Management consulting started to evolve in Estonia around 40 years ago. The development was affected by the consulting practice and literature mostly from the United States and neighbouring Finland. The most important factors in the development of the consulting sector in Estonia were direct...

This paper analyses 28 Estonian and 33 Finnish doctoral dissertations on organization and management published between 1960 and 1989. The paper reviews their content and leading theme, methodology and main contributions. The principal thrust of the paper is to compare the evolution of...

The general problem in emerging economies is that there is no well-defined system that supports a balanced relationship between management and other stakeholders of the firm. This paper describes how emerging systems of corporate governance in the Baltic States have interacted with economic...

In this article, we analyze the longitudinal relationship between organizational reforms (with downsizing elements) and feminization of a specific managerial position. We maintain that two dominant contemporary approaches to reforms and change, i.e. the managerialist literature and its...

In diesem Beitrag wird der Zusammenhang zwischen Organisationsreformenund der Feminisierung einer spezifischen Managementposition aus einerLangzeitperspektive analysiert. Den Ausgangspunkt bildet eine Kritik an derzeitdominierenden Erklärungsansätzen zum Organisationswandel. Sowohl...

In this article, we analyze the longitudinal relationship between organizational reforms (with downsizing elements) and feminization of a specific managerial position. We maintain that two dominant contemporary approaches to reforms and change, i.e. the managerialist literature and its...

We argue in this paper that corporate language policies have significant power implications that are easily overlooked. By drawing on previous work on power in organizations (Clegg, 1989), we examine the complex power implications of language policy decisions by looking at three levels of...