Managers’ power within organisations has been analysed by several approaches: Orthodox management and organisation studies (‘functional approach’), Critical Management Studies (‘socio-political approaches’), interpretive, discourse-oriented and constructivist concepts...

Summary In this research note, we address the role of employee emotions during organizational change processes. While prior studies have examined emotions during a single change, such research analyzes emotions and change as snapshot events. In addition, we lack sufficient knowledge of the role...

Managers’ power within organisations has been analysed by several approaches: Orthodox management and organisation studies (‘functional approach’), Critical Management Studies (‘socio-political approaches’), interpretive, discourse-oriented and constructivist concepts...

1. Introduction -- 2. The longevity of hierarchy -- 3. A general theory of hierarchical social systems -- 4. Application of the theory : how hierarchy works -- 5. Socrates : the un-normal normal person who won by losing -- 6. Why things (almost always) don't change.

Introduction -- Managers and managerialism -- Power and control within organisations -- Managers' interests in dominance -- The ideology of management -- A theory of the dominance of managers -- How managers create, justify, and conduct strategic change in their organisation : a case study --...