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In this book, leading organization theorist Gibson Burrell presents a provocative and challenging approach to the study of organizations, aiming to move beyond the two-dimensionality of much organizational thinking and present more complex 3-D models, which allow for...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-06-27
Format(s) : PDF
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An update of the classic book that reveals the 6 keys to successful management In this new edition of his best-selling book, Robert Benfari explains that the best mangers are not born that way but share a mix of characteristics that can be analyzed, understood, and most...
Editeur : Jossey-Bass
Parution : 2013-06-24
Collection :
J-B Warren Bennis Series
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Max Boisot was one of the most original thinkers in management and organization studies. An independent scholar with an independent, enquiring, and innovative mind, his work ranged over a number of different areas from early attempts to understand contemporary...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-06-13
Format(s) : PDF
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How can we engage in a market relationship when the quality of the goods we want to acquire is unknown, invisible, or uncertain? For market exchange to be possible, purchasers and suppliers of goods must be able to assess the quality of a product in relation to other...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-06-13
Format(s) : PDF
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Work Time is a sociological overview of a complex web of relations that shapes much of our experience of work and life yet often goes without critical examination. Cynthia Negrey examines work time past and present, exploring structural economic change and the ...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-23
Collection :
Work & Society
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Over the last thirty years, scholars of health care organizations have been searching for concepts and images to illuminate their underlying, and shifting, modes of organizing. Nowhere has this controversy been more intense than in the United Kingdom, given the long...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-03-28
Format(s) : PDF
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Although human lives towards the second half of the twentieth century became increasingly mediated by objects and artifacts and have depended heavily on the functioning of technical systems, materiality in a broad sense became relatively marginalized as a topic of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-03-28
Format(s) : PDF
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Concurrent with the increasing complexity of the field of management, the need to re-examine the foundations from which its theories have advanced has become ever more important and useful. The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists examines and evaluates the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-02-28
Format(s) : ePub
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Concurrent with the increasing complexity of the field of management, the need to re-examine the foundations from which its theories have advanced has become ever more important and useful. The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists examines and evaluates the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-02-28
Format(s) : PDF
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Provides a clear road map to instilling a culture of safety excellence in any organization Did you know that accidental injury is among the top ten leading causes of death in every age group? With this book as your guide, you'll learn how to help your organization...
Editeur : Wiley
Parution : 2013-01-10
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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In this third edition of their best-selling classic, authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal explain the powerful tool of "reframing." The authors have distilled the organizational literature into a comprehensive approach for looking at situations from more than one angle....
Editeur : Jossey-Bass
Parution : 2013-01-09
Format(s) : PDF
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What are practice theories? Where do they come from?What do they say? Do they offer something new to the study of work and organization?
Practice theories are a set of conceptual tools and methodologies for investigating, analysing, and representing everyday...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-12-20
Format(s) : PDF
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Knowledge-Based Process Planning for Construction and Manufacturing describes a knowledge-based system architecture that is used to develop process planning systems called PLANEX. This book explains that PLANEX is a domain-independent, knowledge-based process planning...
Editeur : Academic Press
Parution : 2012-12-02
Format(s) : PDF sans DRM
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There is at present no universally accepted source giving definitions in English of the principal terms used in Production Control and in closely related areas. Most of the dictionaries and glossaries which do exist in this field fail to cover the full range of ideas...
Editeur : North Holland
Parution : 2012-12-02
Format(s) : PDF sans DRM
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Ask a person on the street whether new technologies bring about important social change and you are likely to hear a resounding "yes." But the answer is less definitive amongst academics who study technology and social practice. Scholarly writing has been heavily...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-11-22
Format(s) : PDF
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Over the last few decades, power, information and resources have moved from being concentrated in the hands of a few, to being disbursed across many. We need look no further than events on the world stage to see the heat signature of this – from the arrival of...
Editeur : Jossey-Bass
Parution : 2012-09-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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From agency theory to power and politics, this indispensable guide to the key concepts of organization theory is your compass as you navigate through the often complex and abstract theories about the design and functioning of organizations. Designed to complement and...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2012-08-16
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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What does it mean to have a "good" or "bad" reputation? How does it create or destroy value, or shape chances to pursue particular opportunities? Where do reputations come from? How do we measure them? How do we build and manage them?
Over the last twenty years the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-07-19
Format(s) : PDF
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What does it mean to have a "good" or "bad" reputation? How does it create or destroy value, or shape chances to pursue particular opportunities? Where do reputations come from? How do we measure them? How do we build and manage them?
Over the last twenty years the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-07-19
Format(s) : ePub
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The Oxford Handbook of Project Management presents and discusses leading ideas in the management of projects. Positioning project management as a domain much broader and more strategic than simply 'execution management', this Handbook draws on the insights of over 40...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-07-19
Format(s) : PDF
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