Publications

Clegg, S & Clarke, T 1999, 'Intelligent Organizations?' in Global Management: Universal Theories and Local Realities, SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 177-201.
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Clegg, S, Ibarra-Colado, E & Bueno-Rodriquez, L 1999, 'Global Management: Universal Theories and Local Realities' in Clegg, S, Ibarra-Colado, E & Bueno-Rodrigues, L (eds), Global Management: Universal Theories and Local Realities,, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, pp. 177-201.
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How intelligence is embedded and used in organisations

Budd, M, Adair, D, Lenskyj, H, Silk, M, Wedgwood, N, Russell, D, Boyle, R, Sage, GH, Guttmann, A & Nash, R 1999, 'Book reviews', Culture, Sport, Society, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 127-145.
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Clarke, T & Clegg, S 1999, 'Changing Paradigms in Public Service Management', Administrative Theory & Praxis, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 485-490.
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Analysis of changing paradigms in public sector management in recent decades

Clarke, T & Clegg, S 1999, 'The Paradoxes of Globalization', The International Scope Review, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 1-26.
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A critique of the globalization thesis which suggests convergence towards uniformity in institutions and values. On the contrary the world is composed of a rich diversity of cultures, values and beliefs which are enduring, and make a significant contribution to the social and cultural richness of the world at a time of enforced homogenisation.

Clegg, S 1999, 'Globalizing the Intelligent Organization', Management Learning, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 259-280.
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This article contrasts exploratory with exploitative learning, in order to argue for the importance of both-not just the latter. It considers three case studies briefly: Microsoft, Berlei and Patricks. While Microsoft may often be thought of as the epitome of an `intelligent' organization, the company has a reputation for unreliable products. Although the employees at the Lithgow plant of Berlei achieved world's best practice, their jobs were exported offshore, on the basis of the learning that they had achieved for the company. In the case of Patricks we can see the effect of managerial cleverness (advised by some of the best legal and accounting expertise available), producing fundamentally flawed attempts at re-organization that failed to consider the social, political or organizational dimensions or consequences of the type of learning unleashed. At the same time, this article argues a particular case for organization studies that situates itself within a classical tradition of sociology that stretches from Max Weber, through C. Wright Mills, to the present.

Clegg, S 1999, 'Informal Learning in the Workplace:', Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 1-4.
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Clegg, SR, Linstead, S & Sewell, G 1999, 'Only Penguins: A Polemic on Organization Theory from the Edge of the World', Organization Studies, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 103-117.
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The paper is a reflection on some of the conditions associated with being an Australian Management scholar in the Organization Studies field.

Mandle, B 1999, 'BOOK REVIEW: Daryl Adair and Wray Vamplew.SPORT IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY.Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998.', Victorian Studies, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 352-353.
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Mandle, B 1999, 'Sport in Australian history', VICTORIAN STUDIES, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 352-353.

Onyx, J 1999, 'VI. Power between Women in Organizations', Feminism & Psychology, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 417-421.
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Onyx, J & Dovey, K 1999, 'Cohabitation in the time of cholera: praxis in the community sector in the era of corporate capitalism', Community Development Journal, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 179-190.
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This paper is a response to Gary Craig's (1998) overview of the current state of the community sector within a global corporate capitalist economy. It attempts two things: firstly, to contribute to an analysis of the factors underlying the current state of, what Craig (ibid: 2) calls, 'ideological confusion' within and beyond the sector, by exploring the various contradictory ideological strands that have accompanied the project of modernization, and their relative status at the end of the millennium. Secondly, the paper revives the concept of praxis, as an appropriate methodology for action by those in the community sector, and identifies key strategic issues - those of the current economic rationalist policies of the state and of state enticement of the sector into collaborative ventures - that the sector needs to consider in taking strategic action to place its narrative of social justice and equity back on the state agenda.

Orssatto, RJ & Clegg, SR 1999, 'The Political Ecology of Organizations', Organization & Environment, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 263-279.
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The authors propose a framework to analyze the terrain of political relationships and actions in which environmental strategies and practices are embedded. The framework constitutes the political ecology of organizations. The concept of an organizational field is proposed as the optimal level for the analysis of business-environment relationships. Central to the framework is an anatomy of power (a mapping of the structuring of power relations). The framework is applied to the automobile industry. Initially, the influential approach of double dividends is analyzed from the perspective of political ecology. The main theoretical elements of the framework are subsequently introduced by using empirical examples of experiments with alternative cars (lightweight electric vehicles) and modes of transportation (car sharing) drawn from the Western European context. Through the use of the framework, one can identify the pressure points that are capable of fundamentally transforming the automobile system and, more generally, other macro systems of production and consumption.

Rura‐Polley, T & Clegg, S 1999, 'Managing Collaborative Quality: A Challenging Innovation', Creativity and Innovation Management, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 37-47.
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This paper investigates the theoretical challenges involved in developing an administrative innovation: managing collaborative quality. The emergence of new collaborative organizational forms has left managers in a quandary: how can they manage quality where several organizations come together to produce a product or deliver a service? In the past most quality definitions and techniques focused exclusively on intra‐organizational quality. In strategic alliances, networks, project organizations and other collaborative arrangements, such an intra‐organizational focus leads to severe limitations. This paper shows how the current status of collaboration and quality research poses serious challenges for companies that want to develop innovative approaches to managing collaborative quality.

Schillmeier, M, Clegg, S, Shenar, G, Wilson-Kovacs, D, Ansari, S, Giles, P, Bagnall, G & Sykes, K 1999, 'Book Reviews: Democracy without Enemies, Max Weber and Michel Foucault: Parallel Life Works, after Writing Culture, the Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania, Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin, Contemporary Cinema, the Politics of Display, Museums, Science, Culture, Transcendent Individual: Towards a Literary and Liberal Anthropology', The Sociological Review, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 172-196.
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Veal, AJ, White, J, Ravinder, R, Darcy, S, Taylor, T & Veal, AJ 1999, 'Book Reviews', Annals of Leisure Research, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 138-151.
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WEARING, S & DARCY, S 1999, 'Ecotourism options in coastal protected area management: A case study of North Head Quarantine Station, Australia', The Environmentalist, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 239-249.
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The challenges faced by coastal protected areas in both promoting highly attractive sites and preserving the natural attributes of these sites have been given a new dimension with the opportunities presented by ecotourism. Realising the market potential of a protected area and, at the same time, conserving the unique features of an area is a difficult task. This paper explores the possibilities that backpacker tourism may offer the Quarantine Station in Sydney Harbour National Park, in Australia. The Quarantine Station is a significant cultural heritage site that is located in a sensitive coastal national park within Sydney's metropolitan area.

Wearing, S & Gartrell, N 1999, 'EXPLORING ECOTOURISM AND COMMUNITY BASED RESEARCH APPLICATIONS FOR JOINT MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL PARKS', World Leisure & Recreation, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 25-32.
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The increasing focus on natural resource-based tourism within Australia is posing problems for national parks management agencies and Aboriginal communities involved in tourism. Pressure from tourism is having significant effects on the local Aboriginal community. In an attempt to deal with these issues joint management approaches to management of national parks have been evolving. However, evaluative research frameworks need to be developed that facilitate a cross-cultural flow of information, which promote the development of the cross-cultural understanding, and which maximise possibilities for Aborigines. This paper suggests the principles of ecotourism can be incorporated in developing ways of researching that will enable us to study how facilitation of community ownership and control of tourism can help the joint management of Australian national parks for tourist use. The application of these principles has the potential to develop research approaches that may encourage current management to develop frameworks in an essential first step toward managing tourism equitably in national parks.

Wearing, S & Wearing, M 1970, 'Decommodifying ecotourism: Rethinking global-local interactions with host communities', LOISIR & SOCIETE-SOCIETY AND LEISURE, 14th World Congress of Sociology, PRESSES UNIV QUEBEC, MONTREAL, CANADA, pp. 39-70.
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Dowling, RK 1999, 'New Zealand Tourism and Hospitality Research Conference'.
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Bennett (2004, p. 112-113) suggested people in the developed world “lead urban lives, dedicated to the avoidance of risk” and therefore travel in order to challenge themselves. He referred to travelling as “a sort of bungee-jump. It has the tang of adventure… but is safer than crossing the road”. In this paper we expanded this metaphor of the bungee-jumper and applied it to volunteer tourists (VTs). Commercial volunteer tourism is personally challenging and requires a leap of faith into the unknown. However, like bungee-jumping, there is also a safety net. For the VTs in this case study, it was the structure and security provided by volunteer organisation.