This annotated bibliography focuses on the various approaches to studying narrative. It covers the approaches to narrative in an interdisciplinary manner, including the fields of psychology, sociology, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, organisation studies, and history. Narrative is an interpretive approach in the social sciences involving storytelling methodology. The story becomes an obj...

Karolien van Nunen, Elke Leuridan, Guido Van Hal, Pierre Van Damme, & Tom Decorte Department of Epidemiology and Social Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Research Group Medical Sociology and Health Policy, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, University...

This paper is intended to contribute some background knowledge about the future in management and organisation studies. It provides historical information on the way the social sciences have engaged with the future and seeks to identify the difficulties with the subject of the future for scientific study. It suggests that futurity is an inescapable aspect of all social being and thus needs to b...

THE RISE OF IDEOLOGICAL and political demands for increased participation in decision making by members of work organizations gives a particular significance to empirical research on workers’ participation in decision making in industrial plants. In this article, we report results concerning workers’ participation in decision making and its effects in 52 industrial plants in five countries: Aus...

James P. Spillane is an associate professor of education and social policy and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 2115 North Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208–2615, USA; e-mail: [email protected]. His research explores the policy-implementation process at the state, school district, school, and classroom levels, focusing on inter-governmental...

Introduction This paper is derived from two sources. The first source is a framework used with colleagues in CSET [Centre for the Study of Education and Training] at the University of Lancaster, UK to undertake commissioned evaluations. The framework has been used but unacknowledged and this paper renders it’s shape explicitly for the first time. The second source is from ongoing research and d...

■ Abstract Research on organizations is increasingly informed by analysis of community context. Community can be conceptualized as sets of relations between organizational forms or as places where organizations are located in resource space or in geography. In both modes, organizations operate interdependently with social institutions and with other units of social structure. Because such relat...

Development sociology as a distinct area of study gained prominence in the post-world war era with the evolving interest in political and economic progression of the post-colonial world. The emerging discipline from the mainstream sociology have been particularly interested in development paths and strategies adopted in nations in the various regions of the world with greater emphasis in develo...

Abstract Studying the inclusion of civil society in international organizations has grown last decade. This article repatriates ongoing scholarly discussions this within organizational sociology to answer what nature is as an organization at United Nations. With “temporary organizations” it proposes a relational perspective whereby society’s temporariness induces mechanisms exclusion and vice-v...