Management & Management Techniques

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

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

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 country’s economic organization and its corporate governance system. M...

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...

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...

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...

The nature of human resource development (HRD) has been, and remains, a contested topic – the debate was sparked in part by Monica Lee’s seminal 20...

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...