The main purpose of the paper is to develop a theoretical model concerning the relations among some variables of organizational design and the level, type and nature of the conflict in family firms. The conflict is analyzed as a dependent variable with respect of: altruism, decisional...

The main goal of the paper is to interpret the concept of organizational change in the perspective of critical management studies, by analyzing both the discourses and the control practices used by management. We aim at denaturalize the concept of change related to transition from a bureaucratic...

Purpose: In this paper, we depart from extant conceptualisations of knowledge translation mechanisms to examine projects as a way to achieve effective knowledge transfer. Our empirical analysis focused on a university–industry research project in the automotive industry....

Purpose: The paper focuses on how knowledge visualization supports the development of a particular multiobjective decision-making problem as a portfolio optimization problem in the context of interorganizational collaboration between universities and a large automotive company. This paper fits...

The main goal of the paper is to interpret the concepts of national and linguistic identity/diversity in the perspective of ideological control, by analysing both the managerial discourses and the work practices. We have studied how identity and diversity discourses reflect existing managerial...

The research investigates the different policies for the development of rail transport infrastructures in Europe. The effects on the competitiveness of the different national rail supply industries are evaluated

Purpose – This article sets out to investigate the relationship between performance management systems (PMSs) and knowledge in public universities. In particular, this paper intends to verify how different choices related to PMS affect the nature of knowledge, in terms of the well‐known...