Recently added articles from Organization Studies:
Rethinking the firm: organizational approaches.
Oct 01, 2003; ... Abstract How does social science based organization theory describe the business firm? Sociology, political science, social psychology and ethnology have inspired two almost classical perspectives. One theorizes the firm as an arena for strategic behavior. The other underlines ...
Indifference or obedience? Business firms as democratic hybrids.
Oct 01, 2003; ... Abstract To the perennial question of why and how people obey, organizational and political theories usually offer a restricted vision mainly based on interpersonal power processes and organizational control mechanisms. Although such theories are useful, the recent evolution of ...
Organizational process, strategic content and socio-economic resources: small enterprises in East Germany, 1990-94.
Oct 01, 2003; ... Abstract The theory of the firm implies a framework which links up conceptually diverse aspects and approaches. This article tests a specific framework: an interactionist variant of co-evolution theory derived from an article by Hrebiniak and Joyce. Organizations are viewed as ...
The combination of strategic games and moral community in the functioning of firms.
Oct 01, 2003; ... Abstract In order to describe the functioning of business firms, two different models of collective action are currently mobilized. The first represents the firm as an arena for the different strategies of actors who want to maximize their interests. The second model focuses on ...
A theory of the cultural evolution of the firm: the intra-organizational ecology of memes.
Oct 01, 2003; ... Abstract In this article, we propose a theory of the cultural evolution of the firm. We apply cultural and evolutionary thinking to the questions posed by theories of the firm: What are firms and why do they exist? We argue that firms are best thought of as cultures, as social ...