Identities, people's subjectively construed understandings of who they were, are and desire
to become, are implicated in, and thus key to understanding and explaining, almost …

This introductory chapter seeks to familiarize you with some of the major trends of recent
times that pervade the context of contemporary managing and organizations. Some of these …

As the title suggests, this book provides an introduction to the manage-ment of people in
work organisations, or as it is now most commonly known, human resource management …

The 'new'career, most notably the boundaryless career, is associated with high career
mobility, which is in turn associated with employability and career success of individuals …

While Foucault's work has had a crucial impact on organizational research, the analytical
potential of the dispositive has not been sufficiently developed. The purpose of this article is …

We analyse the relationships between identity work and internal legitimacy. Based on an in-
depth case study of prisoners in Helsinki Prison, we focus on how their identity work affirmed …

This paper argues that it is useful to regardreputational risk'as a pervasive logic of
organizing and organizational attention. First, we suggest that the risk management agenda …

This paper reviews the past 28 years of scholarship on management consulting to
synthesize the field and establish more broadly its contribution to management research …

Purpose–The first goal of this research is to analyse the effects of lean production (LP) on
the policy of human resource management (HRM). The second is to determine whether or …

The production of a book, like any cultural product, is an immensely social process involving
many people, all equally important. Sociologists have known this for quite some time, yet …