Management & Management Techniques

Virtual worlds are the latest manifestation of the internet's inexorable appetite for development. Organisations of all kinds are enthusiastically ...

Managers today are faced with numerous complex challenges speckled with paradoxes. They must have a sharp economical focus while simultaneously eng...

Germanys economic miracle is a widely-known phenomenon, and the world-leading, innovative products and services associated with German companies ar...

Society is now facing challenges for which the traditional management toolbox is increasingly inadequate. Well-grounded theoretical frameworks, suc...

In International Multi-Unit Leadership, Chris Edger builds on his earlier Effective Multi-Unit Leadership. First - showcasing up-to-date, contempor...

How does a medical practice thrive in a business environment where the margin of management error has all but disappeared? Profit margins are being...

Oil exploration in the developing world has been and continues to be a high profile and high risk activity attracting media coverage and stimulatin...

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

Beer is widely defined as the result of the brewing process which has been refined and improved over centuries. Beer is the drink of the masses it...

Critical Management Perspectives on Information Systems provides a coherent set of reference points to show students and researchers the organizati...

The ability of organisations to cyberconnect is becoming increasingly important for superior performance. Cyberconnecting: The Three Lenses of Dive...

Ethics plays a critical role in project management, but all too often, its importance is overlooked. This benign neglect can result in serious cons...

The benefits include: cost reduction; increased productivity; improved safety; higher morale; and the ability to meet the changing expectations of ...

Developing and Leading Emergence Teams describes a future business landscape that seems to be complicated, complex and chaotic, in almost equal mea...

Today's leader needs to be equipped with the tools and skills to find an effective way to collaborate with others. Global organizations today are h...

The Economics of Identity and Creativity aims to sythesize naturalistic evolutionary theory while discussing new developments in economics. The aut...

This title was first published in 2001. Purchasing scams are not a high profile topic in the boardroom or indeed in the purchasing department - vic...

Despite its rapid economic development, Japan lacks a large public relations industry and its role is viewed very differently from its Western coun...

Executives continue to lose their position because of inability to communicate organizational decisions to employees and boards effectively. More t...

This book is a very practical guide to help managers put their own and their employees professional values to work. Through real life stories and c...

As leadership educators shift from teacher- to learner-centered environments, from hierarchical to shared responsibility for learning, and from abs...

With business and organisations moving at an ever-faster pace and facing evermore demanding challenges, the need for efficient, succinct and produc...

Even though the fractal approach to sustainability and organizational change management is not new, no authors so far seem to have truly attempted ...

This book is an excellent best-practice guide for senior managers and directors with innovation responsibilities. It describes how organisations of...

Due to its societal and economic relevance, Project Management (PM) has become an important discipline and a concept critical to modern organizatio...

Much has been written about the men and women who shaped the field of advertising, some of whom became legends in the industry. However, the contri...

Most frauds perpetrated by senior managers take longer to uncover than those by other occupational groups and they steal more. This is a serious pr...

Global corporations and the senior executives who oversee them have been subject to great criticism in recent times: not only do such corporations ...

The 'new realities' of the title refer to the state of government, society and the economy in the USA, Japan, Western Europe, Russia and the Third ...

The secret weapon for business experts to ensure strategically creative results, this is an indispensable field guide to evaluating creative advert...

Over the past two decades the use of flexible employment relations has increased in most developed countries. The growth of temporary agency work c...

Despite many years of development, risk management remains problematic for the majority of organizations. One common challenge is the human dimensi...

Since the crisis in governance which led to a shortage of capable board members, recent years have seen the emergence of the enterprising arts orga...

The management of organizational resources is extremely difficult. Managers face serious and complex challenges when managing the required resource...

While todays programs continue to grow in size and complexity, at the same time, their success rates remain low. To manage programs effectively in ...

Can there be God-conscious organizational behaviour in the real world of todays capitalist corporations and the alternatives? In this overview of G...

Business Process Management has helped thousands of leaders and BPM practitioners successfully implement BPM projects, enabling them to add impactf...

Shadow Working in Project Management aims at contributing to our knowledge of all things unconscious and irrational in our behaviour. It takes the ...

In Time Series Analysis and Adjustment the authors explain how the last four decades have brought dramatic changes in the way researchers analyze e...

In Sustainable Governance in Hybrid Organizations the author Linne Marie Lauesen explores how businesses that have succeeded in conducting sustaina...

Change is a crucial and inescapable process for many organisations. It remains a constant challenge for managers and many change management initiat...

Workplace diversity has become increasingly relevant to academics and practitioners alike. Often, this issue is tackled merely from a business-orie...

Organizations today are facing unprecedented challenges, including an ageing workforce, potential talent shortages, an increasingly competitive int...

From a managerial perspective, the biopharmaceutical industry represents a competitive, fast-changing, intellectually-powered, innovation-driven se...

Winner of the 2024 Business Book Awards (Leadership category)The adoption of remote, hybrid and flexible working is the new normal. But like the ol...

Although change management and therefore effective adaptation to environmental complexity is considered a uniquely human cultural activity, the ext...

Intense pressures pose considerable challenges to executives striving to succeed in an environment of increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexit...

Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Fourth Edition provides a compact but complete analysis of leadership for students and practition...