Journal of Management Studies

1964 - 2025

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Volume 21, month 10, 1984

THE SCIENTIFIC STATUS OF MANAGEMENT RESEARCH AS A PRACTICALLY‐ORIENTED SOCIAL SCIENCE pp. 369-390

Richard Whitley

ORGANIZATION STUDIES AND THE CONCEPT OF RATIONALITY pp. 391-408

Alan Bryman

THE INTERDEPARTMENTAL INFLUENCE OF MANAGERS: INDIVIDUAL AND SUB‐UNIT PERSPECTIVES pp. 409-425

Graham K. Kenny and David C. Wilson

THE LATERAL DIMENSION TO EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION pp. 429-442

Chris W. Clegg and Toby D. Wall

COMPARATIVE ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH LEADING TO AN INTERVENTION STRATEGY [I] pp. 443-461

Frank Hoy, David Van Fleet and Mervin J. Yetley

Volume 21, month 07, 1984

INTRODUCTION pp. 253-258

E. A. Lowe

SUBJECTIVITY, SOPHISTRY AND SYMBOLISM IN MANAGEMENT SCIENCE pp. 259-272

W. Graham Astley

MANAGEMENT AS A SOCIAL PRACTICE pp. 273-285

M. I. Reed

THE MORAL CHARACTER OF MANAGEMENT PRACTICE pp. 287-302

John Roberts

MYTH AND REPRODUCTION: THE CONTEXTUALIZATION OF MANAGEMENT THEORY, METHOD AND PRACTICE pp. 303-322

Michael Rosen

THE NATURE OF MANAGEMENT? A PROBLEM FOR MANAGEMENT EDUCATION pp. 323-330

Rosemary Stewart

THE FRAGMENTED STATE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES: REASONS AND CONSEQUENCES pp. 331-348

Richard Whitley

IMAGES AND IDEALS OF MANAGERIAL WORK: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF CONCEPTUAL AND EMPIRICAL ACCOUNTS pp. 349-368

Hugh C. Willmott

Volume 21, month 04, 1984

THE IMPORTANCE OF BOUNDARY SPANNING ROLES IN STRATEGIC DECISION‐MAKING [I] pp. 131-152

David B. Jemison

DEVIL'S ADVOCACY IN MANAGERIAL DECISION‐MAKING pp. 153-168

Charles R. Schwenk

LEARNING AND DEVELOPING FROM MANAGERIAL WORK EXPERIENCES pp. 169-182

Julia Davies and Mark Easterby‐Smith

OCCUPATIONAL STRESS IN FEMALE MANAGERS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY pp. 185-205

M. J. Davidson and C. L. Cooper

PUBLIC EXPENDITURE CUTS AND JOB LOSS: A UNION RESPONSE pp. 207-227

Derek Fatchett and Stuart G. Ogden

Volume 21, month 01, 1984

ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATED WITH EXPORT ACTIVITY pp. 3-22

S. Tamer Cavusgil

DIVERSIFICATION WITHIN AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISE pp. 23-60

Robert H. Chenhall

THE CONTROL OF CAPITAL INVESTMENT [I] pp. 61-81

A. J. Berry

AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF A U.K.‐BASED ASSESSMENT CENTRE [I] pp. 83-97

Clive A. Fletcher and Victor Dulewicz

PLATEAUED MANAGERS: THEIR NEED GRATIFICATIONS AND THEIR EFFORT‐PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS [I] pp. 99-108

Martin G. Evans and Elizabeth Gilbert

Volume 20, month 10, 1983

THE CONCEPT OF RESPONSIBILITY: SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND DEVELOPMENT pp. 411-423

Patrick W. Maclagan

RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY: TOWARDS A CONCEPTUAL SYNTHESIS pp. 425-439

C. K. McGlvern and S. Fineman

EFFECT OF ORGANIZATIONAL SIZE ON CONFLICT FREQUENCY AND LOCATION IN HOSPITALS pp. 441-451

Daniel S. Cochran, Mel Schnake and Ron Earl

STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE IN INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER pp. 453-465

William H. Davidson

JAPANESE AND BRITISH MANAGERIAL COLLEAGUES—HOW THEY VIEW EACH OTHER pp. 467-475

J. E. Everett and B. W. Stening

Volume 20, month 07, 1983

DATA, MEANINGS AND CREATIVITY: A PREFACE pp. 295-300

Stephen Fineman and Iain Mangham

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR pp. 301-314

T. Hari Das

ORGANIZATIONAL RULES AND THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF NURSING WORK ON GERIATRIC WARDS pp. 315-332

Eileen Fairhurst

THE USE OF GROUNDED THEORY FOR THE QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR pp. 333-348

Barry A. Turner

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND PARADIGMS OF PRACTICE pp. 349-365

F. H. M. Blackler and C. A. Brown

SOME FACETS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONSULTANTS AND CLIENTS IN ORGANIZATIONS pp. 367-386

Chris McGivern

NATURAL LEARNING AND MANAGERIAL ACTION: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY IN THE FIELD SETTING pp. 387-399

J. G. Burgoyne and V. E. Hodgson

Volume 20, month 04, 1983

WORK MEANINGS, NON‐WORK, AND THE TAKEN‐FOR‐GRANTED [I] pp. 143-157

Stephen Fineman

CONVERGENCE REVISITED: THE CODIFICATION AND DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE IN A BRITISH AND A JAPANESE FIRM pp. 159-190

M. Boisot

IMPLANTED DECISION‐MAKING: AMERICAN OWNED FIRMS IN BRITAIN [I] pp. 191-211

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

MANAGING MARKETS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MAKE‐BUY DECISION pp. 213-231

Richard Butler and M. G. Carney

FINANCIAL CUTBACK DECISIONS BY PRIORITY SCALING pp. 233-260

J. Algie, G. Mallen and W. Foster

Volume 20, month 01, 1983

EDITORIAL pp. 3-3

Chris Argyris and Donald A. Schön

A TYPOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING SYSTEMS pp. 7-28

Paul Shrivastava

INFORMATION AS AN ORGANIZATIONAL PROBLEM pp. 29-40

Aaron Wildavsky

THINKING ABOUT GOVERNMENT LEARNING pp. 41-58

Lloyd S. Etheredge and James Short

BEYOND PREDICTION AND PREPARATION [I] pp. 59-69

Russell L. Ackoff

EPHEMERAL ORGANIZATIONS IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS: EMERGENCE, STRATEGY, EXTINCTION [I] pp. 71-95

Giovan Francesco Lanzara

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM OF RETRENCHMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION? [I] pp. 97-119

Hugh G. Petrie and Daniel Alpert

KNOWING AND PRACTICING: TEACHING BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES AT THE ISRAEL DEFENCE FORCES COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE pp. 121-141

Raanan Lipshitz

Volume 19, month 10, 1982

COMPLEXITY AND CLEAVAGE: DUAL EXPLANATIONS OF STRATEGIC DECISION‐MAKING [I] pp. 357-375

W. Graham Astley, Runo Axelsson, Richard J. Butler, David J. Hickson and David C. Wilson

CONSENSUS DECISION‐MAKING IN THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE—A REVIEW [I] pp. 377-394

Steve Harrison

ABSENTEEISM AND TURNOVER: IS THERE A PROGRESSION? [1] pp. 395-412

Nina Gupta and G. Douglas Jenkins

STRIKE PRONENESS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS SYSTEMS AT THE ORGANIZATION LEVEL: A DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS [1] pp. 413-435

Ran Chermesh

EXPLORATIONS IN MACRO COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOUR: THE EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL FEEDBACK ON ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS [1] pp. 437-446

Paula C. Morrow

Volume 19, month 07, 1982

GROUP IDEOLOGIES AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE pp. 259-275

Tony J. Watson

SEMI‐AUTONOMOUS WORK GROUPS AND THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE ORGANIZATION pp. 277-294

C. A. Carnall

LEADERSHIP: EXTRAPOLATING FROM THEORY AND RESEARCH TO PRACTICAL SKILLS TRAINING pp. 295-305

Beverly M. Alban Metcalfe

ANALYZING CULTURAL STEREOTYPES IN MULTINATIONAL BUSINESS: UNITED STATES AND AUSTRALIA pp. 307-325

Stephen R. Jenner

R & D SUBSYSTEM CLIMATE AS A FUNCTION OF PERSONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS pp. 327-334

Joseph G. P. Paolillo

Volume 19, month 04, 1982

EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION: A QUANTUM VIEW OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN ORGANIZATIONS pp. 131-151

Danny Miller

SOME EVIDENCE FOR AN INTERNATIONAL MANAGERIAL CULTURE pp. 153-162

James E. Everett, Bruce W. Stening and Peter A. Longton

INNOVATIVE ATTITUDES, VALUES, AND INTENTIONS IN ORGANIZATIONS [1] pp. 163-182

John E. Ettlie and Robert D. O'Keefe

PERFORMANCE IN PLANNING A LARGE PROJECT [1] pp. 183-198

S. N. Woodward

Volume 19, month 01, 1982

EDITORIAL pp. i-i

K. Legge and A. G. Lockett

CONGEALING OIL: INVENTING IDEOLOGIES TO JUSTIFY ACTING IDEOLOGIES OUT pp. 3-27

William H. Starbuck

THE IRRATIONALITY OF ACTION AND ACTION RATIONALITY: DECISIONS, IDEOLOGIES AND ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIONS pp. 29-44

Nils Brunsson

HOW IDEOLOGIES SUPPLANT FORMAL STRUCTURES AND SHAPE RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTS pp. 45-61

Alan D. Meyer

COGNITIVE TUNING IN MUNICIPAL PROBLEM SOLVING pp. 63-73

Sten Jönsson

SELF REGULATION, CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE: THE EVOLUTION OF U.K. BANK SUPERVISION pp. 75-90

J. L. Metcalfe

CROSSING MOTHER: IDEOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON ORGANIZATIONAL IMPROVEMENTS pp. 91-108

Roger L. M. Dunbar, John M. Dutton and William R. Torbert

MYTH AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE AMERICAN ACCOUNTING PROFESSION pp. 109-127

Richard J. Boland