Organizational Theory & Behaviour

The theory of the firm has been fertile ground for economists. Bylund proposes a new theory, rooted in Austrian economics, which examines the firm ...

Using Qualitative Methods In Organizational Research offers a broad, overall description of qualitative research with the objective of facilitating...

This book presents a realistic perspective on the paradoxes employees face when navigating work and personal responsibilities for career success. T...

Change programmes in both private and public sectors have a poor record of delivering their intended value. The reasons given most often for their ...

In recent decades, the world has witnessed, unprecedented in terms of speed and geographic coverage, diffusion of new information and communication...

Intuitively, organisations can easily be categorised as ‘public’ or ‘private’. However, this book questions such a black and white dichotomy betwee...

This book presents a realistic perspective on the paradoxes employees face when navigating work and personal responsibilities for career success. T...

This book equips students with a thorough understanding of the advantages and challenges presented by workplace diversity, suggesting techniques to...

The author of this thought provoking addition to Gower's Transformation and Innovation Series has worked as a management consultant in the Arab Mid...

Although literature on corporate social responsibility is vast, research into the use and effectiveness of various communications through digital p...

In the last few years, competition has become increasingly more complex, variable and dynamic, as can be seen in phenomena like globalization and t...

Design impacts every part of our lives. The design of products and services influences the way we go about our daily activities and it is hard to i...

First published in 1992, this volume brings together contemporary studies and reviews the research which established the study of networks as an ar...

Organizations today exist in an environment of unprecedented change. They do so against a backdrop of a global, competitive marketplace, the fast-p...

Leadership studies today resembles a bewildering diversity of theories, concepts, constructs and approaches, struggling in huge part for meaning, r...

Successful Management in the Digital Age examines key factors for success in today's business environment—finding markets, being vigilant for new t...

This book represents a selected collection of the writings, from 1950 to 1960, of members of the Human Relations Research Group (HRRG), from UCLA. ...

Winner of two National Communication Association awards:Communication Ethics Division's 2018 Single-Author Book of the Year AwardOrganizational Com...

The aim of the Managing Networks of Creativity is to improve our understanding of creativity and the management of creativity, as discussed in the ...

Since this classic book was first published in 2003, sustainability has increasingly been accepted as standard business practice for leading corpor...

Innovation manifests itself as a key driver of improved productivity and sustainable growth in today’s global economic landscape. This book• brings...

When this book was first published in 1990, there were massive economic changes in the East and significant economic challenges to the West. This c...

During the last several years social scientists have increasingly recognized the impact of globalization on research and practice. It is imperative...

At the turn of the century the term "gamification" was introduced as a concept to understand the process of using game mechanics in "non-game" cont...

While innovation has long been a major topic of research and scholarly interest for the private sector, it is still an emerging theme in the field ...

New Ways of Organizing Work offers a broader understanding of changes to the way work is organized and the implications for relevant stakeholders. ...

Despite the plethora of books on change, there appears is a notable gap in the field; rarely is the authentic and candid voice of change practition...

Despite the popularity of organizational change management, the question arises whether its prescriptions and dominant beliefs and practices are ba...

This volume presents a critical analysis of sociological theorizing and power which enables the reader to grasp fully the nature of power, rule and...

What has been the impact of deregulation and a rapidly changing socio-economic environment on the professions? The cross-disciplinary contributions...

People’s work orientations and attitudes to paid work are highly important for the welfare of any country. Still, little is currently known about h...

The Business of Advertising outlines the practice of the advertising trades, some of the more important restrictions on advertising, and a few of t...

In this book, first published in 1989, the authors have sought to highlight some of the major themes in the study of time and work within separate ...

Most people take the conditions they work and live in as a given, believing it to be normal that societies are stratified and that organisations ar...

In this book the author develops a theory of power and organization, derived from a critical consideration of a literature extending across sociolo...