Journal of Management Studies

1964 - 2025

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Volume 23, month 11, 1986

MANAGEMENT IN CONTEXT: AN ESSAY ON THE RELEVANCE OF CULTURE TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE pp. 587-607

Steven P. Feldman

ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS AND ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY pp. 609-633

Ali Dastmalchian

INTRODUCING MARKET FORCES INTO MANAGERIAL DECISION‐MAKING IN CHINESE INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES pp. 635-656

John S. Henley and Mee Kau Nyaw

MANAGERIAL STRATEGY AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: A CASE STUDY OF PLANT RELOCATION pp. 657-678

Alan Whitaker

MANAGERS’ PROTOTYPES OF FINANCIAL TERMS pp. 679-698

Eric J. Walton

Volume 23, month 09, 1986

MARKETING AS INNOVATION THE EIGHTH PARADIGM pp. 479-500

Kenneth Simmonds

THE PROCESSING OF CRISIS AND NON‐CRISIS STRATEGIC ISSUES pp. 501-517

Jane E. Dutton

VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS IN ACTION: STRATEGY IN THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR pp. 519-542

David C. Wilson and Richard J. Butler

RESISTANCE TO CHANGE: A PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITIQUE OF ARGYRIS AND SCHON'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO ORGANIZATION THEORY AND INTERVENTION pp. 543-562

Michael A. Diamond

BRITISH EMPLOYEES: RESPONDING TO JAPANESE MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHIES pp. 563-586

Wolf Reitsperger

Volume 23, month 07, 1986

METAPHOR OR REIFICATION: ARE RADICAL HUMANISTS REALLY LIBERTARIAN ANARCHISTS? pp. 363-384

Tony Tinker

PROACTIVE VERSUS REACTIVE MANAGER: IS THE DICHOTOMY REALISTIC? pp. 385-400

Lars L. Larson, Robert S. Bussom, William Vicars and Lawrence Jauch

RELATIONSHIPS AMONG CORPORATE LEVEL DISTINCTIVE COMPETENCIES, DIVERSIFICATION STRATEGY, CORPORATE STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE pp. 401-416

Michael A. Hitt and R. Duane Ireland

TOWARDS A MARKET IMPERFECTIONS THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES pp. 417-442

Jan. J. Jøsrgensen, Taieb Hafsi and Moses N. Kiggundu

THE MAKE‐BUY DECISION AND MANAGING MARKETS: THE CASE OF MANAGEMENT BUY‐OUTS pp. 443-464

Mike Wright

Volume 23, month 05, 1986

EDITORIAL: THE USEFULNESS OF THE ‘ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE’ CONCEPT pp. 253-257

Geert Hofstede

MANAGEMENT CONTROL: THE ROLES OF RULES, MARKETS AND CULTURE[1] pp. 259-272

Michel Lebas and Jane Weigenstein

A CULTURAL THEORY OF INFORMATION BIAS IN ORGANIZATIONS pp. 273-286

Michael Thompson and Aaron Wildavsky

CORPORATE CULTURE: THE LAST FRONTIER OF CONTROL?[1] pp. 287-297

Carol Axtell Ray

EXCELLENT COMPANIES AS SOCIAL MOVEMENTS[1] pp. 299-312

Joseph L. Soeters

THE MANAGEMENT OF MEANING IN THE POLISH CRISIS[1] pp. 313-331

Barbara Czarniawska

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AS RELATED TO INDUSTRY, POSITION AND PERFORMANCE: A PRELIMINARY REPORT[1] pp. 333-345

Paul D. Reynolds

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND WORK GROUP BEHAVIOUR: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY pp. 347-362

P. Amsa

Volume 23, month 03, 1986

TECHNOLOGY AND SPAN OF CONTROL: WOODWARD REVISITED pp. 143-164

Paul D. Collins and Frank Hull

AN ANALYSIS OF THE TURNAROUND STRATEGY IN COMMERCIAL BANKING pp. 165-188

Hugh M. O'Neill

THE NEED FOR MIDDLE‐OUT DEVELOPMENT OF MARKETING STRATEGY pp. 189-204

P. J. Boxer and J. R. C. Wensley

CORPORATE PERSONNEL DEPARTMENTS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: TWO CASE STUDIES IN AMBIGUITY pp. 205-223

John Purcell and Anne Gray

WORK ASPIRATIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF YOUNG GRADUATE ENGINEERS pp. 224-237

A. Keenan and T. J. Newton

Volume 23, month 01, 1986

A MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF THE ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR OF ORGANIZATIONS pp. 1-25

Peter H. Friesen and Danny Miller

DIVISIONALIZATION, DECENTRALIZATION AND PERFORMANCE OF LARGE UNITED KINGDOM COMPANIES 1 pp. 26-50

C. W. L. Hill and J. F. Pickering

EMPLOYEE‐OWNERSHIP AND ECONOMIC DECLINE IN WESTERN INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACIES[1] pp. 51-71

Keith Bradley

JAPANESE MANAGEMENT: COPING WITH BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS pp. 72-87

Wolf D. Reitsperger

WHAT DO MANAGERS DO? A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE pp. 88-115

Colin P. Hales

COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND THE REDEFINITION OF SUPERVISION: A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF COMPUTERIZATION ON RAILWAY FREIGHT SUPERVISORS pp. 116-132

Patrick Dawson and Ian McLoughlin

Volume 22, month 11, 1985

PLANNERS' PERCEPTIONS OF THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PROCESS[1] pp. 581-596

Peter M. Ginter, Andrew C. Rucks and W. Jack Duncan

STRATEGIC AWARENESS, PERSONAL COMMITMENT AND THE PROCESS OF PLANNING IN THE SMALL BUSINESS pp. 597-631

Allan Gibb and Mike Scott

OBSTACLES TO STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION IN A NATIONALIZED INDUSTRY[1] pp. 632-648

Roy Wernham

PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: AN OBJECT RELATIONS APPROACH pp. 649-667

Michael A. Diamond

RELATIONSHIP OF MANAGERIAL ABILITY TO UNIT EFFECTIVENESS IN MORE ORGANIC VERSUS MORE MECHANISTIC DEPARTMENTS pp. 668-676

Dennis J. Gillen and Stephen J. Carroll

Volume 22, month 09, 1985

MAKING SENSE OF RESEARCH INTO THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING: A REVIEW OF ITS UNDERLYING ASSUMPTIONS [1] pp. 429-465

Trevor Hopper and Andrew Powell

PROBING INTO TASK INTERDEPENDENCIES: THE CASE OF PHYSICIANS IN A TEACHING HOSPITAL [1] pp. 466-497

Roger Gosselin

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURING: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIPS AND DIMENSIONS OF STRUCTURES IN CERTAIN FINNISH COMPANIES pp. 498-522

Vesa Routamaa

THE ROLE OF MANAGEMENT IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND SOME VIEWS ON ITS CONCEPTUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS [1] pp. 523-546

Duncan Macdonald

WORKER INCENTIVES AND WORKER PARTICIPATION: ON THE CHANGING NATURE OF THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP [1] pp. 547-570

Klaus Weiermair

Volume 22, month 07, 1985

THE INTERACTION BETWEEN NATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL VALUE SYSTEMS[1] pp. 347-357

Geert Hofstede

A CROSS‐NATIONAL STUDY OF LEADERSHIP: PARTICIPATION AS A FUNCTION OF PROBLEM STRUCTURE AND LEADER POWER pp. 358-368

Preston C. Bottger, Ingrid H. Hallein and Philip W. Yetton

ASSESSING THE SAMPLES OF PRIOR ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH pp. 369-383

George A. Miller, Douglas L. Anderton and Joseph C. Conaty

THE NATURE OF UNOBTRUSIVE POWER pp. 384-399

Cynthia Hardy

CORPORATE BOARD SIZE, COMPOSITION AND CORPORATE FAILURES IN RETAILING INDUSTRY[1] pp. 400-417

Rajeswararao S. Chaganti, Vijay Mahajan and Subhash Sharma

Volume 22, month 05, 1985

COMMITTEE TALK: NEGOTIATING ‘PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT’ AT A TRAINING COLLEGE [1] pp. 245-268

Peter C. Gronn

MANAGEMENT CONTROL AS A BRIDGING CONCEPT pp. 269-291

John Storey

FAILURE, UNCERTAINTY AND CONTROL: THE ROLE OF OPERATORS IN A COMPUTER INTEGRATED PRODUCTION SYSTEM pp. 292-308

David A. Buchanan and John Bessant

THE INFORMATION CONTENT OF CORPORATE DISCLOSURES OF DIVISIONALIZATION DECISIONS [1] pp. 309-326

R. Bühner and P. Möller

THE PROBLEMS FACING NEW FIRMS [1] pp. 327-345

D.J. Storey

Volume 22, month 03, 1985

THE ORGANIZATION AS POLITICAL ARENA pp. 133-154

Henry Mintzberg

MANAGERIALLY PERCEIVED INFLUENCE OVER INTRADEPARTMENTAL DECISIONS pp. 155-174

David C. Wilson and Graham K. Kenny

MANAGERIAL DECISION STYLES AND CEREBRAL DOMINANCE: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY [1] pp. 175-192

William Taggart, Daniel Robey and K. Galen Kroeck

MANAGERIAL ACCESS TO INFORMATION: STRATEGIES FOR PREVENTION AND PROMOTION pp. 193-211

Michael Newman

SOME CORRELATES OF DISCRETION FOR CHARTERED SURVEYORS pp. 213-224

John W. Dickson

Volume 22, month 01, 1985

A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO BANK PRUDENTIAL MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION: THE UTILIZATION OF FEEDFORWARD CONTROL pp. 1-24

Edward P. M. Gardener

ORGANIZATION DESIGN AND THE LIFE‐CYCLES OF PRODUCTS [1] pp. 25-37

Lex Donaldson

THE PROCESS ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE pp. 38-52

Moshe Telem

PROPRIETORIAL CONTROL IN FAMILY FIRMS: SOME FUNCTIONS OF ‘QUASI‐ORGANIC’ MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS pp. 53-68

Robert Goffee and Richard Scase

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGERIAL JOBS ACROSS TWO SECTORS pp. 69-82

Cynthia M. Pavett and Alan W. Lau

HOW TO SOLVE COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS ON THE R AND D INTERFACE pp. 83-102

F. A. M. J. Faas