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Purpose – In order to provide new and other directions to institutional studies in organization theory, Lawrence and Suddaby forward the notion of institutional work of actors aimed at maintaining, changing and disrupting institutions. The purpose of this paper is to further theory and method...
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For more than a century companies’ organizational variables have been studied and researched. Historically, the practice is to focus on the precursors in the management sciences field, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Henri Fayol and Max Weber, the founders of the classical organization theory...
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‐Fordism, at least for the labour force, is nothing more than a ploy by the advocates of capital to further perpetuate control …
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Explores a scenario for how work can be organized in a circular manner. Outlines two tendencies in work relations: a return to authoritarian governance of the workplace, and at the same time, the inevitable and necessary shift towards more participation. Subsequently, explores the possibility of...
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, including from within the labour movement itself. Originality/value – The value of the paper lies in its theoretical innovation …
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Purpose – Efforts by police organisations to unionise and to increase their social and labour rights is an …/value – The paper illustrates how, in a rapidly changing police labour environment, police unions have the capacity to confront …
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migrants' efforts to build inter‐ethnic and labour‐community coalitions in struggle against racism. Design … labour unions. However, migrants have succeeded, on occasions, in class mobilization by building powerful inter‐ethnic ties … emergence of inter‐ethnic bonds and labour‐community coalitions in class struggle. Practical implications – The research will …
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Total quality management (TQM) is usually presented as a proven “win‐win” solution to the problems of private and public sector organizations. However, actual TQM programmes (under a variety of names) have a poor track record in their own terms and a strong faddish appearance. Despite the...
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