Organizational theory and behaviour

In 1989, the prominent organisational culture scholar, Stephen Ott, lamented what he saw as the failure of the organisational culture perspective to have the kind of lasting influence - whether empirical, or in terms of its contribution to practice - that had been hoped for.

Questions of values, ontologies, ethics, aesthetics, discourse, origins, language, literature, and meaning do not lend themselves readily, or traditionally, to equations, probabilities, and models.

In the modern economic paradigm characterized by a multitude of business management theories aimed at maximizing profits, there is a danger of formalizing management techniques to the extent of dehumanizing individuals or reducing them to humanoids.

Traditional Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) methodologies affect the public health and environmental impacts from a material, product, process or activity.

This book covers technical fundamentals, complexity and social networks, and communication and language.

Managing in Organisations is a concise, accessible, and practical approach to the difficult job of line management.

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Organizational commitment (OC) is typically thought of in mainstream research as a beneficial behaviour, with employers mutually rewarding employees for their labor.

Industrial Relations in Singapore - Practice and Perspective is a comprehensive account of the key developments in industrial relations in Singapore over the last five decades.

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

This book aims to present an overview of Chinese, Japanese and Korean modern management styles.

This book is written for managers in organizations that practice western style of management.

This book includes research presented at the Global Chinese Management Studies Conferences held in Singapore between 2011 and 2014.

This edited book on South Asia is part of the book series "e;Managing the Post-colony.

This book deals with the importance of ambidexterity in innovation activities and global strategies.

This book begins by analysing the various corporate governance mechanisms explored in the extant literature and determining their effectiveness in enhancing the firm value using multivariate analysis.

This book explores that in order to survive in the current dynamic and changing business environment, individuals need to analyse and ideate.

This edited book explores how stakeholders play a key part in any entrepreneurial endeavour because of their investment in the outcome.

This book explores how entrepreneurial networks provide the basis for individuals and firms to compete based on knowledge asymmetries.

This book explores and asserts that there are many different types of innovation but in order to bring about fundamental change to society the innovation must be entrepreneurial.

This book reviews dominant crisis communication theories, which according to many scholars are either too narrow or broad for practical application to all types of reputational crises.

This book is for everyone who is concerned about the successful future of a very special institution - the National Health Service (NHS).

This book provides a multi-stakeholder perspective on sustainable HRM for the policymakers, managers and academics, addressing issues, approaches, research studies/frameworks and emerging patterns relating to the subject.

This book explores how the ethically inconsistent behaviour in workplaces can be rooted in moral fibers of the decision-makers, and/or in their varying moral foci depending on the philosophical cornerstones, on which those rest.

This book examines the experiences and good practices of ACLEDA Bank, Cambodia.

This book presents examples of and the latest simulation studies on artificial societies and populations, highlighting innovative implementations of various models of artificial societies and populations using a new, C++-related simulation tool.

This book provides a framework for governing policy implementation by various stakeholders during the delivery of infrastructure projects.

This book provides the synthesis and integration of the intellectual and experiential thinking around organisational leadership and development, focusing on three organisations as case studies: Plan International, Mater Foundation, and Oxfam, with the aim of informing For-Purpose, Not-For-Profit organisations about fundraising leadership.

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.

This book addresses the contemporary aspects of employee voice through theoretical and practical analysis.

This edited book explores how stakeholders play a key part in any entrepreneurial endeavour because of their investment in the outcome.

This book is the first-ever authoritative work on the use and management of humor in the workplace.

This book describes the cognitive and interpersonal effects of group model building, and presents empirical research on what group model building achieves and how.

This book considers how small businesses stir up changes in social relationships and what these changes mean for wider society.

This book discusses the existing management approaches for dealing with changes, namely readiness, maturity, and resilience.

This book presents a thought-provoking case for looking at human resource management from an entirely different perspective.

This book focuses on emotional intelligence, which has emerged as a factor in superior on-the-job performance and ability to lead an effective life.

This book puts forward a carefully crafted theoretical framework that makes a substantial contribution to the field of organizational resilience.

This book presents research on how businesses can be empowered to manage their company's risk exposure in international settings.

This volume focuses on Chinese society in the environment created by new media.

This book reflects the author's views on NGO development in China and includes recent papers, reviews, and policy suggestions he has written.

The book is based on practical experience gained during the planning and execution of e-governance projects in India coupled with extensive research based on six national/multi-state-level agriculture related projects.

The book explores the theoretical and empirical issues relating to the interaction between corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities undertaken by Indian companies.

This guide is designed for systems researchers - emerging and seasoned - searching for holistic approaches of inquiry into complexity, which the Systems Sciences provide.

This book is among the first to theoretically and empirically examine what and how Western expatriate managers learn and develop from their international assignments in China.

El objetivo de este texto es establecer una cartografía del campo de los estudios organizacionales (EO), más conocido internacionalmente como 'organization studies' (OS).

This book argues that listening to constituents who reside outside organizational boundaries, but who are essential members of an organization's ecosystem, is a vital constitutive element of organizational communication.

This research monograph delves into the pressing issue of employee-centered social sustainability in the hospitality industry.

El objetivo de esta obra colectiva es permitir que los estudiantes de administración se familiaricen con la sociología como ciencia de la comprensión de las dinámicas inherentes a la empresa contemporánea.