The paper reassesses the argument in Understanding Governance (1997). The first section
summarizes where we are now in the study of governance, reviewing briefly the key …

An organization theorist friend of mine told me how she had recently paid a friendly visit to
an anthropological meeting, only to find everyone there insisting on speaking to her very …

abstract There is considerable potential for ethnography to play a larger and more
mainstream role in organization and management studies. Ethnography is not a research …

The recent growth of interest in the systematic study of management has transformed a once
neglected area of research into one that now attracts a huge number of postgraduate …

Organizational change processes are often modeled on a linear understanding of change in
which the process is composed of individual succeeding steps. In this paper, an …

Network Governance and the Differentiated Polity is the first of two volumes featuring a
selection of key writings by RAW Rhodes. Volume I collects in one place for the first time the …

Whilst much has been written about the identification of resilience in children and their
families, comparatively little has been written about what practitioners can do to support …

Sustainability and sound ecological management of the natural environment, allied to the
expanding body of work on managing tacit and explicit knowledge, has led to an increased …

Strategy is a youthful discipline, with much of its research material derived from studies in
the last 30 years. Its roots, however, go back much further. Modern studies can be …

A bibliometric analysis and a content analysis were conducted to explore the nature of the
knowledge management literature. For the bibliometric analysis, three levels of Bradford …