1 Researching values in leadership and organisation. Introduction -- Part I: Methodological approaches to researching values -- 2 Values at work: Mapping the field through the lens of methodological approaches -- 3 Definitions as Initial and Final Point of Values Research? Searching for...

The aim of this book is to investigate the discursive power of two original, theoretical lenses when applied to real outsourcing arrangements and phenomena. The Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and Foucauldian perspectives are brought to bear on five outsourcing relationships in order to test...

Klärung der Frage, warum das Management einer ethischen Legitimation bedarf und diese dennoch scheitert -- Grundlegung des diskursiv-integren Managements -- Datenerhebungen mit Think-Aloud-Protokollen

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Literature Review -- Chapter 3. Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 4. Research Methods -- Chapter 5. A Descriptive Study of Multi-Dimensional Discursive Features in Chinese and American Banks’ CSR Reports -- Chapter 6. A Contrastive Study of Chinese and...

1. Introduction -- 2. Objective View of Time and Temporality: Time as a Tool for Organizing -- 3. Subjective Time as Subjectively Perceived Temporal Dimensions of Objective Time -- 4. Temporality – Endogenous and Subjective -- 5. Socially Constructed Time and Social Time as a Context -- 6....

Exploring an emerging area of interest, this book brings together indigenous studies and organization and management research to discuss the complexities of researching indigenous organizations and forms of organizing. Covering various intersections between indigenous peoples, communities,...

As a method for empirical inquiry, autoethnography has gained much purchase among business school academics. This book offers exemplars of how autoethnography can be leveraged to study myriad organization and management phenomena. Drawing on his own fieldwork in Palestine, the author engages...

Life, viability, and the art of keeping one’s balance -- VSM in fifteen minutes - How does a soccer club function? -- The product – core and foundation of the organization -- „Joining and coordinating forces“ – The operational metasystem (part 1) -- “Controlling and Optimizing” -...

Preface: Materiality, Institutions & Organizing -- Introduction: Institution and Materiality -- Institutionalization as bricolage: A material perspective -- Footsteps in the sand: consequences of conformity in complex institutional environment -- The problem of ontological fluctuations in...

Part I: Diagnosing the System Architecture of Organizations -- Part II: Diagnosing the Systemic Governance of Organizations -- Part III: Purpose and Power - Diagnosing Dysfunctionalities in the Organization's Purpose