Organizational theory and behaviour

This book challenges the roots and elements of the existing dominant paradigm of management, which can legitimize artless practices and result in dysfunction, and proposes an alternative based on a different understanding of human nature and social and economic life.

This book contributes a basic framework for and specific insights into interdisciplinary connections between production, logistics, and traffic subsystems.

This book presents the findings of a survey that analyzes a unique set of data in science and technolog and provides a clear and simple synthesis of heterogeneous databases on the gender gap in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) setting, helping readers understand key trends and developments.

Presenting a vision of the luxury sector and its management, this edited book describes "e;the new luxury"e; through a comprehensive view of the value chain, from concept to market.

This book provides a broad overview of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-supported innovation both on an evidence-based level, a theoretical and a methodological level.

Baker takes on eight dysfunctional people management practices originating from the scientific management and offers practical solutions for changing these practices and increasing organizational agility.

Bringing together normative and instrumental CSR conceptualizations, practice based examples and international case studies, this edited volume brings together important contributions on the conceptualizations of CSR post financial crisis.

This volume explores the work environment in multinational corporations.

This book examines the impact of digital innovation on organizations.

Wei Yen explores how differences in world views between Eastern and Western thought and culture have on management and leadership behaviors.

Drawing on research into leadership and emotional intelligence, this book presents a framework that can lead to effective change implementation.

This second edition demonstrates that there are more conditions and actors prevalent in the economy than are considered today, and builds a balanced view of responsibility that would not be shunned by corporate executives.

This edited collection brings into focus the meanings, interpretations and the process of value creation in international business.

This textbook provides a clear understanding of leadership needs in today's business world, explained within the scope of hard and soft leadership skills.

This book deals with World Class Operations Management (WCOM), detailing its principles, methods and organisation, and the results that this approach can bring about.

This book presents a collection of original research papers focusing on emerging issues regarding the role of information and communication technologies in organizations, inter-organizational systems, and society.

This book by Peter Bendek presents a strong case against the current practice of business operations improvement, based on numerous studies from the business world as well as insights from the most prestigious authors of the last fifty years.

This book presents a collection of original research papers focused on the relationship between information technology and accounting and control models.

This book assesses the state of international manufacturing strategy and clarifies how recent developments, for example regarding configuration, technology, and the environment, are impacting on its content and direction and on its relationship to manufacturing performance.

This book shows that in today's business world managers can only successfully lead with the active cooperation and consent of their staff.

This book reveals the story of how the first large learning organization was formed.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries, ISCRAM-med 2015, held in Tunis, Tunisia, in October 2015.

This book provides a fundamental and practical introduction to Enterprise Engineering, demonstrating how to employ this approach to map the essence of an organization at the core level of internal cooperation.

This book presents a collection of original research papers focusing on the enabling aspects of Information and Communication Technologies.

This book provides an integrated overview of key trends in digital transformation, taking into consideration five interrelated dimensions: strategy and business models, society, organization, technology and regulation.

This book explores a range of critical issues and emerging topics relevant to the linkages between information technologies and organizational systems.

This book offers a collection of studies on various organizations' efficiency, criteria for evaluating efficiency, together with tools and methods for measuring efficiency.

As industrial companies are placing a higher focus on operations, this book comes at the right time with a compilation of basic concepts of Operational Excellence and their application.

Public management is undoubtedly an acknowledged area of management science, but with meager empirical research.

This publication is in collaboration with the University of Buckingham and is the result of a combined research and review process carried out by the three Editors who belongs to the University of Ferrara, Italy, the University of Buckingham, UK and Swansea University, UK.

The banking sector is undergoing a process of fundamental transformation - mainly due to the challenges of digitalization, insistent customers, regulation and a volatile economic environment.

Presenting an innovative concept and approach for organization management, this book serves to document an organization's journey towards the ultimate goal of learning organization.

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The aim of this book is to demonstrate how Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) can be used to enhance the study of social agency, organizational behavior and organizational management.

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Effective management is crucial to the success of network organizations and can reduce the risk inherently associated with cooperative strategy.

This SpringerBrief discusses multiple forms of open-source-inspired outsourcing: opensourcing, innersourcing and crowdsourcing.

This book deals directly with the characteristics of the relationships that the leader builds in the context of the work environment.

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This book examines volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) and addresses the need for broader knowledge and application of new concepts and frameworks to deal with unpredictable and rapid changing situations.

This volume presents concepts, policies and cost models for various long-term warranty and maintenance contracts.

This book explores a major media management topic on the basis of case study research conducted in European, US and Brazilian media companies.

The purpose of this edited collection is to analyse the cultural aspects of Indian organizations.

This book describes the journey of developing and implementing a global knowledge sharing strategy at the multinational project development and construction company Skanska.

This book focuses on the effect of leadership on organizational outcomes and summarizes the current research findings in the field.

Transfer prices are of dominant importance in company practice and a decentralised organisation, e.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of enterprise architecture management with a specific focus on the business aspects.

This book shows how business process management (BPM), as a management discipline at the intersection of IT and Business, can help organizations to master digital innovations and transformations.

This collection of essays comprises some of Rudolf Richter's important contributions to research on New Institutional Economics (NIE).

This book presents innovative research on various aspects of sustainability in the field of operations management and illustrates the potential of sustainability thinking and practice to improve operations performance and thereby meet customer needs.