Organizational theory and behaviour

This book explores how contemporary organisations are abandoning conventional tactics in order to survive and grow in an incessantly shifting business landscape, analysing fundamental aspects of management, marketing and strategy from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Examining the theoretical connections between identity and diversity, this new book explores how diversity management practices can be better informed by an enhanced understanding of the relationship between the two fields.

This book presents a collection of research papers exploring the human side of digital innovation management, with a specific focus on what people say and share on social media, how they respond to the introduction of specific IT tools, and how digital innovations are impacting sustainability and inclusion.

Analysing the trends that are emerging in sport enterprises such as advancements in technology and social media, the authors of this illuminating book tackle the issue of how to create new opportunities in such a changing industry.

This Handbook provides authoritative up-to-date scholarship and debate concerning creativity at work, and offers a timely opportunity to re-evaluate our understanding of creativity, work, and the pivotal relationship between them.

  Contributing to recent debate on the emergence of digital and agile work, this book explores the implications for labour and employment relations within and beyond organizational boundaries.

This essential guide brings supply chain theory to life.

This book provides a consistent model to understand leadership as a dynamic combination of vision, action, mobilization, and change.

This book examines the scriptural concepts that apply to leading and managing people.

This work examines the rise of postmodernism in management scholarship and argues that the prevalence of postmodernist thought reflects a lack of understanding by management researchers of the core principles upon which Western business endeavour is based.

This volume explores organizational legitimacy in business, featuring examples from a variety of industries around the world.

Reflecting increasing investment in entrepreneurship in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), this new book offers extensive coverage of the factors that enable Emiratis to start and grow a business.

Building on the original writings of Robert K.

Addressing the continuous need for new growth sectors in post-industrial cities, this book considers the economic significance of wellness from a development policy perspective.

Companies need to invest in innovation in order to ensure their long-term survival.

This pioneering edited collection explores the question of how organizations manage the future.

Taking a fresh and much-needed perspective on the management of international acquisitions, this book focuses on socio-cultural integration, and in particular the importance of emotions and values.

Providing insight into the currently applied models, basic definitions and functions of work discipline systems within organisations, this book analyses the risks, limitations and the potential of developing organisational discipline structures.

This book is a guide for managers, Scrum Masters and agile coaches who are interested in agile organizational methods and who are planning to introduce Scrum at their own company.

This book introduces, explains, and illustrates the theories, concepts, and methods needed for sound enterprise engineering.

This book features both cutting-edge contributions on managing knowledge in transformational contexts and a selection of real-world case studies.

This book examines current research related to succession planning strategies and tactics.

This book outlines the important foundational insights for enterprise governance and enterprise engineering, which are obviously provided by the social and organization sciences, but also by other sciences such as philosophy and information technology.

This textbook presents an overview of how the activities of an organisation can be managed to satisfy the needs of stakeholders through the cost effective, operationally efficient and sustainable transformation of resources into outputs.

This book begins with the scriptural support for person-organization fit and person-job fit.

This book bridges two essential aspects of assessing and achieving business excellence in 21st-century organizations.

This edited volume highlights the use and practice of values in Organization Development (OD).

This book provides a concise yet comprehensive literature review on leadership.

This volume offers a collection of studies on problem of organization's efficiency, criteria for evaluating the efficiency, tools and methods for measuring the efficiency.

This book shows how the Bhagavad Gita (part of the great Indian epic - the Mahabharata) can be approached as a powerful tool for change management and as a catalyst for organizational transformation.

This book provides a thorough review of tested qualitative methods often used in organization studies, and outlines the challenges and essential requirements of designing a qualitative research project.

This edited book examines the relationship between the materiality of artefacts and managerial techniques, combining the recent scholarly interest on socio-materiality with a focus on management.

Based on papers from the 4th Business Systems Laboratory International Symposium (BSLAB) in 2016, this volume contributes to the business management, organizational and innovation literature by providing insights on the antecedents of systems thinking in the business systems domain.

This book provides managers, leaders and practitioners with a dynamic framework that links several variables associated with performance management which can be applied across organizations and industries worldwide.

This thematic volume explores the relationship between the arts and learning in various educational contexts and across cultures, but with a focus on higher education and organizational learning.

This original and thought-provoking book takes a new approach to engaging with organizational theory and making sense of organizations.

This book describes how non-profit organisations (NPOs) communicate what they constitute, signal success and display sustainability in order to convince stakeholders to provide essential resources.

This book presents a collection of original research papers addressing the relationship between information systems (IS) and innovation.

This book is the second edition of Well-being: Productivity and Happiness at Work that shows how to improve well-being in organizations.

Reflecting the emergence of new organizational forms and hybrid organizations, this edited collection explores the processes of exchange, collaboration and technological management that have changed organizational structures.

Reflecting the challenges and opportunities of achieving improvement in healthcare systems, the contributions of this innovative new text lend depth and nuance to an increasing area of academic debate.

This book includes a selection of the best research papers presented at the annual conference of the Italian chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), which took place in Verona, Italy in October 2016.

This book explores technological innovation in family firms, seeking to reconstruct the links between the heterogeneous dimensions of family businesses and their innovative behaviour.

This book argues that human factor development is the key to organizational success.

This book from the Quintessence series offers essential know-how on the theory and practice of sales, the main turnover and value driver of any business.

This book offers a framework for dealing with a new phenomenon affecting organizations and their stakeholders: brand trauma.

Examining perceptions of leaders which are dependent on social and cultural contexts, this edited collection argues that in order to thrive and to understand the future business landscape, leaders must be inclusive and create followership.

Questioning why research centers so often fail to commercialize discoveries, this book explores the concept of linked innovation, which promises to drive economic sustainability while preserving academic quality at research centers.

This book brings home the message that meticulous integration management is the key to success in M&A transactions.

This book explores the concept of citizenship, and the role that organizations can or do play in its creation, stimulation and control.