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Serves as an introduction to the special issue on organizational longevity published in the Journal of Organizational Change Management. The issues of researching and writing about organizational longevity are described and the content of the special issue is related to a theoretical perspective...
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on a temporary organization’s struggle for immortality.  …
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Just what is the “self”, the core identity of an organization whose longevity we might want to study? What is it that persists, that has the longevity we are trying to explain? This essay is a reflection on the answers to these questions.
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Suggests a method for studying the survival strategies employed by organizations that exhibit hyperlongevity, the … organization’s development from the historical record of what the organization did. The strategies actually pursued by the managers …
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related analysis of the learning organization and the kinds of leaders necessary to pilot organizations through uncertain …
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individuals within organizations not only as a means of self‐fulfillment but also as a primary component of meeting the larger … development of individual potential as well as stakeholder and client satisfaction. Organizations building competence seek to …
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A normative hurdle needs to be taken of moving beyond claims that relationship(s) of exploitation (neo‐Marxism) and bureaucracy (neo‐Weberian) are determinate, and that there is nothing new under the sun. Descriptive research is needed into what is new in the knowledge work economy/society....
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observe innovative negotiation modes and the construct of organizations’ models. These models aim to associate the principles … illustrate the debate on the renewal of the Taylorian approach for organizations. Historically, in France, the action of trade … union organizations has been deeply rooted in the protest against the Taylorian model; today the union movement constitutes …
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This paper is an introduction to the special issue on “The leading edge in research on spirituality and organizations … spirituality and religion in modern Western society, with particular emphasis on how this affects organizations. The aims of the …
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Researchers in the burgeoning new field of spirituality in organizations face a number of significant field …‐shaping questions, e.g. how should spirituality in organizations be defined and what research methods are most appropriate for this work … these questions by mapping the terrain of current spirituality in organizations research, in three stages. It begins by …
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