J Child

Biographic Data

ID7613
NAMEJ Child
GIVEN NAMESJ
FAMILY NAMEChild
SIGNATURECHILD J
AFFILIATIONSLondon Business School
ORCID0000-0002-5398-9268
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS49
TOTAL CITATIONS506
AUTHOR COUNT49
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1920
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX11

  • Extraction in Four Dimensions

    Open AccessJ Child, John ChildsARTICLEGeopolitics2020Cited by: 27References: 40

    Despite the truism that less is known about the deep-sea than outer space, deep-sea mining (DSM) is being promoted as the next frontier of resource extraction. In 2019, Nautilus Minerals hopes to become the world’s first company to mine the deep seabed in the waters off Papua New Guinea (PNG). DSM thus stands at the threshold of becoming a matter of politics; it has provoked a wide range of geopolitical imaginaries variously relating to ‘resource…

  • Cooperative Strategy

    J Child, David Faulkner et al.BOOKCooperative Strategy2019

    Cooperation has become the leading strategy adopted by business and other organizations. It is taking on new forms that are adapted to changing market expectations and technological possibilities in the rapidly evolving business environment. This new edition of Cooperative Strategy provides a comprehensive view of the practical and theoretical literature concerning cooperative strategies, and the alliance and network organizational forms that are…

  • Cooperative Strategy

    J Child, David Faulkner et al.BOOKCooperative Strategy2019

  • The international context of cooperation

    J Child, David Faulkner et al.CHAPTERCooperative Strategy2019

    Chapter 21 examines ways in which the national context of alliances is relevant to cooperative strategies. It focuses on two salient contextual features. One is national culture. The other is the institutional environment, which particularly refers to governments and interest groups such as NGOs. National context is consequential for alliances in several ways. The context from which international alliance partners originate encourages each of the…

  • Greening the blue? Corporate strategies for legitimising deep sea mining

    Open AccessJ Child, John ChildsARTICLEPolitical Geography2019Cited by: 5References: 38

    The world’s first deep-sea mining (DSM) project has witnessed the commercial development of plans to extract copper and gold from deposits 1600m deep in the waters of offshore Papua New Guinea (PNG). Viewed as ‘experimental’ and ‘uncertain’ by its critics, it has afforded both controversy and resistance. This paper critically analyses the multifarious strategies that the industry’s apologists use in order to respond to environmental concerns and …

  • "Speaking Power to "Post-Truth

    Benjamin Neimark, J Child et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2019Cited by: 36References: 55

    Given a history in political ecology of challenging hegemonic “scientific” narratives concerning environmental problems, the current political moment presents a potent conundrum: how to (continue to) critically engage with narratives of environmental change while confronting the “populist” promotion of “alternative facts.” We ask how political ecologists might situate themselves vis-à-vis the presently growing power of contemporary authoritarian …

  • National resources'? The fragmented citizenship of gas extraction in Tanzania

    Robert Ahearne, J Child et al.ARTICLEJournal of Eastern African Studies2018Cited by: 18References: 30

    Recent discoveries of oil and natural gas across East Africa have provoked a wave of political optimism fuelled by imaginaries of future development. Tanzania is a paragon of this trend; its government having asserted its potential to become a globally significant natural gas producer within a decade. Yet, this rhetorical promise has been countered by a series of violent confrontations that have taken place between state forces and residents of s…

  • MNE microfoundations and routines for building a legitimate and sustainable position in emerging markets

    Open AccessUlf Elg, Pervez Ghauri et al.ARTICLEJournal of Organizational Behavior2017Cited by: 4References: 18

    A number of studies have analysed how multinational enterprises (MNEs) develop appropriate strategies for managing the institutionally different contexts of various markets. However, we still know rather little about how MNEs manage different institutional pressures when they operate in emerging markets. These markets have a higher level of uncertainty as their values and structures undergo change. This paper investigates the microfoundations and…

  • Hezbollah

    J Child, Steven Childs et al.ARTICLEJournal of Church and State2014

  • The Internationalization of Chinese Firms

    Open AccessJ Child, Suzana B RodriguesARTICLEManagement and Organization Review2005

    This paper examines the patterns of, and motives for, internationalization by prominent market-seeking Chinese firms. Case studies of these firms indicate that they are seeking technological and brand assets to create a competitive position in international markets. While mainstream theory tends to assume that firms internationalize to exploit competitive advantages, Chinese firms are generally making such investments in order to address competit…

  • Management and Organizations in China

    Open AccessJ ChildCHAPTERManagement and Organizations in…2000

    China has embarked on a further major phase of enterprise reform in which the promotion of giant enterprises, new forms of corporate governance, entrepreneurship and internationalization all play key parts. This evolution will have an impact on foreign-invested firms in China, many of which are already in the process of re-evaluating China as an investment environment and their policies on partnership with domestic firms in that country. This cha…

  • China's Enterprise Reform

    J ChildARTICLEThe China Journal1999

  • Strategic Choice in the Analysis of Action, Structure, Organizations and Environment

    Open AccessJ ChildARTICLEOrganization Studies1997

    This paper examines the place of the strategic choice perspective in the study of organizations and considers its contemporary contribution. The main fea tures of the original analysis are summarized, followed by a review of the key issues which arise from it. The paper discusses the integrative potential of strategic choice theory within organization studies and examines its contribu tion to an evolutionary perspective on the subject.

  • Reshaping Work

    Bryn Jones, Chris Smith et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1992Cited by: 14

    Preface Introduction Part I. Cadbury Ltd and its Context: 1. Cadbury Ltd in its sector 2. The Bourneville factory: from greenfield development to maturity 3. Strategic development since the Second World War Part II. The Accomplishment of Innovations: 4. Technical change and the investment programme 5. Organisational structure, occupational control and autonomy 6. The management of industrial relations 7. The hollow goods project 8. The automatic …

  • The Iron Law of Fiefs

    Max Boisot, J ChildARTICLEAdministrative Science Quarterly1988

    The authors wish to acknowledge the helpful comments of Professor Tom Lupton and the ASO editor and anonymous reviewers. This paper argues that the current markets and hierarchies framework of transaction-cost economics provides too limited a set of transactional options to account adequately for many of the organizational problems encountered in developing economies. Focusing on the codification and diffusion of information, it provides a set of…

  • Professionalism and Work Organisation

    Open AccessJ Child, Michael Fores et al.ARTICLESociology1986References: 4

    McCormick (1985) has disputed parts of our thesis (1983a) that a special AngloSaxon idea of professionalism has contributed to forming a characteristic British pattern of work organisation, which itself has had harmful effects for the standing of production and of manufacturing in general. He sees our explanation as unidimensional, and also argues that the development of the theme has some methodological shortcomings. Like all arguments, our pres…

  • Lost Managers

    Peter Armstrong, J Child et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1984

  • A Price to Pay? Professionalism and Work Organization in Britain and West Germany

    Open AccessJ Child, Michael Fores et al.ARTICLESociology1983Cited by: 23References: 16

    There tends to be more extensive occupational specialization outside the core production area in British manufacturing companies than in German ones. This appears to be associated with the emphasis in Britain on professionalism in industry, a concept which is largely absent in Germany. The British approach is seen to have unfavourable consequences for the status of production and of manufacturing industry in general, with quite likely depressing …

  • Maintenance of Occupational Control

    Open AccessJ Child, Janet FulkARTICLEWork and Occupations1982Cited by: 17References: 23

    Contemporary conditions relevant to the maintenance of occupational control are examined for five professions (accounting, architecture, civil engineering, law, and medicine) in the United Kingdom and the United States as an impetus for the analysis of control by occupations in general. Four areas in which conditions affecting occupational control are analyzed include: restriction of access to the occupation's knowledge base; context of professio…

  • Unequal Alliance

    John Bryant, John H Bryant et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1981

  • The Sociology of Industry

    E J Hackett, R Parker et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1980

  • Class Perceptions and Social Identification of Industrial Supervisors

    Open AccessJ Child, Sandra Pearce et al.ARTICLESociology1980Cited by: 2References: 4

    This paper examines the class position of 156 Birmingham first-line supervisors, and how the supervisors perceive that position. It concludes that they occupy a class position which is only marginally superior to that of manual workers. In their perceptions, however, they range from ascribing a middle class position for themselves to a working class one. These perceptions are assessed in terms of six indicators. The less that supervisors see thei…

  • From “Color” to “Rainbow

    Open AccessJ ChildARTICLEJournal of Interamerican Studies…1979

    A series of recently declassified documents in the National Archives provide striking evidence of the shift of United States military strategic thinking away from the nineteenth and early twentieth century unilateral interventionist approaches to the bilateral approaches taken in World War II under the multilateral framework of the Good Neighbor Policy. It is also significant to note that, despite the multilateral thrust of this Good Neighbor Pol…

  • Geopolitical Thinking in Latin America

    Open AccessJ ChildARTICLELatin American Research Review1979Cited by: 22

    Geopolitics as an approach to politico-military matters was of considerable significance up to the end of World War II, when it declined in respectability and prestige due to its association with Nazi theories of world conquest. As a result, very few strategic or military writings in the United States or Western Europe since World War II have been called "geopolitical," even though they might include many of the concepts subsumed under the pre-19…

  • Participation, Organization, and Social Cohesion

    Open AccessJ ChildARTICLEHuman Relations1976Cited by: 2References: 21

    There is a demand for the extension of participation in organizational decision-making. If realized, this should strengthen the stability of a democratic society through providing more people with a meaningful experience of democratic processes. At the same time, however, organizations are continuing to become bigger and their control more centralized. This trend is illustrated for Britain. It leads to an increasing remoteness of decision making …