Organizational theory & behaviour
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Organizational theory & behaviour
Hardcover. Traditional management structures, systems,and tools, intended to make the first factories of the industrial ageefficient, are now obsolete. Applying them to knowledge-work has exactly the opposite effect, causing all kinds of breakdowns. This book explains why knowledge workers have to manage themselves and tells them how to do it. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJM; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230308169
- ISBN
- 9780230308169
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.66
€ 64.66
Paperback. Tackles the nuts and bolts of communication at work in a no-nonsense way with startling honesty and practical tips. The authors' views are supported by comment from an impressive line up of experts whose communication strategies drive a range of successful organizations. For all those who struggle to make themselves heard in the business world Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMB; KJU; KJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230314276
- ISBN
- 9780230314276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.73
€ 58.73
Coherence in the Midst of Complexity: Advances in Social Complexity Th...
Letiche, Hugo, Lissack, Michael, Schultz, Ron
Hardcover. A discussion on the social complexity approach, where dialogue and stories allow for the degrees of freedom needed for the opportunities of emergence to take root. The authors focus on the experience of coherence and how such experiential lessons differ from the establishment and maintenance of categories and labels. Num Pages: 307 pages, 26 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KJMB; KJMD; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338500
- ISBN
- 9780230338500
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.32
€ 122.32
Hardcover. This book discusses continuous improvement strategies of Japanese convenience store operators. The study highlights the efforts of companies operating under lean management systems to identify new, dynamic, firm-specific capabilities in highly competitive markets. Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; KJK; KJU; KJV; KNPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230347939
- ISBN
- 9780230347939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.06
€ 64.06
Hardcover. This book is about the roots of managerial rationality. A theoretical base, founded on the concept of 'memetics' is developed in order to explain human thinking and human reason as products of cultural evolution. Cultural change and development are explained by simple, value-driven memetic mechanisms like 'ritualization' and 'extremization'. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230354883
- ISBN
- 9780230354883
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.14
€ 64.14
Hardcover. In Understanding Psychological Bonds between Individuals and Organizations the author integrates different theoretical perspectives on how individuals form deep, meaningful, and self-defining relationships with their employing organization and proposes a novel and comprehensive take on key triggers and processes associated with such relationships. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMJ; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 169 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230363465
- ISBN
- 9780230363465
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Condition: New
€ 121.99
€ 121.99
Hardcover. Explains how all institutions have to turn their relationship with stakeholders into a 'social' one, which involves designing new Trust and Engagement strategies. A specific indication on how to build and measure value out of these strategies is offered by the innovative 'Value for Engagement Model'. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJC; KJP; KJS; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230391246
- ISBN
- 9780230391246
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.55
€ 121.55
Hardcover. Drawing on a heterogeneous body of literature including art, music and media theory, as well as philosophical and historical studies of perception, this book demonstrates that everyday work in organizations is strongly shaped by and embedded in human perception. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230516151
- ISBN
- 9780230516151
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.75
€ 121.75
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230553743
- ISBN
- 9780230553743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. Based on qualitative work in car plants in Argentina, this book offers new insights for an understanding of workers' collective struggles in a radical perspective. Criticizing the use of injustice as the basis of mobilization, it argues that workers' collective resistance should be seen as a function of the development of solidarity. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCF; KJMV2; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230584648
- ISBN
- 9780230584648
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.46
€ 63.46
Private Selves in Public Organizations: The Psychodynamics of Organiza...
Diamond, Michael A., Allcorn, Seth
Hardcover. This book explores organizations as not simply rational, technological structures and networks for organizing people around tasks and services; it defines organizations as relational, experiential, and perceptual systems. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613096
- ISBN
- 9780230613096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Hardback. Based on the interview of former chief executive officers from profit and non profit organizations to record their experiences in creating trust in their environment and their perceptions of the health of their organizations. This work is of interest to organizations and occupational sociologists, human resource workers, and others. Series: Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JH; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1140.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306472657
- ISBN
- 9780306472657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.32
€ 126.32
Hardback. Based on the study that investigated the factors associated with the implementation of program changes in a nonprofit community welfare agency, this title addresses factors such as administration behavior and perception, its effect on board members, mobility orientation, job satisfaction, and the prediction of program change. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JH; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 1190.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306477263
- ISBN
- 9780306477263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.20
€ 127.20
Paperback. Addresses factors such as administration behavior and perception, its effect on board members, mobility orientation, job satisfaction, and the prediction of program change. This title is suitable for management in both the private and non-profit sector as well as students of organizational sociology and psychology. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JH; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306478529
- ISBN
- 9780306478529
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 124.16
€ 124.16
Hardback. Editor(s): Shalev, Michael. Num Pages: 397 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBS; JKS; JPQB; KJU; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 397
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312164379
- ISBN
- 9780312164379
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.62
€ 123.62
Hardback. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KFFK; KJU; YQV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312177430
- ISBN
- 9780312177430
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 185.63
€ 185.63
Privatization, Corporate Governance and the Emergence of Markets
. Ed(S): Rosenbaum, E.; Bonker, Frank
Hardback. Editor(s): Rosenbaum, E.; Bonker, Frank. Series: Studies in Economic Transition. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCD; KCS; KJR; KJU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312230340
- ISBN
- 9780312230340
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.00
€ 123.00
Hardback. This text takes up a question that has rarely been raised in the field of management: could modern Western colonialism have important implications for the practices and theories that inform management and organizations? Num Pages: 309 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 309
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294052
- ISBN
- 9780312294052
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.27
€ 143.27
Paperback. BIC Classification: KJU. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333305140
- ISBN
- 9780333305140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.90
€ 68.90
Hardcover. In this distinctive and valuable contribution to understanding organisational change, different levels and types of analysis are drawn on and connected. This is achieved through an exploration of the conditions, processes and outcomes of change in the field of UK financial services. Num Pages: 317 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; KFFK; KJU; KNST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333526996
- ISBN
- 9780333526996
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.99
€ 122.99
Hardcover. There are times of structural change and times of uncertainty as new forms of organization and market behaviour emerge to replace and reshape older forms. Nowhere is this uncertainty more felt than in industrial organization theory and in this book this theory is reviewed. Editor(s): Monte, Alfredo del. Num Pages: 334 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJU; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333531587
- ISBN
- 9780333531587
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.69
€ 122.69
Organization Theory and the Multinational Corporation
. Ed(S): Ghoshal, Sumantra; Westney, D.Eleano...
Hardback. Despite a shared interest in the analysis of complex organizations, macro-organization theory and research on the multinational corporation have developed independently of each other. This book represents a systematic effort to build a broad bridge between these two areas of research. Editor(s): Ghoshal, Sumantra; Westney, D.Eleanor. Num Pages: 372 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJU; KJVG; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 661.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333546222
- ISBN
- 9780333546222
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.41
€ 187.41
The Management of Corporate Acquisitions. International Perspectives.
. Ed(S): Krogh, Georg Von; Sinatra, Alessandr...
Hardback. This volume on the management of corporate acquisitions summarizes contemporary research, and encompasses innovative works from several countries related to a variety of issues - managerial motives, the role of acquisitions in competitive strategy, as well as organizational and political processes. Editor(s): Krogh, Georg von; Sinatra, Alessandro; Singh, Harbir. Num Pages: 548 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; KFFH; KJK; KJU; KJV; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 36. Weight in Grams: 847.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 548
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333580103
- ISBN
- 9780333580103
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 188.60
€ 188.60
Hardcover. A view of organizations which has implications for the theory, methods and practice of management. The authors examine how the autopoiesis theory can be applied in the organization and management field, by an increased focus on knowledge and the processes of knowledge development and guidance. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 251 x 23. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1995th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333609873
- ISBN
- 9780333609873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 185.16
€ 185.16