BACKGROUND Persons with disability are often marginalised and excluded from international development efforts. This case study reviews the success of Uttarakhand Cluster of development NGOs in changing organisational behaviour towards being disability inclusive in their development (DID) activities. METHODS A triangulation of qualitative research methods was used, including key informant inte...

From the very beginning of the www, web applications have been suggested as an efficient means of promoting organisational identity and of sharing information within organisations. This article draws on structuration theory, actor network theory, imaginary organisations and multiple organisational identities to explore the consequences of attempts to use web applications to revitalise a large n...

Privatisation has received much attention from economists and political scientists, but surprisingly little from management academics. This paper considers British Rail from strategic and organisational perspectives, in the context of a long period of commercialisation of the corporation leading up to privatisation. The changes involved are analysed using the Laughlin (1991) and Parker (1995a) ...

BACKGROUND Achieving evidence-based practice in health care is integral to the drive for quality improvement in the National Health Service in the UK. Encapsulated within this policy agenda are challenges inherent in leading and managing organisational change. Not least of these is the need to change the behaviours of individuals and groups in order to embed new practices. Such changes are set ...

RÉSUMÉ. La variété et la continuité des changements auxquels les organisations modernes sont soumises, ont donné naissance à de multiples approches de gestion du changement organisationnel. Ces approches proposent des directives générales pour gérer le processus de changement mais ne définissent pas de formalismes permettant de représenter le processus de changement, la vision du changement, l’...

Background: Achieving evidence-based practice in health care is integral to the drive for quality improvement in the National Health Service in the UK. Encapsulated within this policy agenda are challenges inherent in leading and managing organisational change. Not least of these is the need to change the behaviours of individuals and groups in order to embed new practices. Such changes are set...

INTRODUCTION A project of vocational rehabilitation was studied in Sweden between 1999 and 2002. The project included four public organisations: the social insurance office, the local health services, the municipal social service and the office of the state employment service. The aim of this paper was to analyse perceived barriers in the development of inter-organisational integration. THEOR...

In this study three possible determinants of the increase in the ratio between skilled and unskilled workers are tested together: technological change, organisational change, and foreign direct investment. After analysing the literature, these hypotheses are jointly tested using a SUR estimate. The results – regarding a panel of 488 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 1989-1997 – sugges...

Introduction Eastern European „revolutions‟ of 1989 are continuing to generate considerable debates amongst scholars, politicians and economists. The transformations also present a unique opportunity for sport scholars interested in studying organisational change. Most studies of sport have been concerned with organisational change as result of state or commercial interventions (Amis & Slack, 2...