Organizational theory and behaviour

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.

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.

Esta obra busca la proposición de un cimiento filosófico para la administración y pone en suspenso los tradicionales supuestos y basamentos de la construcción interna del saber de esta disciplina al pensarla desde un afuera desprovisto de todo afán de rentabilidad, productividad o eficiencia.

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.

This book describes the setup of digital enterprises and how to manage them, focusing primarily on the important knowledge and essential understanding of digital enterprise management required by managers and decision makers in organizations.

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Organizational Semiotics occupies an important niche in the research community of human communication and information systems.

This book contains the key-note lectures and a selection of papers that were presented at the 15th Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Econo- mics (EARlE) held under the auspices of GRASP at Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1988, plus an introductory chapter by the Editors.

The proceedings from the eighth KMO conference represent the findings of this international meeting which brought together researchers and developers from industry and the academic world to report on the latest scientific and technical advances on knowledge management in organizations.

The rapid evolution of computer science, communication, and information technology has enabled the application of control techniques to systems beyond the possibilities of control theory just a decade ago.

In our complex, fast changing society, health is strongly influenced by the continuously changing interactions between organisations and their employees.

This volume explores corporate governance from three perspectives: a traditional economic, a philosophical, and an integrated business ethics perspective.

The book develops a philosophical foundation to the field of management education using the work of Martin Heidegger as a guiding philosophy.

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.

The Encyclopaedia of Organizational Behaviour aimed at human resource managers and the like, seeks to provide the essential knowledge base and skill set, imperative for managers to harness the power of employees and teams to successfully navigate the changing world of work.

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.

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

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Commitment to sustainability and social responsibility goals will require the creation of new roles and entrepreneurial approaches.

In the late 1990s the idea of cross-sector collaborations was relatively new in Europe.

Environmental professionals can no longer simply publish research in technical journals.

Society heavily depends on infrastructure systems, such as road-traffic networks, water networks, electricity networks, etc.

The widely discussed ‘globalization’ of economic activities has given rise to a renewed interest in the relations between such tendencies, the nature and demarcation of societies, and the nature and strategies of various actors and organizations within and cross-cutting societies.

In the past, contingency and neo-Marxist theorists of culture reduced culture to an effect of something other than itself and, as they made culture metaphorical, they constituted its object of inquiry - a somewhat impossible pretension.

Why is it that people in organizations seem to be so vulnerable to management fashion and guruism?

In the 1990s, the public sector has experienced the same kind of productivity pressures as has the private sector in most of the western countries.

Searching explains how to make the fundamental cultural change required for a desirable sustainable future.

Organizational theorists talk a lot about organizational development.

Supported bilaterally by Sweden and Norway, the Scandinavian Action Research Development Program (ACRES - Action Research in Scandinavia) emphasized conceptualizing research questions and self-conscious writing processes for experienced action researchers.

Carl Rhodes examines the implicit power of writing and authorship that is at play when people and organisations are (re)presented in research.

Paradox - the simultaneous existence of two inconsistent states - has become orthodox.

This book brings a major new resource to organization studies: the work of Norbert Elias.

This book is a collection of texts that explore the analogy between organizing and narrating, between action and text.

This book considers the discourses that come into play in organizational change.

An important challenge to organization theory is to search for constructs that explain how contexts for work emerge, evolve, persist and change.

Action Research is one of the most practical and down-to-earth ways of doing research into working life.

The Swedish Working Life Fund — a temporary organization functioning from 1990 to 1995 — distributed 10 billion Swedish crowns for workplace development and initiated 25,000 projects.