Organizational Theory & Behaviour

Exploring major questions such as what people want from their work and why, Just Work discusses both new and enduring themes, examining to what ext...

Controlling RiskIn A Dangerous World How do operators prevent the next accident that is inevitably trying to kill them? How do they improve perfor...

Captures the insights of leading academics and practitioners based on decades of research around the globe on factors of success and failures of pr...

Marketing has become the dominant connecting mode of expression between business and non-business organisations and customers and consumers. Howeve...

Why do some companies succeed better than others? It is well known that there are many variables such which may impact a company's performance. The...

Employee and manager rebellions occur more often than you might think. This book argues how important it is to take these protests seriously. The a...

This book discusses continuous improvement strategies of Japanese convenience store operators. The study highlights the efforts of companies operat...

A comprehensive picture of the Greek business system and management practices placed in a comparative context. The editors bring together knowledge...

Focusing on safety and environmental protection issues, this book provides incisive, cutting-edge theoretical analysis that evaluates the impact of...

Presenting contributions from 10 professionals, this collection describes what it takes to be a consultant in the organizational world. At times de...

The world's governments are overwhelmed with climate change, war and unrest, the global financial crisis and poverty but there is a promising inven...

This essential best-practices toolkit with lessons from world-class leaders-FedEx, Nokia, Alcoa, Whirlpool, Microsoft, and others-tells how to succ...

An inside look at a Wall Street trading room and what this reveals about todays financial systemDebates about financial reform have led to the reco...

This guide complements traditional project management by focusing on the critical pre-project stage. It addresses a major challenge: only 12% of pr...

The source of the problem is not so much the new, but the threat of the loss of the old.Resistance to change is often grudgingly accepted as an una...

Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for r...

A practical handbook for using Exponential Organization to transform your organizationand disrupt your industryin 10 weeks Todays top business chal...

This book reveals how and why governance structures, outsourcing techniques and fluid enterprise boundaries will force a management revolution in t...

This handbook examines the development of antiracism, the antithesis of racism, in the field of Human Resource Development (HRD) and discusses its ...

Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for r...

Since their explosion in the mid-1990s, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have turned into a global phenomenon with growing prevalence. A large n...

There is a modest but growing body of scholarly literature on experiences of retail work, with only a handful of studies existing on retail organiz...