This article addresses the issue of excellence through the analysis of growth strategies and practices as performed by women-controlled companies operating in a high-growth industrial context. Taking the strategy-as-practice perspective and drawing on qualitative and interpretative methodology,...

Summary This article provides new knowledge on how women manage small companies in the context of the Finnish ICT sector. Adopting a social constructionist perspective on management and gender, and drawing on ethnographic research methodology, the article examines how women owner-managers of...

In their search for alternative images and vocabularies organization theorists are using art as a source of inspiration to understand what organizations and organizing are all about. This stream of research argues that art provides an alternative through which we can visualize and narrate...

This article investigates how small companies providing new-technology-based services (T-KIBS) manage their client contacts. Many KIBS companies have extensive and close contacts with their clients, to the extent that their services can actually be co-produced together with the clients. This...