List of Contributions

Dear Colleagues - I am working with a New Zealand colleague on a paper related to the 10th anniversary of the May 1996 Everest climbing disaster. Some of you may know about this disaster through John Krakauer's now famous book, Into Thin Air. David Barry and I wrote an article about the event ...

I am designing a course on Virtual Teams to be taught to graduate management students at WPI in the summer. I am in the process now of finding relevant articles and books and looking for advice, syllabi, etc. from other people who may have taught such a course. If anyone has had experience teaching ...

David, Thank you (and everyone else on the list) for your thoughts about empowerment and empowering organizations. I tend to agree with you (and Alvesson and Willmott) that some of what is touted as empowerment may actually narrow worker involvement and control. What interests us in our study, ...

Can anyone give me the names of companies who are generally regarded as ones that espouse and practice EMPOWERMENT with its workforce? I need this as part of some research I am about to undertake on the intersection between IT (in particular, ERP implementation)and an "empowered" context. ...