Publisher Description of the book: This book addresses the concept of knowledge, and its use in the contexts of work and organizations. It provides a critical understanding of current approaches to knowledge management, organization and the 'knowledge economy'. The author describes a number of...

The main point of this article is to draw attention to some fundamental issues underlying the study of women managers. The article focuses particularly on the question: Why are there so few women managers? In seeking an answer to this question we explore a number of possible "explanatory"...

This article presents a meta-theoretical perspective on current studies of organizational culture. The aim is to promote reflection about the issues and aspects that are being investigated, and even more those that are being neglected. The paper identifies and criticizes a preoccupation with...

This paper draws upon Critical Theory, especially the Frankfurt School, and advocates a critically oriented marketing theory which breaks away from the technicist preoccupations dominating much of traditional marketing science. The conventional assumption of marketing as being in the business of...

Organizational culture has become misleading as a concept, because it equates organization and culture while neglecting societal dimensions, and because it tends to reify the two concepts which it incorporates. We suggest instead the idea of esprit de corps to denote the local cultural phenomena...