Organizational Theory & Behaviour

A highly practical and insightful book; it will help you to perform more effectively in a workplace which requires you to function effectively in p...

This innovative new work clarifies the misconceptions around body language while providing a scientific approach to understanding non-verbal commun...

An historical context of the development of global outsourcing with case study analysis in four countries where the industry is large or growing. I...

In this new collection of articles on managing and being managed, Adrian Furnham, author of Bad Apples, offers an engaging and witty look into the ...

Management theory is vague about the experience of leading. Success, power, achievement are discussed but less focus is given to negative experienc...

Very few companies are successful in undertaking strategic transformation while maintaining long term superior financial performance. This book, by...

Presents an organizational perspective of social enterprises, which allows us to analyze issues such as their governing structure, their modes of o...

Explores the concept of complexity and analyses how organizational governance can contribute to environmental sustainability. A common theme in the...

Explains how all institutions have to turn their relationship with stakeholders into a 'social' one, which involves designing new Trust and Engagem...

This management book documents the remarkable transformation of DSM, first from a coal mining company to a commodity chemicals producer and then in...

This is the story of the radical intervention carried out by the Thatcher administration in response to 1986-89 Monopolies and Mergers Commission i...

Organizations capture and deploy what they have learned in four ways: Culture, Old Pros, Archives, and Processes. This book describes the four appr...

On one hand, marginals are complex organizational systems. On the other hand, they are an example of elegant, applied organizational operations. In...

Taking the reader on a tour of the fast changing East, Simpfendorfer urges the business world to respond by planning for the unexpected. Now that t...

Advanced Cultural Districts explores the organisational design issues within the cultural heritage sector, with particular focus on the advanced fo...

This book takes a multi-dimensional approach to the concept of organizational fairness, one that views organizational fairness as being comprised o...

This book provides an understanding of the processes in which unions engage with young people, and views and opinions young people hold relating to...

This book outlines what it means to study political parties as organizations by developing and applying four theoretical perspectives to the case o...

Businesses need agility and optimization to thrive amidst constant unpredictability. Scientist and entrepreneur Stephanie Novak Hau cracked the cod...

Foresight and Innovation is a guide for readers that are interested about the future. The book introduces a concept of futurist thinking, which inc...

Using 18 new cases this book shows that in the past companies did not manage labour or customers as long as they did not need to. Tougher competiti...

Too many decisions are taken too slowly or not at all because of the dithering behavior of our leaders, often leading to failure of the project, or...

Presents a comprehensive overview of governance in family enterprises including practical management knowledge in easy-to-use frameworks and interv...