There are grounds for believing that international companies operating in European countries could, and should, make a strategic choice whether or not to develop a 'European' approach and style in management. Several pressures are currently encouraging enterprises to adopt such an approach:...

The authors argue that the renewal process in organisations originates in the mental structures and capacities of its members. Starting out with experiences from a case study on renewal in a Swedish construction company, they analyse reasons for the apparent consensus in the construction sector...

Drawing upon experiences from a study of organizational renewal we contend that research can be described as an interactive activity. We further suggest the term "interactive research" in order to stress fundamental, mutual aspects of research involving organizations and systems of humans. The...

Renewal endeavors on the part of top management can focus either on the individual and organizational levels or on the physical and institutional levels. Changes directed specifically towards individuals and the organization tend to "fade away", while structural and institutional changes leave...