International Journal of Organizational Analysis: Volume 19 Issue 4

Systems approaches for organisational analysis

Harry Kogetsidis

The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical discussion of the development of systems thinking and systems methodologies and explain how such approaches can deal with issues…

Italian wine firms: strategic branding and financial performance

Demetris Vrontis, Alkis Thrassou, Matteo Rossi

Over the last few years, the wine industry has been undergoing a process of accelerated change, consequent to the constantly changing wine geography, both from the demand and the…

The importance of supervisor support for a change initiative: An analysis of job satisfaction and involvement

Steven M. Elias, Rakesh Mittal

Although organizations change on a regular basis, much of what we know about the impacts of organizational change can best be described as macro‐level information. Only recently…

Managing organizational stretch to overcome the uncertainty of the Great Recession of 2008

Igor Gurkov, Alexander Settles

The purpose of this paper is to address issues related to organizational design and strategy fit by examining the “strategic stretch” that occurs when there exists a mismatch…