This thesis explores the transferability of Western MBAs to the Chinese management
education context and the associated challenges of teaching across cultures …

Thomas Kuhn's concept of a normal science paradigm has been utilised and criticised
across a range of social science fields. However, Kuhn's aim was to argue that science …

Determining the quality of work life (QWL) of employees is an important consideration for
employers interested in improving employees' job satisfaction and commitment. The …

The aim of this paper is to trace the processes of translation through which coaching
transports, transforms and transgresses therapeutic discourses into the managerial realm …

This thesis provides an account of an empirically-based research project on the UK
Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) and the politics of academic freedom, developed in …

While many factors contribute to individuals' experiences of well-being, public discourses
capitalize on individuals' achievements when celebrating the value of their lives. Particularly …

This contribution illustrates how the technological mediation of knowledge transfer, here
through the use of electronic knowledge sharing repository, leads to disqualify work through …

It ent and has as decentralized become an commonplace era of fragmentation, control. to
brand the pres-swift change, Such pressures can strain and crack bureaucratic foundations …

Chapter 2 suggested that the problems associated with rationality must be regarded as
problems that are intrinsically linked to representationalism and that they manifest …

The goals set for my research project aim at investigating dynamics and processes which
take place in Free Software projects. The specific interest of the research rests on how users' …