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...

This paper reports a study of a Swedish School company, characterized by charismatic leadership and a radical vision, trying to create and implement standard operating procedures. We illuminate how efforts to bureaucratize are given meanings quite different to conventional ones of experiences of...

This paper explores how organizational identity is constructed in four very different management consulting firms. The study suggests four broad dimensions that organizational members refer to in constructing their organizational identity: Knowledge Work, Management and Membership, Personal...

Summary Research on management consultancy usually emphasizes the role and perspective of the consultants. Whilst important, consultants are only one element in a dynamic relationship involving both consultants and their clients. In much of the literature, the client is neglected, or is assumed...

The paper discusses collectivity in an organizational context. Collectivity refers to the interface between the social and the cultural. It is a social ’unit’, but it is defined through the meanings, definitions and distinctions of the people involved. The paper addresses cultural and...

Despite the great interest in organizational identity, empirical studies are relatively rare. As yet, there have been no major comparative case studies of this phenomenon. Single case studies have yielded in-depth understanding of the process of identity construction in specific organizations,...