Organizational Theory & Behaviour

The Nordic countries have the world's best working life. Unlike in many other countries, global competition has not created inequality, uncertainty...

Power, Diversity and Public Relations addresses the lack of diversity in PR by revealing the ways in which power operates within the occupation to ...

Transculturalism and Business in the BRIC States, edited by Yvette Sánchez and Claudia Franziska Brühwiler, is the first handbook on the BRIC Sta...

The new edition of this essential resource in organizational behavior provides a balanced framework to understand the impact of increasing dynamism...

Complexity theory including the concepts of chaos and emergence has been considered one of the most revolutionary products of the 20th century havi...

This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications...

Winner of the 2024 Business Book Awards (Leadership category)The adoption of remote, hybrid and flexible working is the new normal. But like the ol...

Although change management and therefore effective adaptation to environmental complexity is considered a uniquely human cultural activity, the ext...

Intense pressures pose considerable challenges to executives striving to succeed in an environment of increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexit...

Consumer co-operatives provide a different approach to organizing business through their ideals of member ownership and democratic practice. Every ...

The world continues to develop at an astonishing speed socially and technologically. Human behavior is continually influenced by this ever-changin...

This groundbreaking book provides a refreshing introduction to the field of leadership and is jam-packed with theoretical and practical insights de...

Economic and political reforms and globalization in the developing world have led to the emergence of companies that are expanding beyond their nat...

Developed for busy HR practitioners and trainers, this book provides a concise guide to the theory and practice of employee training in contemporar...

How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization seeks to shed understanding on how speaking or speech-acting affects how we ...

Professions are increasingly linked with enterprise at a number of interrelated levels. By considering the relationship of professions to the enter...

The dramatic recent advances and emergent trends in technologies have brought to the fore many vital and challenging questions and dilemmas for lea...

Modern management theory has been established on the ashes of Taylorism, emphasizing control over accountability, conformity over uniqueness, and c...

First published in 1999, this volume examines technology in developing countries with a focus on Vietnam. One of the worlds poorest countries, Viet...

Published in 1998. This text is designed as not only a summary of a number of years of reflections by many different researchers, but also a guide ...

How are we to characterise the context in which organisations operate? The notion that organisational activity is shaped by institutional logics ha...

The world continues to develop at an astonishing speed socially and technologically. Human behavior is continually influenced by this ever-changin...

The coaching and mentoring profession is facing a major challenge helping clients cope effectively with lifes complexities and conflicting demands...

Since the early twentieth century, scholars have researched leadership and it is one of the most researched topics of our time. Understanding how t...

Technology plays a critical role in transforming societies and economies through enhancing efficiency, connectivity and access to resources and ser...

The rapidly changing market environment in China requires more research to understand fully the empirical processes of management practice and the ...

First published in 1963, Edgar Ansteys work gives a detailed account on the inner workings of the committee. Within a committee, different interest...

Unleashing the Power of Diversity provides a clear tool to create a common language across teams and organisations that reinforces positive identit...

This volume compiles a dozen essays, by one of the most prolific proponents of co-production as a solution for many of the challenges facing public...

This title was first published in 2000. An in-depth analysis of skill, core and periphery in the context of the firm and its wider economic and pro...

This book critically examines key features of the contemporary organizational landscape by focusing on major beneficiaries of recent historical pol...

You might think that anarchism and management are opposed, but this book shows how engaging with the long history of anarchist ideas allows us to u...

Politics is an aspect of everyday life within organizations, and is a force that inhibits individual and collective behaviour. If not fully underst...

In most countries family businesses make up between 50 - 95% of business entities. Families control 30% of the Fortune 500 companies. These owners ...

There is a long tradition of research on politics, power and exclusion in areas such as sociology, social policy, politics, womens studies and phil...

First published in 1994, the essays collected in this book explore the impact and current status of the ideas put forth in David Silvermans The The...

This title was first published in 2000: Global competition is increasingly impacting on even the most isolated of companies; the only way for any c...

For many years, Organisational Behaviour has been the number one introduction into organisational psychology. Alblas and Wijsman offer an inspirati...

As with many people-oriented initiatives, employee engagement remains an emerging science with as many advocates as detractors. In The Culture Bu...

Strategy Journeys starts from the premise that strategic planning suffers from a bad press: it can be seen as complex, technical, remote from the d...

People play a vital part in the success of projects, initiatives and organisations, yet traditional project management sources offer limited guidan...

Organization and Management is an introduction to theories and contemporary practice in cross-border business management. The book reviews the prac...

The unique leadership challenges organizations face throughout the world call for a renewed focus on what constitutes authentic, inclusive, servant...

Today, one of the top priorities of an organizations modern corporate strategy is to portray itself as socially responsible and environmentally sus...

An essential resource for managers at every level of any organization A management book written by managers for front-line managers, The Effective ...

A strategic requirement is something an organisation sets out to achieve; it could be the long-term vision the organisation sets itself, the key bu...

This title was first published in 2000: A consideration of continuous improvement (CI) practice and performance. It brings together the results of ...

Business Administration offers an integrated, practical approach to all key aspects of business administration and to how business processes are ma...