Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
The Innovation Paradox
Developing-Country Capabilities and the Unrealized Promise of Technological Catch-Up
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Since Schumpeter, economists have argued that vast productivity gains can be achieved by investing in innovation and technological catch-up. Yet, as this volume documents, developing country firms and governments invest little to realize this potential, which dwarfs international aid flows. Using new...
Foucault and Managerial Governmentality
Rethinking the Management of Populations, Organizations and Individuals
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
In the last two decades there has been an explosion of research inspired by Michel Foucault’s suggestion of a new concept, ‘governmentality’. The distinctive feature of modern governmentality is that across all sorts of fields, rule is predicated upon the active subject as the vehicle through...
Organizing Disaster
The Construction of Humanitarianism
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
This book challenges the taken-for-granted status of organizations such as the Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontieres by problematizing humanitarianism. In the experience of the Author working with such organizations, they are selective of the type of suffering that receives attention. Empirical studies...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
The scholarly field of Critical Management Studies (CMS) is in a state of flux. Against a backdrop of dramatic global shifts, CMS scholarship has lately taken a number of new and exciting directions and, at times, challenged older critical voices. Novel theoretical frameworks and diverse research...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
**Chosen by Library Journal as one of the best reference texts of 2016. **
Occupy. Indignados. The Tea Party. The Arab Spring. Anonymous. These and other terms have become part of an emerging lexicon in recent years, signalling an important development that has gripped many parts of the world:...
Welfare aziendale e flexible benefit
Nuove tipologie, vantaggi contributivi e fiscali. Completo di casi reali
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 26, 2017
L’approccio è multidisciplinare sul tema Welfare Aziendale e Fringe Benefit: unisce competenze di psicologia della gestione del personale, management, amministrazione, fiscalità ed aspetti legali, con un occhio alle ultime novità normative. Il libro è rivolto a imprenditori di PMI, di grandi...
Shifting Practices
Reflections on Technology, Practice, and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
How disruptions and discontinuities caused by the introduction of new technologies often reveal aspects of practice not previously observed.
What happens in an established practice or work setting when a novel artifact or tool for doing work changes the familiar work routines? Any unexpected...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Drawing on both analytical and continental traditions, this thought-provoking book takes a balanced look at the contributions philosophy can make to improving our understanding of what it means to organize.
The essays consider three areas: representing organization, knowing organization, and...
The Making of Experimental Economics
Witness Seminar on the Emergence of a Field
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
This book is the transcript of a witness seminar on the history of experimental economics, in which eleven high-profile experimental economists participated, including Nobel Laureates Vernon Smith, Reinhard Selten and Alvin Roth. The witness seminar was constructed along four different topics: skills,...
Alternative Business
Outlaws, Crime and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
From Robin Hood to Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean, outlaws have been a central part of 800 years of culture. These are characters who criticise the power of those in the castle or the skyscraper, and earn their keep by breaking the law. Outlaws break categories too. They are fact and fiction,...
For Robert Cooper
Collected Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Robert Cooper, who died in 2013, was the leading theorist of organization working in England over the past few decades. Describing himself as a ‘social philosopher,’ he was one of the first writers to introduce post-structuralist and post-modern thought into theories of organization but was always...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
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Ideal as an introduction and as a quick reference, Key Concepts in Critical Management Studies explores the essential concepts used within the field today. Specially edited and written by a range of international experts, key ideas are succinctly explained...
Coaching strategico
Trasformare i limiti in risorse
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Ormai da diversi anni si sta diffondendo anche in Italia un particolare approccio alle problematiche psicologiche e relazionali detto coaching. Questo insieme di tecniche si rivolge in particolare al mondo delle aziende e dei rapporti professionali e produttivi in genere, ma non solo. Sulla scorta...
by Gennaro D'ermes
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 7, 2015
I dipendenti dell'azienda quotidianamente lavorano duramente per il raggiungimento degli obiettivi, talvolta in un ambiente “precario”, al fine di sostenere gli interessi del Business e del Manager che, a sua volta, non coglie quasi mai i loro sforzi, anzi, il Manager qui descritto, sarà sempre...