Organizational Theory & Behaviour

Organization Design looks at how to (re)design an organizational system in order to increase productivity, performance and value, and provides the ...

Motivation in Public Management: The Call of Public Service joins a long-standing debate about what drives the behavior of government employees and...

Global corporations initiate, join and maintain socio-technological change and hence, alter the ways in which we organize our lives. Demanding sign...

The first book to analyze how new technologies are emerging against a background of continuing globalization of research and development activities...

This book comprises contributions that address the professional development of training practitioners both in a national as well as European perspe...

This book investigates the business and bottom-line effects of intercultural and interdisciplinary collaboration in international services organisa...

Compared to its ‘cousin’ innovation, academic research on creativity has been less well covered in journals and books. This is despite the fact tha...

This book challenges traditional organizational theory, looking to representations of work and organizations within popular culture and the ways in...

According to a recent study by the ILO (2001), women’s share of the labour force is increasing worldwide. Today, women’s participation rate in the ...

The Psychology of Decision Making provides an overview of decision making as it relates to management, organizational behavior issues, and research...

The emergence and growing trend of inter-firm alliances between indigenous oil companies and foreign international oil companies in the Nigerian oi...

Progress: the focus of a new perspective on leadershipWeaving together original research, novel strategies and tactics, and stories of successful l...

Examines the larger issues (culture, leadership, commitment, consistency) that functionaries cannot overcome without strong senior management invo...

The global electronics industry is one of the most innovation-driven and technology-intensive sectors in the contemporary world economy. From semic...

Do you have an employee whose performance keeps deteriorating--despite your close monitoring? Brace yourself: You may be at fault--by unknowingly t...

Global Themes and Local Variations in Organization and Management: Perspectives on Glocalization offers a broad exposition of the relations between...

This book presents boards of directors from a strategic and entrepreneurial management perspective. Boards of directors are receiving increased int...

Deleuze and the Social is the first book to focus on the implications of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's thinking on the social sciences and or...

Social psychology has much to offer real world problems, especially in industrial and organizational settings. Originally published in 1995, in Soc...

It can be said that our times are characterized both by the omnipresence of organizations and by the destabilization of organized social life, caus...

Work orientations and work attitudes have to do with the productive capacities in society. Insofar as individuals are positively oriented towards c...

In "Out of the Pits", Caitlin Zaloom shows how traders, brokers, and global financial markets have adapted to the digital age. Drawing on her first...

There is a huge elephant in the room: organizational decisions are often based on family relationships, rather than on the ‘rational’ approach advo...

Research in cognitive science over the last 30 years shows much of what we know about culture in the business world is based on myth, wishful think...

Global Themes and Local Variations in Organization and Management: Perspectives on Glocalization offers a broad exposition of the relations between...

As businesses grow, culture can be created by accident or by design. This book is for coaches and consultants who want to support their clients to ...

Russ Vince examines learning as both a social and a strategic process, invariably linked to emotions and politics that are mobilized by attempts at...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The higher education and research system faces a constant dilem...

Positive Ageing and Human Resource Development seeks to introduce readers to some of the major cultural issues that the current demographic changes...

Total quality management (TQM), reengineering, the workplace of the twenty-first century—the 1990s have brought a sense of urgency to organizations...

Critical and accessible, the new edition of this bestselling textbook offers valuable insight into contemporary management practices and encourages...

Readers come to the topic of leadership development with multiple interests—intellectual, professional, and personal—and with curiosity about how t...

This pathbreaking work extends the boundaries of contemporary anthropological research by presenting in one cohesive, meticulously researched work:...

This volume brings together research from leading scholars with stories from women leaders in diverse sectors to provide insights from their leader...