Organizational theory and behaviour

The achievement of academic excellence is inherently competitive.

Architectural practices worldwide have to deal with increasingly complex design requirements.

Architectural practices worldwide have to deal with increasingly complex design requirements.

Entrepreneurship is often focused on understanding new ventures, but the entrepreneurial flame is required in growing organisations too.

Entrepreneurship is often focused on understanding new ventures, but the entrepreneurial flame is required in growing organisations too.

When re-imagining, re-thinking, and re-writing entrepreneurship in this book, the authors have come to the conclusion that the concept that describes it most precisely is one that signifies a process that includes imagining, seductively describing, playfully organizing, political agility in navigating common sense, and business sensibility before possible commerce.

When re-imagining, re-thinking, and re-writing entrepreneurship in this book, the authors have come to the conclusion that the concept that describes it most precisely is one that signifies a process that includes imagining, seductively describing, playfully organizing, political agility in navigating common sense, and business sensibility before possible commerce.

Sustainable Management Development in Africa examines how African management and business scholarship can serve African and multinational management and organizations operating in Africa.

Sustainable Management Development in Africa examines how African management and business scholarship can serve African and multinational management and organizations operating in Africa.

Scandals and failures in some of the best known international Japanese-owned companies have shown that there is sometimes a considerable difference between the public and internal narratives of Japanese firms.

Scandals and failures in some of the best known international Japanese-owned companies have shown that there is sometimes a considerable difference between the public and internal narratives of Japanese firms.

Corporate Assessment, first published in 1993, looks at four types of company audit and provides a pragmatic, readable guide for managers.

Corporate Assessment, first published in 1993, looks at four types of company audit and provides a pragmatic, readable guide for managers.

Strategies, Leadership and Complexity in Crisis and Emergency Operations will bring together the main themes of strategy, operational leadership, organizational dynamics and complexity in the context of crisis and emergency operations; creating a book that is timely and relevant for research and leadership in emergency services, the police, military and other organizations involved in operations in highly dynamic and critical contexts.

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

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

"e;This collection gathers 91 essays that appeared in the pages of Challenge from 1973 through 2011.

"e;This collection gathers 91 essays that appeared in the pages of Challenge from 1973 through 2011.

The world of public management is changing dramatically, fueled by technological innovations such as the Internet, globalism that permits us to outsource functions anywhere in the world, new ideas from network theory, and more.

The world of public management is changing dramatically, fueled by technological innovations such as the Internet, globalism that permits us to outsource functions anywhere in the world, new ideas from network theory, and more.

In today's increasingly globalized world, it is essential that people of diverse ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds learn to work together and communicate effectively.

In today's increasingly globalized world, it is essential that people of diverse ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds learn to work together and communicate effectively.

Critical incidents all too often explode onto the social conscious and challenge our sense of security.

Critical incidents all too often explode onto the social conscious and challenge our sense of security.

Cultural intelligence is defined as an individual's ability to function effectively in situations characterized by cultural diversity.

Cultural intelligence is defined as an individual's ability to function effectively in situations characterized by cultural diversity.

Employees with valuable skills and a sense of their own worth can make their jobs, pay, perks, and career opportunities different from those of their coworkers in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.

Employees with valuable skills and a sense of their own worth can make their jobs, pay, perks, and career opportunities different from those of their coworkers in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.

The topic of moral courage is typically missing from business ethics instruction and management training.

The topic of moral courage is typically missing from business ethics instruction and management training.

This is the first comprehensive overview of the development of the field of Organizational Behavior.

This is the first comprehensive overview of the development of the field of Organizational Behavior.

This comprehensive text provides a detailed review and analysis of the building-block theories in the macro-organizational behavior field.

This comprehensive text provides a detailed review and analysis of the building-block theories in the macro-organizational behavior field.

This comprehensive text provides a detailed review and analysis of the building-block theories in Organizational Behavior.

This comprehensive text provides a detailed review and analysis of the building-block theories in Organizational Behavior.

This work includes a brief history of skyscrapers as well as chapters on elevators and communications, facades and facing, mechanical and electrical systems, forces of nature, and much more.

This work includes a brief history of skyscrapers as well as chapters on elevators and communications, facades and facing, mechanical and electrical systems, forces of nature, and much more.

The Meta-Analytic Organization: Introducing Statistico-Organizational Theory develops new organizational theory based upon ideas from statistics and methodology.

The Meta-Analytic Organization: Introducing Statistico-Organizational Theory develops new organizational theory based upon ideas from statistics and methodology.

Designed for students and practitioners in the fields of organizational behavior and human resource training and development, this groundbreaking book presents a cutting edge approach to improving organizational communication.

Designed for students and practitioners in the fields of organizational behavior and human resource training and development, this groundbreaking book presents a cutting edge approach to improving organizational communication.

Numerous reprehensible corporate, governmental, and nonprofit activities over recent years have highlighted the existence of organizational evil.

Numerous reprehensible corporate, governmental, and nonprofit activities over recent years have highlighted the existence of organizational evil.

Everyone has trouble with bureaucracy.

Everyone has trouble with bureaucracy.

Facilities Management (FM) and Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM) are two closely related and relatively new management disciplines with developing international professions and increasing academic attention.

Facilities Management (FM) and Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM) are two closely related and relatively new management disciplines with developing international professions and increasing academic attention.

Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education explores how managers influence teaching, learning and academic identities and how new initiatives in teaching and learning change the organizational structure of universities.

Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education explores how managers influence teaching, learning and academic identities and how new initiatives in teaching and learning change the organizational structure of universities.