Organizational Theory & Behaviour

Master E-Learning Design on Your Own The clock is ticking. The new online training is due next week. You need to tweak a few activity questions, ma...

Understanding organisational politics is critical for coaches who want to bring a systemic lens to their work. This fascinating title brings this t...

The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pe...

How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has evolvedOrganizations are all around us: government agencies,...

Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice Guide is unique in that it integrates two traditionally disparate world views on managing change: orga...

Empathic leadership has become popular across industries including the challenging domain of elite sport. This book draws on the author's relevant ...

Creativity has long been thought of as a personal trait, a gift bestowed on some and unachievable by others. While we laud the products of creativi...

An authoritative and comprehensive graduate textbook on the modern insurance sectorThe traditional role of insurers is to insure idiosyncratic risk...

Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven by digital disruption and a widening gap between the skills th...

The human aspect plays an important role in the social sciences. The behavior of people has become a vital area of focus in the social sciences as ...

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Pragmatism is enjoying a renaissance in management studies and the social sciences. Once written off as amoral, relativist and opposed to the ideal...

Challenging the notion that digital media render traditional, formal organizations irrelevant, this book offers a new theory of collective action a...

Downsizing is one of the most frequently used business strategies for reducing costs, returning firms to profit or for restructuring businesses fol...

Why were the European middle classes ready to acquiesce in neo-liberalism? This book argues that upward mobility, the growth of individual and fami...

The four main tenets of life are explored in this unique new book that examines the issues that touch each executive, or for that matter, people in...

This book seeks to integrate the scholarship on justice and affect. The authors focus on empirical social scientific theories pertaining to fairnes...

Are you struggling to improve a hostile or uncomfortable environment at work, or interested in how such tension can arise? Experts in organizationa...

For almost a century, big-time college athletics has been a wildly popular but consistently problematic part of American higher education. The chal...

Why do organizations fail? What hinders otherwise responsible leaders from recognizing looming disasters? What prevents well-intentioned people fro...

This is an ideal reference for those looking to understand, study, and practice community engagement and outreach. It discusses the different ways ...

What is it like to work in a place that is both a thriving and close-knit community and a globally recognised part of the commercial sex industry? ...

The one bad apple spoiling the whole barrel has become a common metaphor used with reference to risk culture in organisations. This inside-out pers...

Navigating Global Business integrates and synthesizes all available country cluster studies into a nested meta-structure accompanied by eco-cultura...

At the core of The Relationship Factor in Safety Leadership are eight beliefs about human nature that are common to leaders who successfully commun...

In today's highly competitive market, organizations increasingly need to innovate in order to survive. Drawing on a wealth of psychological researc...

In today's highly competitive market, organizations increasingly need to innovate in order to survive. Drawing on a wealth of psychological researc...

Explores the changing business landscape of the 21st century and what it means for organizations. The author presents a new model for how to think ...

Empathic leadership has become popular across industries including the challenging domain of elite sport. This book draws on the author's relevant ...

Issues of visibility and invisibility are becoming increasingly apparent in gender research in organizations. This book will not only further devel...

Inspired by the work and legacy of Francesca Carnevali, this collection brings together new research into nineteenth- and twentieth-century British...

Executive leadership is a team sport.As part of an executive team, you wear many hats. Not only are you responsible for working with other senior l...

Volume 28 of Research in Organizational Change and Development introduces thought-provoking contributions. These include: Utilizing big data and so...

How does social control theory explain the relationships between business firms and organizations? This book aims to answer that question. Providin...

It is assumed that workplaces today are the most age diverse that they have ever been, and as a result many managers report difficulties when leadi...

Examines the alternative belief systems which contemporary organizational actors live by and through which they seek to find meaning within the dom...

Appreciative Inquiry has touched and inspired the work of thousands who apply its development principles in a wide range of settings including indu...

This book reviews the field of Knowledge Management, taking a holistic approach that includes both soft and hard aspects. It provides a broad persp...

This volume summarizes the origins and development of the organization ecology approach to the study of interest representation and lobbying, and o...

STEM-Professional Womens Exclusion in the Canadian Space Industry: Anchor Points and Intersectionality at the Margins of Space showcases the how of...

2017 marks the silver anniversary of the Research in Organizational Change and Development series, founded in 1987 by Dick Woodman and Bill Pasmore...

The papers included in the volume explore how mobilizing Boltanski and Thévenots EW framework helps address questions regarding the premises and dy...

The HRM field is entering smart businesses where the human, digital and high-tech dimensions seem to increasingly converge, and HRM needs to antici...

The study of multinational companies (MNCs) has been split for many decades into two camps which hardly talked to each other: a) predominantly econ...