World class corporate governance is becoming a stakeholder imperative. There is a pressure for best practice governance to be a key success factor for organisations' long term survival. This paper seeks to find alignments between corporate governance and quality management. The governance...

In this paper, we investigate the effect of organisational values/culture on sustainable practices in Indian SMEs, and observe that organisational values/culture positively affect waste disposal/recycling, and employee-related social practices. Further, employee-related social practices act as a...

Although the literature on organisational values is plentiful, little is known about the process of formulating the statements that reflect those values in an organisation. Furthermore, the way that stakeholder groups are treated in the existing literature is dramatically different when it comes...

World class corporate governance is becoming a stakeholder imperative. There is a pressure for best practice governance to be a key success factor for organisations' long term survival. This paper seeks to find alignments between corporate governance and quality management. The governance...

According to different estimations, nearly 50% of organisations have defined their core values in the wake of their leaders’ declaration that they would treat values as their primary guide in daily activities. In this article we argue that managing values might in reality be far more complex....

This article focuses partly on the interaction between a company headquarter and the divisions and partly on how new IT technologies can influence this process. Specifically, the influence of a newly developed Data Warehouse sys-tem organization of supply is investigated. Based on earlier...

This paper introduces the concept of "interface of complexity" as a source of creating and dealing with possible participatory approaches to organisational development. Based on an actor-network-theory approach, we conceive of interfaces as complex events, situations and transitions in a...

Our paper is based on the qualitative content analysis (Gläser/Laudel 2010) of expert interviews with IT managers in German speaking countries. Drawing also from organisational development processes we have been carrying out, we analyse how the tension between the service function of IT as...

Abstracts Die Autorinnen verfolgen die Fragestellung, welche Hindernisse die Implementierung, Weiterentwicklung und Nutzung von Angeboten zur Vereinbarkeit von Erwerbs- und Privatleben in Unternehmen erschweren. Dies wurde auf der Basis einer qualitativen Studie in Unternehmen untersucht, die...