New evidence from a British electronics plant on the experience of a harmonisation programme is presented and questions the generally accepted favourable image of moves towards single status working. The presentation is novel in that instead of offering a traditional literature review followed...

Current models of strategy formulation do not always prove robust in application; here is one whose roles are short or long‐term criteria for financial control and the making of decisions at either corporate centre or business unit.

Issues around identity, agency and reflexivity are opened up and explored in a refreshing new perspective that deepens our understanding of organization and institutions. Body and Organization thorougly invigorates the study of process and brings the organization to three-dimensional life for a...

R&D Decisions, Strategy, Policy and Innovations explores how research and development decisions affect all of us. They are linked inextricably to the performance of firms and of economics as a whole. Their importance means that they are of concern to a large number of practitioners,...

1. Paradigm plurality and its prospects -- 2. Organizational knowledge : production and consumption -- 3. Escaping the confines of organization theory / with Ian Atkin -- 4. Actor-networks and sociological symmetry / with Christine McLean -- 5. Fluidity and identity / with Beverly Metcalfe -- 6....