Organizational theory and behaviour

This book covers a broad range of topics related to digitalization.

This book examines the design of two care pathways to establish how key principles associated with systems thinking, quality improvement, and supply chain management can improve the design of these services.

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

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

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 explores critical perspectives on ageing in organisations and offers both managerial and workplace practices for dealing with this prominent issue.

This volume discusses business disruptions as strategic to gain market competitiveness.

The pandemic has created a crisis that has no equivalent in recent history, leading to a wide range of disruption across various social strata, highlighting and reinforcing inequality, and leading to profound organizational shifts.

The book presents a critical framework for assessing whether organisational practice and function reinforces unseen potential differences amongst individuals in the workplace.

Introducing a theory of workplace dignity into the field of management studies, this innovative new book presents an alternative paradigm based on principles of human dignity which is integrated into a theoretical approach to the topic.

This volume explores the work environment in multinational corporations.

When should organizations think about adopting a flat structure?

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.

The book addresses an explicit demand expressed in a large number of C-Suite interviews: managing significant transformations in the private and public sector.

Presenting 17 tools developed through rigorous design science research, this book bridges the relevance gap within network management.

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

Personal stress has an enormous impact on organizational and employee performance.

The phrase "e;greening of the workplace"e; refers to the range of resources used by an organization to ensure its management and industrial processes are conducive to the adoption of workplace pro-environmental behaviors by its employees, irrespective of their position, the nature of their work or their rank within the organization.

This book highlights cutting-edge research in the economics and management of networks as an interdisciplinary field, offering new theoretical, empirical and practical perspectives on the management, governance, ownership and control of cooperatives, franchising networks and strategic alliances.

This volume brings together selected and extended papers representative of work presented at the 8th IPMA Research Conference, which was held online between 9th and 11th September 2020.

This book offers an insight into the complications higher education is currently facing in the Arab world.

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

Innovations and developments in technology have laid the foundations for an economy based on digital goods and services-the digital economy.

This book explores the undeveloped potential of video-ethnography to study the material, embodied and sensory dimensions of workplace practices.

This book proposes that the key ingredient to effective leadership is trust and that leaders must earn the trust of their colleagues to be successful.

This book explores the experiences of caregiving fathers in the UK.

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

How to develop best-practice strategy in a business or a multinational organization?

This book constructs a multi-disciplinary interpretation of emotion, specifically applied and discussed within Organizational Change environments.

This upper-level textbook provides a practical guide to the field of organization design, grounded in academic literature.

This book examines what mechanisms enable science-intensive organizations to broaden beneficiaries of science in urban settings.

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.

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 describes the neurology of a business as a new dimension of organization and as a basis for success in a complex world.

The market is like the sea: it gives, and it takes away.

In contemporary times, most organizational functions (such as finance, marketing, and supply chains) have assessed their impact on the environment.

Coming more than 25 years after the last edition, this edition of the groundbreaking Ansoff work on the concepts and practical implementation of strategic management provides up-to-date case studies and simplified figures and offers a comprehensive approach to guiding firms through turbulent environments.

Praxisnah und anschaulich vermitteln die Autoren einen einführenden Überblick zur Unternehmensführung.

This book describes the results of a research project on compliance and organizational integrity, financed by the German government and conducted over the last three years.

In view of the rising importance and prevalence of network-based collaboration, this book aims to meet the need for more theory in this area.

This book analyses mergers and acquisitions within the broader framework of strategic decisions.

Paradoxes emerge everywhere in organizational theory and management practice.

Restrukturierungen, Neuübernahmen, Zusammenlegung von Abteilungen, Führungswechsel, Einführung neuer Regeln (Compliance).

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.

A much-needed addition to literature, this timely edited collection aims to provide clarity and understanding on how modern organizations work.

Investigating the issue of employee representation in multinational companies (MNCs), this book sets out to systematically conceptualise the modes of articulation between different action fields.

This book provides a unique account of how perceived justice is influenced by various aspects of an organizational merger and investigates the impact on behavior for those involved in the process.

This book aims at clarifying the role of materiality, spaces, digitality and embodiment in institutional dynamics from the perspective of Management & Organization Studies.

Exploring the three levels of project management, this edited collection analyses the practice of problem structuring approaches (PSAs) with an aim to improve organisational adaptability and value creation.

This timely book explores crises as an inevitable part of modern society, which causes ramifications not only for organisations, but also for a diverse range of stakeholders.