Organizational Studies

Rather than offering either a purely practical or theoretical context, this text is written by a team of managers and academics, combining theory and practice to create a holistic, and above all realistic, exploration of learning at work...

This innovative text encourages readers to rigorously question popular management theory. Refreshingly critical, it presents a challenging review of existing literature in the field, and draws on best practice theory and illuminating case studies...

This innovative text encourages readers to rigorously question popular management theory. Refreshingly critical, it presents a challenging review of existing literature in the field, and draws on best practice theory and illuminating case studies...

This book equips students with a thorough understanding of the advantages and challenges presented by workplace diversity, suggesting techniques to manage diversity effectively and maximize its benefits. Readers will learn to work with diverse groups to create a productive organization in which ever..

This book argues that paradox, ambiguity and uncertainty in organizational life are the norm rather than the exception for leaders and managers. Drawing on insights from the complexity sciences, process sociology and pragmatic philosophy, Chris Mowles directly engages with some principal contradicti..

The aim of this book is to improve our understanding of creativity and the management of creativity, as discussed in the fields of management (including strategic management, organization science, organizational behaviour, and entrepreneurship), economics, sociology, regional studies, and political ..

Managing Organizations in the Creative Economy is the first textbook of its kind, introducing organizational behaviour theories and applying them to the creative world. The text is underpinned by the latest research and theoretical insights into creative industries management and organisational beha..

Managing Organizations in the Creative Economy is the first textbook of its kind, introducing organizational behaviour theories and applying them to the creative world. The text is underpinned by the latest research and theoretical insights into creative industries management and organisational beha..

This book offers an ethnographic account of what it means and what it takes to become a competent member of the technology marketing community, through engaging with the participants’ ways of making sense of socio-technical orders. The book helps the reader to understand the corporate assumptions be..

This book offers an ethnographic account of what it means and what it takes to become a competent member of the technology marketing community, through engaging with the participants’ ways of making sense of socio-technical orders. The book helps the reader to understand the corporate assumptions be..

This book reviews the existing empirical evidence and provides an integrative framework for the growing body of literature that is situated at the intersection of two highly debated topics: M&A activities and executive compensation...

This volume examines Tom Peters' key works and reviews his detractors, offering an analysis of his contributions to the field of management that goes beyond the simple chronological model that has previously been used...