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This groundbreaking book challenges conventional management wisdom by arguing that mismanagement and disorganisation are not failures but endemic features of organisational life in turbulent times. Through rigorous theoretical analysis and rich case studies, including an in-depth examination of Netflix, the author develops a comprehensive framework of organisational flexibility based on five key dimensions that enable companies to thrive amid chaos and uncertainty. The book offers several distinctive features: A provocative reconceptualisation of organisational adaptation; an empirically grounded framework for building flexible organisations; practical diagnostic tools for assessing and enhancing organisational adaptability; and detailed case studies that illuminate how successful organisations navigate complexity. Each chapter combines theoretical depth with practical insights, making complex concepts accessible while maintaining scholarly rigor. Written primarily for academics and researchers in organisation studies, strategic management, and leadership theory, this book will particularly appeal to doctoral students and advanced postgraduate scholars. It serves as an essential resource for management faculty teaching graduate courses in organisational behaviour, strategic change, and leadership, while also offering valuable insights for researchers studying organisational adaptation in volatile environments.

This groundbreaking book challenges conventional management wisdom by arguing that mismanagement and disorganisation are not failures but endemic features of organisational life in turbulent times. Through rigorous theoretical analysis and rich case studies, including an in-depth examination of Netflix, the author develops a comprehensive framework of organisational flexibility based on five key dimensions that enable companies to thrive amid chaos and uncertainty. The book offers several distinctive features: A provocative reconceptualisation of organisational adaptation; an empirically grounded framework for building flexible organisations; practical diagnostic tools for assessing and enhancing organisational adaptability; and detailed case studies that illuminate how successful organisations navigate complexity. Each chapter combines theoretical depth with practical insights, making complex concepts accessible while maintaining scholarly rigor. Written primarily for academics and researchers in organisation studies, strategic management, and leadership theory, this book will particularly appeal to doctoral students and advanced postgraduate scholars. It serves as an essential resource for management faculty teaching graduate courses in organisational behaviour, strategic change, and leadership, while also offering valuable insights for researchers studying organisational adaptation in volatile environments.

This groundbreaking book challenges conventional management wisdom by arguing that mismanagement and disorganisation are not failures but endemic features of organisational life in turbulent times. Through rigorous theoretical analysis and rich case studies, including an in-depth examination of Netflix, the author develops a comprehensive framework of organisational flexibility based on five key dimensions that enable companies to thrive amid chaos and uncertainty. The book offers several distinctive features: A provocative reconceptualisation of organisational adaptation; an empirically grounded framework for building flexible organisations; practical diagnostic tools for assessing and enhancing organisational adaptability; and detailed case studies that illuminate how successful organisations navigate complexity. Each chapter combines theoretical depth with practical insights, making complex concepts accessible while maintaining scholarly rigor. Written primarily for academics and researchers in organisation studies, strategic management, and leadership theory, this book will particularly appeal to doctoral students and advanced postgraduate scholars. It serves as an essential resource for management faculty teaching graduate courses in organisational behaviour, strategic change, and leadership, while also offering valuable insights for researchers studying organisational adaptation in volatile environments.

'The digital age provide tremendous opportunities for organizations who adapt new technologies, implement disruptive business models, introduce new ways of working and who drive on innovation. There is no doubt that one of the most important capabilities for 21st century organizations is ''mastering creativity''. Andres Hatum has done a fabulous job in taking readers of his latest book on a journey where they learn how to build and include creativity in the DNA of their organizations. A must-read for every business and talent profession.'-Nick van Dam, Global Chief Learning Officer, McKinsey & Company, Nyenrode Business University, the Netherlands and the University of Pennsylvania, US'This book is a welcome addition to the steadily growing literature on creativity and organization. The author achieves the twin hurdles of rigorous analysis for the academics and practice-based relevance for practitioners. The book provides ample frameworks and case examples to identify key factors which influence and enhance creativity in organizations. These factors range from individual characteristics through organizational factors such as structure and culture to more contextual and environmental conditions. The author then shows how developing creativity, as a key organizational competence, can positively influence strategic decision making to enhance exploration rather than exploitation, to increase agility and to facilitate proactive change.'- David Wilson, Open University, UK'Mastering Creativity in Organizations offers a comprehensive and pedagogical treatise of the forces and factors that facilitate creativity in organizations and the numerous challenges that this involves. The book is richly illustrated with a variety of cases from a range of different sectors, including sports, advertising, manufacturing, consulting, primary education, the entertainment industry, and the culinary industry. Thanks to his fantastic access, Professor Hatum takes us behind the scenes and gives us an inside look into a number of iconic organizations such as Cirque de Soleil, FC Barcelona and Tetra Pak - exploring their leadership practices, HR strategies, office design and several other key issues. However, as the authors attests, creativity is not just for the exceptionally talented genius or for the people working in these extraordinary organizations. Everybody, and every organization, can learn to work in more creative ways from the unique cases in this book.'- Torkild Thanem, Stockholm University, SwedenThis book identifies best practices, leadership styles, and organizational structures for the stimulation of organizational creativity. Andrés Hatum first explains what creativity means in an organizational context. He then explores the ways in which an organization can foster it, with an aim to help any company - not just companies in creative fields or industries - become an organization in which new ideas flow, new processes are developed, and new products are brought to market. In doing so, he provides scholars with a solid framework for studying and understanding the deeper meaning of creativity.Andrés Hatum's new framework for understanding organizational creativity offers examples from a rich variety of companies and situations. The book balances theory and practice for a multifaceted approach that brings its analysis into the real world. In-depth case studies include FC Barcelona, elBulli, Almodovar, and Cirque du Soleil.Managers will find case studies describing exceptional organizational creativity and practical takeaways that can be applied in their own firms. Students will find concrete analytical frameworks for thinking about creativity in organizations, and academics will find a different approach to the study of creativity, one that is grounded in practice.

''The digital age provide tremendous opportunities for organizations who adapt new technologies, implement disruptive business models, introduce new ways of working and who drive on innovation. There is no doubt that one of the most important capabilities for 21st century organizations is ''''mastering creativity''''. Andres Hatum has done a fabulous job in taking readers of his latest book on a journey where they learn how to build and include creativity in the DNA of their organizations. A must-read for every business and talent profession.''-Nick van Dam, Global Chief Learning Officer, McKinsey & Company, Nyenrode Business University, the Netherlands and the University of Pennsylvania, US

''This book is a welcome addition to the steadily growing literature on creativity and organization. The author achieves the twin hurdles of rigorous analysis for the academics and practice-based relevance for practitioners. The book provides ample frameworks and case examples to identify key factors which influence and enhance creativity in organizations. These factors range from individual characteristics through organizational factors such as structure and culture to more contextual and environmental conditions. The author then shows how developing creativity, as a key organizational competence, can positively influence strategic decision making to enhance exploration rather than exploitation, to increase agility and to facilitate proactive change.''- David Wilson, Open University, UK

''Mastering Creativity in Organizations offers a comprehensive and pedagogical treatise of the forces and factors that facilitate creativity in organizations and the numerous challenges that this involves. The book is richly illustrated with a variety of cases from a range of different sectors, including sports, advertising, manufacturing, consulting, primary education, the entertainment industry, and the culinary industry. Thanks to his fantastic access, Professor Hatum takes us behind the scenes and gives us an inside look into a number of iconic organizations such as Cirque de Soleil, FC Barcelona and Tetra Pak - exploring their leadership practices, HR strategies, office design and several other key issues. However, as the authors attests, creativity is not just for the exceptionally talented genius or for the people working in these extraordinary organizations. Everybody, and every organization, can learn to work in more creative ways from the unique cases in this book.''- Torkild Thanem, Stockholm University, Sweden

This book identifies best practices, leadership styles, and organizational structures for the stimulation of organizational creativity. Andrés Hatum first explains what creativity means in an organizational context. He then explores the ways in which an organization can foster it, with an aim to help any company - not just companies in creative fields or industries - become an organization in which new ideas flow, new processes are developed, and new products are brought to market. In doing so, he provides scholars with a solid framework for studying and understanding the deeper meaning of creativity.

Andrés Hatum''s new framework for understanding organizational creativity offers examples from a rich variety of companies and situations. The book balances theory and practice for a multifaceted approach that brings its analysis into the real world. In-depth case studies include FC Barcelona, elBulli, Almodovar, and Cirque du Soleil.

Managers will find case studies describing exceptional organizational creativity and practical takeaways that can be applied in their own firms. Students will find concrete analytical frameworks for thinking about creativity in organizations, and academics will find a different approach to the study of creativity, one that is grounded in practice.

Andres Hatum explores determinants of organizational flexibility in this examination of four family-owned companies, two flexible and two less flexible, from the edible oil and pharmaceutical industries. By means of an innovative analysis - including longitudinal analysis, coding analysis, statistical analysis and the use of original display charts - he illustrates the determinants of flexibility and sheds light on the process of transformation and adaptation of family firms, an area that has not yet been the subject of extensive empirical inquiry.The management literature has claimed that the complexity of business contexts has forced firms to confront hypercompetitive or high-velocity environments. Behind such claims lies a new interest in the dynamics of adaptation, and in particular a firm's flexibility as a way of adjusting under conditions of uncertainty. The businesses studied here have had to contend with the environmental volatility that characterized Argentina for some years. The author identifies five determinants of flexibility as a set of organizational and managerial capabilities that enabled some firms to adapt quickly in a highly competitive environment: heterogeneity of the dominant coalition, centralization and formalization of decision-making, low macroculture embeddedness, environmental scanning, and a strong organizational identity. These findings were analyzed and interpreted by developing theoretical ideas from three areas between which historically there has been no interface: organizational flexibility, organizational innovativeness and institutional embeddedness.This insightful examination into what enables some family-owned businesses to survive and thrive and causes others to fail will be of interest to academics concerned with business flexibility and adaptation, as well as to managers and owners of family businesses.

This book offers a rigorous yet accessible exploration of organisational politics, providing scholars with a systematic framework for analysing one of management’s most elusive concepts. Moving beyond fragmented definitions, it deconstructs politics into seven core dimensions—power, influence, culture, communication, conflict, networking, and strategy—creating a coherent foundation for research and comparative analysis.Each chapter integrates theoretical discussion with case studies, historical examples, and structured debate prompts, making it a valuable resource for graduate-level study and scholarly inquiry. By combining conceptual clarity with empirical insights, the volume advances understanding of how political dynamics shape organisational behaviour.Essential reading for academics in management, organisational studies, and business ethics, this work bridges theory and application, challenging sanitised narratives of corporate life and offering an unfiltered look at power, manipulation, influence, and strategic networking.

This book offers a rigorous yet accessible exploration of organisational politics, providing scholars with a systematic framework for analysing one of management’s most elusive concepts. Moving beyond fragmented definitions, it deconstructs politics into seven core dimensions—power, influence, culture, communication, conflict, networking, and strategy—creating a coherent foundation for research and comparative analysis.Each chapter integrates theoretical discussion with case studies, historical examples, and structured debate prompts, making it a valuable resource for graduate-level study and scholarly inquiry. By combining conceptual clarity with empirical insights, the volume advances understanding of how political dynamics shape organisational behaviour.Essential reading for academics in management, organisational studies, and business ethics, this work bridges theory and application, challenging sanitised narratives of corporate life and offering an unfiltered look at power, manipulation, influence, and strategic networking.

Este no es un libro de moral ni de ética. Es un libro sobre política en las organizaciones. Porque la política empieza donde terminan los principios. Es pragmatismo en estado puro: hacer que las cosas sucedan, entender los juegos de poder, sobrevivir —y triunfar— en ese realismo salvaje.Aquí nadie se escandaliza con Maquiavelo. Como él, simplemente describimos loque ocurre cuando las personas mandan, negocian, manipulan y construyen poder.Sin embargo, en las empresas es mejor no hablar de esas cosas. El poder, la influencia, los favoritismos, la trastienda de las decisiones... temas tabúes que muchos prefieren barrer bajo la alfombra mientras se disfrazan de carmelitas descalzas.Con crudeza —pero también con suma lucidez—, los autores ofrecen al lector una linterna para recorrer ese territorio insoslayable, donde no basta con ser bueno: también hay que ser políticamente inteligente.

Desde 2003 al 2023, cuatro presidentes marcaron las dos décadas posteriores al colapso del año 2001, cuando el sistema de representación tradicional del país entró en crisis. El fracaso del gobierno de la Alianza y la renuncia de Fernando de la Rúa en diciembre de 2001, la profunda crisis económica y social en que quedó sumido el país y los intentos posteriores por restablecer la normalidad institucional, la gobernabilidad y la autoridad presidencial marcaron los años previos a una nueva etapa en la política argentina que inauguró Néstor Kirchner.Imperfectos analiza la gestión de los cuatro líderes que gobernaron nuestro país entre 2003 y 2023: Néstor Kirchner, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Mauricio Macri y Alberto Fernández. Se trata de reconocer el estilo de liderazgo de cada uno añadiendo perspectiva histórica que nos remita al pasado para poder entender cómo los presidentes de las últimas dos décadas repiten acciones de otros líderes argentinos. Todo en la historia argentina parece repetirse.De esta forma, el intercambio entre presente y pasado es permanente, tanto que los argentinos parecemos atrapados en un bucle tóxico del que solo podremos salir a base de conocimiento y lectura.

Una organización alineada es aquella en que los esfuerzos y talentos individuales se coordinan y capitalizan para alcanzar un objetivo común, condición indispensable no sólo para crecer sino incluso para sobrevivir. Teoría y acción, estrategias y prácticas claras de Recursos Humanos son ofrecidas para comprender e implementar las políticas necesarias para alinear la organización con la estrategia del negocio. Ilustrado con casos reales, este libro constituye una detallada y a la vez sencilla guía para directivos, mandos medios, consultores, y estudiantes y graduados de Administración de Empresas y carreras afines.