In transition to community-based forest management (CBFM) paradigm, transformation in the role of foresters from ‘controller’ to ‘facilitator ‘, is taken for granted. Given the militaristic culture of forestry agencies in most developing countries, this change is bound to face resistance. Using structural equation modeling technique, this paper examines two dimensions of resistance – disapprova...

Swedish research on organizational communication is characterized by empirical, qualitative research. The tradition of holistic and profound case studies is strong. In this article, a wide definition of organizational communication is employed, including research focusing on both internal and external communication. Research themes and methods are reviewed and discussed. The majority of the stu...

The use of consumer IT at work, known as "IT Consumerization", is changing the dynamic between employees and IT departments. Employees are empowered and now have greater freedom but also responsibility as to what technologies to use at work and how. At the same time, organizational factors such as rules on technology use still exert considerable influence on employees' actions. Drawing on Struc...

The lack of an organizational competence that embodies the capacity to restrict the enterprise undesirable design freedom and guide the subsequent operation, from a holistic point of view, leads to incoherence and inconsistency among the enterprise elements. The research brings forward the importance of this organizational competence labeled enterprise governance (EG) in defining DEMO’s ontolog...

The recent discourse on modernizing organizations and leadership has often placed a strong emphasis on values and ethics. This article elaborates on the benefits and challenges in the integration of values into leadership and organizational actions, most notably in regards to appraisals of values-based leadership (VBL). It is proposed that if the critical success factors and the challenges in i...

Software Process Improvement projects face a double challenge: On the one hand are these projects often major organizational change projects requiring considerable investments in terms of time and money. The group charged with conducting an SPI project has, on the other hand, little formal authority to influence or force software professionals to engage in SPI work and define and implement chan...

In this paper we investigate evidence for the ‘skill bias’ of organizational change (OC). These include the decentralization of authority, delayering of managerial functions and increased multi-tasking. We use several sources of panel data on British and French establishments. Three findings emerge: (i) organizational change tends to reduce the demand for unskilled workers in both countries; (i...