Most scholars explicitly or implicitly build on the assumption that organizations have to be
externally recognized as actors to become constituted as organizations. Although recently …

As the world becomes more and more organized, it seems ever more difficult to find anyone
responsible. Why is that? We argue that the extensive external organization of organizations …

Societies achieve their purposes through organizations. But organizations may develop into
instrumental entities bereft of ethical debate. Roberts (Account. Org. Soc. 16 (4)(1991) 355) …

Corporate governance refers to those administrative monitoring and incentive mechanisms
that are intended to reduce conflicts among organizational actors due to differences in …

The notion of 'partial organization', as introduced by Ahrne and Brunsson (2011), has
contributed to organization theory in various significant ways: First, the concept has widened …

abstract Bruce, Buck and Main (2005) offer two criticisms of agency theory as a valid model
of executive behaviour. First, they suggest that because researchers have failed to find a …

This article argues for an update of modern systems theory, in particular of the systems
theory of organizations. Recent works have pointed out that existing understandings of …

Taking into account that it is in the nature of the modern corporation that risks are distributed
over several agents, we discuss in this paper the organisational behaviour as it results from …

Through a 21-year longitudinal study of the relationship between Italian supercar
manufacturer Automobili Lamborghini and its parent, German carmaker Audi AG, we …

Let me set my stage by invoking the old bumper-sticker wisdom to 'Think Globally, Act
Locally'. By trying to think in broader terms, I would like to serve as reasonable provocateur …