The management scholar Henry Mintzberg has situated company strategies on a continuum that ranges from those that are the result of deliberate internal decisions, on one extreme, to those that emerge largely as a response to external pressures, on the other. This framework is applied to the...

The historiography of business history is often recounted in linear terms, as evolving from a Chandlerian era focused on big business to a post-Chandlerian period marked by the study of a wide variety of organizational forms and topics. Taking a longer and more global perspective, we offer a...

This paper contributes to the debate about new organizational forms in professional service firms (PSFs) by suggesting an alternative to extant accounts of how change takes place. To explain the displacement of community forms of organizing by more corporate forms, much of the literature has so...

The management scholar Henry Mintzberg has situated company strategies on a continuum that ranges from those that are the result of deliberate internal decisions, on one extreme, to those that emerge largely as a response to external pressures, on the other. This framework is applied to the...

In analyzing banks as organizations this paper employs a model which distinguishes between three main actor groups in an organization: providers, personnel and customers. They are linked together by technology through different kinds of actor interface. Through the analysis four organizational...

Economics in Sweden contains the results of one of the most comprehensive attempts to evaluate research in economics ever undertaken. A team of Swedish and international researchers, including Avinash K. Dixit, Seppo Honkapohja and Robert M. Slow, examined the structure of economics in Sweden...

The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the recent problems within the banking industry by means of modern organization theory. The second section of the paper discusses the development of this theory through a successive challenge of the work of the classical authors. Three tendencies are...