Organizational theory and behaviour

In economic theory and in management studies, innovation is widely regarded as the motor of economic activities and as being the primary source of renewal in the economic system.

Assessing Autoethnography provides readers with multiple ways to analyze autoethnographies and other forms of personal narrative writing.

Navigating Leadership provides evidence-based tools and recommendations to develop your leadership successfully.

Addressing a key social policy problem, this book analyses modern voluntary organisations through the lens of a new theory of hybrid organisations, which is tested and developed in the context of a range of case studies.

The Conscience Code is a practical guide to creating workplaces where everyone can thrive.

What can you learn from the most successful companies in the world?

The Target Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled the big box store to become the retail giant it is today.

The NBA Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled the exciting basketball league to become the powerhouse it is today.

What can you learn from the most successful companies in the world?

Discover how this leader-focused approach to understanding, managing, and maximizing organizational diversity and inclusion can increase employee retention and productivity.

JetBlue Chairman Joel Peterson provides the playbook for establishing and maintaining a culture of trust that breaks down the operational silos and CYA mentality that plague many organizations.

Employers who don't adapt to the expectations of younger generations are losing top talent, as they leave for positions at companies with modern practices.

This book is about the primary symptoms present in a dysfunctional culture that could have devastating outcomes for any organization.

Are you building a typical team or a high-performance tribe?

Today's board rooms, think tanks, and staff lounges are more diverse than ever before.

What would a new approach to tackling urgent global issues like poverty, pollution, habitat loss and climate change look like?

Behavioural research is well established in the social sciences, and has flourished in the field of accounting in recent decades.

While executives are keen to harness organizational knowledge and improve business performance, the topic of how academics can produce rigorous and relevant theory in working relationships with practitioners is a much contested topic.

This book focuses on understanding and managing organizational behavior in an international context, considering the conceptual framework of culture and offering practical advice for navigating cultures in the workplace.

Social Sustainability for Business demonstrates the need for a transformational change to the way businesses across the globe operate.

Gender Equality in a Global Perspective looks to discuss whether Gender Equality can be adopted as it has been defined in international documents anywhere, or whether it needs to be adapted in a more local context; discuss which factors and perspectives need to be taken into account when adapting Gender Equality to specific contexts; suggest research approaches for studies on whether a universal (Western) concept of Gender Equality fits in certain specific contexts; and finally suggests challenges to the existing interpretation of Gender Equality (e.

Dance and Organisation is the first comprehensive work to integrate dance theory and methods into the study of management, which have developed an interest in the arts and the humanities.

The growth in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity around the world masks a high rate of failure.

The Self at Work brings researchers in industrial and organizational psychology and organizational behavior together with researchers in social and personality psychology to explore how the self impacts the workplace.

In this modern day and age, it is surprising that managerialist perspectives, practices and ideas are colonising the study of sexualities in organisation.

The traditional idea of leadership as being about the solo, heroic leader has now run its course.

This is the first book to look at the psychological processes that enable humor to affect people and teams in the workplace.

Why are crimes of the suite punished more leniently than crimes of the street?

This volume offers insights from a noted group of scholars who discuss the complex phenomenon of leadership in distributed work settings - also known as leadership at a distance.

This book is a beginning, a first step, in taking leader development in organizations beyond conventional wisdom toward a scientifically sound research-based set of principles and practices.

Culture and Leadership Across the World: The GLOBE Book of In-Depth Studies of 25 Societies is the second major publication of GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness), a groundbreaking, large-scale project on international management research featuring contributions from nearly 18,000 middle managers from 1,000 organizat

Taking a critical look at major perspectives on innovation, this book suggests that innovation is not a designed functional activity of a firm or an intentional process through which firms anticipate changes in conditions.

This book provides an overview of communication-centered theory and research regarding organizational knowledge and learning.

This book deals with the processes and theories involved in managing military organisations in both peacetime and crisis conditions.

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.

Developing better employment and management practices for a diverse workplace is quickly becoming a major concern amongst most modern organisations; however, a lack of research into good practices has a limiting effect.

How do leaders lead for high performance in Asia, the fastest growing region in the world?

This book provides an insight in the phenomenon of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), including the various forms of corporate restructuring.

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Dieses praxisorientierte Buch zeigt auf, dass das Verständnis für professionelle Organisation in einem Verein zu platzieren längst überfällig ist.

Dieses Buch erklärt praxisnah, wie Storytelling, eine Methode des narrativen, auf Geschichten und Erzählungen beruhenden Wissensmanagements, in allen betrieblichen Handlungsfeldern - vom Qualitäts- über das Informations- bis zum Change Management - eingesetzt werden kann: Beteiligte werden zu abgeschlossenen Projekten befragt, die Antworten werden in leicht verständliche, spannende Geschichten verpackt - und so wird das im Unternehmen vorhandene Wissen genutzt, so kann aus erfolgreichen und weniger erfolgreichen Abläufen gelernt werden.

The second volume of this ground-breaking book critically examines the effect of arts-based methods in combination as arts-based interventions in improving professional practice, from deinstitutionalization to the counteraction of destructive leadership.

Addressing emotional workplace abuse, this Palgrave Pivot takes a multidisciplinary approach which combines feminist research on violence with organisation and management studies, in order to offer a new approach on workplace violations.

Bringing together research from critical diversity studies and organization theory, this edited collection challenges unspoken norms and patterns of discrimination in organizational bodies.

The first volume of this ground-breaking book critically examines how and why arts-based methods such as choir conducting workshops and dialogue improvisation can make a difference in improving professional practice.

This book provides a view into the multi-dimensional and multi-contextual nature of community policing.