Although there has been much academic discussion of employee behaviours as potential barriers to market orientation, comparatively little attention has been focused on organizational barriers to market orientation. No single study has undertaken a holistic review of structural, strategic and...

Reports an investigation of some of the factors that influence product management decisions in consumer goods companies. Looks at a product manager's role in the whole organization, particularly the decision‐taking and participatory activity as a response to pressures from the working...

Reintroduces the concept of an integration phase in an organization′s social system to bring together its economic and technical sub‐systems, and to synthesize individual and organizational eeds. Details the basic principles and values inherent in such a phase, relates it to business‐led...

Organizational change inevitably involves uncertainty and hence some risk taking. Tests the relationship between organizational slack and risk taking in organization decision making, and thus provides some evidence on the role or organizational variables in risk‐taking behaviour. Product...

Reviews the ideas of Robert Fritz and discusses their implication for the practice of organizational change. The importance of “structure” is emphasized, which can give rise to two types of behaviour within the organization; “oscillation” and “resolving”. Oscillation is brought about...

States there is a persistent view that a perfect business model exists — which is managed by a logical, rational leader. Posits that the most successful organizational leaders are not exactly rational, logical, sensible, and dependable human beings — but are prone to irrational behaviour....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is: first, to present a qualitative descriptive case study of the Mayo Clinic leadership and organization development philosophy and approach; second, to summarize a strategy for using intentional organization design as a foundation for culturally aligned...

Examines the major current approaches to organizational analysis, amely accounting, marketing, behavioural, management services, consultative, systems and total quality. Describes an outline sketch of each showing the basic philosophy adopted and the techniques utilized. Discusses the...

The conflict between professional and bureaucratic models of behaviour has long been recognised. Evidence provided in the professional/bureaucratic literature indicates that this conflict will impact on the effectiveness of management control systems when dominant professionals, such as...

This article examines the construction of systems of meaning at two levels: the writing of the history of the corporation; and the role of annual reports in constructing a system of meaning about the experiences of individual corporations.We argue that the transaction cost explanation of...