This text briefly depicts the history of an encounter between anthropology and organization theory in the Anglo-Saxon literature in the period 1990-2010 as seen by an organization scholar. In focus are some stable characteristics and some changes in this relationship, against the background of...

Using sociological institutionalism the three articles constituting this dissertation scrutinize the relationship between organizations and their (social) environment at different levels of analysis and in the context of specific research questions. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in...

Der Aufsatz widmet sich dem Verhältnis von formaler Organisation, informaler Organisation und Regelverletzung und versucht so einen Beitrag zu einem veränderten Verständnis von "Organisation" zu leisten. Angeregt durch eine Charakterisierung der Literatur durch Jorge Luis Borges, kommt der...

Das vorliegende Dokument stellt ein Bericht einer Arbeitsgruppe dar, die sich mit folgender These auseinandersgesetzt hat: ...Irritation ist das Ereignis vor einer Idee. Irritation ist die staunende Überraschung.Sie setzt Intelligenz und Verstehen voraus und ist zu unterscheiden...

Much recent work on firms' capabilities and competitive competences builds on Penrose's (1959) seminal contribution to the theory of the firm in emphasising their organisational nature, and the critical role of managerial routines in transforming resources into distinctive services (see, e.g....

Learning theory in the context of organisations has come a long way in its efforts to encapsulate the cultural, political and social dimensions of learning (Cook & Yanow, 1993; Coopey, 1995; Easterby-Smith et al., 1999, 2000). However, learning as practiced by individuals still remains relatively little...