Boundary Control: The Social Ordering of Work and Family Time in a High-Tech Corporation

Discretionary power of project managers in knowledge‐intensive firms and gender issues

“…Long working hours are one of the characteristics of project-based management in IT departments, as both our study and earlier ones show (Perlow, 1998;Von Hellens, Nielsen, & Trauth, 2001). For the project managers we interviewed, long working hours were the most important employee commitment indicator.…”

“…Many studies of work in KIFs note their fl at, decentralized structure (Alvesson, 1995;Kunda, 1992;Perlow, 1998;Pina e Cunha, 2002). They also highlight the characteristic informality and ad hoc practices in labour relations manage- ment.…”

The Impact of Influence Tactics in Information System Development Projects: A Control-Loss Perspective

“…The resource dimension focuses on issues related to resource availability, allocation, and control. These dimensions were identified based on the synthesis of published ISD project cases [25,26,35,46,64], case descriptions of the famous information technology (IT) project failures listed in Nelson [40,41], and professional documents such as the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) [50] and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL; www.itil-officialsite.com).…”

Gestión individual del equilibrio entre el trabajo y la vida personal: Revisión e integración de la literatura

“…En las últimas décadas, se han producido una serie de cambios importantes en la sociedad y particularmente en el mercado laboral, entre los que se destacan la incorporación de la mujer al mundo del trabajo (Jalilvand, 2000;Richie, 2006), los puestos laborales cada vez más complejos y demandantes (Perlow, 1998;Park, Fritz & Jex, 2011), y el creciente impacto de las tecnologías de la comunicación y de la información sobre el desarrollo de las tareas (Major & Germano, 2006;Lanaj, Johnson & Barnes, 2014). En gran medida, estos cambios han vancia en la actualidad ya que la literatura empírica lo relaciona con resultados negativos, tanto para el individuo como para la organización.…”