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Membership patterns and tenure cycles in organizations have changed, which has resulted in significant leadership challenges. This study examined the relationship between storytelling and organizational commitment to determine whether storytelling signaled the degree of unity that organizational members built to "weather" turbulence. Stories from interviews with employees across all hierarchical levels and tenure stages at diverse locations of a global firm were analyzed and compared with dimensions of organizational commitment. Findings here illustrated that storytelling was strongly associated with organizational commitment and indicated that stories continue to play an important role in conveying values and complex messages across organizational boundaries. Along with providing a productive diagnostic capability, the research offers insight about contemporary organizational membership and surfaces valuable leadership implications.

This article examines the institutional matrix associated with logging and forest pioneering in a district on Sumatra. It draws together theoretical approaches to develop a framework for analysing the operation of competing forms of institutional power and control. The article argues that the governance of local natural resources and the current epidemic of 'illegal logging' can be understood in terms of the particular institutional or socio-political structures found in remote forested areas.

Some contemporary leaders are learning about organizational complexity through study of battlefield decision making, where decisions literally have life-and-death consequences. This article chronicles one such leadership development exercise, a battlefield staff ride at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the site of the crucial U.S. Civil War battle. The author rode along with a team of executive development professionals, traveling to Gettysburg and walking the battlefield to learn about decisions made in 1863 as an innovative framework to think more clearly about management education in organizations. This is the story of how leadership lessons from history can be carried into present-day corporate life.

Half title page -- Full title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Characterising Oil Palm Production in Indonesia and Malaysia -- Chapter 3 - Interventions to Promote Smallholder Oil Palm and Socio-economic Improvement in Indonesia -- Chapter 4 - Agribusiness, Agrarian Change, and the Fate of Oil Palm Smallholders in Jambi -- Chapter 5 - Alternative Pathways for Smallholder Oil Palm in Indonesia: International Comparisons -- Chapter 6 - The Political Economy of Large-scale Oil Palm Development in Sarawak -- Chapter 7 - Oil Palm Smallholders and State Policies in Sarawak -- Chapter 8 - Oil Palm Plantations and Conflict in Indonesia: Evidence from West Kalimantan -- Chapter 9 - People, Participation, Power: The Upstream Complexity of Indonesian Oil Palm Plantations -- Chapter 10 - Opposition to Oil Palm Plantations in Kalimantan: Divergent Strategies, Convergent Outcomes -- Chapter 11 - Situating Transmigration in Indonesia's Oil Palm Labour Regime -- Chapter 12 - Malaysian Oil Palm and Indonesian Labour Migration: A Perspective from Sarawak -- Chapter 13 - Deconstructing the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil -- Chapter 14 - Conclusion -- List of Contributors -- Index.

This book explores the forces reconfiguring local resource governance in Indonesia since 1998, drawing together original field research undertaken in a decade of dramatic political change. Case studies from across Indonesia's diverse cultural and ecological landscapes focus on the most significant resource sectors - agriculture, fisheries, forestry, mining and tourism - providing a rare in-depth view of the dynamics shaping social and environmental outcomes in these varied contexts. Debates surrounding the 'tragedy of the commons' and environmental governance have focused on institutional considerations of how to craft resource management arrangements in order to further the policy objectives of economic efficiency, social equity and environmental sustainability. The studies in this volume reveal the complexity of resource security issues affecting local communities and user groups in Indonesia as they engage with wider institutional frameworks in a context driven simultaneously by decentralizing and globalizing forces. Through ground up investigations of how local groups with different cultural backgrounds and resource bases are responding to the greater autonomy afforded by Indonesia's new political constellation, the authors appraise the prospects for rearticulating governance regimes toward a more equitable and sustainable 'commonweal'.