A key feature of recent debates within the sociology of organizations has been the
tremendous wealth of criticism levelled at the concept and practice of'bureaucracy'. Indeed …

In a paper titled 'Design and Devotion'published in 1992 in Administrative Science Quarterly,
Barley and Kunda examined the historical evolution of managerial ideology in the United …

Our aim in this paper is to explore how one might approach the language of new capitalism
working in a transdisciplinary way. We come from different disciplinary and theoretical …

The paper offers a (partial) review of the philosophy of postmodernism as it applies to social
science in general and management and organization theory in particular. Initially, some of …

Purpose–This paper aims to build on recent work in the field of management and
historiography that argues that management theorizing needs to be understood in its …

Our answer, in brief, is that the distinctiveness of the new capitalist societies of East Central
Europe is due to the coalition of class fractions and elites which currently rule them. This …

What is management and how do the people who become managers take on a managerial
identity? How does text inform the manager's identity? From cultural studies we understand …

abstract This paper has three objectives. First, to provide an exposition of the 'realist turn'in
contemporary organization and management studies. Second, to assess the detailed …

The paper presents a critical analysis of dominant images and ideals of managerial work to
be found in the writings ofthe founding fathers, popular management books and empirical …

This paper explores three crucial roles of the organizational theatre: managers, leaders and
entrepreneurs. Changing fashion in the organizational theory debate as well as in …