Management & Management Techniques

In today's fast-moving, e-commerce economy information is power. For years companies have been investing in IT, expecting to develop their ability ...

In the 1980s and 1990s the world of governance witnessed a far-reaching change from the Weberian model of bureaucracy to the 'new managerialism' - ...

Strategic management has been increasingly characterized by an emphasis on core competences. Firms are advised to divest unrelated businesses and r...

The subjects or beneficiaries of social work that organizations undertake are usually people or communities that are at the ‘bottom of the pyramid’...

Strategic management has been increasingly characterized by an emphasis on core competences. Firms are advised to divest unrelated businesses and r...

During the 1990s, corporate governance became a hot issue in all of the advanced economies. For decades, major business corporations had reinvested...

Getting organizations going is one thing. Stopping them is another. This book examines how and why organizations become trapped in disastrous decis...

Time is often taken for granted in daily life and the business world. The aim of this book is to bring time into sharper focus and in particular to...

This book traces the evolution of the large industrial corporation in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom from the 1950s to the 1990s. It combi...

The pace of change in the business world is becoming faster. This book provides a detailed account of the network-like organizational forms that so...

This text presents the classic works on organizational identity alongside more current thinking on the issues. Ranging from theoretical contributio...

In contrast to the traditional view of multinational firms as cohesive rational actors maximizing the use of resources across national boundaries, ...

Why does public management–the art of the state–so often go wrong, producing failure and fiasco instead of public service? What are the different w...

Firms are investing considerable resources to create large information infrastructures able to fulfil their varied information-processing and commu...

This text blends a coherent overview of the most important theories and insights in the field of business ethics with a range of practical contexts...

Management is a powerful mode of thought and code of conduct in the modern world, closely associated with the American way and a natural extension ...

This book explores current thinking on corporate governance by way of a detailed study of the governance practices of fourteen Japanese companies. ...

This book focuses on the transition faced by business organizations and their stakeholders as they move from protected markets to open competition,...

This book traces the evolution of the large industrial corporation in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom from the 1950s to the 1990s. It combi...

Time is an essential feature of social and organizational life and part of the deep structure of business activity. Plans, performance, productivit...

The emergence of a new type of threat to computer security - the computer virus - has attracted much attention from the media, researchers, and ent...

Firms are investing considerable resources to create large information infrastructures able to fulfil their varied information-processing and commu...

This volume is a sequel to Information Management: The Strategic Dimension (OUP 1988), a book which was well received by managers and academics ali...