Purpose – To learn to avoid pitfalls there is need to accept and understand failures. This anonymous case study aims to report a major organisational failure due to the absence of effective knowledge management, where both the reasons for, and organisational consequences of, the failure are...

Knowledge is central to managing an organization, but its presence in employees is difficult to measure directly. We hypothesize that external communication patterns reveal the location of knowledge within the management team. Using a large database of firm conference call transcripts, we find...

A growing literature studies the importance of top managers for firm policies and performance. We revisit the foundations of this literature by replicating and extending the analysis of Bertrand and Schoar (2003), who used manager fixed effects to provide evidence for the existence of managerial...

A large number of world's political leaders have at one time or other were baptised through the fires of militancy. Others, who opposed the militants have also appeared in the political battlements. Comparing the leadership strategies, tactics and styles employed by these leaders to conventional...

Knowledge-based communities are important but poorly understood systems for helping enterprises maintain their organizational integrity and address organizational imperatives. Based on an autopoietic theory of organization, we examine the emergence and development of knowledge-based communities...

(VF)Toute démarche de recherche-action pose comme centrale la ré-solution d’un problème concret. Cet article se propose de spécifier et d’illustrer les difficultés que pose le choix d’une démarche de construction collective du problème avec les membres de l’organisation. Une...

Toute démarche de recherche-action pose comme centrale la résolution d’un problème concret. Cet article se propose de spécifier et d’illustrer les difficultés que pose le choix d’une démarche de construction collective du problème avec les membres de l’organisation. Une...

In this article, a framework is presented based on the view that organizations consist of political actors who act in accordance with their own perceptions of rationality, not in accordance with the principles of rational decision-making theory. ALSA-Actors' Logic Systems Analysis is focused on...