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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. Socio-economic Studies 20 (2009) 4, pp. 348-372
been criticised as exercising power over employees in an unobtrusive, yet effective way. Within the literature from both … a complex and paradoxical instrument of power and governance in organisations. We suppose that enterprise cannot stand …
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Personnel Departmental Power: Realities from the UK Higher Education Sector
Farndale, Elaine; Hope-Hailey, Veronica - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 20 (2009) 4, pp. 392-412
department to individual practitioner level. There remains, however, significant functional power in organisational structures … confirms the continuation of the low power position of the department. An exploration of the empirical data highlights why: the … routine rigidity of power in organisational structures, the fragmentation of departmental power, and Personnel role ambiguity. …
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A Multi-dimensional Analysis of Managers’ Power – Functional, Socio-political, Interpretive-discursive, and Socio-cultural Approaches
Diefenbach, Thomas; By, Rune Todnem; Klarner, Patricia - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 20 (2009) 4, pp. 413-431
Managers’ power within organisations has been analysed by several approaches: Orthodox management and organisation … such as managers’ power in multi-dimensional ways. …
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Bodily Practices as Vehicles for Dehumanization in an Institution for Mental Defectives
Malacrida, Claudia - In: Societies 2 (2012) 4, pp. 286-301
This article analyzes the processes of dehumanization that occurred in the Michener Center, a total institution for the purported care and training of people deemed to be mental defectives[1] that operated in Alberta, Canada. I report on qualitative interviews with 22 survivors, three...
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The spatial downgrading of accounting clerks: the case of Pont-à-Mousson
Labardin, Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
Bourdieu's notion of social space to bring together spatial practices and overhead cost calculations, and Foucault's analysis …
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Micro-political Games in the Multinational Corporation: The Case of Mandate Change
Doerrenbaecher, Christoph; Geppert, Mike - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 20 (2009) 4, pp. 373-391
Micro-political conflicts associated with corporate internationalization have been neglected by and large in the literature so far. Despite early consideration by the behavioral theory of internationalization, the specific strength of a micro-political approach, i.e. combining actors’...
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Die Sozialpartner und der Wandel in der Politik der beruflichen Bildung seit 1970 (The Social Partners and Changes in Vocational Training Policy since 1970s)
Busemeyer, Marius R. - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 16 (2009) 3, pp. 273-294
Dieser Aufsatz dokumentiert die Entwicklung der Politik der beruflichen Bildung seit den 1970er Jahren unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung der Rolle der Sozialpartner. Im Sinne eines qualitativ-historischen Ansatzes wird dabei auf umfangreiche Primaer- und Sekundaerquellen sowie Erkenntnisse aus...
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Opening to the World through the Lived Body: Relating Theory and Practice in Organisation Consulting
Farrands, Robert - In: International Journal of Action Research 5 (2009) 1, pp. 114-114
to which power resources to tap. Though the specific national systems of industrial relations influence the unions …
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Regulierungsform und Verbetrieblichungsneigung von Managern und Betriebsraeten. Ergebnisse einer empirischen Erhebung
Nienhueser, Werner; Hossfeld, Heiko - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 14 (2007) 4, pp. 289-289
Kritiker des deutschen Flaechentarifvertragssystems fordern eine staerkere Nutzung betrieblicher Verhandlungsloesungen. Die Folgen einer solchen Abkehr vom System der Flaechentarifvertraege (Verbetrieblichung) haetten vor allem die Betriebe und deren Akteure zu tragen. Der vorliegende Beitrag...
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A New Model for Workplace Development in Finland. Rethinking Employee Participation and the Quality of Working Life in the Context of Broad-based Innovation Policy
Alasoini, Tuomo - In: International Journal of Action Research 8 (2012) 3, pp. 245-265
This article considers possibilities and challenges included in the attachment of workplace development as a part of innovation policy. The example used here is Finland, which has carried out a determined innovation policy for a long time and where the government and labour market organisations...
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