Management & Management Techniques

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

Fashion buying and merchandising has changed dramatically over the last 20 years. Aspects such as the advent of new technologies and the changing n...

To achieve progress in society and business practices, more entrepreneurship is needed to encourage action and enhance social capital in society, a...

The world continues to develop at an astonishing speed socially and technologically. Human behavior is continually influenced by this ever-changin...

This groundbreaking book provides a refreshing introduction to the field of leadership and is jam-packed with theoretical and practical insights de...

The book contains a wealth of detailed and fascinating case studies of New Public Management (NPM) in practice in the UK, exploring the enactment o...

First published in 1998, The European Yearbook of Business History publishes research and review articles in English on the history of private ente...

Project management dates back to the 19th century when Henry Gantt developed techniques for planning and controlling projects, including his widely...

Firm growth. This concept has interested researchers for generations. Economists have sought to predict and measure firm growth using a host of dif...

Professions are increasingly linked with enterprise at a number of interrelated levels. By considering the relationship of professions to the enter...

The dramatic recent advances and emergent trends in technologies have brought to the fore many vital and challenging questions and dilemmas for lea...

Modern management theory has been established on the ashes of Taylorism, emphasizing control over accountability, conformity over uniqueness, and c...

This title was first published in 2001. This volume deals with the problems caused to businesses by scam merchants who seek to extract money in ret...

The world continues to develop at an astonishing speed socially and technologically. Human behavior is continually influenced by this ever-changin...

The coaching and mentoring profession is facing a major challenge helping clients cope effectively with lifes complexities and conflicting demands...

Since the early twentieth century, scholars have researched leadership and it is one of the most researched topics of our time. Understanding how t...

This title was first published in 2003. Winning significant business on the right terms is an increasingly complex, challenging and time-consuming ...

First published in 1963, Edgar Ansteys work gives a detailed account on the inner workings of the committee. Within a committee, different interest...

Scientists from four countries cooperated in a reseach effort aimed at the imporvement of operational reliability via innovations in design and tes...

Systems Thinking for a Turbulent World will help practitioners in any field of change engage more effectively in transformative innovation. Such in...

This book provides a clear, easy to digest overview of Quality Management Systems (QMS). Critically, it offers the reader an explanation of the Int...

Currently, the prime focus for US business plans should not be on the manufacturing process design and delivery processes, but on greatly improving...

This book defines and discusses how the field of Enterprise Architecture (EA) can be incorporated into the design of Enterprise Geographic Informat...

Politics is an aspect of everyday life within organizations, and is a force that inhibits individual and collective behaviour. If not fully underst...

As executives build and nurture their organizations strategic agility in todays turbulent, uncertain business environment, the ability to lead stra...

In most countries family businesses make up between 50 - 95% of business entities. Families control 30% of the Fortune 500 companies. These owners ...

Already a significant human factor issue, trust is an especially hot topic in todays business world where so much of the contact is virtual. Provid...

African nations have an underdeveloped industrial and economic base such as their water supply, electrical systems, roads, railways, etc. Massive f...

There is a long tradition of research on politics, power and exclusion in areas such as sociology, social policy, politics, womens studies and phil...

As we get caught up in the quagmire of Big Data and analytics, it remains critically important to be able to reflect and apply insights, experience...

Published in 1977, this is a detailed account of the results of controversial methods as they were applied in a major company, when twenty-one mana...

Although an integral part of the corporate world, the development and execution of a successful Environmental Safety and Health (ES&H) program ...

This book provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience to tho...

This title was first published in 2001. The emergence and development of automobile production in Australia was a long, drawn out and costly busine...

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

This title was first published in 2000: Coventry is synonymous with both the creation and relative decline of the British motor car industry. This ...

Operational Excellence is achieved when all employees in your organization can see the flow of value to your customers and can make adjustments to ...

Designed and written by professionals with extensive ISO 9000 Certification experience, the techniques and forms in this Manual have been used succ...

The proceedings of the CIB W65 Symposium on the Organization and Management of Construction conference are presented here and in the companion volu...

Innovation is a primary source of economic growth, and yet only one idea out of 3,000 becomes a successful product or service. Scalable Innovation:...

Whether you work for an established company and want to trailblaze new products (intrapreneurship), or want to establish your own new venture (entr...

Business Strategy: an introduction' is an accessible textbook that provides a straightforward guide for those with little or no knowledge of the su...

Strategy Journeys starts from the premise that strategic planning suffers from a bad press: it can be seen as complex, technical, remote from the d...

Increasing Management Relevance and Competitiveness contains the papers presented at the Global Conference on Business, Management and Entrepreneur...

Lessons can be learned from major fraud cases. Whether the victim is a company, public agency, nonprofit, foundation, or charity, there is a high l...

Reveals the powerful and undermining effects of stress on good decision making-and what leaders can do about it The ability to make sound and timel...

As its name implies, the aim of Systems Design and Engineering: Facilitating Multidisciplinary Development Projects is to help systems engineers de...