Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Knowledge of scientific and technological developments, and the flexible communication and decision making, knowledge sharing, and collaboration that stem from them, can enable organizations and individuals to be successful and viable competitors in today’s global economy. Information Systems and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
In recent decades an extensive array of changes and innovations have taken place in and across work organizations and networks of organizations and workers, facilitated by new technologies and technological forms. This has initiated an interest in technological change as one of the conditions for...
Communication as Organizing
Empirical and Theoretical Explorations in the Dynamic of Text and Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Communication as Organizing unites multiple reflections on the role of language under a single rubric: the organizing role of communication. Stemming from Jim Taylor's earlier work, The Emergent Organization: Communication as Its Site and Surface (LEA, 2000), the volume editors present a communicational...
Listening Deeply
An Approach to Understanding and Consulting in Organizational Culture, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Listening deeply is the foundation of all effective organizational management, research, and consulting. This book explores the many aspects of attentive listening through storytelling and includes examples of organizational case studies. In Stein’s practice, listening deeply is an attitude evoked...
The Work of Communication
Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism revolves around a two-part question: "What have work and organization become under contemporary capitalism—and how should organization studies approach them?" Changes in the texture...
Qualitative Organizational Research Volume 3
Best papers from the Davis Conference on Qualitative Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The Davis Conference on Organizational Research, held for the last 15 years, is the world’s leading conference for qualitative researchers in organizational studies. Scholars receiving the “Best presentation awards” at the Davis Conference for the past 6 years have contributed chapters to this...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Research in Organizational Change and Development provides a special platform for scholars and practitioners to share new research-based insights. Volume 21 continues the tradition of providing insightful and thought-provoking chapters. Papers bring new perspectives to classic issues in the field...
by Richard W. Woodman, Abraham B. Rami Shani
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
For 25 years Research in Organizational Change and Development has provided a special platform for scholars and practitioners to share new research-based insights. Volume 20 continues the tradition of providing insightful and thought-provoking chapters. Some papers bring new perspectives to classic...
by Raanan Lipshitz, Professor Victor J. Friedman, Micha Popper
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2006
This book presents a solid, research-based conceptual framework that demystifies organizational learning and bridges the gap between theory and practice. Using an integrative approach, authors Raanan Lipshitz, Victor Friedman and Micha Popper provide practitioners and researchers with tools for understanding organizational learning under real-world conditions.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In The****Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate: Second Edition, a team of leading international scholars presents the state-of-the-art in the field, ten years after the publication of the award-winning First Edition. Following the Preface by Edgar Schein, 33 entirely new chapters document...
by Arne Collen
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This new volume in the distinguished Praxiology series examines the confluence of praxiology, pragmatics, and systemics in the study of systemic change through human inquiry, particularly small group activities, human organizations, and globalizing trends. It covers core concepts indigenous to organizational...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Counter-Narratives and Organization brings the concept of "counter-narrative" into an organizational context, illuminating these complex elements of communication as intrinsic yet largely unexplored aspect of organizational storytelling. Departing from dialogical, emergent and processual...
Dis/organization as Communication
Exploring the Disordering, Disruptive and Chaotic Properties of Communication
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
This book accounts for the transformation of organizations in a post-bureaucratic era by bringing a communicational lens to the ontological discussion on organization/disorganization, offering a conceptual and methodological toolbox for studying dis/organization as communication.
Increasingly,...
Mafia Organizations
The Visible Hand of Criminal Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
How do mafias work? How do they recruit people, control members, conduct legal and illegal business, and use violence? Why do they establish such a complex mix of rituals, rules, and codes of conduct? And how do they differ? Why do some mafias commit many more murders than others? This book makes...