Purpose – To explore how an increasing attention which is being paid to language and culture in organisations can help people to understand the impact of particular management concepts in business practices. Design/methodology/approach – A range of publications has been selected to indicate...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide an alternative explanation for the rise of modern management schools at the turn of the twentieth century. It is to be argued that these schools were not just responses of the higher education system to the demand of industrializing companies for a new...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide insights into the evolution of the concept of interdisciplinarity in management science and management education. Design/methodology/approach – A range of recently published (1993‐2002) works, which aim to provide practical advice rather than...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to claim that Habermas's pragmatic speech act theory helps us to extend our understanding of how management concepts are actually applied. First, the relevant features of management concepts are examined, to indicate how the diffusion of knowledge about...

Purpose – This article seeks to examine the challenges and prospects of human resource management (HRM) in a developing‐country context. It focuses on contextual factors and employee involvement in analysing HRM to provide theoretical insights. Design/methodology/approach – To explore the...

Introduces the special issue on time and management which draws together analyses of these issues from across the European Union.

Working time patterns are moving away from the traditional pattern of regularity, standardisation and co‐ordination to a new triptych of individualism, heterogeneity and irregularity. Seeks to make sense of these changes through the concept of hora management as an approach to manage the...

Purpose – This paper seeks to examine employee reactions to human resource management (HRM) and performance. It placed employees on a centre stage in analysing HRM to provide theoretical insights. Design/methodology/approach – To explore the theme, a survey of 252 employees drawn from eight...