Scandinavian Journal of Management 1998: Vol 14 Table of Contents

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Scandinavian Journal of
Management
Volume 14, 1998
List of Contents, Author Index and Key Word Index
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT
Incorporating Scandinavian Journal of Management Studies
Editor
STEN JONSSON
Department of Business Administration, Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law,
Vasagatan 3, S-411 24 Gothenburg, Sweden
Former Editor
ROLF LUNDIN
University of Umea
Book Review Editor
BARBARA CZARNIAWSKA-JOERGES
Gothenburg University
Associate Editors
HENRIK GAHMBERG
University of Vaasa
FLEMMING POULFELT
Copenhagen Business School
TORGER REVE
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
English language adviser
NANCY ADLER
Editorial Board
NILs BRUNSSON ERIK JOHNSEN JOHAN P. OLSEN
Stockholm School of Economics The Management Research University of Oslo
CHRISTER CARLSSON Institute, Frederiksberg ANDREW PETTIGREW
Abo Academy PERTTI KETTUNEN University of Warwick
University of Jyvaskyla BENT PROVSTGAARD
JEREMY DENT PAL E. KORSVOLD Aarhus School
London School of Economics Norwegian School of Management of Economics
and Political Science REVO LUOSTARINEN GERALD R. SALANCIK
Lars ENGWALL Helsinki School of Economics Graduate School of
Uppsala University JAMES G. MARCH Industrial Administra-
Stanford University tion, Pittsburgh
PAULSSON FRENCKNER
LARS-GUNNAR MATTSSON WILLIAM H. STARBUCK
University of Stockholm
Stockholm School of Economics New York University
ANTHONY Hopwoop HENRY MINTZBERG MASAHIRO YAMAMOTO
University of Oxford McGill University Meiji University
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 14
Number 1/2 1998
A. COHEN An examination of the relationship between work commitment
and work outcomes among hospital nurses
J. A. PARNELL Performance’s influence on strategic change: a longitudinal
assessment
L. NACHUM Danish professional service firms: why are they not competitive
internationally? A comparative analysis between Danish and
U.K. management consulting firms
H. HASSELBLADH and Social magmas and the conventional explanatory pyramid
F. THEODORIDIS
K. SKOLDBERG Heidegger and organization: notes towards a new research
programme
D. Camino and C. CARDONE Countertrade and the choice of strategic trading form
Book Reviews
B. JACOBSSON Public Sector Management. Theory, Critique and Practice, by
D. McKevitt and A. Lawton
G. BRULIN Manufacturing the Employee: Management Knowledge from the
19th to 2/st Centuries, by R. Jacques
L. STRANNEGARD Den populara managementkulturen — om produktion och spridn-
ing av “kunskap” om foretagsledning, by S. Furusten
P. GAGLIARDI For Positivist Organization Theory: Proving the Hard Core, by
L. Donaldson
Contributors to this issue
Number 3
Special Issue Section: The 4th Nordic Workshop on Interorganizational Research
HENRIK B. SORENSEN Editorial: 4th Nordic Workshop on Interorganizational
Research
Nico.ai J. Foss The resource-based perspective: an assessment and diagnosis
of problems
HENRIK B. SORENSEN and Forming strategic alliances for asset development
TorRGER REVE
HELEN ANDERSON, Position and role-conceptualizing dynamics in business
Virpt HAvILA, network
Pout ANDERSON
and AINO HALINEN
AINO, HALINEN and The role of embeddedness in the evolution of business
JAN-AKE TORNROOS networks
General Papers Section — ;
Eric W. K. TsANnG Motives for strategic alliance: a resource-based perspective
Ari-PEKKA HAMERI and Data-based learning in product development
JUKKA NIHTILA
3VENN-AGE DAHL and Downsizing strategies and institutional environments
CORSTEIN NESHEIM
MOHAN LAL and The joint impact of environmental uncertainty and tolerance of
LARS HASSEL ambiguity on top managers’ perceptions of the usefulness of
non-conventional management accounting information
[THOMAS PLENBORG The operating cycle and the information content of earnings
and cash flow
Cor Buscu Attitudes towards management by objectives: an empirical
investigation of self-efficacy and goal commitment
300k Reviews
ROLF SOLLI New Frontiers in Public Sector Management: Trends and Issues
in State and Local Government in Europe, by Frieder Naschold;
State and Administration in Japan and Germany. A Comparative
Perspective and Continuity and Change, by Michio Muramatsu
and Frieder Naschold
Contributors to this issue
Acknowledgement to referees of Volume 13, 1997
Number 4
Special Issue Section: Cognition in and on Organizations
Mauri LAUKKANEN and Editorial: Everyday ideas about organizing and organization
Guse SEVON
ANTONIO STRATI (Mis)understanding cognition in organization studies
GiLtt WIDELL Images in practice: vistas, time and causality in organizations
Rosert P. Boop Images of an unfolding diversification project
Si_viA GHERARDI Competence — the symbolic passe-partout to change in
a learning organization
FLORENCE ALLARD-POESI Representations and influence processes in groups: towards
a SOCiO-cOgnitive perspective On cognition in organization
General Papers Section
K. BRUNSSON Non-learning organizations
Markus GRANLUND, Institutionalised justification of corporate action: interna-
Kari LuKKA and tionalisation and the EU in corporate reports
JAN MourITSEN
LiLtacH NACHUM Do the diamonds of foreign countries shape the competitive-
ness of firms? A case study of the Swedish engineering consult-
ing industry
IRENE GOLL and Rational model of decision making, strategy and firm
RaKESH B. SAMBHARYA performance
Book Reviews
BsORN ROMBACH The Folklore of Management, by Clarence B. Randall
FABRIZIO PANOZZO Accounting for Improvement, by Sten Jonsson