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Complexity and Management eBook Series

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  • The Complexity of Consultancy

    Exploring Breakdowns Within Consultancy Practice

    Edited by Nicholas Sarra, Karina Solsø, Chris Mowles ...
    Series series Complexity and Management
    Consultancy is a lucrative industry dependent on the production and use of tools and techniques which hold out the promise of success for the organisations it supports: transformation, or greater efficiency and effectiveness, perhaps even culture change. However, a critical and important question is whether these promises are fulfilled in everyday practice in organisations. Is it possible at all ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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    by Muayyad Jabri, Estefan Jabri ...
    This innovative and unique textbook describes change as a socially constructed process, reinforced by the interactions of employees at all levels. Including video and audio resources, it emphasises the fact that change is an on-going phenomenon: not an event that will soon be over once the consultants have left, but a permanent feature of an adaptable organisation.This novel theoretical ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Marketing

    A Critical Textbook

    by James Fitchett, Gavin Jack, Ming Lim, Michael Saren, Mark Tadajewski, Nick Ellis, Matthew Higgins ...
    Written by a team of renowned experts in the field, Marketing: A Critical Textbook provides a unique introduction and overview of critical approaches to marketing.Ideally suited to advanced students of marketing, the book uses examples and ′real world′ case studies to illustrate and discuss major alternative and critical perspectives on the subject, enabling students to constructively question the ... Read more

    $125.99 CAD

  • Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals

    Strategies for getting published

    by Pat Thomson, Barbara Kamler ...
    It’s not easy getting published, but everyone has to do it. Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals presents an insider’s perspective on the secret business of academic publishing, making explicit many of the dilemmas and struggles faced by all writers, but rarely discussed. Its unique approach is theorised and practical. It offers a set of moves for writing a journal article that is structured and ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Tools and Techniques of Leadership and Management

    Meeting the Challenge of Complexity

    by Ralph Stacey ...
    Many of today’s books on the tools and techniques of leadership and management provide descriptions of long lists for use in decision-making, leading, coaching and project management. This book takes a completely different approach. It contests the claims that the tools and techniques are based on evidence and explains why human activities of leading and managing are simply not amenable to ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Understanding Organizational Culture

    by Mats Alvesson ...
    With his usual engaging and inimitable style, Mats Alvesson takes the reader on a riveting journey through the diverse ways in which culture itself can be understood and how these powerfully inform organizational life.′ - Blake E. Ashforth, Arizona State University′Understanding Organizational Culture comunicates complex ideas in a manner that will illuminate for those who are less familiar with ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • The Enactment of Strategic Leadership

    A Critical Perspective

    by Darko Tipurić ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This Open Access book explores the meaning and roles that strategy and leadership play in our lives. Based on decades of experience, the author contemplates whether we believe strategic leadership exists because it actually exists, or whether it exists because we believe it does? Both answers are true.The author argues that the duality of the essence of strategic leadership is clear. It may appear ... Read more

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  • Reflexive Leadership

    Organising in an imperfect world

    by Mats Alvesson, Martin Blom, Stefan Sveningsson ...
    Making a case for a reflexive approach to leadership, the authors draw upon decades of carrying out in-depth studies of professionals trying to "do" leadership. Through interviews with managers and their subordinates, getting a good understanding of organizational context, and critically interpreting their observations considering both leadership theories and a wealth of other perspectives, their ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Action Research

    All You Need to Know

    by Jean McNiff ...
    This book gives you all you need to know about action research, why you need to know it and how it can help you become a self-reflective practitioner-researcher. It provides the ideas and frameworks to understand action research, combined with a practical workbook to guide you through the practicalities and complexities of doing action research in your own context.Inside you will find:An action ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Managing to Collaborate

    The Theory and Practice of Collaborative Advantage

    by Chris Huxham, Siv Vangen ...
    Collaboration between organizations on different continents can raise issues of economic development, health, the environment, risk sharing, supply chain efficiency and human resource management. It is an activity that can touch upon almost every aspect of business and social life. In this notable text, the authors combine rigorous theory with practical examples to create a useful, practical, one ... Read more

    $135.99 CAD

  • Organizing & Organizations

    by Stephen Fineman, Yiannis Gabriel, David B P Sims ...
    Organizing and Organizations is well loved by students and lecturers for its accessible, conversational tone and insightful real-life examples introducing the study of organizations and organizational behaviour. Fineman, Gabriel and Sims, eminent academics in the field, cover a wealth of key concepts, research and literature leaving students informed and engaged.The Fourth Edition builds on the ... Read more

    $130.99 CAD

  • Rethinking the Fifth Discipline

    Learning Within the Unknowable

    by Robert Louis Flood ...
    'Fifth Discipline' is one of the very few approaches to management that has attained position on the International Hall of Fame. Professor Flood's book explains and critiques the ideas in straight forward terms. This book makes significant and fundamental improvements to the core discipline - systemic thinking. It establishes crucial developments in systemic thinking in the context of the learning ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD