Trust, rather than being simply a resource for establishing collaborative relationships between organizations,is an essential component of their constitution. At base, trust involves interpersonal relations of a specifictype. These are relations where there is sufficient probability that a...

In this paper we consider the accounts of post-war Japan's economic development in terms of aconsideration of the argument from 'embeddedness'. We note the dangers implicit in approaches that tend to profferover-socialized accounts of action and stress the importance of institutionally and...

THIs chapter discusses some approaches to globalization that contribute to a critical management studies (CMS) agenda. The vast majority of the literature in management and organization theory takes an inveterately mainstream approach to globalization and lacks a critical perspective. Articles...

Strategy is supposed to lead an organization through changes and shifts to secure its future growth and sustainable success, and it has become the master concept with which to address CEOs of contemporary organizations and their senior managers. Its talismanic importance can hardly be...

The article presents the case study of a partnership between a metallurgy company and an NGO concerned with environmental protection. The partnership constituted an attempt to reconcile the firm's economic objectives with those of the citizens who lived in the area on which it had an ecological...