Many organizations must manage concurrent projects that place competing demands on shared human and technical resources. An empirically based framework for analyzing development time in such contexts is developed. The product development organization is modeled as a stochastic processing network...

For many years, the core of critical management studies was "labor process theory" (LPT), building on Braverman's (1976) reading of Marx. Recently, LPT has been losing momentum in favor of poststruturalist approaches. This paper takes one step back with the hope of taking critical management...

The Human Resource Business Process Outsourcing industry (HR-BPO) represented $21.7 billion in revenue in 2000 and over 8% of total HR spending that year, an even larger proportion among large firms, and growing rapidly. Proponents argue that outsourcing will re-energizing HR: in-house,...