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...Hence a mere adoption of new organizational principles or technology on ... the case study examples teU specific stories of specific industries they also show the complexi...
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This study compared women's roles, expectations and experiences in two comparable, male dominated industrial manufacturing companies in Australia. Both organisations are subject to legislated equal opportunity program and reporting requirements. The research was conducted to examinee the differences between what is submitted in their EEO reports and the experience of women workers in the organisations. Good jobs and poor jobs existed in the same legislative and industrial framework and in the same local labour market. The differences are located in a combination of organisational and cultural conditions.
... possible the women workers tell their stories and share their experience. Do the reports submitt... and managerial choices influenced the adoption of family-friendly workplaces, while Dainty et al ...
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This paper suggests a shift from the discourse on transfer and transition with regard to CEE societies towards one focusing on transformation proceses that come with globalization. Since globalization can be interpreted as the spread of ideas, informations, practices, goods and techniques, the perspective of the diffusion of management innovations is introduced and enlarged by including power relations, the interests of actors and cultural aspects of change. The argument of culture as barrier for the adoption of innovation is challenged in favor of one that sees it as a chance for contributing to innovation and globalization.
...The ,success stories" as, for example, presented in the famous bestsell...
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The last two decades have witnessed an unprecedented transfer of Western management education theories and pedagogies into China and most Chinese MBA programs are now being modeled on their Western counterparts. To gauge the impact of this infusion of Western methods and theories on China's management educational system, this paper has conducted a narrative analysis of Chinese MBA teaching cases published before and after this transfer. The holistic approach to management, prevalent in early Chinese MBA cases and typical of traditional Chinese culture, has largely disappeared and Chinese cases now exhibit many of the same weaknesses and deficiencies that have been documented in Harvard Business School cases.
...But stories are always interpretive accounts; and all interpre... teaching materials, has resulted in the adoption of curricula that is only "marginally different' f...
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Introducing employee participation in a company can be expected to change the
power relations and the power processes within the organization. This is particularly true when the majority ownership of a company moves into the hand of its employees. Drawing on three case studies of East German companies this paper describes how the introduction of employee ownership interrelates with power relations and processes in the company. Moreover, some overarching patterns were derived from the analysis finally resulting in seven propositions about how employee ownership and power are linked to each other.
...Regarding power relations in the company stories mentioned above, it turns out that balancing the i... look like and may develop with the adoption and consolidation of employee ownership?'. 2) Sele...
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In 1983, Kiggundu/Jorgensen/Hafsi published in ASQ a synthesis on issues related to the applicability of management theories to developing countries. They found that theory was applicable only where the organization could behave as a closed system. The authors argue that isomorphic trends and new theoretical developments support the hypothesis that their findings should not hold anymore. This article reviews 170 articles published in the 1983-2002 period to replicate their study and tests the hypothesis.
... in developing countries leading to their adoption of ways and practices common in western developed ...The stories of successful companies such as Li & Fung (Magrett...