How do we, as management researchers, develop novel theoretical contributions, and potentially break new ground, in management studies? To address this question, we review previous methodological work on theorizing and advance a typology of the reasoning processes that underlie theoretical...

This paper proposes the description and analysis of the dynamics of an innovation process, which, over ten years ago, enabled a mineral water company to start protecting its underground water and to overcome a classical negative externality problem of no point-source nitrogen pollution. Based on...

It is well known that there is little interest in Nietzschean thought in the management sciences. This observation is supported by the low number of articles published in management science journals that use what could be called the Nietzschean conceptual framework or even part of it. This...

Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) sind ein zentrales Rückgrat nationaler Wirtschaftssysteme. Die Forschung zeigt, dass KMU aufgrund ihrer geringeren Größe nicht nur vergleichsweise weniger formalisierte, weniger komplexe und weniger spezialisierte Organisationsstrukturen haben, sondern...

Managers’ power within organisations has been analysed by several approaches: Orthodox management and organisation studies (‘functional approach’), Critical Management Studies (‘socio-political approaches’), interpretive, discourse-oriented and constructivist concepts...

The viable system logic is widely considered a reference point for all the entrepreneurial organizations. The viable organizations have to struggle for existence, a statement particularly valid, if we consider changes (adjustments, transformations, reorganizations) of logic and physical assets...

Over the last decade, there has been a growing movement in both the English- and French-language scientific communities of a field called Critical Management Studies. This movement draws heavily from diversified works with mainly Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian roots. The object of this article is...

Liberalization and globalization has risen the opportunity to third-world nations for the development of industry and educational standards. This paradigm inspires us to suggest a conceptual model for writing case studies and encourage faculty and instructors likely to apply the case learning...

One of the contemporary “turns” in management studies is the “performativity” turn. In this paper, we present a genealogy of the concept of performativity as it has been used in management and organization studies (MOS). Starting with the work of Austin, Bateson, Goffman and Lyotard, we...