Behavioural economics

This book from the acclaimed management writer Adrian Furnham, explores the dark side of leadership and how and why leaders can have a negative impact upon their companies and organisations.

Specially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field.

An affirmative post-structural philosophy of organisation inspired by Arnold Gehlen's philosophical anthropology, Michel Foucault's history of medicine and Gille Deleuze's early philosophical works.

The theory of path dependence continues to attract great interest in a range of disciplines.

Storytelling in organizations is a notion that encompasses both the stories that the organization produces and the ones told by its members.

Organizational values are a hot topic as private and public organizations are not only evaluated according to their products and profits, but also according to the circumstances of the product - labour conditions, materials, risks, human rights and social responsibility.

Do countries benefit from their Membership in the WTO.

Performance is the key outcome of high morale, and the reason why it should be taken so seriously: with research gathered from some of the world's largest employee opinion databases and best academic centres, the authors lay out the morale-performance connection.

A cutting edge look at the experience of worker representation in the employment relations of workplace health and safety.

This book is designed to scrutinize the Russian business sector in transition with special attention to firm organization, business integration, corporate governance, and company management.

Drawing upon current literature on the history and politics of therapeutic cultures and upon original, qualitative research this book was produced in response to rapidly growing interest in the rise of 'new' HRD practices such as coaching, 'soft skills' training and personal development training.

Women's Leadership challenges traditional concepts of leadership that draw on the male experience and offers an alternative construction that emerges from the female experience.

Eco-Innovation considers the impact industry has on our environmental surroundings whilst exploring the need for more sustainable development.

More and more adults participate as employees in games at work and in public and voluntary organizations.

Many business leaders do not take care of their health.

Historical translations and underground transfers of knowledge and values between cultural domains merit more attention.

Recent research in the field of business strategy has shown that strategic flexibility can be achieved through a scenario planning perspective for long-term competition and performance.

Why is it that more and more people like their work, but can no longer support the conditions under which they must practice it?

After a decade of 'union organizing' in Britain, the time has come to make a thoroughgoing assessment of it.

Including practical advice on how to conduct a stress audit and how to target stress 'hot spots' within an organization, Organizational Stress Management provides a fresh strategic model for the manager concerned with the negative effects stress can have both on company performance and the quality of life of individuals at work.

The purpose of this work is to enhance understanding and the overall learning experience in OB, and ultimately, to help shape a more conscious workforce of people who have what it takes to succeed during uncertain times despite the ebb and flow of the market.

This book investigates whether and why social structure influences cooperative organizational strategic decision making in an international relations context.

Building upon the work of Donald Schon, this edited collection expands the research into the idea of the reflexive practice - understanding how to create better solution-oriented practices for business during turbulent and chaotic situations.

Speculative Communities investigates the financial world's influence on the social imagination, unraveling its radical effects on our personal and political lives.

Every year, about 25,000 new products are introduced in the United States.

Great leaders embrace a higher purpose to win.

The past twenty years have witnessed a surge in behavioral studies of law and law-related issues.

Restoring Trust in Organizations and Leaders is the first volume to adopt the mulidisciplinary approach required to understand the decline in public trust in contemporary institutions, and to propose and assess remedies.

Conventional economic theory assumes that consumers are fully rational, that they have well-defined preferences and easily understand the market environment.

Social scientists and policy makers have long been interested in the causes and consequences of peace and conflict.

Conventional economic theory assumes that consumers are fully rational, that they have well-defined preferences and easily understand the market environment.

This book explains why moral beliefs can and likely do play an important role in the development and operation of market economies.

Behavioral economics has potential to offer novel solutions to some of today's most pressing public health problems: How do we persuade people to eat healthy and lose weight?

Behavioral economics has potential to offer novel solutions to some of today's most pressing public health problems: How do we persuade people to eat healthy and lose weight?

The past twenty years have witnessed a surge in behavioral studies of law and law-related issues.

Winner of the 2017 Quality of Communication Award presented by The Agricultural and Applied Economics Association As the importance of food and nutrition becomes more widely recognized by practitioners and researchers in the health sciences, one persisting gap in the knowledge base remains: what are the economic factors that influence our food and our health?

Winner of the 2017 Quality of Communication Award presented by The Agricultural and Applied Economics Association As the importance of food and nutrition becomes more widely recognized by practitioners and researchers in the health sciences, one persisting gap in the knowledge base remains: what are the economic factors that influence our food and our health?

Most works on moral psychology direct our attention to the positive role morality plays for us as individuals, as a society, even as a species.

Most works on moral psychology direct our attention to the positive role morality plays for us as individuals, as a society, even as a species.

This book explains why moral beliefs can and likely do play an important role in the development and operation of market economies.

'An entertaining and thought-provoking antidote to the tyranny of numbers in the modern world.

Every year, about 25,000 new products are introduced in the United States.

Why are collective choices so stable and easy to make in practice, when in theory it should be totally otherwise?

Why are collective choices so stable and easy to make in practice, when in theory it should be totally otherwise?

Choice is a key concept of our time.

This seventh volume of The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis covers a range of topics in behavioral economics.

This sixth volume of The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis covers behavioral models of learning.

This fifth volume of The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis covers behavioral models of learning.

Setting macroeconomic policy is especially difficult in fragile states.

Setting macroeconomic policy is especially difficult in fragile states.