Bøger i Management, Organizations and Business serien

This book advances a design--based approach for the investigation and creation of sustainable organizations. The learning--by--design framework is utilized to examine learning in six successful companies in different industries and national settings and provides a roadmap for improving systematic learning in organizations.

Written in a highly accessible style by a small distinguished team, this is a wide--ranging account of the whole subject of management development, underpinned by the most extensive data set ever made available.

* This book looks at how to foster innovation in organizations, focusing on managers as the key participants in the process. * Presents an original theory about the characteristics of managers in "good innovative organizations" and "poor innovative organizations.

* Helps managers to understand how their organisations' performance could be improved. * Presents an overview of the advice on organisational improvement facing managers. * Classifies and evaluates various different approaches. * Highlights the relationships between strategy and capability.

International Management focuses on the most crucial challenge faced by managers of multinational companies today -- that of the generation and transfer of knowledge across national settings, organizations and networks.

* Offers a unique combination of both critiques and SHRM recommendations and prescriptions. * Includes a new section on managing organisational structures. * Set text for one of the largest MBA programmes in Europe. * Includes learning objectives, mini--cases and research results, summaries and discussion questions.