This article analyses contemporary issues relevant to understanding the changing nature of
management and managerial work. The argument is developed in four parts. First, to …

This article provides a cross‐national, qualitative investigation into the experiences of
middle managers in large organizations in the USA, the UK and Japan, following …

In recent years, widespread organisational change in large corporations has almost
invariably led to work intensification and increased stress for managers. Managing in the …

Whereas social theorists, qualitative investigators and survey-based analysts suggest
advanced economies are increasingly characterized by managerial job insecurity, database …

This paper sets out to investigate whether the recent wave of organisational restructuring
has contributed to the further decline of the internally promoted manager or produced a new …

Managers' careers and career orientations have changed significantly since the era of
organizational change that began around 20-30 years ago. This article focuses on how …

abstract The end of the traditional management career has been heralded with supporting,
albeit largely anecdotal, data. The 'old'career was set within internal labour markets in large …

In the late 1980s, a series of reports—notably,“The Making of Managers” by CharlesHandy-
outlined a development path for management in theU. K. This was to be based on the …

Research on the new managerial regimes has been hampered by its neglect of the question
of human agency—specifically, the nature of workers' responses to the advent of the new …

The paper presents an alternative understandingof managerial work based upon a
reconstruction of laborprocess theory. Drawing upon contemporary studies ofmanagement …