmental sustainability in this region. These problems include competing interests resulting in failure to accommodate multiple stakeholders, lack of responsible investing and environmental stewardship, along with institutional voids. Finally, the paper presents some potential solutions to overcome these problems. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 63-76 Issue: 2 Volume: 53 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2184119 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2184119 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:53:y:2023:i:2:p:63-76 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2184259_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jiachen Yang Author-X-Name-First: Jiachen Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Title: A middle-range theory of acquirer corporate governance and host-country institutional infrastructure in cross-border acquisitions Abstract: This study connects corporate governance and international business literature streams focused on cross-border acquisition success and failure. Based on the results of fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, we developed a mid-range theory stipulating that cross-border acquisition success and failure are associated with complementarities within and between the two groups of explanatory factors—acquirer corporate governance mechanisms and host-country institutions. Building on current research evidence suggesting the standalone necessity of solid acquirer corporate governance and high-quality host-country institutional infrastructure, we theorized that these two groups of explanatory factors play complementary roles in cross-border acquisition success. Our results also provide reinforcing evidence suggesting the duality of CEO power and the conjoined importance of host-country institutions in cross-border acquisitions. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 77-103 Issue: 2 Volume: 53 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2184259 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2184259 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:53:y:2023:i:2:p:77-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2184296_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pettis Kent Author-X-Name-First: Pettis Author-X-Name-Last: Kent Author-Name: Abhishek Sharma Author-X-Name-First: Abhishek Author-X-Name-Last: Sharma Author-Name: Mary Malliaris Author-X-Name-First: Mary Author-X-Name-Last: Malliaris Author-Name: Nenad Jukic Author-X-Name-First: Nenad Author-X-Name-Last: Jukic Author-Name: Arup Varma Author-X-Name-First: Arup Author-X-Name-Last: Varma Title: Perceived differences in confidence and ability of females: the role of human resources Abstract: Drawing on data from 65 undergraduate students in a college level Database Systems course, this study explores potential differences between men and women students in terms of their confidence to perform well prior to the course, their actual performance during the course, and their confidence after the course has concluded. We find that while the confidence level of women is lower than the men prior to the course, the actual performance of both groups during the course, as well as their confidence after the course, are similar to each other. Our study provides evidence that societal socialization and stereotypes may cause women students to believe that they cannot succeed in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects and thus careers. We discuss the implications of our findings for firms seeking gender diversity and we suggest future research ideas. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 104-123 Issue: 2 Volume: 53 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2184296 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2184296 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:53:y:2023:i:2:p:104-123 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2246711_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zhiwei He Author-X-Name-First: Zhiwei Author-X-Name-Last: He Author-Name: Xinbo Sun Author-X-Name-First: Xinbo Author-X-Name-Last: Sun Title: How do latecomer firms achieve disruptive innovation? A business ecosystem perspective Abstract: Based on previous research related to disruptive innovation and ecosystem governance, this paper aims to explore the process by which latecomer firms achieve disruptive innovation through building ecosystems. We adopted a single-case study approach to achieve a deeper theoretical construction of this emerging phenomenon. An emerging Chinese firm was selected through theoretical sampling. We used the Gioia methodology to code and analyze the extensively collected primary and secondary data. On this basis, we reveal the process by which it achieves disruptive innovation and examined the role of business ecosystem governance in this process. Our findings illuminate the dynamic process by which latecomers achieve disruptive innovation, showing that the latecomers can achieve both disruptive technology design and disruptive market reconfiguration with the help of the business ecosystem. The study also reveals two main approaches to ecosystem governance, namely relationship governance and value governance, which play different roles in different periods of ecosystem development. Consequently, our study enriches theories related to business ecosystem governance and disruptive innovation in the latecomers. Important management implications suggest that the latecomers must not only have the ability to create new advantages in differentiation technologies, but more importantly, to open up corresponding markets for maintaining technological advantages. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 191-216 Issue: 3 Volume: 53 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2246711 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2246711 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:53:y:2023:i:3:p:191-216 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2237388_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Guillaume Plaisance Author-X-Name-First: Guillaume Author-X-Name-Last: Plaisance Title: Which stakeholder matters: overall performance and contingency in nonprofit organizations Abstract: This article seeks to further the literature on the importance of stakeholders in the overall performance of nonprofit organizations. Specifically, in the French context, the effect of each type of stakeholder has to be studied. The stakeholders of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) indeed correspond to their environment, which is uncertain, unpredictable, complex, and sometimes hostile. Using French NPO reports and disclosures about their performance, multiple regressions establish the various effects of stakeholder consideration, which are heterogeneous, variable, and more or less positive. The results confirm the theoretical framework proposed from the contingent approach and the agency, stakeholders, resource dependency, and stewardship theories. The article thus defends a contingent view of performance and the importance of taking organizational characteristics into account when making decisions. Moreover, while the normative approach of stakeholder theory is important, it must be nuanced according to the nuisance power of stakeholders (which corresponds to the instrumental approach). To do this, stakeholders must be differentiated and prioritized (especially in terms of resources). The results also highlight an optimistic view of cooperation between sectors, whereas fears of negative isomorphisms are often highlighted. In short, this research calls for a nuance in best practices, in favor of adapting them to each NPO according to the organizational context. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 125-147 Issue: 3 Volume: 53 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2237388 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2237388 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:53:y:2023:i:3:p:125-147 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2238459_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jari Martikainen Author-X-Name-First: Jari Author-X-Name-Last: Martikainen Author-Name: Tiffany A. Tan Author-X-Name-First: Tiffany A. Author-X-Name-Last: Tan Title: How Finnish and Filipino university students in business studies perceive leaders based on visual cues Abstract: This article sets out to examine cultural differences in perceiving leaders’ visual non-verbal behavior. It examines and compares how business students at universities in Finland and the Philippines perceive business leaders based on visual cues, drawing on social psychological theories of social categorization, person perception, and the cultural dimensions of leadership and organization. A total of 32 university students of business studies participated in the study. They were presented with eight images of people with different visual expressions and reflected in writing on what kinds of leaders these people would be. The data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. The findings show that both Finnish and Filipino students had similar perceptions of what kinds of leaders the people in the images might be. However, in terms of leadership preferences, the Finnish students appeared to place more emphasis on the person’s level of communicativeness and friendliness, whereas levels of competence and commitment were emphasized more strongly by Filipino students. The theoretical approach and design of the study may be applied in research on leaders’ visual nonverbal expressiveness in multicultural organizations. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 148-166 Issue: 3 Volume: 53 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2238459 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2238459 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:53:y:2023:i:3:p:148-166 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2244827_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dag Yngve Dahle Author-X-Name-First: Dag Yngve Author-X-Name-Last: Dahle Title: Beat the rich? Employee voice inhibitors at the crossroads of market and privilege Abstract: Control-oriented HRM, performance appraisal dissatisfaction, and reputation concern are found to have a “muzzling effect” on teachers, partly through leader-member exchange. Does this effect vary with the level of (a) marketization, and (b) school popularity and privilege? These questions are examined using survey data from Norwegian upper secondary school teachers (N = 1055), and analyzed with path analysis and bootstrapping. Results support some, but not all, hypotheses. Analyses show that the inhibiting effects of performance appraisal dissatisfaction and reputation concern on employee voice are stronger in the highly marketized school field of Oslo than in schools in other areas, and vary with marketization level. The inhibiting effect of reputation concern on voice is stronger in privileged than in marginalized schools and varies with the level of privilege. No such patterns for the inhibiting effects of control-oriented HRM and PA dissatisfaction are found. The findings indicate that reputation management theory takes center stage, as voice is regarded as a reputation management tool. Institutional logics are too found to be crucial when understanding the results. Implications are tied to reputation concerns, leading to a stronger muzzling effect on teachers in marketized areas than elsewhere, and in privileged schools as compared to marginalized schools. This calls for caution with regard to differing marketization and privilege levels in school settings. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 167-190 Issue: 3 Volume: 53 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2244827 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2244827 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:53:y:2023:i:3:p:167-190 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2230418_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tamar Parush Author-X-Name-First: Tamar Author-X-Name-Last: Parush Author-Name: Nurit Zaidman Author-X-Name-First: Nurit Author-X-Name-Last: Zaidman Title: Collective emotional labor and subgroup dynamics in global virtual teams: a dramaturgical perspective Abstract: Emotional labor is a performance of job-required emotions, staged before an audience. Typically, this performance is not only individual but also collective in nature: it is an emotional display put on jointly by teams of employees. And yet, research into emotional labor has tended to neglect its collective aspects, analyzing it primarily as an individual rather than as a group act. This study aims to redress this gap. Drawing on Goffman’s dramaturgical analysis of social groups as “performance teams,” we reframe emotional labor as a collaborative performance at the group level. We then apply this framework to examine the intricacies of collective emotional labor between national subgroups in global virtual teams (GVTs), which communicate both cross-culturally and virtually. Based on semi-structured interviews with members of Indian-Israeli virtual teams in high-tech organizations, we show that each national subgroup in GVTs acts as an “emotional performance team” in front of the other subgroup/s as an audience; that this emotional labor tends to be suppressive rather than expressive and shallow rather than deep; and that the collective, suppressive, and shallow character of this emotional labor might fuel a paradoxical vicious cycle that exacerbates ethnocentrism and estrangement between national subgroups in GVTs rather than alleviating them. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 239-262 Issue: 4 Volume: 53 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2230418 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2230418 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:53:y:2023:i:4:p:239-262 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2235156_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Luciane Reginato Author-X-Name-First: Luciane Author-X-Name-Last: Reginato Author-Name: Dalila Cisco Collatto Author-X-Name-First: Dalila Cisco Author-X-Name-Last: Collatto Author-Name: Edgard Cornacchione Author-X-Name-First: Edgard Author-X-Name-Last: Cornacchione Title: The relationship between culture, controller behavior and corporate performance in large Brazilian companies Abstract: Historically both academia and practice keep paying attention to potential elements explaining organizations, management and performance. However, as such elements are typically observed in a narrow fashion, this study focuses on this research gap and brings all three constructs together, exploring relationships among them. We designed a field-based research supported by a fresh and exclusive sample of 116 large organizations, with financial data and responses from top-level executives. The goal is to explore the existence of relationships among organizational culture, controller behavior, and corporate performance. Three research hypotheses are discussed. In order to accomplish that, a combined set of statistical procedures was used, including descriptives, comparison of means, ANOVA, correlational and structural equation modeling. Findings support the claims of significant positive relationships between organizational culture and controller behavior, as well as between organizational culture and corporate performance. Beyond discussion of the results in light of the relevant reviewed literature, recommendations to academia and practice are present, as well as suggestions for future research in this area. The main contribution, along with these results, is the development of management models that encourage the best behavior of managers in the company and cultivate a culture that promotes better performance. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 263-290 Issue: 4 Volume: 53 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2235156 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2235156 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:53:y:2023:i:4:p:263-290 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2257537_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Majdi Quttainah Author-X-Name-First: Majdi Author-X-Name-Last: Quttainah Author-Name: Shubham Singhania Author-X-Name-First: Shubham Author-X-Name-Last: Singhania Author-Name: Sudhir Rana Author-X-Name-First: Sudhir Author-X-Name-Last: Rana Title: Gender diversity and financial performance: a quantified review based on bibliometric and cluster analysis Abstract: The board of directors of a firm are the principal decision-makers of all activities conducted by the firm, and hence, their composition demands attention. Diversity on boards can bring about varied sets of knowledge, perspectives, and abilities and can help the firm in solving a multitude of problems. By employing Bibliometric Analysis, this study aims to critically examine the intellectual development and geographical evolution in the domain of gender diversity and financial performance. A total of 463 research articles, extracted from the Scopus Database, are analyzed through various techniques such as citation analysis, co-citation analysis, content analysis and keyword co-occurrence analysis through the software VOSviewer. The study led to the identification of growth trends, prominent countries, authors, seminal articles, journals, major themes of study as well as emerging themes for future research. The study shall help the scholars working in this domain to have a comprehensive understanding of the topic and explore the relevant research gaps in the future. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 291-312 Issue: 4 Volume: 53 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2257537 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2257537 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:53:y:2023:i:4:p:291-312 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2207920_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Swati Tripathi Author-X-Name-First: Swati Author-X-Name-Last: Tripathi Author-Name: Divya Tripathi Author-X-Name-First: Divya Author-X-Name-Last: Tripathi Title: When do employees manipulate? Investigating the interplay of power value, political will, and hierarchy Abstract: This study examines a moderated mediation model to explore how the power value of an individual influences the use of manipulation tactics, and how hierarchy and political will of employees interact to influence this relationship. Data were collected from the employees of a public sector organization in India. Structural equation modeling has been used to explore the mediation and moderated mediation relationships between variables. The results of the study indicate that political will mediates the relationship between power value and the use of manipulation tactics, and hierarchy increases the use of manipulation tactics by strengthening the effect of political will on the use of manipulation tactics. The study elaborates upon the role of hierarchy in the process, thereby paving the way for a better understanding of leadership in the context of organizational politics. This study also calls for a fine-tuning of the organizational structure to make it more welcoming toward the political will and power values of the employees. This study also contributes to value studies and organizational psychology literature by explaining moderated mediation mechanisms through which power value and political will affect employees’ use of manipulation tactics. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 217-238 Issue: 4 Volume: 53 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2207920 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2207920 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:53:y:2023:i:4:p:217-238 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2268482_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Kavita Chavali Author-X-Name-First: Kavita Author-X-Name-Last: Chavali Author-Name: Sudha Mavuri Author-X-Name-First: Sudha Author-X-Name-Last: Mavuri Author-Name: Nirma Jayawardena Author-X-Name-First: Nirma Author-X-Name-Last: Jayawardena Author-Name: Manish Gupta Author-X-Name-First: Manish Author-X-Name-Last: Gupta Title: What is the impact of knowledge hiding behavior on subjective career success? The role of career barriers for finance professionals in modifying their career prospects Abstract: Hiding knowledge from colleagues prevents resource loss and gives a competitive edge. However, knowledge-hiding habits and subjective professional success have received minimal research. According to studies, government (non-competitive) and private (competitive) entities must be examined independently. In this study, the theory of conservation of resources (COR) is used to examine the moderating effect of career barriers on the relationship between three dimensions of knowledge hiding behavior (evasiveness, rationalization, and playing dumb) and subjective career success (organised and non-organised). In order to accomplish this objective, data collected from 280 knowledge employees from various industries was analyzed using the Warp partial least squares (Warp PLS) method. The results validated most predictions and contributed to the COR theory by pinpointing when employees’ resource conservation might change their career success judgements. The findings of this study can help organizations decide when to implement a human resource development intervention to reduce the impact of knowledge concealing on knowledge workers’ subjective career success. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 1-24 Issue: 1 Volume: 54 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2268482 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2268482 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:54:y:2024:i:1:p:1-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2277973_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Hoang Thi Kim Quy Author-X-Name-First: Hoang Thi Kim Author-X-Name-Last: Quy Author-Name: Mai Dong Tran Author-X-Name-First: Mai Dong Author-X-Name-Last: Tran Author-Name: Tien Minh Dinh Author-X-Name-First: Tien Minh Author-X-Name-Last: Dinh Title: Creative adaptability and negative emotions of employees during a crisis: the role of servant leadership Abstract: The main aim of this study is to examine the role of servant leadership (SL) in mitigating employees’ negative emotions (NE) while enhancing their creative adaptability (CA) during a crisis. A proactive personality model for employees was used as a mediator in these relationships. Additionally, the moderating effect of leader gender was explored in the link between the SL and NE of employees. Data were collected from 315 aviation employees during the pandemic crisis, with empirical findings revealing that SL had a negative impact on NE and a positive impact on CA among employees. The findings also confirmed the mediating role of proactive personality in these associations. Leader gender moderated the impact of SL on NE. The implications of these findings are discussed. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 48-67 Issue: 1 Volume: 54 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2277973 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2277973 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:54:y:2024:i:1:p:48-67 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2281207_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Rizwan Mushtaq Author-X-Name-First: Rizwan Author-X-Name-Last: Mushtaq Author-Name: Ghulam Murtaza Author-X-Name-First: Ghulam Author-X-Name-Last: Murtaza Author-Name: Dorra Yahiaoui Author-X-Name-First: Dorra Author-X-Name-Last: Yahiaoui Author-Name: Ishizaka Alessio Author-X-Name-First: Ishizaka Author-X-Name-Last: Alessio Author-Name: Qurat-ul-ain Talpur Author-X-Name-First: Qurat-ul-ain Author-X-Name-Last: Talpur Title: Impact of financial literacy on financial inclusion and household financial decisions: exploring the role of ICTs Abstract: The objective of this paper is to assess the extent of financial literacy and the impact of access to and use of ICTs (information and communication technologies) on household financial decisions, such as savings, retirement planning, household budgeting, and engagement in financial markets. This study analyzes survey data collected from 409 households belonging to the low- and middle-income brackets across four cities in Pakistan. By employing probit model, it finds that a higher level of (advanced) financial literacy is associated with an increased likelihood of improved savings and household budgeting. However, the overall financial literacy score (basic plus advanced) is associated only with savings decision. Additionally, the results reveal that the ICTs adoption plays a role in influencing decisions related to financial market participation and savings. The results also show that financial literacy, along with ICTs, positively influences financial market participation and retirement decisions. Nevertheless, results suggest mixed impacts of financial literacy and ICTs on financial decisions which lends partial support to the study hypotheses. In conclusion, our results underscore the importance of financial literacy alongside ICT adoption to promote financial market participation and improve household financial management. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 68-84 Issue: 1 Volume: 54 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2281207 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2281207 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:54:y:2024:i:1:p:68-84 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2277968_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Dirk De Clercq Author-X-Name-First: Dirk Author-X-Name-Last: De Clercq Author-Name: Renato Pereira Author-X-Name-First: Renato Author-X-Name-Last: Pereira Title: How resilient employees can prevent family ostracism from escalating into diminished work engagement and change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior Abstract: Drawing from conservation of resources theory and the work–home resources model, this research examines the hitherto overlooked but highly relevant link between employees’ experience of resource-draining family ostracism and change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior, with a specific focus on the mediating role of their work engagement and moderating role of their resilience. Tests of the research hypotheses, using survey data collected among employees who work in the construction retail industry, reveal that a core channel through which social exclusion by family members translates into diminished voluntary change efforts is that employees become less engaged with work. This intermediate role of lower work engagement is less prominent, however, among employees who have a greater ability to bounce back from challenging situations. For human resource (HR) management scholars, this study accordingly helps explain why a sense of being ignored at home may lead employees to become complacent in their change efforts: Employees exhibit less enthusiasm about work. But HR management practitioners can subdue this process to the extent that they enhance and leverage employees’ resilience levels. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 25-47 Issue: 1 Volume: 54 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2277968 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2277968 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:54:y:2024:i:1:p:25-47 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2301219_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Anshul Mandliya Author-X-Name-First: Anshul Author-X-Name-Last: Mandliya Author-Name: Jatin Pandey Author-X-Name-First: Jatin Author-X-Name-Last: Pandey Author-Name: Yusuf Hassan Author-X-Name-First: Yusuf Author-X-Name-Last: Hassan Author-Name: Abhishek Behl Author-X-Name-First: Abhishek Author-X-Name-Last: Behl Author-Name: Ishizaka Alessio Author-X-Name-First: Ishizaka Author-X-Name-Last: Alessio Title: Negative brand news, social media, and the propensity to doomscrolling: measuring and validating a new scale Abstract: Negative media coverage can have a significant impact on businesses and society. For instance, depressing news about the unethical features or harmful effects of a product or a service (e.g., Maggi’s lead issue) can significantly impact their brand image among consumers. We focused on studying whether consumers have a tendency to consume such negative news through online platforms. While there exists a considerable amount of empirical research and industry reports illustrating the implications of such news on businesses; interestingly, the consumer perspective on the same is rarely studied. In the current study, the authors have developed and validated the psychometric properties of “Propensity to Doomscrolling” (PTD), which is an individual tendency to surf/scroll through large amounts of painful, disheartening and sad news on the Internet. We started our scale with 12 items developed from qualitative interviews and existing literature on doomscrolling and compulsive negative news consumption. The final PTD scale consists of two subdimensions: perceived survival threat and fear of death, which can be measured through a seven-item scale proposed and initially tested in this study. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 137-158 Issue: 2 Volume: 54 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2301219 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2301219 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:54:y:2024:i:2:p:137-158 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2301210_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Adriana Ramirez-Cardona Author-X-Name-First: Adriana Author-X-Name-Last: Ramirez-Cardona Author-Name: Gregorio Calderón-Hernández Author-X-Name-First: Gregorio Author-X-Name-Last: Calderón-Hernández Title: Organizational coupling in higher education institutions: challenges for university governance Abstract: Control mechanisms have traditionally been used for managing organizations, but the development of concepts of loosely coupled or flexibly coupled systems offers an alternative for managing unbureaucratic organizations or ones whose broad social interactions and power relationships make them complex to manage, as in the case of university institutions. Tensions between loose and tight coupling are common in university governance, but they have not been adequately researched. Addressing this gap is the objective of this study. To do so, a case study methodology was selected, opting for three methods: documentary analysis, semi-structured interviews and focus groups. The findings made it possible to identify three determinant variables of governance: power – social interaction – coupling, which leads us to propose a model with four kinds of governance: control, collegial, self-regulated and concerted managerial. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 105-119 Issue: 2 Volume: 54 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2301210 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2301210 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:54:y:2024:i:2:p:105-119 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2301213_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Jorge Aníbal Restrepo-Morales Author-X-Name-First: Jorge Aníbal Author-X-Name-Last: Restrepo-Morales Author-Name: Marisol Valencia-Cárdenas Author-X-Name-First: Marisol Author-X-Name-Last: Valencia-Cárdenas Author-Name: Domingo García-Pérez-de-Lema Author-X-Name-First: Domingo Author-X-Name-Last: García-Pérez-de-Lema Title: The role of technological innovation in the mitigation of the crisis generated by COVID-19: an empirical study of small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in Latin America Abstract: PurposeThis article aims to analyze the role of innovation in mitigating the economic crisis generated by the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Latin American small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The goal is to determine whether actions, activities, and perceptions related to impact and positioning within three distinct areas—finance, management, and competition—contribute to increased innovation within companies, remain neutral in their effects, or have an inverse impact.Design/methodologyThe sample consisted of 9,186 SMEs from 14 countries in the Ibero-American region: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The data were analyzed using a structural equation model (SEM).FindingsThe study provides empirical evidence that the SMEs in the Ibero-American region have faced the crisis generated by the COVID-19 with a predominant negative impact on their financial factors and sales. These impacts have affected the organization, particularly at the operational level, leading to the need for self-financing and more conscious resource management. The most significant finding is that, as financial challenges, as in productivity, turnover, and profitability, among other difficulties, increase innovation actions.LimitationsResearch exposes limitations that pave the way for future studies. Firstly, the study relies solely on data obtained from top-level company consultations. Second, there are variations in sample sizes by country.Practical implicationsThe results reveal practical implications for SMEs owners and managers, shedding light on the influence of innovation in sustaining competitiveness during times of crisis. This, when combined with resilience, product quality, employee engagement and customer satisfaction, has facilitated the sustainability of a significant portion of SMEs that have weathered an unprecedented crisis.Originality-valueThe value of this work lies in highlighting the significance of innovation for SMEs and the opportunities that arise during a crisis to enhance competitiveness. Companies that have embraced innovations in the way they offer or deliver their products and services have managed to remain in the market despite the challenges posed by the crisis. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 120-136 Issue: 2 Volume: 54 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2301213 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2301213 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:54:y:2024:i:2:p:120-136 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: MIMO_A_2284467_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Houda Dziri Author-X-Name-First: Houda Author-X-Name-Last: Dziri Author-Name: Anis Jarboui Author-X-Name-First: Anis Author-X-Name-Last: Jarboui Title: The moderating effect of the CSR committee on the relationship between CSR performance and financial performance: empirical evidence from European firms Abstract: The present work is aimed to address the subject of CSR practice impact on corporate financial performance (measured via ROE), along with each of the CSR dimensions (social and environmental) respective effect, examined through the moderating effect of CSR committee, regarding a sample involving 473 European companies, observed over the time period ranging from 2015 to 2021. To test the moderating effect of the CSR committee and its respective characteristics on the relationship between CSR performance and financial performance of companies involving a CSR committee, we considered applying a panel-data based linear regression, administered through implementation of the Thomson Reuters ASSET4 database. Our findings show that CSR practices have a sustained positive and significant impact on the financial performance of companies. However, when examining the moderating effect, certain characteristics appear to be considered key factors for the proper functioning of the CSR committee, thereby improving the firm’s financial performance. The findings of this study provide multiple contributions for policymakers to improve the valuation of companies and strengthen the mechanisms for ensuring the financial performance of companies and their sustainability. Journal: International Studies of Management & Organization Pages: 85-104 Issue: 2 Volume: 54 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2023.2284467 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2023.2284467 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:54:y:2024:i:2:p:85-104