Behavioural economics

Materiality and Space focuses on how organizations and managing are bound with the material forms and spaces through which humans act and interact at work.

Based upon interviews with individuals in high pressure positions, from business leaders to a bomb disposal expert, this book provides practical insight about how to identify, tackle and overcome any kind of stress.

The book proposes an overview of the research conducted to date in the field of wine economics.

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This book is an exploration into the current world of relationships in the workplace.

Describes the decisions that led to the success of 16 software companies.

Goes beyond the call for more humanistic management in the aftermath of a series of corporate scandals and the recent financial crisis, and offers advice on how we can build more humanistic organizations with the help of integrity.

An exploration of Friedrich Hayek's contribution to the foundation of behavioural economics, and how his work interacted with and complemented that of his contemporaries.

The first cross-cultural analysis of the differences in career trajectories and experiences between a senior group of women academics and a younger group who are at early and mid-career stages.

Explores the transformations that have taken place in Japanese workplaces since the dawn of the new millennium in terms of management practices, particularly in the areas of Human Resource Management and organizational culture.

Uncovers the truth about luxury brand marketing and shows that like any other commercial brand, they manipulate and influence their customers with traditional commercial techniques.

Risk Culture is a practical volume devoted to the qualitative aspects of risk management, including those that should be firmly embedded in the corporate culture.

Examines the alternative belief systems which contemporary organizational actors live by and through which they seek to find meaning within the dominant (neo)capitalist social order.

How to Make Boards Work offers a unique view of the thinking and doing of governance.

Offers a detailed and entertaining analysis of the daily interactions between managers and employees in creative knowledge intensive organizations.

The links between a firm's competitiveness and the natural environment have been studied since the mid 90's.

In a unique undertaking, Andrew Yuengert explores and describes the limits to the economic model of the human being, providing an alternative account of human choice, to which economic models can be compared.

Explores the concept of complexity and analyses how organizational governance can contribute to environmental sustainability.

Assembling Health Care Organizations combines an institutional theory perspective with a materialist view of the technologies, devices, biological specimens, and other material resources mobilized and put to work in health care work.

The strategic concepts and tools illustrated in this book provide a framework for devising and implementing strategies favouring longevity of family-controlled business entities.

In Understanding Psychological Bonds between Individuals and Organizations the author integrates different theoretical perspectives on how individuals form deep, meaningful, and self-defining relationships with their employing organization and proposes a novel and comprehensive take on key triggers and processes associated with such relationships.

Contextualizing Humanitarian work in history, justice, methods and professional ethics, this book articulates process skills for transformational partnerships between diverse organizations, motivating education, organisational learning and selecting the disaster workforce.

Presents research in Employee-Driven Innovation, an emergent field of study that meets the demand for exploiting new innovative potentials in organizations.

De Lange suggests a new contextually linked building block model to develop theories of the firm in the field of strategy and organizations.

With contributions from thirty authors from fifteen countries, this is a 'white book' for international work-family research and practice.

This volume goes beyond other books on police leadership by exploring the topic from a distinctively police perspective.

A discussion on the social complexity approach, where dialogue and stories allow for the degrees of freedom needed for the opportunities of emergence to take root.

Provides real world studies of the family in business, by observing typical firms rather than dynasties.

A Family Council oversees a family on everything from educating the family for their future responsibilities as owners, to settling disputes within the family.

This ambitious book is the first to present a theoretical framework for a unified analysis of both behavioral and traditional economics.

Somewhere along the way, we got distracted.

Somewhere along the way, we got distracted.

A comprehensive overview of contemporary economic psychology Economic Psychology presents an accessible overview of contemporary economic psychology.

A comprehensive overview of contemporary economic psychology Economic Psychology presents an accessible overview of contemporary economic psychology.

A guide to the study of how and why you really make financial decisions While classical economics is based on the notion that people act with rational self-interest, many key money decisions like splurging on an expensive watch can seem far from rational.

A guide to the study of how and why you really make financial decisions While classical economics is based on the notion that people act with rational self-interest, many key money decisions like splurging on an expensive watch can seem far from rational.

Can an American family live without Chinese-made goods?

A comprehensive introduction and overview of research in Routine Dynamics written by the central researchers in the field.

A comprehensive introduction and overview of research in Routine Dynamics written by the central researchers in the field.

Studies the economic order that governs virtual worlds and ways individuals work together to govern social relations in the digital space.

Using behavioral economics, we can change how we perceive the threats to our safety and security faced today and better inform the institutions of our future.

Using behavioral economics, we can change how we perceive the threats to our safety and security faced today and better inform the institutions of our future.

Enhancing your decision-making skills to make smarter decisions is the best way you can purposefully improve your life.

Enhancing your decision-making skills to make smarter decisions is the best way you can purposefully improve your life.

A powerful critique of nudge theory and the paternalist policies of behavioral economics, and an argument for a more inclusive form of rationality.

A powerful critique of nudge theory and the paternalist policies of behavioral economics, and an argument for a more inclusive form of rationality.

This Element proposes a multi-level approach to studying government transparency that integrates insights from institutional, organizational, and behavioral perspectives on transparency.

Demonstrates how controlled experiments can be a useful tool in providing empirical evidence relevant to economic research.

Demonstrates how controlled experiments can be a useful tool in providing empirical evidence relevant to economic research.

This Element proposes a multi-level approach to studying government transparency that integrates insights from institutional, organizational, and behavioral perspectives on transparency.