Attracting the right talent and retaining them becomes a critical aspect for business success. In competitive labour markets, the challenge for service-based organizations is to differentiate themselves in order to successfully attract and retain talented staff. The main objective of this paper is to study the influence of employer image towards employees in IT industry. The primary data collec...

This article uses the moralized markets and markets as politics literatures in economic sociology to explore the emerging industry of private consultants who produce ‘democratic’ dialogues for organizational clients from all sectors. In multi-method field research, we (a) trace moralized processes by which market activity and political process are distinguished in an era of financial crisis, an...

The scale, scope, and significance of humanitarian action have expanded significantly since the late 1980s. This article reflects on two ways in which humanitarianism has been transformed. First, its purpose has been politicized. Whereas once humanitarian actors attempted to insulate themselves from the world of politics, they now work closely with states and attempt to eliminate the root cause...

Implementing an ERP project is a political process. This paper starts with a literature review of organizational politics and its implications to the implementation of ERP systems. The Political Strategies Framework which categorizes different ePolitics strategies in the cases is introduced. The framework is applied in the later sections of the paper to case study data from two companies, one i...

This paper investigates the politics of ICT diffusion and presents the findings from a pilot study conducted across general medical practices based within a Primary Care Trust in the North East of England. An overview is provided of the macro level politics of ICT adoption in a UK primary health care and the applicability of diffusion of innovation research within the healthcare context. A rese...

Understanding the power dimension of information use is important in developing and implementing information systems. The essay is a description of a research model for conceptualizing the politics of information within organizations. The essay presents a perspective on organizational culture as an information landscape, its dimensionalities, and the political frame of information use. In intro...