Scandals and normality are at opposite extremes in the continuum of social reproduction of the existing order. As normality has no clear definition, scandals benefit a huge amount from classifications, however, the dissatisfactions fail to provide an overall conceptual map. I develop a four-type...

Management fads are increasingly a hot topic within Organization Theory. Recent articles have described the production process of fads, the role of «ideological» waves in explaining their emergence, and the development of management rhetoric supporting the fads. Despite this growing interest,...

This timely and important book provides a critical analysis of the changes and challenges that currently affect European universities. Using both theoretical contributions and applied case studies, leading experts argue that universities as institutions are in need of change – although the...

Power is not a single social phenomenon. It is a socially constructed concept of certain social phenomena. This article presents some different concepts of power derived from empirical studies of organizational behaviour in various political, organizational and cultural contexts. Reference is...

Power as an explanatory notion attracts the attention of many researchers, but the results produced are ambiguous, mainly because of differences in the operational definitions of power. The study reported below explores the uses of power as an experiential concept -- a construct used by...