International Journal of Organizational Analysis: Volume 26 Issue 5

Diversity: a matter of reality or perception?

Akanksha Jaiswal, Lata Dyaram

While extant literature is replete with studies on actual diversity, research on perceived diversity is scant. The authors examine perceived diversity as an underlying mechanism…

The misalignment between accounting faculty perceptions of success and organizational image during a process of institutional change

Silvia Pereira de Castro Casa Nova, Isabel Costa Lourenço, Renato Ferreira LeitãoAzevedo

This study aims to analyse the impacts of an institutional change process on a specific higher education institution in Europe and the trade-offs between the faculty perceptions…

A dyadic of employee readiness and job satisfaction: Does there exist a theoretical precursor to the satisfaction-performance paradigm?

Brian Matthews, Jamie Daigle, Melissa Houston

The purpose of this paper is to examine the linkages between leadership and satisfaction models with neural networks to epistemologically explore both the theoretical and…

Is organizational evolution Darwinian and/or Lamarckian?

Roberto Grandinetti

Recently, some biologists have argued that the time has come to replace separation between Lamarckism and Darwinism with their connection. The aim of this paper is to understand…

Individual disposition and manager behaviour on employee upward voice: Mediating role of voice self-efficacy

Sriji Edakkat Subhakaran, Lata Dyaram

This paper aims to model how an employee’s proactive personality and manager’s pro-voice behaviour help to predict employee upward voice. Employee perceived voice efficacy is…

Pathways to workplace innovation and career satisfaction in the public service: The role of leadership and culture

Warit Wipulanusat, Kriengsak Panuwatwanich, Rodney Anthony Stewart

The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of two climates for innovation constructs, namely, leadership and organisational culture, on workplace innovation and career…

The lack of spiritual perspective of organizations: an exploratory study

Anselmo Ferreira Vasconcelos

The purpose of this study is to identify the key features of a non-spiritual organization (NSO) and to show what it is capable of delivering to society.

Convergence and collaboration: co-creating meaning within culturally diverse workforces

Catherine Nickerson, Valerie Priscilla Goby

This paper aims to present a conceptual account of how organizational members collectively contribute to establishing workable communication models in contexts of linguistic and…

The IPOET matrix: measuring resource integration

Kristian Johan Sund, Stuart Barnes, Jan Mattsson

The recently developed resource orchestration theory studies the processes by which managers handle resources to create competitive advantages. According to this theory, it is the…

Performative narrative and actor-network theory – a study of a hotel in administration

David Andrew Vickers, Alice Moore, Louise Vickers

This study aims to weave together narrative analysis (hereinafter NA) and Actor-Network Theory (hereinafter ANT), in order to address recent calls for performative studies to…