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Effective Management Teams and Organizational Behavior
A Research-Based Model for Team Development
Av Henning Bang, Thomas Nesset Midelfart
Häftad, 2022
687 kr
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Most contemporary organizations use management teams to manage and coordinate their businesses at all levels of the organizational hierarchy. Management teams typically set overall goals, strategies, and priorities, making vital organizational decisions. They discuss issues, solve problems, offer …
Institutional Theory of the Firm
Embedded Autonomy
Häftad, 2021
721 kr
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The Institutional Theory of the Firm examines recent and previous organization theory literature to advocate what Evans (1995) refers to as the "embedded autonomy" of the firm, as well as its role in being simultaneously anchored in, for example, corporate legislation and regulatory practices on …
Organization of the Expert Society
Av Andreas werr, Staffan Furusten
Häftad, 2018
750 kr
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It is often claimed that we live in an expert society, a society where more and more individuals take expert roles in increasingly narrow fields. In contrast to more traditional experts most of these new experts lack generally accepted mechanisms for the certification and legitimation of their …
Organization of the Expert Society
Av Andreas werr, Staffan Furusten
Inbunden, 2016
2513 kr
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It is often claimed that we live in an expert society, a society where more and more individuals take expert roles in increasingly narrow fields. In contrast to more traditional experts most of these new experts lack generally accepted mechanisms for the certification and legitimation of their …
Organizations and the Media
Organizing in a Mediatized World
Av Josef Pallas, Lars Strannegård m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2746 kr
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The relationship between media and the organizations they cover has changed dramatically in the last few decades, which have witnessed a huge expansion of news coverage focusing on different types of organizations and their activities. In parallel, organizations have dramatically increased their …
Dance and Organization
Integrating Dance Theory and Methods into the Study of Management
Häftad, 2018
772 kr
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Dance and Organisation is the first comprehensive work to integrate dance theory and methods into the study of management, which have developed an interest in the arts and the humanities. Dance represents dynamics and change and puts the moving body at the centre, which has been ignored and …
Foucault and Managerial Governmentality
Rethinking the Management of Populations, Organizations and Individuals
Häftad, 2018
750 kr
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In the last two decades there has been an explosion of research inspired by Michel Foucault’s suggestion of a new concept, ‘governmentality’. The distinctive feature of modern governmentality is that across all sorts of fields, rule is predicated upon the active subject as the vehicle through …
Institutional Theory of the Firm
Embedded Autonomy
Inbunden, 2019
2513 kr
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The Institutional Theory of the Firm examines recent and previous organization theory literature to advocate what Evans (1995) refers to as the "embedded autonomy" of the firm, as well as its role in being simultaneously anchored in, for example, corporate legislation and regulatory practices on …
Organizational Culture and Paradoxes in Management
Firms, Families, and Their Businesses
Inbunden, 2020
2513 kr
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Studies on culture, change and social processes within organizations have been historically organized around orthogonal approaches. While the literature on change has focused on creating pragmatic, generally simple methodologies that bypass the complexity of the data in order to emphasize the …
Work of Communication
Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism
Av Timothy Kuhn, Karen L Ashcraft m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
721 kr
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The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism revolves around a two-part question: "What have work and organization become under contemporary capitalism—and how should organization studies approach them?" Changes in the texture of …
How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization
Häftad, 2019
721 kr
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How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization seeks to shed understanding on how speaking or speech-acting affects how we are organized and how we influence each other and wield power. It is suggested that speaking is a major clue to organization and to the creation of new …
Social Enterprise in China
Inbunden, 2021
2588 kr
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This book explores social innovation and entrepreneurship in China. Focusing on selected social enterprises and processes, it addresses the question of "why China?", not in terms of military, economic or political ambitions, but in the terms of social innovation and welfare policies. The analyses …
Storytelling for Sustainability in Higher Education
An Educator's Handbook
Av Petra Molthan-Hill, Heather Luna m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2513 kr
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To be a storyteller is an incredible position from which to influence hearts and minds, and each one of us has the capacity to utilise storytelling for a sustainable future. This book offers unique and powerful insights into how stories and storytelling can be utilised within higher education to …
Organizational Stress Around the World
Research and Practice
Av Kajal Sharma, Cary Cooper m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2588 kr
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Stress is defined as a feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize. It can occur due to environmental issues, such as a looming work deadline, or psychological, for example, persistent worry about familial …
Organizational Gamification
Theories and Practices of Ludified Work in Late Modernity
Av Mikko Vesa
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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This edited volume presents an interdisciplinary collection of texts that examine the practice of gamification, the use of game design elements in non-game contexts, specifically as an organization and management research problem. As we travel deeper into the twenty-first century, it is becoming …
Towards the Compassionate University
From Golden Thread to Global Impact
Inbunden, 2021
2442 kr
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This book makes a significant contribution to the need for compassion in the 21st-century neoliberal university. Compassion is a process that involves (i) noticing that suffering is present in an organization; (ii) making meaning of suffering in a way that contributes to a desire to alleviate it; …
Organization of Craft Work
Identities, Meanings, and Materiality
Av Emma Bell, Gianluigi Mangia m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
742 kr
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This edited book focuses on the organization and meaning of craft work in contemporary society. It considers the relationship between craft and place and how this enables the construction of a meaningful relationship with objects of production and consumption. The book explores the significance of …
Democratic Organisation
Democracy and the Future of Work
Häftad, 2020
735 kr
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Prevailing models of organisation divide people into owners, managers and employees, forcing especially the latter to obey, to behave, and to function well within a hierarchical and managerial pecking order. However, there is no natural law suggesting the need for such organisations, not in market …
Democratic Organisation
Democracy and the Future of Work
Inbunden, 2020
2513 kr
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Prevailing models of organisation divide people into owners, managers and employees, forcing especially the latter to obey, to behave, and to function well within a hierarchical and managerial pecking order. However, there is no natural law suggesting the need for such organisations, not in market …
Governance, Resistance and the Post-Colonial State
Management and State Building
Av Jonathan Murphy, Nimruji Jammulamadaka
Häftad, 2019
742 kr
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The manifestation of the colonial nation-state as a legal-bureaucratic-police structure – an exploitation tool – undermined customary modes of governance in colonies. When post-World War II independence of colonies transferred ownership of the state structure to the colonized elite, electoral and …
Cluster Organization
Analyzing the Development of Cooperative Relationships
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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Cluster organizations are becoming more and more popular, both in developing and developed countries. Considering the development of cluster policy and the related dynamic growth of cluster initiatives in the world, the lack of sufficient knowledge on the development of cooperation in cluster …
Public Sector Reform and Performance Management in Developed Economies
Outcomes-Based Approaches in Practice
Av Zahirul Hoque, Zahirul Hoque
Inbunden, 2021
2588 kr
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Over the past two decades, there has been a shift of paradigm in public administration and public sector accounting around the world with the increasing emphasis on outcomes as opposed to inputs and outputs focus. Understanding of how government departments and agencies develop and implement …
Public Sector Reform and Performance Management in Emerging Economies
Outcomes-Based Approaches in Practice
Inbunden, 2021
2828 kr
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In the recent decade, governments worldwide are increasingly focusing on being community-centric and outcomes-based. Consequently, they are starting to move towards outcomes-based approaches to public financial management systems. An outcomes-based approach allows government service agencies and …
Public Administration and Epistemology
Experience, Power, and Agency
Inbunden, 2020
2513 kr
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Knowledge does not happen in a vacuum, yet scholars and other professionals tend to engage in management scholarship focused on their specific niche often without knowing if or how their work might relate to other research streams. Further exacerbating things, people within specific disciplines, …
Psychodynamics of Toxic Organizations
Applied Poems, Stories and Analysis
Inbunden, 2020
2513 kr
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Understanding experience at work, especially in toxic organizations, is a multidimensional undertaking that must include all senses. The use of applied poetry has its primary value as an evocative approach to sensing, knowing, and understanding workplace experience. Poetry at its best condenses …
Ethics of Sustainability in Management
Storymaking in Organizations
Inbunden, 2023
2588 kr
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Organizational storytelling has been taught for many years in many different places as part of organizational development, organizational change, organizational learning, and business ethics. There has not been any comprehensive framework that addresses sustainability in organizations and so this …
Corporate Research Laboratories and the History of Innovation
Av David Pithan
Inbunden, 2021
2588 kr
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With the beginning of the twentieth century, American corporations in the chemical and electrical industries began establishing industrial research laboratories. Some went on to become world-famous not only for their scientific and technological breakthroughs but also for the new union of science …
Founders and Organizational Development
The Etiology and Theory of Founder's Syndrome
Av Stephen Block, Katrina Miller-Stevens
Inbunden, 2021
2588 kr
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Founders and Organizational Development: The Etiology and Theory of Founder’s Syndrome is designed to help today’s researchers, faculty, students and practitioners become familiar with the etiology and dynamics of Founder’s Syndrome as an organizational condition challenging …
Management, Organization and Fear
Causes, Consequences and Strategies
Av Marek Bugdol, Kazimierz Nagody-Mrozowicz
Inbunden, 2020
2442 kr
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Fear is a fundamental emotion, a process combining four elements: physiological arousal, subjective feelings, cognitive interpretation and behavioural expression. The notion of fear is related to such terms as apprehension, uncertainty, risk, anxiety, horror. Fear has always accompanied people. It …
Organizational Reliability
Human Resources, Information Technology and Management
Av Katarzyna Tworek, Agnieszka Bieńkowska m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2513 kr
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This book explores the identified research gap and new field of study of organizational reliability. It develops a definition and theoretical internal structure of the notion of organizational reliability as well as a theoretical background describing the structure of its three pillars, and it …
