Management & Management Techniques

How do managers and leaders know what to do when they are caught off guard or taken by surprise? How do they create when they do not know what to d...

Agile Readiness is designed to provide guidance to the manager or business leader in establishing a successful environment to enable fast moving ag...

This title was first published in 2001. This volume brings together the 25-year output of the longest running programme of research into the making...

Strategic alliances have generally been used to refer to relationships that allow an organization to access the strengths and capabilities of other...

Manufacturing companies work endlessly to make process improvements, yet they are often hard to implement and even harder to sustain. The reason: c...

Transforming Governance: New Values, New Systems in the New Business Environment, edited by Maria Aluchna and Güler Aras addresses the current sta...

No one likes change. Too often its viewed as something that must be endured; something to get through as fast as possible so that everything can re...

The concept of followership, like leadership, is not new to the extent that it has been around since the beginning of creation. It is so pervasive ...

The use of comparisons to explain, analyze and understand social and economic phenomena is recognized as a valuable social science tool. This textb...

A world of 9 billion people by mid-century will demand fundamental changes in our mindsets, behaviors, cultures, and overarching paradigm. Just as ...

First Published in 1997. This is Volume IX, Number I of Visual Resources, an international journal of documentation. This special issue focuses on ...

Wicked World advocates the need to acknowledge the complex contexts in which managers, professionals and policymakers operate. Conventional tools d...

For courses in operations and supply chain management. Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management is an integrated, comprehensive int...

This book examines the vital nature of the subject of leadership in Asia and looks, in particular, at the processes and practices within the Asia P...

The clash of cultures, coupled with rapid technological advances, seems to be pushing us in paradoxical directions. On the one hand, the world seem...

Corporate networks, the links between companies and their leaders, reflect a countrys economic organization and its corporate governance system. Mo...

This book is unique given its scholarly angle in unmasking irresponsible leadership (IL) by focusing on its meaning. For the first time the concept...

Critical Management Studies (CMS) is often dated from the publication of an edited volume bearing that name (Alvesson and Willmott, 1992). In the t...

The four worlds as we know them today, the North, West, South and East, are out of balance. The West and the North generally dominate on a global s...

Chinese state banks, which were considered technically insolvent in the 1990s, are at present among the largest and most important banks in the wor...

While airlines have been looking into the next generation of retailing practices for several years, developments since the beginning of 2020 have a...

Managing building services contractors can prove to be a minefield. The most successful jobs will always be those where building site managers have...

In recent years, there has been increasing implementation of group and team decision-making within organizations, much of it managed electronically...

The United Dutch East India Company was the first public company, preceding the formation of the English East-India Company by over 40 years. Its f...

This book provides a new understanding of the constellations of logics in Japanese management practices in Asia and the West. Through comparative e...

The purpose of this book is to evaluate the debate on partnership, using original research data. Samuel provides a novel categorisation with which ...

Capitalism is historically pervasive. Despite attempts through the centuries to suppress or control the private ownership of commercial assets, pro...

Leaders face new challenges as they cope with changes in culture, technology and the workplace. In this edited volume, based on a conference at Cla...

There is often a deep disconnect between the project teams goals and those of the organization. Senior management wants profitable projects, but is...

The nature of human resource development (HRD) has been, and remains, a contested topic the debate was sparked in part by Monica Lees seminal 2001...

In all periods of time, there is a perceived shortage of qualified, credible, and robust leadership skills. At the same time, what is regarded as s...

Sometimes unanticipated threats or opportunities create a situation in which work is required unexpectedly. On these occasions, such urgent and une...

There has never been a better time to study, practice, and experience creative leadership. In the fluid and turbulent economic and social environme...

The current financial and on-going ecological crises have taught us that without practical wisdom, business, organisations and leadership cannot be...

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on ho...

For the first time, the ISO 9000 quality management standard requires that registered companies measure customer satisfaction. Many customer surv...

Flight of the Phoenix provides insights to the series of management initiatives seeping the workplace, such as re-engineering, restructuring, and r...

The need for assurance is never more acute than in times of turbulence and uncertainty. The events following the financial market crisis demonstrat...

Over the last 25 years there has been a considerable increase in the awareness of quality related issues. In the world of business and commerce, th...

In traditional business circles, wisdom is viewed with a certain scepticism, which is in part due to its historical associations with wisdom tradit...

In organizations these days, there are two cultures, two sets of expectations, two languages; that of the business-as-usual organization and separa...

Why do some corporate superstars collapse dramatically, while others survive and prosper over many decades? Is the fall primarily caused by technic...

Women, Religion and Leadership focuses on women from the traditional context of women as leaders with chapters observing various aspects of leaders...

Progressive Commercialization of Airline Governance Culture analyzes the transition of the airline sector from the not-for-profit nation-bound publ...

Each of the chapters in this unique book was written expressly for each major stakeholder group in your school, tailored to their varied needs and ...