Table of contents - Special Issue: Practising socializing and institutionalizing: Perspectives on the societal, organizational and individual effects of staff induction practices – part 2
Guest Editors: E.Antonacopoulou, W.Gttel, Y.Pesqueux
Induction – organizational renewal and the maintenance of status quo
Jonas Sprogoe, Bente ElkjaerInduction is the process of newcomers entering and becoming part of an organization. In one sense newcomers represent an opportunity for organizations to learn and change, but in…
Understanding socialization practice: factors fostering and hindering its evolution
Diego Ponte, Carlo RizziThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to the ongoing debate on organizational socialization by exploring the constitutive aspects of socialization practice. By taking a…
Dynamic capability and staff induction practices in small firms
Deborah E.M. Mulders, Peter A.J. Berends, A. Georges L. RommeThe dynamic capability view serves to explain how particular practices ensure the firm's performance and competitiveness within a continuously changing environment. In this paper…
The discursive construction of decision making in interdisciplinary teams: Social sustainability as political intervention?
Nikolaj KureThe purpose of this paper is to explore the analytical productiveness of a discursive power perspective in understanding interdisciplinary teams' inefficient decision processes…
Home‐based business sectors in the rural economy
Robert Newbery, Gary BosworthThe purpose of this paper is to challenge calls for a monolithic rural home‐based business (HBB) sector and instead propose meaningful sub‐sectors of HBB that fit within…
Japanese business and poverty reduction
Hideyuki SugawaraThe purpose of this paper is to examine inspiring ideas in which Japanese companies are finding innovative ways to tap into base of the pyramid (BOP) markets to increase their…
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