internal and external scripts and specific scripts are associated with decoupling and/or recoupling strategies and business … survival. Decoupling occurs with internal scripts relating to business strategy and external scripts relating to community …

resource dependency theories, the purpose of this paper is to explore how managers perceive constraint and enact agency amidst …

hospital administrators with a practical method for developing a useful management strategy in order to improve service quality …, the goal of non‐profit organizations when restructuring or improving their management processes is not the pursuit of …

-stakeholder power perspective to the discourse on repatriate retention, which has, to date, treated issues of career agency without … topics of power and social media and explaining their relevance to repatriation (and indeed, to the field of international … demonstrates that the topic of power has been completely neglected by the repatriation literature. Similarly, the topic of social …

implementation of a new government policy within a public service organisation, and to examine the power relations revealed in each … analysis in the organisation. Findings Bottom-up agency rather than top-down structural change is the main influence on policy … organisational change and power relations than surveys. Originality/value This research poses new questions over the value of …

, exclusiveness and formalization, mediated by power distribution between dealers and manufactures. Second, the developed framework … structure were fundamental to understand why the power center was different in these two countries that resulted in different … strongly influence dealers’ daily management decisions. Research limitations/implications The incentive programs analyzed are …

measurement and management the paper analyzes power as a dynamic and relational concept. The study also sheds new light on the …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how performance management practices are implicated in the exercise … of power with particular reference to the ability of individual managers to balance between more or less …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how occupations and the institutional setting shape the power balance … (individual bargaining power) between employees and employers. It builds on theoretical approaches on knowledge work and … institutional theory. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses the European Social Survey data in 2010/2011 to compare the power …

influence in explaining RRD: companies appear to manage their reputation through disclosure of risk‐related information. Agency … to be explained by a confluence of agency theory, legitimacy theory and resources‐based perspectives.  …