Tailored meanings: on the meaning and impact of organizational dress
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Dress in organizations is ubiquitous, yet it has been overlooked in organizational studies. Dress can reflect and create a variety of organizational dynamics. This article offers a framework to consider these dynamics. Three dimensions - attributes of dress, homogeneity of dress, and conspicuousness of dress - are identified. Relationships among these dimensions and organizational processes are proposed. Dress is argued to indicate internal and external processes. Dress can also affect individual and organizational outcomes, including employee compliance and legitimation and organizational image and utilization of human resources. A rich agenda for research is proposed. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Academy of Management Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0363-7425
Year: 1993
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A contingency theory of rhetorical congruence
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An argument states that a rhetorical congruence theory is proposed as attempts to adopt structure to contingencies will be successful only if there is a rhetorical congruence. Rhetorical congruence has two parts- first, rhetorical congruence exists if rhetoric is appropriate to contingencies and second, it exists if the various rhetorical processes are in balance with one another.
Publication Name: Academy of Management Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0363-7425
Year: 2005
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Exploring intuition and its role in managerial decision making
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The meaning of intuition as affectively charged judgment that arises due to rapid, nonconscious and holistic associations is discussed. Various factors that determine when the use of intuition in decision-making is most effective are given.
Publication Name: Academy of Management Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0363-7425
Year: 2007
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