For most organizations, the information explosion of the mature Digital Age has made current approaches to Information Integrity (the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of the information) obsolete. This article details extrinsic and intrinsic information errors and their impact, and spells out the need for effective real-time automated information controls.
Keywords:Information integrity, Information explosion, IT, Information controls, Boards of directors
This article considers a model of specifically-defined organizational development. For a successful organization, managers need to combine six key building blocks in a fashion which is appropriate to the organization’s stage of growth as it increases in size and complexity. Failure to do so results in ‘growing pains’.
Keywords:Growth, organizational development, growing pains, Organizational life cycle
The rational model of organising and managing is widely recognised to have significant limitations. Equally, organisations of all types are understood to be characterised by
internally competing goals and managerial agendas. However, this political dimension, despite its prevalence and inevitability has yet to gain acceptability as the key to managing the plurality of internal organisational interests.
In their search for alternative images and vocabularies organization theorists are using art as
a source of inspiration to understand what organizations and organizing are all about. We
join the researchers who claim that there is potential in art-inspired organizational research to
produce new knowledge and social change. However, we also argue that uncritical use of art
brings about little social change....
Keywords:Organization research, Constructivist art, Gender, Social networks, Social
change.
This study addresses the research question why some companies do and others do not have women on their boards. This study provides evidence on the organizational characteristics that affect the likelihood of women being appointed.
Keywords:Governance, Gender-diversity, Board composition, Resource dependence theory
After the recent scandals and the introduction of new corporate governance codes, non-executive directors (NED's) and supervisors have started playing an increasingly important role in providing the ‘checks and balances’ of organizations. Little is known about the way in which NED's fulfill their supervisory role.
