Strategic Management

This study, originally published in 1986, is directed to the period before the establishment of scientific management as a recognised movement. This title will be of interest to students of business studies and management...

Strategic foresight is traditionally associated with the military and politics. Tuomo Kuosa looks at its development into a method of generating analyses of alternative futures and strategies, based on available intelligence and foreknowledge. This practice can be applied to companies, business sect..

Strategic foresight is traditionally associated with the military and politics. Tuomo Kuosa looks at its development into a method of generating analyses of alternative futures and strategies, based on available intelligence and foreknowledge. This practice can be applied to companies, business sect..

The Future 500, first published in 1987, shows how business leaders can immediately begin to apply the lessons for aspiring enterprises in eight crucial spheres...

The Global Business Handbook is based on the structure of the very successful IÉSEG International School of Management's programme on international management. Concentrating on the big developments that are currently happening internationally, the book considers how managers operating in the global..

The structure of corporate governance has made significant progress in OECD countries but it remains imperfectly linked to the activities of many businesses. Its advance on the global stage will be hesitant and slow until its practice in OECD countries is more consistent and convincing. The Globalis..

Organizations are coming to the reality that work–life balance is no longer solely an issue for working women. As we progress further into the twenty-first century, workers and ways of working are changing. We have four generations operating together in the workplace, and a tremendous variety of p..

This volume, first published in 1976, is addressed to the analysis of power and conflict in and of organizations. The author’s organizing concept is that one can understand and harness or alter the energy of organizations so that they may function more intelligently and humanely...

This volume, first published in 1988, examines the challenge to management which is posed by ever more sophisticated applications of information technology. It reports on cases of actual practice, and seeks to draw lessons from these experiences which will be of practical value to managers and their..

This book, first published in 1969, was written for the manager or potential manager concerned with strategic decision-making. Its theme of the concept of numeracy and the role it should play. The book discusses its origins and its tools, the nature of problems, the characteristics and handling of i..

This study, originally published in 1990, introduces a rich array of approaches to defining and developing the competency of managerial performance. The authors provide a stimulating and often contentious overview of the best ways to develop and use managerial profiles...

Originally published in 1993. The central concern of this study is to analyze the reforming process within organizations and assess its impact. This title questions the relationship between the changes that can be seen occurring in organizations all the time and these conscious internal attempts at ..