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  • - An Ethnographic Approach
    af Silvia Gherardi, Barbara Poggio & Attila Bruni
    610,95 - 2.357,95 kr.

    This groundbreaking new study considers both gender and entrepreneurship as symbolic forms, looking at their diverse patterns and social representation.

  • af Anna (Jagiellonian University Wziatek-Stasko
    579,95 - 1.777,95 kr.

  • - Social Innovation through Hybrid Organization Models
    af Benjamin Huybrechts
    716,95 - 2.166,95 kr.

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    1.123,95 kr.

    Organizations are now facing the challenges of managing a `blended workforce¿, i.e. a workforce consisting of both direct hires and contractors. With the evolution of the use of agency work in the Western world over the past decade, the chapters in this volume show how a focus on the management and organization of temporary agency work can be helpful to see possibilities and pitfalls for the use of temporary employment in the wake of changed employment practices and challenges to labor market stability and welfare structures. Its particular uniqueness lies in the empirical richness and variety of local case studies and the way in which these are related to wider policy aims, ideological shifts, and the dynamics of organizational practice, with a particular focus on the organization and management of `blended workforces¿.

  • - Studies of Work Orientations
     
    1.874,95 kr.

    This book provides a deeper understanding of job satisfaction and the circumstances under which people participate in various activities, coloring their subjective relationships to them. It also explores the effects of labor market changes and working conditions on work orientations and work attitudes. The analyses in each of the chapters make use of survey data from different countries, an approach which allows international comparisons, providing information from Europe, North America, and beyond.

  • - Organizing in a Mediatized World
     
    1.833,95 kr.

    In the last few decades we have witnessed an expansion in the amount of news coverage focusing on organizations and their activities and similarly, organizations have increased their investment in their own PR and media oriented forms of communication. This book explores how organizations and organizing can be understood as a part of a mediatized world and addresses what kind of consequences such mediatization has.

  • - Advancing Change in Higher Education
    af Diana Bilimoria & Xiangfen Liang
    713,95 - 2.165,95 kr.

  • - Performative Imagery in Business and Beyond
     
    1.973,95 kr.

    The modern business relies extensively upon myriad images and pictorial representations. This book provides a fresh disciplinary space in which to experiment and capture the significant role that images and other forms of engagements play in the performance of the organizational activities that make business possible.

  • - Robustness, Tenacity, and Change in Organizations
    af Leike van Oss & Jaap van 't Hek
    630,95 - 1.871,95 kr.

  • - An Antenarrative Handbook
     
    1.999,95 kr.

    The concept of narrative is explored in many different fields from organization studies to studies on identity, psychology, and learning. This book offers a systematic examination of non-traditional narrative inquiry in the management realm, organizing and developing its approach, and providing insights for management students and scholars.

  • - Toward a General Theory of Hierarchical Social Systems
    af Japan) Diefenbach & Thomas (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU)
    722,95 - 1.977,95 kr.

  • - Theory, Research, and Practice
     
    2.074,95 kr.

    Presents research and a 'global paradigm' for the theory of style differences in human performance. This title intends to extend an understanding of style differences in learning, thinking and behavior, developing style research methodology, assessment, and applying style in learning, organizational learning, technology and pedagogy.

  • - Theory and Cases
    af Sweden) Styhre & Alexander (Chalmers University of Technology
    711,95 - 2.075,95 kr.

    Offers an introduction to the literature on vision and visuality that is relevant to organizational theory, proposes a theoretical framework for visual culture in organizations, and provides empirical illustrations to the theoretical framework.

  • - A Critical Perspective from Latin America
     
    1.877,95 kr.

    Shows that interdisciplinary developments between the previously distinct fields of International Management (IM) and International Relations are important for the construction of a Latin America perspective in the field of International Management, contributing to the development of the IM field in other parts of the world.

  • af Nancy Harding
    1.781,95 kr.

    A critical and empirical study that explores the constitution of managerial identities in the age of mass education in management and challenges the way we think about organizations and their management.

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    2.183,95 kr.

    There is widespread awareness of the fact that time has been under-investigated in organizational studies. This book addresses the need to bridge the gap between the predominantly "timeless" theories and models that scholars have produced and the daily experiences of employees and managers, in which time is important.

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    604,95 kr.

    Aimed at scholarly researchers and academics in the field, this edited volume draws upon case-based research from both humanities and social sciences to expand the scientific and practical potential of counter-narrative in and around organizations.

  • - Theory for a Tangled World
    af Denmark) Hernes & Tor (Copenhagen Business School
    603,95 - 1.878,95 kr.

    Alfred North Whitehead's work is a landmark in process philosophy. Theorists such as Niklas Luhmann, Bruno Latour, Karl Weick and James March have contributed significantly towards a process view of organization. This book interprets and discusses central aspects of their thinking with the help of a canvas of process thinking given by Whitehead.

  • - Lessons from IKEA
    af Sweden) Edvardsson, Bo (Karlstad University & Sweden) Enquist
    701,95 - 2.056,95 kr.

    Analyzes an organization (IKEA) as a basis for values based service for sustainable business. This book provides an overview of the history of IKEA and the social and environmental perspectives that have acted as driving forces for creating economic value.

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    988,95 kr.

    Considers how organizations operate as spaces in which minds are gendered and men and women constructed. Covers organizational culture, the gendering of organizations, post-modernism and organizational analysis and critical management.

  • - Research and Practice
    af Cary L. Cooper & D.M. Pestonjee
    1.789,95 kr.

    This book presents a sound theoretical and empirical basis for understanding the evolving and changing nature of stress in contemporary organizations.

  • - Global Voices, Local Accents
     
    1.710,95 kr.

    This book assesses CMS in fourteen countries and regions where it has a more or less extensive presence. Each chapter covers the nature, extent, context and prospects of CMS within each locality. Overall, CMS emerges as a global project conducted in numerous local accents.

  • - Zygmunt Bauman and Organization Theory
     
    2.070,95 kr.

    In this innovative and insightful collection, an international selection of leading management scholars explore key topics in current organizational discourse, including networked organizations, control and ambiguity, technologies, work and responsibility, extending Bauman's liquid modernity to the "liquid organization".

  • - Network, Influence and Conflict
     
    1.886,95 kr.

    Despite being a critical success factor for an organization, beginning in the 1970s, the term - 'boundary spanning' has had an intermittent research history: there has been no systematic body of research that has evolved over time. This book aims to invigorate, excite, and expand the literature on boundary spanning in a diverse range of disciplines such as sociology, organizational psychology, management, medicine, defence, health, social work, and community services. The book serves as the first collection of reviews on boundary spanning in organizations.

  • - Connecting Policies and Practices
    af Sweden) Styhre & Alexander (University of Gothenburg
    608,95 - 1.877,95 kr.

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    1.875,95 kr.

    This book challenges the existing paradigm of capitalism by providing scientific evidence and empirical data that empathy is the most important organizing mechanism. The book is unique in that it provides a comprehensive review of the transformational qualities of empathy in personal, organizational and local contexts. Integrating an understanding based upon scientific studies of why the fields of positive psychology and organizational scholarship are important, it examines the evidence from neuroscience and presents leading-edge studies from quantum physics with implications for the organizational field. Together the chapters in this book attempt to demonstrate how empathy helps in the reduction of human suffering and the creation of a more just society.

  • - Resisting Gender, Gendering Resistance
    af Jean Helms Mills, Robyn Thomas, Canada) Mills & mfl.
    716,95 - 1.875,95 kr.

    Focusing on the issues of theorizing on gender and ways of understanding resistance, this volume offers a progressive understanding of the current debate on compliance versus resistance, and highlights the strategies most needed for organizational survival.

  • - Democracy and the Future of Work
    af Thomas Diefenbach
    580,95 - 1.777,95 kr.

    "Arguing that most current organisations are orthodox, hierarchical, anti-democratic, oppressive, unfair and unjust; this book presents a viable alternative, a better type of organisation - the democratic organisation"--

  • af Australia) Callender & Guy (Curtin University of Technology
    618,95 - 2.323,95 kr.

    Proposes the replacement of the generalised term efficiency with the more comprehensive notion of performance efficiency to provide a basis on which to evaluate management behaviour.

  • af UK) Diefenbach & Thomas (University of Strathclyde
    278,95 - 609,95 kr.

    Challenges the image of managers as the selfless pursuer of an organization's survival and development. This book explains that individual interests and careers of managers are only part of a wider picture with managers as the ruling class using and misusing organizations for their own personal and group interests.

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