Strategy and geopolitics

The world is shifting to a less stable geopolitical structure, and only firms that can acquire a better capability to foresee and prepare for change will succeed. Strategy and Geopolitics provides a strategic framework that can help senior business executives address the challenges of globalizati...

Strategy, power and csr

In today’s global and complex environment, traditional views towards organizational management are not enough for businesses to thrive. It’s only by bringing together different approaches can management styles develop fast enough to keep pace with the ever-changing big picture.

Structural approaches to address issues in patient safety

This volume delves into the potential that design thinking can have when applied to organizational systems and structures in health care environments to mitigate risks, reduce medical errors and ultimately improve patient safety, the quality of care, provider well-being, and the overall patient e...

Stupid rules

Our lives are imbued with rules and regulations, some of which are vital and sensible, but others are simply stupid. Natasha Hamilton-Hart navigates the rules maze and challenges us to consider how effective some rules are, and whether we would be better off resorting to the exercise of authority.

Supply chain management and logistics in emerging markets

This edited book presents 18 papers on Supply Chain Management and Logistics in Latin America which emerged from the second SCALE Latin American Conference in 2018. The collection covers a variety of relevant topics in SCM&L for the region, and also addresses its lack of cases and applied exa...

Survive, reset, thrive

Move beyond traditional planning to build and maintain competitive advantage and deliver sustainable performance in the often bewildering business environment of today.

Sustainability metrics and management

This book is a comprehensive guide to sustainability metrics and management, introducing readers to key concepts and techniques.

Sustainable development through global circular economy practices

Offering a detailed overview of what is required to move towards a circular economy by providing a series of cases alongside each chapter that illustrate practice in relation to theory, Maguire and Robson deliver a lens through which academics and students can explore what is emerging as state of...

Sustainable management in covid-19 times

COVID-19 has demanded management innovations across all sectors. As urban systems are made more sustainable, and our focus shifts towards the Circular Economy, this timely book sheds new light on emerging issues.

Systemic organization development

This book introduces systemic organization development for management and consultancy, emphasizing organizational change processes and tools. It covers trust-building, handling emotions, and managing concerns and resistance. Practical guidelines and case studies illustrate the concept's applicati...

Take care

Take Care is a practical guide that will enable employers to better understand and support employees with caring responsibilities. It presents this as part of good management practice that strengthens organizational resilience and sustainability, and also argues that this is now an integral eleme...

Talent management

This book contains an Open Access chapter. Aimed at researchers, postgraduate students, and professionals in the field, Talent Management: A Decade of Developments charts the evolution of talent management, illustrating the progress, prospects, and challenges that have transpired over the last te...

Talent management in small advanced economies

Talent Management in Small Advanced Economies explores ideas of talent and talent management, and why it matters in the context of small advanced economies. Snejina Michailova and Dana L. Ott incorporate practitioner and consultant’s views to examine attracting, developing and retaining talent in...

Teaching by heart

The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are teachers.Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than forty years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes that the best teachers are also le...

Team for change

Team for Change: A Practitioner's Guide to Implementing Change in the Modern Workplace addresses the problems and multiple complexities of change process, focusing on the most intractable and unpredictable aspect of change: the human aspect.

Tech development through hrm

This book argues that knowledge management and HRM systems should be integrated. This integration provides the foundation for designing knowledge-oriented high-performance HR practices.

Tech-led culture

Discover the tech-led strategies that will upgrade your business, leading to increased productivity, collaboration and performance.

The activist director

Some of the worst corporate meltdowns over the past sixty years can be traced to passive directors who favored operational shortcuts over quality growth strategies. Thinking primarily about placating institutional investors, selective stockholders, proxy advisors, and corporate management, these ...

The administrative evolution of the digital generation

This research examines the impact of the digital generation joining the workforce from an organizational perspective.

The art of unexpected solutions

Shows readers how to experiment and capitalise on unexpected discoveries in order to find innovative ways of doing business.

The brazilian way of doing public administration

The Brazilian Way of Doing Public Administration is an accessible collaboration between scholars and practitioners rich with findings applicable worldwide, exploring Brazil’s government’s functioning at various points in recent history.

The case study handbook, revised edition

The guide all MBAs and exec ed students need.If you're enrolled in an MBA or executive education program, you've probably encountered a powerful learning tool: the business case. But if you're like many people, you may find interpreting and writing about cases mystifying and time-consuming. In Th...

The complexity paradigm

In this groundbreaking book, Doug Garnett shows how complexity science reveals a new understanding of how business works that is as useful on the front lines as in the C-suite.

The contributions of health care management to grand health care challenges

The 20th volume of Advances in Health Care Management showcases how health care management research helps to further understand grand challenges in health care: what they are, why they exist, the consequences that they have, and what can be done to address them.

The conversational firm

A fast-growing social media marketing company, TechCo encourages all of its employees to speak up. By promoting open dialogue across the corporate hierarchy, the firm has fostered a uniquely engaged workforce and an enviable capacity for change. Yet the path hasn't always been easy. TechCo has co...

The cross-disciplinary perspectives of management

This book provides cross-disciplinary management research that integrates theories, concepts, and perspectives from two or more scientific disciplines. It aims to resolve complex theoretical problems within multiple industries, fields and areas of management including mergers, SMEs, hospitality, ...

The designing for growth field book

Designing for Growth showed how organizations can use design thinking to boost innovation and drive growth. This updated and expanded companion guide is a stand-alone project workbook that provides a step-by-step framework for applying the D4G tool kit and process to a particular project.

The emergence of the fourth industrial revolution

In the last thirty years, there has been an industrial revolution that has changed the world and given rise to an innovation economy that is changing the face of organizational logic. Here, Jon-Arild Johannessen shows how the knowledge worker emerges to become the new working class of the fourth ...

The engineering executive's primer

The experimentation field book

This book is a hands-on manual for crafting and conducting useful experiments in real-life settings.

The farmer's office, second edition

The Farmer's Office, Second Edition is the complete guide to starting, managing, and growing an agricultural or farm business. Fully updated and expanded to include tutorials on basic farm financial management, QuickBooks, business planning, navigating uncertainty, business growth, and thinking l...

The first 90 days, updated and expanded

Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon EditorsThe world’s most trusted guide for leaders in transitionTransitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face. While transiti...

The founder's dilemmas

A guide to the early decisions that can make or break startup venturesOften downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: should they go it alone, or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the bu...

The future of corporate universities

The corporate university is now a highly advanced real-time process for increasing your company’s performance. This book offers a clear perspective on the use and reuse of your own corporate university application. It is a first class management guide to all the major areas to be addressed for a ...

The future of hr

HR departments are in transition. From 1980 to today, HR management has shifted into a strategic function of the company, and digitalisation is at the centre of the modern workplace. For people to keep up with technology, HR management must evolve to embrace these changes.

The future of management

The world is standing on the very edge of the fastest industrial revolution ever. A revolution which will rapidly increase the efficiency of many production processes. Automation (both mechanical and the one happening with computer processes) will reduce the demand for human work and release a hu...

The heroic leadership imperative

In The Heroic Leadership Imperative, Scott T. Allison and George R. Goethals identify leaders who have succeeded in meeting all three categories of needs and they discuss such leaders' appeal by way of a unique integration classic and contemporary psychology relevant to understanding all facets o...

The india way

Exploding growth. Soaring investment. Incoming talent waves. India's top companies are scoring remarkable successes on these fronts - and more.How? Instead of adopting management practices that dominate Western businesses, they're applying fresh practices of their ownin strategy, leadership, tale...

The innovation approach

Revisiting the fundamentals of innovation by considering the strengths and weaknesses of Design Thinking and the Lean Startup, expert David C. Roach focuses on innovation management and emphasizes the importance of managing the front-end of innovation, where critical decisions are made and concep...

The innovator's dilemma

Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon EditorsA Wall Street Journal and Businessweek bestseller. Named by Fast Company as one of the most influential leadership books in its Leadership Hall of Fame. An innovation classic. From Steve Jobs to Jeff Bezos, Cl...

The innovator's dna, updated, with a new preface

A new classic, recommended by leaders and media around the worldIn this bestselling book, authors Jeff Dyer (Innovation Capital and The Innovator's Method), Hal Gregersen (Questions Are the Answer), and Clayton M. Christensen (The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution, and How Will You Me...

The leading practice of decision making in modern business systems

Concentrating on the Russian model, this book reflects the leading practical experience of decision making in modern business systems and presents innovative technologies and perspectives to optimize this process.

The logic of professionalism

This book discusses common management and work practices in professional service organizations. Alvehus opens important discussions on what it means to work, manage, and be managed in such professional organizations, casting light on classic conflicts. He takes everyday work as a starting point ...