Journal of Management Studies

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Volume 25, month 11, 1988

ENVIRONMENTAL STRUCTURE AND THEORIES OF STRATEGIC CHOICE pp. 521-536

R. Whittington

RESEARCH ON STRATEGIC GROUPS: PROGRESS AND PROGNOSIS[1] pp. 537-555

Howard Thomas and N. Venkatraman

AN APPRECIATION OF STAFFORD BEER'S ‘VIABLE SYSTEM’ VIEWPOINT ON MANAGERIAL PRACTICE pp. 557-573

M. C. Jackson

MANAGERIAL PERCEPTIONS OF MARKETING PLANNING[1] pp. 575-601

Gordon E. Greenley

MANAGEMENT, TRANSIENCE AND SUBCONTRACTING: THE CASE OF THE CONSTRUCTION SITE pp. 603-625

A. D. Beardsworth, E. T. Keil, M. Bresnen and A. Bryman

Volume 25, month 09, 1988

Corporate Control Type, Strategy, Size and Financial Performance[1] pp. 403-417

Charles W. L. Hill

BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION ‐ AN INVESTIGATION OF CASH FLOW BASED MODELS[1] pp. 419-437

Abdul Aziz, David C. Emanuel and Gerald H. Lawson

CAREER ORIENTATIONS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND COMPANIES: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF WEST GERMAN, BRITISH AND US INDUSTRIAL R&D PROFESSIONALS[1] pp. 439-462

Torsten J. Gerpott, Michel Domsch and Robert T. Keller

YOU ASKED FOR IT: CHRISTMAS AT THE BOSSES' EXPENSE[1] pp. 463-480

Michael Rosen

MANAGERIAL THINKING: AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE pp. 481-505

Merrick Jones

Volume 25, month 07, 1988

EDITORIAL pp. 283-284

Paul Shrivastava

UNDERSTANDING INDUSTRIAL CRISES[1] pp. 285-303

Paul Shrivastava, Ian I. Mitroff, Danny Miller and Anil Miclani

ENACTED SENSEMAKING IN CRISIS SITUATIONS[1] pp. 305-317

Karl E. Weick

CHALLENGER: FINE‐TUNING THE ODDS UNTIL SOMETHING BREAKS pp. 319-340

William H. Starbuck and Frances J. Milliken

RISK REPORTING AND THE MANAGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL CRISES pp. 341-351

Dorothy Nelkin

JUDICIAL GATEKEEPING IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HAZARDOUS TECHNOLOGIES pp. 353-371

Sheila Jasanoff

DISASTER CRISIS MANAGEMENT: A SUMMARY OF RESEARCH FINDINGS pp. 373-385

E. L. Quarantelli

POST‐BHOPAL BEHAVIOUR AT A CHEMICAL COMPANY pp. 387-400

Edward Bowman and Howard Kunreuther

Volume 25, month 05, 1988

MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND NEW TECHNOLOGY IN RETAIL DISTRIBUTION: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY pp. 197-216

Greg J. Bamber and Russell D. Lansbury

THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE ON THE UTILITY OF AN ENTREPRENEURIAL TOP MANAGEMENT STYLE pp. 217-234

Jeffrey G. Covin and Dennis P. Slevin

THE STATE‐SOE[1] RELATIONSHIP: SOME PATTERNS pp. 235-249

Taieb Hafsi and C. Koenig

RELEVANCE OF SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONIST APPROACH IN UNDERSTANDING POWER: A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS[1] pp. 251-267

Hari Das

THE LEARNING STYLES QUESTIONNAIRE: AN ALTERNATIVE TO KOLB'S INVENTORY? pp. 269-281

Christopher W. Allinson and John Hayes

Volume 25, month 03, 1988

ORGANIZATIONAL ADAPTATION: SOME IMPLICATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL ECOLOGY FOR STRATEGIC CHOICE[1] pp. 105-120

Raymond F. Zammuto

DISSIMILAR STRUCTURAL AND CONTROL PROFILES OF EDUCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL ORGANIZATIONS[1] pp. 121-130

Christine S. Koberg

STRATEGIC PROBLEM FORMULATION: BIASES AND ASSUMPTIONS EMBEDDED IN ALTERNATIVE DECISION‐MAKING MODELS pp. 131-145

Marjorie A. Lyles and Howard Thomas

ORGANIZING, LEADERSHIP AND SKILFUL PROCESS[1] pp. 147-166

Dian Marie Hosking

CONFLICT APPROACHES OF EFFECTIVE AND INEFFECTIVE PROJECT MANAGERS: A FIELD STUDY IN A MATRIX ORGANIZATION[1] pp. 167-178

Jeffrey Barker, Dean Tjosvold and I. Robert Andrews

Volume 25, month 01, 1988

THE MYTH OF THE CORPORATE POLITICAL JUNGLE: POLITICIZATION AS A POLITICAL STRATEGY pp. 1-12

Jonathan I. Klein

SPORADIC, FLUID AND CONSTRICTED PROCESSES: THREE TYPES OF STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING IN ORGANIZATIONS[1] pp. 13-39

David Cray, Geoffrey R. Mallory, Richard J. Butler, David J. Hickson and David C. Wilson

THE COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE ON STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING pp. 41-55

Charles R. Schwenk

EFFECTS OF COUNTERTRADE‐DIVERGENT PERCEPTIONS BETWEEN PRACTITIONERS AND NON‐PARTICIPANTS[1] pp. 57-71

C. W. Neale and David Shipley

PARTICIPATION UNDER CONDITIONS OF CONFLICT: MORE ON THE VALIDITY OF THE VROOM‐YETTON MODEL[1] pp. 73-83

Jennifer T. Ettling and Arthur G. Jago

Volume 24, month 11, 1987

EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION: ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS pp. 561-564

Royston Greenwood and C. R. Hinings

THE CONTEXT AND PROCESS OF ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION ‐ CADBURY LIMITED IN ITS SECTOR pp. 565-593

John Child and Chris Smith

ENVIRONMENT, ORGANIZATION AND EFFECTIVENESS: A BIOGRAPHICAL APPROACH[1] pp. 595-622

John R. Kimberly and David B. Rottman

CULTURAL CHANGE: AN INTEGRATION OF THREE DIFFERENT VIEWS[1] pp. 623-647

Debra Meyerson and Joanne Martin

CONTEXT AND ACTION IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE FIRM pp. 649-670

Andrew M. Pettigrew

NORMAL CHANGE OR RISKY BUSINESS: INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS ON THE ‘HAZARD’ OF CHANGE IN HOSPITAL ORGANIZATIONS, 1959–79[1] pp. 671-700

Lynne G. Zucker

Volume 24, month 09, 1987

EDITORIAL: MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS pp. 427-432

Keith Sisson and Terry Sullivan

THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: THE ABRIDGED STORY pp. 433-440

Robert B. McKersie

MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND THE REDESIGN OF WORKRULES pp. 441-462

Peter Cappelli and Robert B. McKersie

BARGAINING WITHIN THE ENTERPRISE: CENTRALIZED OR DECENTRALIZED? pp. 463-477

Nicholas Kinnie

FACTORY MANAGERS: THEIR ROLE IN PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT AND THEIR PLACE IN THE COMPANY[1] pp. 479-501

Paul K. Edwards

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS[1] pp. 503-521

David E. Guest

THE MANAGEMENT OF THE PERSONNEL FUNCTION pp. 523-532

Shaun Tyson

MAPPING MANAGEMENT STYLES IN EMPLOYEE RELATIONS pp. 533-548

John Purcell

Volume 24, month 07, 1987

THE STRUCTURES OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT pp. 325-345

Claire Shearman and Gibson Burrell[1]

STRATEGIC INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ‐ DISTINCTION, DEFINITION AND RECOGNITION pp. 347-361

P. Miller

CONTRASTING PLANNING SYSTEMS IN HIGH, MEDIUM AND LOW PERFORMANCE COMPANIES pp. 363-385

Lawrence C. Rhyne

DETERMINANTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF TASK UNCERTAINTY: A LABORATORY AND FIELD INVESTIGATION pp. 387-404

Bart Victor and Richard S. Blackburn

THE EFFECTS OF GOAL EMPHASIS ON PERFORMANCE ON A COMPLEX TASK[1] pp. 405-411

Edwin A. Locke and Richard L. Somers

Volume 24, month 05, 1987

FORMALIZATION AND THE ORGANIZATIONAL LIFE CYCLE[1] pp. 215-231

James P. Walsh and Robert D. Dewar

INTERPRETING ORGANIZATIONAL TEXTS pp. 233-247

Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries and Danny Miller

STUDYING MANAGERIAL WORK: A CRITIQUE AND A PROPOSAL[1] pp. 249-270

Hugh Willmott

AN EXAMINATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF MIDDLE‐LEVEL MANAGERS IN FORMULATING AND IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIC DECISIONS pp. 271-293

Warren Keith Schilit

PERCEIVED ATTRIBUTES OF PLANNING STAFF EFFECTIVENESS[1] pp. 295-312

Mansour Javidan

Volume 24, month 03, 1987

THE ADMINISTRATIVE COMPONENT OF ORGANIZATIONS AND THE RATCHET EFFECT: A CRITIQUE OF CROSS‐SECTIONAL STUDIES pp. 113-123

John R. Montanari and Philip J. Adelman

HOW ORGANIC IS YOUR ORGANIZATION?– DETERMINANTS OF ORGANIC/MECHANISTIC TENDENCIES IN A PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM pp. 125-140

Alberto Zanzi

AN APPLICATION OF A DIAGNOSTIC FRAMEWORK FOR STRATEGY pp. 143-159

Gordon E. Greenley

AN EXAMINATION OF THE UNDERLYING DYNAMICS OF STRATEGIC DECISIONS SUBJECT TO UPWARD INFLUENCE ACTIVITY pp. 161-187

Warren Keith Schilit and Frank T. Paine

LEGAL REGULATION AND THE CONSTRAINT OF CONSTITUENT SATISFACTION[1] pp. 189-200

John A. Wagner and Benjamin Schneider

Volume 24, month 01, 1987

STRATEGY AND STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT TO REGAIN FIT AND PERFORMANCE: IN DEFENCE OF CONTINGENCY THEORY pp. 1-24

Lex Donaldson

THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS: A REVIEW AND A MODEL pp. 25-41

Paul Shrivastava and William E. Souder

THE MANAGEMENT OF NEW OFFICE TECHNOLOGY: CHOICE, CONTROL AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE IN THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY pp. 43-62

John Storey

FORMAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND WORKPLACE POWER: A STUDY ON THE RAILWAY pp. 63-90

Christine Edwards

INDUSTRIALIZATION, MANAGEMENT EDUCATION AND TRAINING SYSTEMS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS[1] pp. 91-112

Malcolm Warner