Organizational Studies

In Rethinking Management, Chris Mowles argues that management courses may cause as many crises as they alleviate. Taking examples of managing and leading in contemporary organisations, his book treats uncertainty as central to the task of leading and managing and explores the limits of current manag..

First published in 1963, Edgar Anstey’s work gives a detailed account on the inner workings of the committee. Within a committee, different interests nearly always need to be represented when a decision must be taken, and contributions are required from people of different outlook or expert knowledg..

First published in 1994, the essays collected in this book explore the impact and current status of the ideas put forth in David Silverman’s The Theory of Organizations, and how they relate to future directions in organization theory. After opening with a chapter by Silverman himself, the subsequent..

First published in 1994, the essays collected in this book explore the impact and current status of the ideas put forth in David Silverman’s The Theory of Organizations, and how they relate to future directions in organization theory. After opening with a chapter by Silverman himself, the subsequent..

This international collection explores how science fiction can enrich studies of organization. The papers assembled draw upon perspectives from across the arts and social sciences...

This book shows how economics can be used to clarify and stimulate thinking about organisations and their decision problems. It is mainly designed for university students of economics, management and business studies and of public and social administration. But its clear and lively exposition will h..

Taking an empirical approach, this book presents a sociological study of the development, use, and evolution of standardized computer systems and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software packages...

Taking an empirical approach, this book presents a sociological study of the development, use, and evolution of standardized computer systems and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software packages...

Stories for Management Success: The Power of Talk in Organizations argues that talk is central to what managers do. Indeed it argues that, for managers, ‘walking the walk’ necessarily implies ‘talking the talk such that storytelling is now central to managerial work’..

This book offers a critical investigation of storytelling in management practice. Specifically, it examines the factors that have been shown to influence the effectiveness of storytelling as a means of managerial communication within an organization and provides a range of novel insights into how st..

This book is the story of how four busy executives, from different backgrounds and different perspectives, were surprised to find themselves converging on the idea of narrative as an extraordinarily valuable lens for understanding and managing organizations in the twenty-first century. The idea that..

This book presents leading edge research and a ‘global paradigm’ for the theory of style differences in human performance. It extends an understanding of style differences in learning, thinking and behavior, developing style research methodology, assessment, and applying style in learning, knowledge..