Examines the relationship between trust and participation in decision making and the cultural differences and similarities between Chinese and Australian managers. Finds that the level of trust placed by managers in th eir subordinates has a direct impact on the managers’ attitudes towards...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Author biographies -- Acknowledgements -- Two important notes before we start -- PART I: Prologue -- Introduction -- The roadmap for the book -- Intentions and a credo -- Is studying evil a positive endeavour? -- A...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- 1. Management, organizations and contemporary social theory -- Exploring social theory -- The cast of characters -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2. Harold Garfinkel and ethnomethodology --...

Purpose – This paper aims to clarify a paradox in an organisation: in the past, formally powerful “central” actors confronted important limitations in their relations with formally less powerful actors. However, three innovations – the financial accounting module of an enterprise...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore organizational induction as socially situated learning processes. It presents an empirical study of inductees going through an induction program in a medium sized bank and discusses their induction as a dual process of becoming a practitioner...

In this paper, we propose an understanding of what personnel professionals consume when they “adopt” black‐box management initiatives (Scarbrough, 1995; Wilson, 1992). Second, we explore the way in which professional associations and, hence, institutional actors pursue their own professional...