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Challenging the conventional wisdom on enterprise: Control and autonomy in a direct selling organisation

Groß, Claudia; Jung, Nicole - In: Management Revue 20 (2009) 4, pp. 348-372

Entrepreneurialism within organisations has been praised for serving employees and employers alike, but it has also been criticised as exercising power over employees in an unobtrusive, yet effective way. Within the literature from both advocates and critics, two dichotomies prevail. First,...

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An interpretative framework for analysing managerial ideology, normative control, organizational culture and the self

Kiaos, Theaanna - In: Cogent Business & Management 10 (2023) 1, pp. 1-17

This article presents an interpretative framework that fuses together key concepts that would be applied by way of ethnographic and qualitative research methods. The framework seeks to enable interpretations concerning the subjective experience of employees under various cultural conditions by...

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Romanian Perspective on Customer Loyalty for Direct Selling Companies

Bobalca, Claudia - In: CES Working Papers 6 (2014) 3, pp. 6-16

The purpose of the research is to investigate Romanian direct sellers’ perceptions on customers’ loyalty. The research objectives are: (1) to identify the direct sellers’ perceptions on the concept of loyalty; (2) to identify the main loyalty techniques that direct sellers use in their...

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Human Resource Management – Eine Annäherung in kritischer Absicht

Wächter, Hartmut - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 20 (2013) 4, pp. 343-366

Human Resource Management (HRM) ist trotz umfangreicher Diskussion in der amerikanischen, britischen und deutschsprachigen Literatur ein schillernder Begriff geblieben, mit dem unterschiedliche Phänomene und Konzepte verbunden werden. Auch Versuche, den ökonomischen Erfolg des HRM messbar zu...

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Critical management studies in the South African context

Goldman, Geoff A. (contributor) - 2016

The purpose of the book is to establish the first formalised scholarly work on critical management studies (CMS) in the South African context. The book is a collection of seven chapters, six of which employ a conceptual methodology and one of which follows an interpretive paradigm employing...

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The manager as facilitator of dialogue

Raelin, Joseph A. - In: Organization 20 (2012) 6, pp. 818-839

In this article a new role for managers is advocated to create conditions for genuine collaborative engagement in 21st Century organizations. The new role is as a facilitator of emancipatory dialogue, a discourse among parties that can lead to mutual learning, deep understanding and insight, and...

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Contextualizing entrepreneurship theory

Baker, Ted; Welter, Friederike - 2020

"As the breadth and empirical diversity of entrepreneurship research have increased rapidly during the last decade, the quest to find a "one-size-fits-all" general theory of entrepreneurship has given way to a growing appreciation for the importance of contexts. This promises to improve both the...

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Religion in Public Institutions: Comparative Perspectives from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe

Cadge, Wendy; Griera, Mar; Lucken, Kristen; … - In: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 56 (2017) 2, pp. 226-233

Much is known historically about the formal place for religion and spirituality in various countries. Less is known … sociologically about the actual ways religion and spirituality are present in public institutions or about the conceptual and … framework for analyzing ways religion and spirituality shape and are shaped by public institutions across three distinct sectors …

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Afterword: On the Study of Religion in Public Institutions

Cadge, Wendy; Griera, Mar; Lucken, Kristen; … - In: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 56 (2017) 2, pp. 255-258

Each of the essays presented enters the conversation about religion in public institutions through a different analytic doorway. The essays presented here enlarge and challenge various aspects of our initial analytic framework and enable us to see our blind spots and propose next steps....

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You reap what you sow: The role of Karma in Green purchase

Chairy, Chairy; Syahrivar, Jhanghiz - In: Cogent Business & Management 7 (2020) 1, pp. 1-13

's deeds in the present will influence his or her fate in the future or in the next life. In this study, spirituality and long …) There is a partial mediation of spirituality in the relationship between karma and green purchase intention and, 3) Karma … has a positive effect on spirituality and long-term orientation. Theoretical contribution as well as managerial …

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