Providing a retrospective and prospective overview of organization studies, the Handbook continues to challenge and inspire readers with its synthesis of knowledge and literature. As ever, contributions have been selected to reflect the diversity of the field. New chapters cover areas such as...

This work offers practical guidance for managing your own career. It features these selling points. It provides reader with advice for the personal, rather than the organizational, side of career management. Reflective articles cover topics such as: launching a second career, revitalizing...

This book re-examines management theory `after Globalization'. Combining key names and studies from across the world, it explores the local realities that resist universal theories and that permeate the daily lives of practising managers. The book provides a comprehensive and critical reflection...

In this paper, we examine two definitions of trust commonly found in the management literature; one that defines trust as predictability, and one that emphasizes the role of goodwill. We suggest that neither approach is satisfactory since both ignore issues of asymmetrical power and conflicting...

In this paper, we examine the link between talk and action in interorganizational collaboration. We integrate research on the micro-dynamics of conversations with narrative theory to focus on both conversational activity – the who, where, and when of conversations – and the narratives and...

This study examines the ways in which fields are structured, and explores the particular dynamics that foster homogeneity and heterogeneity in actors' behaviour. we found that actors' understansing of the field varied along six dimensions. These dimensions were interpreted based upon the actor's...