<title>Abstract</title> This article presents a preliminary study of how civil servants in the United Kingdom understand accountability characterized by its emphasis on individual performance and accountability. Using the interpretive approach known as phenomenography, we interviewed ten civil servants who as...

The operational reliability of organizations that deal on a routine basis with verydynamic circumstances has been a rich domain of study for organizational scholars formany years. Increasing reliance on the application of complex technologies and humanprocesses in a range of social endeavour...

The operational reliability of organizations that deal on a routine basis with verydynamic circumstances has been a rich domain of study for organizational scholars formany years. Increasing reliance on the application of complex technologies and humanprocesses in a range of social endeavour...

Recent decades have seen a sustained growth of interest from academics andpracticing managers in structural change in the contemporary workplace. Someof this attention has been directed at the implementation of initiatives ofplanned organizational change, often involving newer information...