practices in supply chain, and uses concepts of power, team and opportunistic alliance to suggest that supply chain could best … be described as an opportunistic alliance. Findings – Buyers and suppliers are always engaged in power struggles, even …

of power with particular reference to the ability of individual managers to balance between more or less … pursuing a degree of organizational change, but was ultimately transferred as the power relationships forged through her … nurturing critical power relationships. Research limitations/implications – The empirical analysis underscores the importance of …

the role of power and politics in its demise. Design/methodology/approach The “processual” or “contextualist” (Burns, 2000 … documents prepared either by or about the organisation. Findings Examining the inter-relationships of power and politics amongst … effectively transition the power held over resources, decision-making and meanings from the old to the new managers proved to …

theory intertwined with power and offers insights into how meaningful they are in explaining the dramatic influence of …

Purpose – Within the interface between power and charity, the purpose of this paper is to enhance an understanding of … investigation. Findings – The paper shows the interface of power (municipality) and charity (MIA) in the “government of poverty”, in … interdisciplinary analysis in order to increase an understanding of the interface of power and charity in ancien regime contexts, as …

power and trust of the agent(s)-in-focus. A meso-level analysis of the Victorian water industry highlighted how it was able … to mediate the exercise of power by the macro level through the early adoption of carbon accounting frameworks. At the …(s)-in-focus. The position-practice relationships at both the industry and organizational level were characterized by both soft power …

roles. By researching one board type – investment fund boards – and the power relations around those boards, the purpose of … theory methodology. Findings Because of their unique position of power, the authors find that fund promoter organisations … boards, boards of state-owned entities) have legal responsibility but limited power because of power exercised by other …

Purpose – This paper seeks to focus on civil society organizations (CSOs) and their capacity to exercise power in the … employment relationship. In particular, the paper is concerned with identifying the sources of power, how it is exercised and … suggests that CSOs have the capacity to exercise power and influence key employment actors. However, the power of CSOs is …