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Reverte Management (Rem) Un Mundo Sin E-mail (a World Without E-Mail,
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Reverte Management (Rem) Piensa Estratégicamente (Thinking Strategically,
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Reverte Management (Rem) Humanocracia (Humanocracy, Spanish Edition):
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Editorial Reverte Un Pavo Real En El Reino de Los Pingüinos (a
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Editorial Gg El Gran Salto: Guía Para Lanzarte Como Freelance
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GEDISA Cmo desarrollar un plan de negocios
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LID Editorial Empresarial, S.L. Repetibilidad
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Gestión del cambio
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Empresa Activa Mas Alla de la Idea: Como Desarrollar la
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Change Management Revised Edition Revised Edition Management Extra
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Oxford University Press, USA Boards at Work How Directors View their Roles and Responsibilities
Book SynopsisBoards of directors are coming under increasing scrutiny in terms of ther contribution in monitoring and controlling management, particularly in the wake of high-profile coprorate frauds and failures, and also their potential to add value to organizational performance through involvement in the strategy process and through building relationships with key investors. Despite the importance of these issues, not only to organizations but also arguably to national competitiveness, the nature of board activity remains largely a black box, clouded by prescriptions, prejudices, and half-truths. This book responds to calls for greater scrutiny of boards of directors with an in-depth examination of directors of UK organizations, drawing on the accounts of directors themselves as to their roles, influence, and the potential and limits to their power.Much work on boards of directors has labelled the board as a rubber stamp for dominant management, and non-executive directors in particular have been variously described as poodles, pet rocks, or parsley on the fish. Such accounts are rooted in assumptions of board activity that are essentially adversarial in nature, and that the solution to the ''problem'' of reconciling the interests of managers with those of shareholders is to increase the checks and balances available to the board of directors. The findings of this study show that boards, in many cases, are far more than passive rubber stamps for management and that non-executives are encouraged to act as trusted advisers to the executives and the chief executive, rather than solely monitors of executive activity. Boards are important mechanisms in maintaining the strategic framework of the organization through setting the boundaries of organizational activity. The potential of the board members, in particular the non-executives, to fulfil such a mandate depends on a number of factors, including ability, willingness to engage with the organizational issues, and the degree of knowledge they have relevant to the host firm. Above all, the degree of trust built between members of the board, and between the board and key external constituencies, is at the heart of effective board behaviour.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition a valuable work for those who study corporate governance * Corporate Governance: An International Review *This work would provide a useful primer for anyone studying the subject * Corporate Governance: An International Review *This book is comprehensive and a must read for those who wish to be up to date and are committed to improving board performance ... The conclusion section provides useful advice for board members who want to check how well they are doing against current thinking ... Stiles and Taylor have shown remarkable ability to deal with the complexities of boards at work. * Lynn McGregor *Table of Contents1. The Changing Expectations of Boards of Directors ; 2. Perspectives on the Contribution of Boards of Directors ; 3. Researching Boards of Directors ; 4. The Strategic Role of the Board ; 5. The Control Role of the Board ; 6. The Institutional Role of the Board ; 7. The Dynamics of Board Process ; 8. Conclusions
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Oxford University Press Knowledge Work and KnowledgeIntensive Firms
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the concept of knowledge, and its use in the contexts of work and organizations. It provides a critical understanding of current approaches to knowledge management, organization, and the ''knowledge economy''.The author describes a number of cases of ''knowledge intensive firms'', including IT firms, management consultancy firms, advertising agencies, and life science companies. He emphasizes the ambiguity of knowledge in the input, process, and output of professional work, and suggests that we should be careful in assuming too much about the nature, role, and effects of ''knowledge'' in business life. Instead we should understand the constructed nature of knowledge and scrutinize knowledge claims carefully.Alvesson looks at several aspects of management and working life, including human resource management issues, client control, and the regulation of identity. Rhetoric, symbolism, image, the politics of knowledge claims, and identity are all shown to be crucial foTrade ReviewThe real value of this book is that Alvesson's examination of knowledge management provides a much needed antithesis to the popular views on the subject. * Scandinavian Journal of Management *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. On Knowledge-Intensive Firms ; 3. Knowledge: Questioning the Functional View ; 4. Image, Rhetoric, and Symbolism ; 5. Socio-Politics of Knowledge Work: Social Connections and Interactions ; 6. Management and Organizational Control ; 7. Human Resource Management and Personnel Concepts ; 8. Knowledge Management ; 9. Identity: Uncertainties and Regulations ; 10. Conclusion
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Oxford University Press The Institutional Logics Perspective
Book SynopsisHow do institutions influence and shape cognition and action in individuals and organizations, and how are they in turn shaped by them? Various social science disciplines have offered a range of theories and perspectives to provide answers to this question. Within organization studies in recent years, several scholars have developed the institutional logics perspective. An institutional logic is the set of material practices and symbolic systems including assumptions, values, and beliefs by which individuals and organizations provide meaning to their daily activity, organize time and space, and reproduce their lives and experiences. This approach affords significant insights, methodologies, and research tools, to analyze the multiple combinations of factors that may determine cognition, behaviour, and rationalities.In tracing the development of the institutional logics perspective from earlier institutional theory, the book analyzes seminal research, illustrating how and why influentiaTrade ReviewIn The Institutional Logics Perspective, Thornton, Ocasio, and Lounsbury have crafted a foundational treatise that will be a touchstone for future inquiry on logics. As an explanation for how actors, actions, and context come together in organizational and institutional settings, the institutional logics perspective has found a broad and diverse audience; this book will only widen its appeal. The authors break fresh theoretical ground and offer a solid conceptual footing for the study of logics; as such, the book has much to recommend it. * Mary Ann Glynn, Administrative Sciences Quarterly *No concept in the field of organization studies has been more promising than that of institutional logics and no concept has been more elusive, at times to the point of evanescence. The authors bring institutional logics down to earth, unpacking the concept, tracing its history and exploring its ambiguities, identifying its component parts, and giving each the close attention it deserves. This much-needed and well-conceived volume provides an invaluable service to students of institutions and organizational fields. * Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University *The Institutional Logics Perspective is an essential road map to and program for the future development of theories of institutional logic. Thornton, Ocasio, and Lounsbury offer a host of uncharted, under-theorized, unthought, and unexplored causal mechanisms linking the macro and the micro, practice and interaction, value and identity. The authors lay out the inter-institutional system, the doubleness of rationality, the cultural contingency of interest, the ideality of material practice, and the ways in which we have mistakenly assumed that institution effaces agency and hence politics. We are going to have to think and work this text for a while. * Roger O. Friedland, University College Santa Barbara *Over the past generation, neoinstitutional theory has become perhaps the dominant perspective in the sociology of organizations. The institutional logics perspective has became an intriguing alternative that seeks to encompass and extend the insights of neoinstitutionalism to both lower and higher units of analysis. This book goes farther than any prior work in advancing the institutional logics perspective. * Gerald F. Davis, University of Michigan *This book is a must-read. Thornton, Ocasio and Lounsbury take stock, in a poised and systematic manner, of what has been achieved so far by the Institutional Logics perspective. They also point to what remains to be done. Building on a rich heritage, the Institutional Logics perspective threads the path to new and exciting frontiers a multi-levels theory of institutions, the stabilization of solid micro-foundations, a refreshing return to history and the exploration of the dynamics of identities. The agenda is attractive and this book develops a highly useful road map. * Marie-Laure Djelic, ESSEC Business School *Table of Contents1. Introduction to the Institutional Logics Perspective ; 2. Precursors to the Institutional Logics Perspective ; 3. Defining the Inter-institutional System ; 4. The Emergence, Stability and Change of the Inter-institutional System ; 5. Micro-Foundations of Institutional Logics ; 6. The Dynamics of Organizational Practices and Identities ; 7. The Emergence and Evolution of Field-Level Logics ; 8. Implications for Future Research
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Taylor & Francis Health Service Marketing Management in Africa
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Managerial Work
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Managerial Work
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Taylor & Francis Foundations of Scenario Planning The Story of Pierre Wack Routledge International Studies in Business History
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Taylor & Francis Ltd CSR Sustainability and Leadership
Book SynopsisWith the acceptance of CSR and Sustainability as important business performance indicators, it is timely now to assess the impact that leadership has on the development of these processes. CSR, Sustainability, and Leadership seeks to explore the integration of these three elements through an examination of concerns and trends in contemporary organisations. The authors discuss empirical and theoretical studies which focus on processes and practices which inform the field. Organisations wish not only to participate in responsible behaviour, but also actively lead within their local environments. However, businesses are failing in their execution of CSR because of ineffective leadership. Business leaders are central to an organisation's purpose in the world and this book will inform a robust discussion about social issues which are pressing to scholars, policymakers, not-for-profit organisations and students.Trade Review"I agree with the key message of the book that sustainability leadership cannot be taught solely from the perspective of traditional leadership theory; here the book makes a useful contribution, especially in chapters two, three and seven." -Paul IlesTable of ContentsSection A: Leading for Sustainability 1. Introduction: Leading for Corporate Social Responsibility and SustainabilityGabriel Eweje and Ralph J Bathurst 2. Sustainability Leadership: It’s Not about HeroesPeter McGhee and Patricia Grant3. Responsible Leadership in Times of Change: Champions from the Arab RegionDima Jamali, Nadine Mohanna and Hagop Panossian4. The Role of Leadership in Leading Organizations towards Sustainability: An Organizational Learning PerspectiveMinyu Wu and Angela Ma5. Decision-Making as Sustainable Leadership: The Garbage Can RevisitedDianne Bolton and Terry Landells6. Evaluating CSR, Sustainability and Sourcing Within the UK Supermarket Industry: The Case of Waitrose/John Lewis PartnershipRalph Tench and Martina Topić7. Corporate Social Responsibility and Leadership StyleFatemeh Hakimian, Hadi Farid, and Mohd Nazari IsmailSection B: Global Challenges and Concerns8. Practicing Corporate Social ResponsibilityLoi Teck Hui9. Environmental Social and Governance Reporting: A Case Study of the Australian Mining SectorKumudini Heenetigala, Anona Armstrong, Chitra Desilva Lokuwaduge, and Amali Ediriweera10. A Study of Strategic CSR and BOP Business Practice: From the Perspective of Organizational SustainabilityJunichi Mizuo11. Constructive Consumption: Corporate Leadership in Bridging Livelihoods and Conservation in Democratic SocietiesSaleem Ali and Mirza Sadaqat Huda12. The Louis Vuitton Foundation: The Gift of a CSR Leader and Art Lover to the WorldElen Riot13. Conclusion: Leading Responsibly and SustainablyRalph J Bathurst and Gabriel Eweje
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Taylor & Francis Ltd UK Statistics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd UK Statistics
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Taylor & Francis Value Dominant Logic Helping Individuals and Their Companies to Succeed
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Field Guide to Rapid Process Improvement
Book SynopsisThis book takes the reader through the process to plan, deliver, and follow-up a weeklong Lean Quality Improvement event, usually termed a Rapid Improvement Event' or Rapid Process Improvement Workshop (RPIW).' Drawing on the experience of conducting over 100 of these workshops, the book gives readers the information to plan and run their own event. It describes how RPIWs fit in to wider improvement processes and how the reader can maximize these processes in their own organization.These weeklong improvement events are popular in health and social care, but there are no textbooks available to support them. There are several books that describe the use of shorter Kaizen events in health care, but none that describe the process of delivering weeklong events. The events have a rhythm specific to the one-week format, and the book seeks to help people to make use of best practice and to avoid common problems.Based on the experiences of the authors, this book includes an intTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. About the Authors. Copies of Materials Used in the Book. 1 Structure of the Book. 2 Lean in Health and Social Care Services. 3 Beginning an RPIW. 4 Preparatory Work. 5 Process Mapping with a Team. 6 Planning Meetings. 7 RPIW, Day Minus One. 8 Day One. 9 Day Two. 10 Days Three and Four. 11 Day Five. 12 After the RPIW. 13 Organisational Context. 14 Conclusions. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Field Guide to Rapid Process Improvement Workshops in Healthcare
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Taylor & Francis Digital Governance Leading and Thriving in a World of FastChanging Technologies
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Taylor & Francis Freedom Within a Framework Hearing the Voice of the Customer on the Factory Floor
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Taylor & Francis The Rule of Culture
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Taylor & Francis The Rule of Culture
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Taylor & Francis Asian Women Leadership A CrossNational and CrossSector Comparison
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Taylor & Francis Asian Women Leadership A CrossNational and CrossSector Comparison
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Enterprise Agility in Healthcare
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Taylor & Francis Collaborative Research in the United States
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Taylor & Francis Mobile Marketing Management
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mobile Marketing Management
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lean Implementation in Hospital Departments How to Move from Good to Great Services
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Taylor & Francis Collaborative Crisis Management InterOrganizational Approaches to Extreme Events
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Strategic and Innovative Pricing
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Taylor & Francis A treatise of bookkeeping or merchant accounts
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Labor Relations and Human Resource Management in China Routledge Frontiers of Business Management
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Taylor & Francis Thriving in the Healthcare Market Strategies from an IndustryInsider for Selling Your Product HIMSS Book Series
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Taylor & Francis Thriving in the Healthcare Market Strategies from an IndustryInsider for Selling Your Product HIMSS Book Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Starting Lean from Scratch
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Taylor & Francis Public Sector Audit
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Designing Emergency Management Chinas PostSARS Experience 20032012 China Policy Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Organizing for Sustainable Development
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Organizing for Sustainable Development
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Taylor & Francis Beauty of Crowdfunding Blooming Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Era Routledge Frontiers of Business Management
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Taylor & Francis The Healthcare Innovators Workbook
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Taylor & Francis The Healthcare Innovators Workbook Making Lean
Book SynopsisThis book gives the reader an inside look at creating a new healthcare service using practical examples and scenarios one would face if doing it themselves. This workbook is a follow-up to the recently published, Lean Design in Healthcare and offers a tactical version of the principles provided in the book. It parses the dialogue out into detailed reasons for the Lean Design in Healthcareâs position and principles. This workbook contains examples and many exercises for the reader to complete to begin their own innovation journey. Lean Design in Healthcare chronicles the journey of a fictitious healthcare delivery organization using the Simpler Design System principles based on Lean methodologies. While the characters and actual story is fictitious, it is based on the journey many healthcare systems and clients have taken, the issues they have faced, and the successes and failures theyâve had. This workbook takes the initial story further and includes leadership quotes and best practices to support the dialogue introduced in the first book. Exercises will be custom designed to match the story flow and provides practical information that readers can immediately apply in their work. Each chapter will start with an introduction and contain 10 exercises per chapter. Tools include those gleaned from actual application of Lean Product Development, Agile, Design for Six Sigma, and Design Thinking Principles.Trade Review"Drama, pride, and professionalism are all chronicled in this new page turner, while the background music belts out pernicious plotting and intrigue. Sounds like a novel but it is life imitating art. Adam Ward has given us a peek inside the looking glass of today’s healthcare marketplace. Kudos to Adam for allowing us all to peer in with him." David B. Nash MD, MBA. Founding Dean, Jefferson College of Population Health, Philadelphia, PA"As healthcare organizations move from provider-centric to patient-centric care models, Adam Ward’s Lean Design in Healthcare takes a systems perspective to describe how to redesign your organization and processes. A must-read for anyone interested in transforming healthcare systems." Aravind Chandrasekaran, Associate Professor and Academic Director (MBOE), The Ohio State University"Healthcare is undeniably in need of an extreme makeover, with patient-focused innovation at the heart of the solution. What’s needed is a practical guide to answering the essential questions of what to do and how to do it. Enter Lean Design in Healthcare. Through a compelling story based on a real-world experience, Adam Ward reveals the principles and practices every health care leader needs to build organizational excellence in innovation."Matthew E. May, author, The Elegant Solution and Winning the Brain Game.Table of ContentsForewordAuthorIntroduction 1 Players2 Basics3 Basic Tools4 RED Framework5 Reflection
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