Organizational theory and behaviour Books

Book SynopsisAssertiveness is a philosophy of life and a way of conducting business founded on respect and consideration towards others. Relationships based on trust, respect, openness, and sincerity can be forged through assertiveness. This timely work delves into the intricacies of assertiveness and its profound impact on personal and business competitiveness, within the context of emerging and developing countries. In an era marked by globalisation, cultural diversity, and rapidly evolving business landscapes, assertiveness has emerged as a critical skill. This book explores how assertiveness can be harnessed to enhance competitiveness, organisational culture, and professional growth in regions experiencing dynamic economic changes.The book's scope, the theoretical and methodological foundations, the populations targeted, the managerial implications, and the valuable and diverse approaches will appeal to researchers and academics, upper-level postgraduate students, and leaders from private, public, and third-sector companies.

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Book SynopsisGrounded in the awareness that many public sector inefficiencies remain unsolved, Identity in the Public Sector presents a critical consideration of the interplay between public sector reforms and organizational changes across a variety of levels. Framing this issue and its importance within organizational and management studies, Andrea Tomo considers how organizational change is translated and experienced at the individual level, exposing why public employees often resist such projects. Building upon related literature for a better understanding and management of complex organizational change initiatives in the public sector, Tomo provides a more integrated picture of individual identity, emphasising the influence of cultural and context-specific factors, as well as their importance in policy-making processes, particularly their potential for improving the effectiveness of public administration. Offering insights for public management into a murky, often complex research area, Identity in the Public Sector provides a new theoretical and practical approach for the analysis and interpretation of the intersection between identity and public enterprises and services.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Challenging identity issues in the public sector: opportunity or threat? Chapter 2. A mapping of “identity in the public sector”: dealing with context, organizational and individual dimensions Chapter 3. Public employees and remote working: making sense of identity and the (new) workplace Conclusions

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Book SynopsisFollowership as a separate concept within leadership studies gained prominence in the 1990s and has evolved over the past few decades into an indispensable component of the discipline. Nevertheless, misunderstandings about followers and their relationship to leaders prevail. Exploring what it takes to be a follower is increasingly important in the current organizational, social, and political landscapes rife with narcissism, a seemingly acceptable leadership characteristic in the twenty-first century. Being a follower to a mercurial leader isn’t easy – especially if they are an alien Time Lord who has lived for centuries in various body incarnations. Followers must not be passive, but full partners in the leader/follower relationship to enable them to reach goals and provide the skills and perspectives leaders need for organizational success. Requiring courage, the numerous and varied companions in the TV series Doctor Who provide a compelling and interesting example of followership from which we can learn to become better, more courageous, followers. By leveraging the intersection of popular culture, leadership theory, and followership theory, Courageous Companions offers an accessible new perspective for those who desire to gain a greater understanding of leaders and followers to transform their relationships and organizations. Exploring Effective Leadership Practices through Popular Culture aims to bring examples, theory and methodology of leadership to life by analysing academic concepts through popular culture examples that will appeal to a broad range of readers.Table of ContentsWhat is Followership and Why is it Important? Chapter 1. Courage for Personal Growth Chapter 2. Courageous Responsibility Chapter 3. Serving with Courage Chapter 4. Challenging The Doctor with Courage Chapter 5. Meeting Transformation with Courage Chapter 6. Parting with Courage Chapter 7. The Obligations of The Doctor Chapter 8. The Courage to Love, Forgive, and Seek Redemption Chapter 9. Becoming a Courageous Companion

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Book SynopsisAs Generation Z transitions into adulthood, communication, technology, commerce, education, politics, health, travel, and work have become increasingly globalized. But, most studies about Generation Z have been conducted independently by researchers in various countries regarding their specific populations. While this is useful from a national perspective, these studies typically employ different methodologies, survey questions, and even timing, making it challenging to compare data across geographic and cultural boundaries. More so, it becomes challenging to gain an understanding of the global Generation Z cohort. Gen Z Around the World, however, incorporates research from eighty-one countries to provide a holistic view of Generation Z. The researchers present chapters on everything ranging from communication, happiness, and learning styles to emotional wellbeing, career values, and social change. Learning about Generation Z from a worldwide perspective can expand our understanding to better work with, engage with, supervise, and educate young people in every corner of the globe.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction; Corey Seemiller and Meghan Grace Chapter 2. Characteristics and Motivations; Meghan Grace and Corey Seemiller Chapter 3. Happiness and Outlook; Niva Dolev, Eman Tarabia, and Keba T. Modisane Chapter 4. Communication Preferences and Behaviors; Shefaly Shorey, Daria Vyugina, Natalia Waechter, and Niva Dolev Chapter 5. Developing and Fostering Relationships; Gudrun Quenzel, Francesca Beretta, Niva Dolev, Natalia Waechter, Stepanka Kadera, Mariya Karaivanova, and Radka Massaldjieva Chapter 6. Family Dynamics; Shefaly Shorey, Gonzalo Aza Blanc, Isabel Muñoz-San Roque, and Marta Hernández Arriaza Chapter 7. Navigating Interpersonal Dynamics; Corey Seemiller, Niva Dolev, and Meghan Grace Chapter 8. Learning Preferences; Corey Seemiller and Meghan Grace Chapter 9. Health, Nutrition, and Exercise; Diana Bogueva and Dora Marinova Chapter 10. Parameters of Wellbeing; Radka Massaldjieva and Mariya Karaivanova Chapter 11. Financial Literacy and Money Management; Zahrotur Rusyda Hinduan and Muhamed Irfan Agia Chapter 12. Career and Entrepreneurship Values and Pursuits; Alfe M. Solina, Tamather M. Shatnawi, Liane Vina G. Ocampo, Luisa M. Martinez, and Ronalyn I. Garcia Chapter 13. Societal Concerns; Diana Bogueva, Dora Marinova, Natalia Waechter, and İsmail Hakkı Tekiner Chapter 14. Civic Engagement and Social Change; Elena Botezat, Ioan Fotea, Daniela Crisan, and Silvia Fotea Chapter 15. Leaving a Legacy instead of Leaving Their Legacy?; Corey Seemiller and Meghan Grace Chapter 16. The Global Peer Personality of Generation Z; Corey Seemiller and Meghan Grace

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Book SynopsisAdvances in Group Processes publishes theoretical analyses, reviews, and theory based empirical chapters on group phenomena. The series adopts a broad conception of 'group processes'. This includes work on groups ranging from the very small to the very large, and on classic and contemporary topics such as status, power, trust, justice, social influence, identity, decision-making, intergroup relations, and social networks. Previous contributors have included scholars from diverse fields including sociology, psychology, political science, economics, business, philosophy, computer science, mathematics, and organizational behavior. Volume 40 brings together papers that address theoretical and empirical issues in small groups and organizational research related to: The role of affect in shaping perceptions of the police and the predisposition to mass violence The shaping of prosocial behaviors (e.g., pro-environmental behaviors) by various social/societal factors, such as the shape and density of one’s personal networks Differences in social status, its role in producing and sustaining social inequality and the unintended consequences of initiatives such as interventions designed to lessen status-based inequalities and level the playing field within the workplace Reflecting a range of novel approaches from leading scholars in the field, this volume explores the relevance of group processes in analysing social status, iniquities and behaviors.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Interpreting Events Involving Police: Liberals, Conservatives, and Moderates In The Face of Ambiguity; Jessica L. Collett and Kayla D. R. Pierce Chapter 2. Through The Looking Glass: Self, Inauthenticity, and (Mass) Violence; Kimberly B. Rogers, Kaitlin M. Boyle, and Maria N. Scaptura Chapter 3. The Effect Of Cultural Trust in the Presence of Second Order Trust On Cooperation In A Behavioral Experiment; Joshua Doyle Chapter 4. It’s About Showing Good Faith, Not Avoiding Shows of Weakness: Reworking Leifer’s “Local Action” To Build A Robust Theory of Reciprocity; Simon Friis and Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan Chapter 5. The Diffusion Of Binary Versus Continuous Behavior on Social Networks; Philipp T. Schneider, Vincent Buskens, and Arnout van de Rijt Chapter 6. Interactional Contexts of Workplace Inequality: Differential Emotional Responses to Men and Women In Authority Positions; Kate Hawks, Karen A. Hegtvedt, and Cathryn Johnson Chapter 7. Sentiments And Status: The Dyad? The Triad? Or Both?; Alison J. Bianchi, Yujia Lyu, and Inga Popovaite Chapter 8. Cohesion And Solidarity In Consistent and Inconsistent Status Structures; Cayce Jamil

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Book SynopsisMental health issues, stress and chronic illness are the biggest causes of absence from work and loss of productivity in most Western economies. Research and public awareness of this epidemic of physical and mental ill-health among working age people is growing, but our understanding of its impact on company performance and productivity and possible solutions for the future is less advanced. The Healthy Workforce: Enhancing Wellbeing and Productivity in the Workers of the Future examines current challenges and future solutions to understand issues around how we can improve the health of today's and tomorrow's workforce. This book will look at why workforce health is such an important challenge for businesses, governments and for employees today and how this will increase in the future with an ageing workforce. Closely linked to the authors' exploration of health issues in the work context is a focus on the impact of worker health on direct and indirect productivity costs. This book offers practical guidance for professionals on getting started in the delivery of an effective and evidence-based workplace health plan which can enhance and sustain productivity growth in business now and for the future.Table of ContentsForeword; Andy Haldane Chapter 1. Why Worker Health and Productivity Matter Chapter 2. How Health Affects Productivity Chapter 3. Health and Work in a Pandemic Chapter 4. Is Your Manager Bad for Your Health? Chapter 5. Productivity at Work: The Role of Healthcare Professionals Chapter 6. Workplace Health Interventions to Improve Productivity Chapter 7. Rethinking Workforce Health as an Asset Chapter 8. A Roadmap to Better Worker Health

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Book SynopsisThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Societal grand challenges have moved from a marginal concern to a mainstream issue within the field of organization and management studies. Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges unpacks how diverse forms of organizing help tackle - or reinforce - grand challenges, while emphasizing the need for researchers to expand their methodological repertoire and reflect upon scholarly practices. This edited collection offers an organizational perspective on societal grand challenges in three sections: Diverse Forms of Organizing and Societal Grand Challenges; Scholarship and Societal Grand Challenges; Reflections and Outlook. The articles offer empirical and conceptual work that focus on a wide variety of regions including Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America, and engage with multiple grand challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, decent work, hunger, inequality, and poverty. Drawing on varied theoretical lenses, the authors take stock of recent developments in the literature, present an overview of the current thinking, and set a foundation for future research on grand challenges in organization and management studies. The articles provide inspiration, insights, and instruments for developing timely and relevant knowledge to engage with the pressing societal grand challenges of our time.Table of ContentsIntroduction: How Organizing Matters for Societal Grand Challenges; Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Emilio Marti, Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, and Christopher Wickert Section I. Diverse Forms of Organizing & Societal Grand Challenges Chapter 1. Tackling Grand Challenges Collaboratively: The Role of Value-Driven Sensegiving; Arne Kroeger, Nicole Siebold, Franziska Günzel-Jensen, Fouad Philippe Saade, and Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä Chapter 2. Building Collective Institutional Infrastructures for Decent Platform Work: The Development of a Crowdwork Agreement in Germany; Thomas Gegenhuber, Elke Schuessler, Georg Reischauer, and Laura Thäter Chapter 3. Theorizing the Role of Metaphors in Co-orienting Collective Action Towards Grand Challenges: The Example of the Covid-19 Pandemic; Dennis Schoeneborn, Consuelo Vásquez, and Joep P. Cornelissen Chapter 4. Wicked Problems and New Ways of Organising: How Fe y Alegria Confronted Changing Manifestations of Poverty; Camilo Arciniegas Pradilla, Jose Bento da Silva, and Juliane Reinecke Chapter 5. From a Clash of Social Orders to a Loss of Decidability in Meta-organizations Tackling Grand Challenges: The Case of Japan Leaving the International Whaling Commission; Héloïse Berkowitz and Michael Grothe-Hammer Chapter 6. Commitment to Grand Challenges in Fluid Forms of Organizing: The Role of Narratives’ Temporality; Iben Sandal Stjerne, Matthias Wenzel, and Silviya Svejenova Section II. Scholarship & Societal Grand Challenges Chapter 7. Addressing Grand Challenges Through Different Forms of Organising: A Literature Review; Leo Juri Kaufmann and Anja Danner-Schröder Chapter 8. Scale in Research on Grand Challenges; Katharina Dittrich Chapter 9. Diaries as a Methodological Innovation for Studying Grand Challenges; Madeleine Rauch and Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari Chapter 10. Grand Challenges and Business Education: Dealing with Barriers to Learning and Uncomfortable Knowledge; Marian Konstantin Gatzweiler, Corinna Frey-Heger, and Matteo Ronzani Chapter 11. Striving for Societal Impact as an Early-Career Researcher: Reflections on Five Common Concerns; Sascha Friesike, Leonhard Dobusch, and Maximilian Heimstädt Section III. Reflections & Outlook Chapter 12. Robust Action: Advancing a Distinctive Approach to Grand Challenges; Joel Gehman, Dror Etzion, and Fabrizio Ferraro Chapter 13. Surfing the Grand Challenges Wave in Management Scholarship: How Did We Get Here, Where Are We Now, and What’s Next?; Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Jonas Spengler

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Book SynopsisThis important book considers the ways in which small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can thrive in the age of big data. To address this central issue from multiple viewpoints, the editors introduce a collection of experiences, insights, and guidelines from a variety of expert researchers, each of whom provides a piece to solve this puzzle.Contributions address the limitations faced by SMEs in their access to data and demonstrate that the key to overcoming this issue is to be aware of these limitations, to work within them, and to use them to think creatively about how to overcome obstacles in new ways. They discuss Artificial Intelligence, revenue blueprinting, GDPR compliance, and other key topics related to the relationships between SMEs and data. Offering ideas to inspire big data-driven success by SMEs making smaller investments, the book argues that there must be a place for “ordinary” data-driven journeys that are available to firms of any size.Stimulating further thought and action, Big Data in Small Business will be of great interest to academics, researchers, and practitioners in areas such as strategic management, organizational and innovation studies, marketing, and sales. The ideas and information in this book will help fill knowledge gaps related to important aspects of capabilities, functions, and transformations of big data that drive business growth.Trade Review‘This is a very timely book. SMEs with limited resources have to understand the power of big data and ensure that they are not left behind by the large platforms. This book is insightful and rigorous. It features multiple perspectives and guidelines provided by a group of excellent experts. It’s a very valuable guide for practitioners and a great teaching resource for faculty and students.’ -- Markus Reihlen, Former Vice President, Professor of Strategic Management, and Principle Investigator of the Digital Entrepreneurship Project, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany‘Creating actual digital innovation roadmaps for SMEs based on big data beyond the hype of the words is of great value. I welcome this contribution to increasing competitiveness for SMEs through data, digital competencies, and innovative solutions that increase companies’ insight into customers' needs and challenges.’ -- Per B. Brockhoff, Professor, Head of Department, M.Sc., Ph.D., R, Technical University of Denmark'I have often seen how data is given too little attention when companies undertake digitalization efforts. That is a shame, since access to high quality data is like having a superpower, and this superpower is accessible to any business that is willing to do the work. Good to see a book that focuses on the opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses!' -- Pernille Erenbjerg, Board Member at Genmab, Nordea, Nordic Entertainment Group and Millicom, Denmark'The importance of big data competence cannot be overstated, and should not be out of the reach of smaller firms. Small and medium-sized enterprises should be able to increase their success by building big data capabilities and creating data-driven growth. This book shows how smaller firms have developed big data competence and digitization capability, implemented artificial intelligence techniques, and identified customer growth potential through customer insight analysis. The authors provide realistic guidance for implementation using real-life successful examples. In sum, this book provides a roadmap to small and medium-size enterprises that wish to facilitate their adoption of big data capabilities and become fully digitally enabled.' -- C. Anthony Di Benedetto, Fox School of Business, Temple University, US'I congratulate the authors for focusing on how small and medium-sized businesses can make the most of big data based small investments and fast experimentation for quick wins. Agility is key, and this excellent book exactly shows how SMEs can move fast - to win fast - in the data space.' -- Wolfgang Ulaga, Senior Affiliate Professor of Marketing at INSEAD & Director of the Marketing & Sales Excellence Initiative (MSEI), France'Through my active involvement in SMEs, I see the struggles and the successes of SMEs' data utilization journeys. I very much hope that this book will inspire many executives on how to successfully engage in data-driven business development.' -- Jan Damsgaard, Professor of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School and Board member at SME Denmark & National Digital Expert Advisor, DenmarkTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1 Carsten Lund Pedersen, Adam Lindgreen, Thomas Ritter and Torsten Ringberg PART I FOUNDATIONS: GETTING THE BASICS RIGHT 1 Building small business utopia: how artificial intelligence and Big Data can increase small business success 11 Karen G. Mills and Annie V. Dang 2 GDPR compliant processing of big data in small business 27 Jan Trzaskowski 3 Big Data and SMEs 40 Vania Sena and Sena Ozdemir PART II CAPABILITIES: GETTING DIGITIZATION RIGHT 4 Value-creation for Industry 4.0 and SMEs’ data-driven growth: strategies and resource alignment 64 Bieke Struyf, Wouter Van Bockhaven and Paul Matthyssens 5 Analyzing and developing digitization capabilities for data-driven projects in SMEs 104 Carsten Lund Pedersen and Thomas Ritter 6 How a glass-processing SME developed its big data competence 117 Joel Mero, Heikki Karjaluoto and Tanja Tammisalo 7 Big data in and for small business: data excellence in SMEs through engagement in university partnerships 129 Shirley Y. Coleman PART III FUNCTIONS: GETTING ALL BUSINESS AREAS INTO BIG DATA MODE 8 Capitalizing on human capital analytics in small and medium-sized enterprises 146 Frederikke Amalie La Cour Nygaard and Dana Minbaeva 9 How experimental data can optimize e-learning 164 Camilla Nellemann and Torben Pedersen 10 How do big data impact business market relationships? 174 Poul Houman Andersen 11 Revenue blueprinting: identifying growth potential using customer data and customer insights 193 Henrik Andersen and Thomas Ritter PART IV TRANSFORMATIONS: GETTING THERE THE RIGHT WAY 12 Transforming small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to digitally enabled landscapes 211 Bård Tronvoll, Christian Kowalkowski and David Sörhammar 13 Facilitating big data transformation in Danish SMEs: insights for managers 228 Pernille Rydén and Helle Rootzén Index

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Book SynopsisIn this timely book, Barbara Czarniawska and Bernward Joerges examine the hopes and fears around work and job security inspired by automation, from the original coining of the term 'robot' to the present day media fascination. Have these hopes and fears changed or do they remain the same? This discerning book investigates whether these changes in perception correlate to actual changes taking place in the field of robotics. Exploring several streams of popular culture, including ground-breaking science fiction novels and films, the impact of these globally renowned works on public opinion regarding robotics is assessed. Detailed media analysis identifies the frequency and complexity of common views that stem from the ideas found in both fiction and scientific research results disseminated by the news. Recent social science works dedicated to the study of robotziation are then reviewed, illustrating current and future debates surrounding the phenomenon of the 'robot revolution'. Robotization of Work? will be a key resource for students and scholars studying the organization of work, IT and digitalization, and cultural studies. It will also be of interest to anyone engaged with the concepts of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotization.Trade Review'Within the rapidly proliferating field of social studies of cybernetics this brilliant book stands out in several ways. It revisits the epistemology of autopoiesis by unearthing how popular culture, science fiction and cybernetics co-constitute each other since the 1920's. In doing so this book on imaginaries and technological developments ingeniously translates one of the key problems of knowing the world into a down-to-earth empirical investigation of the various literatures and films on the robotization of work. While most recent publications that similarly aim to address the core issues of cybernetics surrender to the urge of making prophecies, Czarniawska and Joerges consequentially remain astute, sober and razor-sharp and thereby provocatively interrupt a current trend. The elegant precision of the argument and the clarity of the language deployed makes this erudite and yet modest book come as a relief when one feels overwhelmed by the high-flown premonitions surrounding us.' --Richard Rottenburg, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa'There has been a lot of speculation recently about the consequences of robotization. In particular, how artificial intelligence (AI) might automate and replace tasks thought uniquely human. It would be easy to be carried away with the hyperbole. However, to ignore their potential effects would also be remiss. In the Robotization of Work, Czarniawska and Joerges provide the perfect antidote by studying how robotization and automation have been characterised in literature, film, media and the social sciences, and compare predictions from the 'first wave' of AI to those made today. Written with intelligence - and some humour - this book will be required reading for scholars interested in how (and in what form) ideas of automation continue to inhabit our imagination and drive our actions.' --Neil Pollock, University of Edinburgh, UK'In the midst of a full moral panic about robots and artificial intelligence, this wise and engaging book manages to avoid both the hype and hysteria by examining how popular culture - mainly science fiction movies and books - have portrayed robots and their impact on society. Brimming with new insights, the authors show how fiction has addressed many of the themes taken up in later scholarship. We imagine the worst but in the end our societies and institutions shape the actual technology we end up with.' --Trevor J. Pinch, Cornell University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Robot revolution? 2. Robotization and popular culture 3. Robots in popular culture 4. Robots in popular culture: A tentative taxonomy 5. Robotization in the media: 2014-2017 6. Robotization in social sciences 7. (Some) conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful Elgar Introduction comprises the first effort to provide a succinct overview of the field of organizational paradox theory, exploring contradictions and tensions in organizational settings. By conceptually mapping the field, it offers guidance through the literature on paradox, making space for new interpretations and applications of the concept.Opening with a critical analysis of research to date, the authors explore ideas related to dialectics and ambidexterity in organizations, as well as pragmatic approaches to organizational paradox. Chapters propose new ways to analyse responses to paradox, bringing together influential contributions that consider the nestedness of paradox, the relation between power and paradox, and paradoxes of positive organizational scholarships.Providing novel approaches to the discipline, this cutting-edge book is crucial for graduate students and management scholars interested in employing organizational paradox theory as a conceptual framework for their research.Trade Review'In an era in which paradox theory, research, and practice has grown exponentially, this book is a landmark contribution to the work on organizational tensions. As a highly accessible guide to the paradox terrain, it offers a number of unique features: 1) a broad historical picture of the evolution of paradox theory, 2) a succinct and insightful discussion of both the positive and negative sides of paradox, 3) a vivid expose on paradox complexity, 4) an exploration of the role of power in exercising and responding to paradox, and 5) recommendations for extending the vitality of this theory as well as avoiding practices that might reify it. The clarity of its presentation, sophistication of its ideas, and use of rich vignettes make it a “must read” for practitioners as well as academics interested in how contradictions and tensions pervade organizational experiences.' -- Linda L. Putnam, University of California, Santa Barbara, US'Berti, Simpson, Cunha, and Clegg‘s thoughtful map of the paradox terrain offers deep insight to any traveler - whether they are just stepping into this world for the first time looking to understand the landscape or whether they are a seasoned explorer who can see old experiences with a new lens. Their focus on how features of power inform our experiences of paradox offers important ideas that allows us to grapple with tensions in new ways. I found myself delighted with the ideas, eager to read more, and energized to engage with paradox studies in new ways.' -- Wendy Smith, University of Delaware, US'This book is a tour de force, covering the field of paradox theory and all of the key concepts whilst also sketching out a compelling vision of how paradox theorising can both provide novel insights and also be taken to the next level in studying the grand societal challenges of our time. I strongly recommend it for new and established paradox scholars and those who are ''‘paradox-curious''.' -- Paula Jarzabkowski, Cass Business School, City University of London, UK'With this book, the exciting new wave of paradox studies comes of age. It encourages and enables readers to go beyond managerial ‘‘both-anding‘‘ rhetoric and approaches. It unashamedly exhorts paradox scholars to look up and look around, at the absurdity and contradictions embedded in our lives and work in a society of organizations and the role of power and politics in framing paradoxes and our responses to them. Its stronger and bolder approach to paradox theory will speak to those who feel trapped in iron cages of contradictions, excite critical scholars who wish to deepen the treatment of paradox, and broaden student’s understanding and appreciation of the tensions, dilemmas and contradictions that bedevil life inside and outside modern institutions.' -- Richard Badham, Macquarie University, Australia'This book is a true guide to organizational paradox theory. It offers a multifarious picture of the landscape of organizational paradox with its gently rolling hills but also its sharp cliffs and deep abysses. It does a brilliant job in offering guidance into paradox research without tracing out a path to follow. Every word of this book reflects the deep and long-lasting engagement, dedication, and passion that the authors have devoted to studying paradox. It is a great service to our burgeoning field and to those who want to join the fascinating endeavor of venturing the winding roads of researching and navigating organizational paradox.' -- Tobias Hahn, ESADE Business School, Ramon Llull University, SpainTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. What is paradox? Tensions, contradictions and oppositions in organization studies 2. How to deal with paradoxes: the role of responses in the construction of paradoxical tension 3. The bright side: paradoxes and positive organizational scholarship 4. The dark side: absurdity and pragmatic paradoxes 5. Nested, multiple and multidimensional paradoxes 6. Paradoxes of power, control and empowerment 7. The sociological futures of paradox: incorporating grand challenges References

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Book SynopsisHow and to what extent do decisions affect business performance? Despite years of study by academic researchers and industry practitioners, there still remains a need to draw a clear and established connection between decision making and performance. By closely examining consequential business decisions made by key executives, this book offers a better understanding of business performance and recommendations for improved business practices.Through the use of case studies and interviews with business leaders based on 17 theorized measures of performance, this breakthrough study not only clarifies the impact of decisions on business performance, but also defines and distinguishes decisions that lead to successful and unsuccessful performance. Recommendations are made to optimize decision making for businesses of all sizes and projections about the future of decision making and performance are provided. This book can be used both as a reference source for academic researchers and students seeking further research on the subject, and as a practical guide for leaders and business professionals seeking advancement and better decision making within the industry.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Decisions 3. Performance 4. Modeling Performance and Research Approach 5. First Round Findings 6. Detailed Findings and Analysis 7. Underlying Performance Factors 8. Overall Research Conclusions 9. Recommendations for Business 10. Deciding and Performing in the Future Index

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Book SynopsisBecoming an Organizational Scholar covers reflective, personal stories of prolific, top scholars under 45, with academic success gained across 17 different European and North and South American countries at 31 higher education institutions. The editors present the idea of a unique or authentic scholar, successfully Navigating the Academic Odyssey.Reflecting upon their career journeys through introspection and narrative essays, the contributors clarify the definition and description of academia, its activities, roles and different aspects related to academic work. They express their opinions on academic success factors and common career Though the content is primarily targeted for the rising cohort of doctoral candidates and early-career researchers, this publication also targets the institutional gatekeepers, the universities and business schools worldwide, as well as professional associations in the field of organization and management.Trade Review’This book offers personal stories of rabbits beating wolves, jumping off mountains into the unknown sharing advice and guidance to help grow one’s career. It’s incredibly useful; not least a copy would have helped dodge many trainwrecks learning the ropes. Have a read.’ -- - Giles Hirst, Australian National University‘The editors were too modest in targeting this inspirational global collection of fascinating individual stories primarily for the rising cohort of doctoral candidates and early-career researchers.Schools’ leaders worldwide should encourage all their faculty members to read the book, reflect and jointly reinvent their respective institutions as exciting and synergetic archipelagos of the faculty individual Ithacas.’ -- - Milenko Gudic, Founding and Managing Director of IMTA, Slovenia‘The novelty of this volume is exceptional. To have had such a resource at the start of my academic career would have helped me immensely to navigate many of the unexpected twists and turns along the way. The collection of insights from contributors globally, explaining their very personal experiences, makes the text both highly relatable and relevant!’ -- - Elaine Farndale, The Pennsylvania State University, US‘Working in academia is a wonderful privilege but it can also be a hugely uncertain and at times intimidating world to join and find one's place in.Becoming an Organizational Scholar: Navigating the Academic Odyssey provides a host of rich and very personal lessons from a diverse and inspiring group of international scholars based on their lived experiences of that world. The narrative style makes for a compelling read and it is the book I wish I had when I started on my journey. I highly recommend it.’ -- - David Collings, Dublin City University, Ireland‘Science is a sweet fruit that tastes very bitter at the beginning. This book gives a great and extremely valuable orientation that sweetens especially the beginning of an academic career. A must read for anyone who is starting their PhD and plans to establish themselves permanently in science.’ -- - Christian M. Ringle, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany and University of Waikato, New Zealand‘The academic career is fulfilling, but its passage is bumpy, especially in the early years. This unique book offers a roadmap via personal stories of a diverse group of mid-career management scholars who have mastered the journey. The stories are appealing, and offer much to learn. Their collection is compelling, making the book an essential resource for early-career organization scientists, program administrators, and academic consultants.’ -- Fariborz Damanpour, Rutgers University, US‘This book provides a timely and wide-ranging series of international case studies of routes to becoming an academic, transitions from graduate student to academic status, balancing on the four-legged stool of academic practice (research, teaching, service and entrepreneurship), and developing an academic career. It is a lively and informative read for junior researchers planning for or in the early stages of academic careers.’ -- - Stan Taylor, Durham University, UK‘Odyssey is certainly the right word for the very challenging and personalized career journeys of organizational scholars, striving to move the field forward with scholarship that matters while ticking the necessary career boxes. This engaging book is not only very informative for the would-be Odysseus, but deeply inspiring.' -- - Blake Ashforth, Arizona State University, US‘This captivating book of personal stories, experiences, and practical advice is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand how to better navigate the often confusing, mysterious, and frustrating ivory towers of academia. In a world where “publish or perish” is the standard by which all academics are often judged, this book offers readers refreshing alternative opportunities and pathways that have the potential to lead to successful and meaningful faculty careers.’ -- - John Sumanth, Wake Forest University, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I PREPARING FOR THE VOYAGE 1 An academic career – initiating the journey 2 Tomislav Hernaus and Matej Černe 2 Academic work design as a three- or four-legged stool 15 Tomislav Hernaus and Matej Černe PART II ACADEMIC CAREER AS A JOURNEY 3 Academic career as an Odyssey: allegories from the work of Homer and personal experiences in modern Greece 31 Eleanna Galanaki 4 Reflections of a traveling academic: the good, the bad… often not anticipated 42 Hana Milanov 5 How I keep myself motivated: dancing between consultancy and academia 53 Amy Van Looy PART III ACADEMIC CAREER TRANSITIONS 6 Career nomad: from career instinct to action? 67 Jelena Zikic 7 My academic life: a series of fortunate events 79 Matej Černe 8 Future work selves in academia 95 Karoline Strauss PART IV ACADEMIC BALANCING AND ROLE SWITCHING 9 Multiple paths for scholarly impact 110 Ante Glavaš 10 Walking the line: in search of academic balance 128 Tomislav Hernaus 11 Dissociative identities in academia: notes on paradox and multimodal role-play 144 Alf Rehn 12 Cooperation and conflict in academia 158 Sonja Rispens PART V PERSONAL STYLE WITHIN ACADEMIA 13 The road taken: my personal Odyssey in academia 173 Kristina Potočnik 14 Tuning up your academic career: one story, many tunes 186 Joana Story 15 Everything is a process, even an academic career 198 Jan Mendling 16 Doing things differently: turning the game of academia upside down 212 Markus Hällgren 17 What happens when your kids draw your career? 223 Spencer Harrison PART VI SEIZING THE HORIZON 18 The day after tomorrow: academic career dilemmas and choices 239 Matej Černe and Tomislav Hernaus Index 255

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Book SynopsisThis timely Research Handbook brings together 24 chapters with a wide range of different theoretical perspectives, empirical research, and innovative thought provoking ideas relating to an area of organisation and management that has been neglected for many decades – line managers.With a resurgence of interest in the topic in recent decades, this Research Handbook argues that line managers are a critical element of both employee experiences and organisational performance and worthy of close attention. Split into three sections, chapters present various ways in which line managers can implement HRM practices in the organisation, considering the implementation of a variety of HRM policies and practices (content), a variety of implementation processes (process), and a variety of line management actors. It also develops future directions for research on line managers, such as the future of work, digitalisation, robotisation and AI and the gig economy.Integrating theoretical and empirical research, the Research Handbook on Line Managers will be a key resource for scholars in the fields of business leadership, human resource management and organisation studies. It also provides managerial practices for organisations and line managers who are looking to improve the effectiveness and the efficiency of their work.Table of ContentsContents: 1 Line managers in human resource management: theory, analysis and new developments 1 Keith Townsend, Anna Bos-Nehles and Kaifeng Jiang PART I THEORIES IN LINE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH 2 A systems theory perspective on the frontline manager role 12 Brian Harney and Qian Yi Lee 3 Fitting the line: a review of person‒environment fit theory in line manager research 29 Adam Robertson and Jennifer Chelsea Veres 4 Line managers, role theory and HRM 52 Samantha Evans 5 Frontline managers and human resource management: a social exchange theory perspective 65 Anindita Roy Bannya and Hugh T.J. Bainbridge 6 Line managers and HRM: a relational approach to paradox 82 Julia Brandl, Anne Keegan and Ina Aust 7 The role of line managers in the formation of employees’ HR attributions 95 Rebecca Hewett and Amanda Shantz PART II TOPICS IN LINE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH 8 The underappreciated role of line managers in human resource management 114 Joon Young Kim and Rebecca R. Kehoe 9 Line manager capabilities and human resource practice implementation 136 David M. Sikora 10 The allocation of HRM responsibilities to line managers: where is it most likely to happen? 156 Michael Brookes and Chris Brewster 11 Line managers in the public sector 169 Eva Knies, Adelien Decramer and Mieke Audenaert 12 HRM in small firms: owner-managers as line managers 184 Carol Atkinson, Ben Lupton and Charles Dahwa 13 The debateable leadership role of frontline managers 201 Keith Townsend, Ashlea Troth and Rebecca Loudoun 14 Line managers’ empowering leadership and employees’ task i-deals: an explanation from self-determination theory 217 Elise Marescaux, Anja Van den Broeck and Sophie De Winne 15 Global talent management: the central role of line managers throughout the organisation in shaping and implementing effective GTM 237 Karin A. King 16 Line management and the resolution of workplace conflict in the UK 258 Richard Saundry, Virginia Fisher and Sue Kinsey 17 Almost at the top, but not quite: senior management’s sources of power and their influence on HRM 270 Atieh Mirfakhar, Jordi Trullen, and Mireia Valverde 18 The role of line managers in the implementation of work adjustment practices for chronically ill employees: a qualitative study 285 Silvia Profili, Alessia Sammarra, Laura Innocenti, and Anna C. Bos-Nehles 19 Mental disability disclosure in the workplace: the role of line managers 305 Rina Hastuti and Andrew R. Timming 20 Line management in emergency services occupations: exploring personal challenges and organizational change in a uniformed culture 320 Joanne Mildenhall and Leo McCann PART III FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN LINE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH 21 The future of work: implications for the frontline manager’s role in HR implementation 335 Kathy Monks and Edel Conway 22 The role of line managers in the implementation of digitalization 349 Violetta Khoreva, Anna Bos-Nehles and Sari Salojärvi 23 Reconceptualizing the HRM role of the line manager in the age of artificial intelligence 367 Ewold Drent, Maarten Renkema and Anna Bos-Nehles 24 Line managers and the gig economy: an oxymoron? Paradox navigation in online labor platform contexts 388 Jeroen Meijerink, Philip Rogiers and Anne Keegan Index

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook systematically compares public-private partnerships (PPPs) from across the globe to examine factors that have contributed to their success or failure. The editors have brought together an international range of experts to produce richly detailed accounts of the various ways in which PPPs are conducted.

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Book SynopsisWith original contributions from leading experts in the field, this cutting-edge Research Handbook combines theoretical advancement and the newest empirical research to explore the sociology of organizations as mesa-level mediators of individual and societal outcomes.Covering the major theoretical foundations of the topic, this innovative Research Handbook analyses critical and contemporary sociological theory and examines the purposes and goals of a diverse range of organizations in a variety of contexts. Chapters detail original research that investigates labour relations, ethical and sustainable environmental practices, race, gender, class, sexuality, media, religion, politics, and alternative economic models.This Research Handbook will prove an engaging and informative read for students and scholars of organization studies, labour policy, sociology, political science, economics, management, philosophy, and social psychology. With its global, interdisciplinary scope, it will also be invaluable to practitioners and policymakers working within a vast range of organizations.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Research Handbook on the Sociology of Organizations 1 Mary Godwyn PART I SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONS 1 The organization of higher education: an overview of sociological research into universities as organizations 13 Klarissa Lueg and Angela Graf 2 Decisional organization theory: towards an integrated framework of organization 30 Michael Grothe-Hammer, Héloïse Berkowitz and Olivier Berthod 3 A critical management studies approach to big data 54 Carl Stefan Roth-Kirkegaard 4 Carceral goals: the role of corrections officers in organizational goal attainment 73 Madeline McPherson and Danielle S. Rudes 5 Do organizations have a purpose? The symbolic constructivism test 87 Jean-Pierre Chanteau 6 Organizational legitimacy and legitimizing myths 107 Martijn Boersma 7 Dialectical network analysis: a critical approach for researching networks in management and organization studies 125 Martha Emilie Ehrich 8 The importance of empathy and compassion in organizations: why there is so little, and why we need more 145 Fiona Meechan, Leo McCann and Sir Cary Cooper 9 Where words speak louder than actions: values, strategy and action in globalizing education – how successful IB schools are made 164 Alexander Gardner-McTaggart and Tony Bush 10 Exploring the connections between critical and contemporary social theory and the sociology of culture 188 Dustin Garlitz 11 Entrepreneurial hybridity: concept and context in creative and cultural organizations 208 Jaleesa Renee Wells 12 Theory, practice and bricolage: recombobulating agencies and reorienting resistance to neoliberalization of the (post-) welfare state 221 Christopher N. Walker 13 A world polity view on reorganization and institutional change in natural resources management 242 Mohammad Al-Saidi 14 The influence of organizational structures on police decision-making on stop, question and frisk 260 Muneeba Azam, Christine Sim and Danielle S. Rudes PART II EMPIRICAL RESEARCH: WORKPLACE EXPERIENCES AND CASE STUDIES 15 Rationalizing work through occupational communities in independent games development 276 Adrian Wright and Dorota Marsh 16 Religion at work: the Quaker paradox 293 Mark Read 17 Charisma and charismatic leadership in organizations 311 Dinara Tokbaeva 18 Organizations and power: a critical evaluation of the rise of performance measurement 329 Guy Redden 19 Autonomist leadership and organizational practice in leaderless street bands 347 Meghan Elizabeth Kallman 20 Contemporizing the social organization of parole: a critical assessment 367 Simon I. Singer and Stuti S. Kokkalera 21 Professionalization and the politicization of civil society organizations in Sierra Leone 384 Michelle Reddy 22 Getting real about research: lessons learned from a worker training evaluation project 399 Deborah B. Smith 23 Career development opportunities: a sociological and practitioner exploration of organizational commitment factors, theories, and outcomes 417 Patricia Sullivan, Andrew Creed, Ambika Zutshi and David C. Lane 24 Resistance and resilience among tattoo workers 434 David C. Lane and Jacob T. Foster PART III ORGANIZATIONS AS MESO-LEVEL MEDIATORS OF INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETAL OUTCOMES 25 Synergies between school leaders and communities in challenging urban schools: a review of organizational dynamics and the urban schools’ continuum 457 Maricela Guzmán and Leonardo Oliver Ortiz 26 Critical realist metatheory and the sociology of organizations: using contrastive explanation to explain personal internet use at work 475 Julie Monroe, Steve Vincent and Ana Lopes 27 Exploring relations of power in Quakers’ alternative forms of organizing 491 Stephen Allen 28 The dialectic of changing corporate masks: from profit maximizers to predators to socially responsible global leaders 509 Yon Jung Choi and Connie L. McNeely 29 Organizing values: the principles of rationalization and individualization 528 Hannah Mormann, Raimund Hasse and Nadine Arnold Index

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Book SynopsisJudgment and Leadership presents original thinking and addresses age-old concerns regarding the relationship between judgment and leadership. These two concepts are inseparable. Judgment guides every action that a leader takes and underlies every thought, emotion, or justification that leaders form. This volume extends the study of judgment and leadership across disciplinary and conceptual boundaries.For the first time, the most original and influential thinkers on judgment and leadership are brought together in a single volume and they represent a diverse set of disciplines, including critical studies, psychology, political theory, international policy, adult learning theory, management and organizational studies, philosophy, cross-cultural studies, and neuroscience. The result is an engaging look at one of the most important issues facing organizations, politics, and society: leaders and their judgment. The book describes the challenges and opportunities that leaders face when confronted with political, social and business challenges and offers an insightful and comprehensive review of leadership and its role in crisis. The authors explore how a leader's actions and judgments are shaped by their experiences. It is a highly accessible account of how leaders learn and practice judgment and a guide for leaders faced with intense and challenging problems.Scholars studying leadership, judgment, decision-making, critical thinking or problem-solving seeking the latest original thinking on the topic of leadership and judgment as well as educators seeking to develop their students' knowledge about judgment from a multidisciplinary perspective will find this volume an invaluable resource as will leadership trainers, educators, coaches, and human resource professionals seeking to improve and develop leaders.Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to judgment and leadership 1 Anna B. Kayes and D. Christopher Kayes PART I CONCEPTUALIZATION AND PROCESSES OF LEADERSHIP JUDGMENT 2 Cognition counts: cognitive skills contributing to leader judgment 11 E. Michelle Todd, Tanner Newbold and Michael D. Mumford 3 Character-infused judgment and decision making 25 Brenda Nguyen and Mary Crossan 4 The judgment of Arendt 49 Rita A. Gardiner and Katy Fulfer 5 Judgments and justifications 60 Markus Kornprobst 6 How leaders judge creativity: a look into the idea evaluation process 72 Vignesh R. Murugavel and Roni Reiter-Palmon 7 Judgment and decision making: a “brain-first” perspective 87 John P. Sullivan PART II LEADERSHIP JUDGMENT BARRIERS, BLIND SPOTS, AND BAD JUDGMENT 8 Hubris, bad judgement and practical wisdom in politics and business 104 Eugene Sadler-Smith 9 Feeling and dirty hands: the role of regret experienced by responsible agents 117 Terry L. Price 10 Context corrupts: what makes leaders fail to see their (mis)behaviors 130 Andrea Pittarello and Roseanne J. Foti 11 Resilience leadership judgment: findings from a cosmology episode study of the shootdown of Flight MH17 145 Kari A. O’Grady, Matthijs Moorkamp, René Torenvlied and J. Douglas Orton PART III DEVELOPING AND LEARNING LEADERSHIP JUDGMENT 12 Cultural intelligence and leadership judgment & decision making: ethnology and capabilities 168 Soon Ang, Thomas Rockstuhl and Georgios Christopoulos 13 Disjuncture and development: a learning theory approach to leadership judgement 181 Chris Saunders 14 On facilitating the development of leaders’ ability to exercise good judgment 191 Matthew Eriksen 15 Improving leader judgment through experiential learning 202 Anna B. Kayes and D. Christopher Kayes 16 Conclusion: what the chapters tell us about leadership and judgment 218 Anna B. Kayes and D. Christopher Kayes Index

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Book SynopsisIntroducing the idea of conversational storytelling interviewing (CSI) as an 'indirect' method of interviewing, David Boje and Grace Ann Rosile explore this innovative methodological framework as a way for respondents to tell their own story, without resorting to structured or semi-structured interviews. Bringing together theory, method and praxis of storytelling in an iterative process of self-correcting induction, How to Use Conversational Storytelling Interviews for Your Dissertation offers researchers ways to move beyond the bystander role, urging them to be co-creators of their findings. Complete with exercises to train practitioners in new methods of inquiry and in-depth discussions of an array of philosophical issues, this illuminating book illustrates how rigorous self-correcting methods move inquiry from conversation to storytelling science. Pioneering in both method and framework, this book is a crucial guide for using CSI in qualitative research for PhD students and researchers in management and organizational studies. Scholars of feminist and indigenous studies and other critical studies fields will benefit from alternative interviewing methods as these disciplines undergo an ontological turn.Trade Review'Over several decades David Boje and Grace Ann Rosile have been characterized as the theorists' theorists, the methodologists' methodologists and the practitioners' practitioners. Their latest book - How to Use Conversational Storytelling Interviews for Your Dissertation - lives up to that characterization. The book introduces their latest iteration and development of storytelling as ''conversational storytelling interviewing'', which, they contend, is an alternative to semi-structured interviewing. With its readability and clear, detailed enunciation, this book is destined to be a major influence on a new generation of scholars.' --Albert J. Mills, Saint Mary's University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Brief History, Topics Addressed, How to Use this Book, and Glossary of Terms 2. Dialogical and Dialectical conversational interviews: Using Self-Correcting AID phases and 4 Tests with the CIW case example 3. Choosing your research question: and using the storytelling paradigm theories including narrative retrospective, antenarrative prospective, counternarrative, living story, ensemble storytelling, and Grounded Theory 4. Storytelling Paradigm Method, including types of induction, narrative retrospective, antenarrative prospective, integrative qualitative-quantitative methods, narrative inquiry, and multiplicities 5. Storytelling Paradigm Praxes 6. Why Karl Popper is rolling over in his grave 7. Writing Dialectical/Dialogical and Big/little Storytelling Science Conclusions 8. Managing the oral examination and post-submission process Index

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Book SynopsisAs the importance of corporate social responsibility grows, especially environmental responsibility, it is imperative to acknowledge the impact of the individual on a company's environmental performance. Given that individuals spend much of their day in the workplace, it is crucial to understand both their behaviours and the potential impact they can have on the company's environmental performance and the environment. Bringing together leading academics from various research fields, this Handbook examines the features and challenges within the area of employee pro-environmental behaviour.The Research Handbook on Employee Pro-Environmental Behaviour brings contributions that consolidate existing research in the field as well as adding new insights from organisational psychology, human resource management and social marketing. Drawing on studies from across the methodological spectrum, this Handbook covers a broad range of topics from the antecedents and consequences of employee pro-environmental behaviour to ways in which employers can encourage pro-environmental behaviour.This Handbook will be an invaluable tool for those engaged in research in employee environmental behaviour and sustainability. It will be especially useful for postgraduate students of environmental employee behaviour as well as environmental consultants and practitioners seeking to gain an understanding of employee behaviour.Contributors include: B. Asfar, N. Ashkanasy, W. Binney, M. Bissing-Olson, F. Bowen, P. Bradley, L. Brennan, J. Callewaert, Y.H. Cheung, C. Ciocirlan, M. Davis, S. Dilchert, C. Dutra, P. Endrejat, S. Fudge, B. Gatersleben, D. Gregory-Smith, A. Güntner, R. Hahn, S. Kauffeld, R. Klein, F. Klonek, M. Leach, A. Leung, S. Lockrey, D. Manika, R. Marans, N. Murtagh, T. Norton, D. Ones, F. Ostertag, P. Paillé, S. Parker, A. Ruepert, S. Russell, I. Shah, A. Shahjahan, W. Staples, L. Steg, T. Tudor, D. Uzzell, C. Verfuerth, K. Verghese, V. Wells, B. Wiernik, L. Yang, H. ZacherTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the Research Handbook on Employee Pro-Environmental Behaviour Victoria K. Wells, Diana Gregory-Smith and Danae Manika PART I WHAT IS EMPLOYEE PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR? 2. Multiple Domains and Categories of Employee Green Behaviours: More than Conservation Deniz S. Ones, Brenton M. Wiernik, Stephan Dilchert and Rachael M. Klein 3. Green Human Resources Management Cristina E. Ciocirlan PART II ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF EMPLOYEE PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR 4. Individual Antecedents of Pro-Environmental Behaviours: Implications for Employee Green Behaviours Brenton M. Wiernik, Deniz S. Ones, Stephan Dilchert and Rachael M. Klein 5. Disentangling Voluntary Pro-Environmental Behaviour of Employees (VPBE) – Fostering Research through an Integrated Theoretical Model Regina Hahn and Felix Ostertag 6. Environmental considerations as a basis for employee pro-environmental behaviour Angela Ruepert and Linda Steg 7. Between- and Within-Person Variability in Employee Pro-Environmental Behaviour Hannes Zacher and Megan J. Bissing-Olson 8. Workplace Green Behaviour of Managerial and Professional Employees in Hong Kong Yu Ha Cheung and Alicia S. M. Leung 9. Dare to care in environmental sustainability context: How managers can encourage employee pro-environmental behaviour Pascal Paillé 10. Leadership and Employee Pro-Environmental Behaviours Bilal Afsar, Asad Shahjehan and Imad Shah 11. A virtuous cycle: How green companies grow green employees (and vice versa) Thomas A. Norton, Stacey L. Parker, Matthew C. Davis, Sally V. Russell and Neal M. Ashkanasy 12. Organisational and Employee Symbolic Environmental Behaviours: An Integrated Multi-level Framework Lei Yang, Danae Manika and Frances Bowen PART III EMPLOYEE ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR, INTERVENTIONS. CAMPAIGNS AND MARKETING 13. Motivation Towards “Green” Behaviour at the Workplace: Facilitating Employee Pro-Environmental Behaviour Through Participatory Interventions Paul C. Endrejat and Simone Kauffeld 14. A socio-motivational perspective on energy conservation in the workplace: The potential of motivational interviewing Amelie V. Güntner, Florian E. Klonek and Simone Kauffeld 15. Enabling employees and breaking down barriers: Behavioural infrastructure for pro-environmental behaviour Simon Lockrey, Linda Brennan, Karli Verghese, Warren Staples and Wayne Binney PART IV EMPLOYEE ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR, FEEDBACK AND TECHNOLOGY 16. Workplace Energy Use Feedback in Context Niamh Murtagh, Birgitta Gatersleben and David Uzzell 17. The role of social norms in incentivising energy reduction in organisations Peter Bradley, Shane Fudge and Matthew Leach PART V EMPLOYEE ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR IN CONTEXT 18. Embedding pro-environmental behaviour change in large organisations: perspectives on the complexity of the challenge Terry Tudor and Cleber Dutra 19. Measuring and Tracking Pro-Environmental Behaviour Amongst University Employees John Callewaert and Robert W. Marans PART VI OTHER PERSPECTIVES ON PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL EMPLOYEE BEHAVIOUR 20. Spillover of Pro-environmental Behaviour Caroline Verfuerth and Diana Gregory-Smith Index

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Book SynopsisPresenting a contemporary outlook on how organizations must adjust to the ‘Era of Me’, this timely book analyses contemporary learning paradigms, sustainability, performance management, and theories of work-related attitudes to promote organizational culture and productivity in workplaces in the volatile modern era.In the 21st century, the organizational environment in most western-oriented societies is dynamic, multifaceted, complex, and ambiguous. This comprehensive book explores the unique challenges faced by modern organizations due to increasingly varied, flexible, and virtual work arrangements, shifting employee characteristics, technological developments, increased competition, and enhanced diversity in business. Covering a broad range of salient topics and shifting the employee–employer relationship to one of mutual goals and trust, chapters challenge old management styles while recommending novel future methods of engineering the world of work in an era of constant change.Using a symbiosis of research, theory, and practice, Engineering the World of Work will be an invaluable resource for students, and scholars of psychology, organizational studies and business administration. It will also be an essential guide to managers, stakeholders, consultants, and policymakers who are interested in practical ways of adjusting to the changes of the 21st century.Trade ReviewLife is change, and reflecting this, the book Engineering the World of Work is topical and timely. The world of work continues to rapidly evolve in the 21st century, and understanding these changes and processes is critical for organisations, as well as for their people. Tziner has done an excellent job in bringing together a collection of contributions which are inspiring and engaging. -- Yehuda Baruch, Southampton Business School, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface x Acknowledgments xiii 1 The “Era of Me”: design and integration of career paths in an era of self-directed careers 1 Mirit K. Grabarski and Daphna Schwartz-Asher 2 Freelancers in organizations: a novel perspective 21 Or Shkoler and Aharon Tziner 3 Organizational learning: personalization, blended learning, and tailor-made learning solutions 39 Liad Bareket-Bojmel 4 Diversity and inclusion: challenges and best practices for creating inclusive organizations 58 M. Anthony Machin 5 Examining stress reactions in the world of work in the 21st century 77 M. Anthony Machin and Erich C. Fein 6 Managing performance in the “Era of Me” 88 Erich C. Fein 7 Revisiting theories of work-related attitudes in the “Era of Me” 105 Erich C. Fein 8 Compensation and rewards for work performance in the “Era of Me” work world 120 Liad Bareket-Bojmel 9 Racism at work: a conspectus – approaches, perspectives, and potential palliatives 135 Lily Chernyak-Hai and Aharon Tziner Conclusion 180 Aharon Tziner Index

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Book SynopsisBy examining white-collar crime scandals using the theory of convenience, Petter Gottschalk offers ways to improve the detection of crime signals and investigative skills in fraud examinations, as well as improve change management measures. Chapters take the reader chronologically through different key aspects of corporate white-collar crime, moving from the importance and impact of detection through whistleblowing, into how this evolves into an investigation and the role of fraud investigators. Finally, Gottschalk looks at the resulting restructure of the organization. Detailed case studies also offer critical analysis of why and how misconduct and crime should face consequences in the form of sanctions. Business school students and management consultants will find the combination of important theory and case studies useful in developing an understanding of the topic, and looking into successful resolutions. Criminal justice and law scholars will also find this to be a useful read in analysing the consequences of corporate white-collar crime. Trade Review'Petter Gottschalk has impressively identified many different elements that contribute to corporate scandals, and the investigation of and optimal responses to them. All students of white-collar crime can learn much from this thorough consideration of the complex interaction of motivation and opportunity in relation to such crime.' --David O. Friedrichs, author of Trusted Criminals: White Collar Crime in Contemporary Society 4th Edition (2010) and co-author of Edwin H. Sutherland (2018)Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. White-Collar Crime Motivation 2. White-Collar Crime Opportunity 3. White-Collar Crime Willingness 4. Detection of Misconduct and Crime 5. Investigation of White-Collar Offenses 6. Investigation of Corporate Scandals 7. Reconstruction of Organization 8. Change Management Measures Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this insightful book, Peter Edlund takes a status-based approach to theorizing the development of the European Research Council (ERC). Drawing upon rich empirical material, the author vividly details how the ERC was transformed from a funding organization into an authoritative status intermediary in European science.Edlund's innovative approach illustrates the ERC's path toward pre-eminence, building on a theoretical framework that the author uses to analyze evidence from Swedish and European contexts in an intriguing exploration of research funding allocated under the flagship Starting Grant scheme. Offering a field perspective on the multi-layered interactions between candidates and audiences within which the ERC was constructed as a status intermediary, this book redirects attention toward key antecedents that allow us to understand many of the extensive consequences generated by the ERC's funding.Blending theoretical models and empirical findings, Edlund's book will appeal to academics seeking advances in status theory. Practitioners and policymakers working with research funding will also benefit from its account of the historic development of the ERC and the consequences of its funding across Europe.Trade Review'With empirical and theoretical rigor, this book problematizes an essential feature of the current science system summarized in its opening statement: "evaluations are ubiquitous in science". Its analysis of the institutionalization of a particularly prestigious funding body gives new and important insight into the (self-)organization of the European science system.' -- Olof Hallonsten, Lund University, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Part I 1. The Makings of an Authority in Science 2. Theorizing Status Intermediaries Part II 3. Tensions and Struggles in Europe-Level Science 4. Creating Acceptance for European Research Council Evaluations 5. The Consequences of European Research Council Allocations Part III 6. Constructing a Status Intermediary in Science 7. Taking Stock and Looking Ahead Appendix Studying the European Research Council Index

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Book SynopsisDiscourse-based approaches to studying organizations have grown in significance over the last 25 years. This accessible and insightful book exemplifies how to use a discursive approach to study organizations. By drawing on her own empirical research, Cynthia Hardy aligns key theoretical assumptions with a range of case studies to demonstrate the value and adaptability of a discursive approach.The book presents the key theoretical assumptions associated with a discursive approach and shows how to align them with the design of specific empirical studies. Cynthia Hardy also illustrates how data collection and analysis can be customized to suit the issues under investigation. By reviewing empirical settings that range from older workers to refugees, from businesses to voluntary organizations, from strategy making to inter-organizational collaboration, and from environmental regulation to chemical risk, the author shows the value and adaptability of this approach. Forward-thinking, the book concludes with a look towards the future challenges of the discursive approach, covering specific issues of resistance to and reflexivity in research on discourse.Demonstrating the importance of empirical work, data collection, and analysis, this book will be a useful guide on discursive approach for students of organization and management studies. It will also prove useful for researchers studying HIV/AIDS organizations, refugees, and environmental regulation, which are particularly focused on in the book.Trade Review‘How to Use a Discursive Approach to Study Organizations is a savvy and wonderfully practical book that demonstrates how researchers can generate rich understandings of contemporary organizational phenomena and societal challenges through discursive study. It combines accessible explanations of theory with first-hand insights and sage advice on how researchers might conduct empirical work and analysis with care and creativity. This is a book that the field has needed for a long time.’ -- Gavin Jack, Monash University, Australia'This book is a most welcome addition to the literature on organizational discourse. At once accessible and illuminating in its writing, it offers a practical and informative guide that will help to initiate newcomers into the field of organizational discourse and inspire old-timers. As one of the leading scholars of discourse in the field of organization studies, Cynthia Hardy has a fine-tuned sensitivity to the discursive construction of our organizational worlds. Her imaginative insights into organizational actors’ discursive moves and countermoves demonstrate the analytical potential of a discursive approach to study organizations.' -- Sierk Ybema, Anglia Ruskin University, UK and Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands'At last we have a book that simultaneously explains and demonstrates the value of the discursive approach to the study of organizations. Cynthia Hardy has been a pioneer in organizational discourse analysis over the years and this book is a vivid demonstration of her talent as a prolific, insightful, and influential researcher. I can think of no better introduction to the main ideas and methods of the discursive approach in organizational research than this volume. In simple and attractive language, patiently and methodically, Cynthia Hardy shows the reader how to use the discursive approach. Insofar as language matters in organizational life, this book explains why and shows how to explore its effects systematically. Cynthia Hardy has offered a valuable toolkit to help us better understand and study how organizational phenomena are talked into existence through language. I am certain her book will further invigorate the discursive approach and this will be no small gain for the field.’ -- Haridimos Tsoukas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus and University of Warwick, UK‘Cynthia Hardy has written a superb text on organizational discourse studies. Using extensive empirical examples, she provides insightful discussions of discourse basics, levels of analysis, reflexivity, and materiality. Each chapter also contains vital methodological advice for the analyst. It is truly a must-read for both seasoned and novice scholars.’ -- Linda L. Putnam, University of California, Santa Barbara, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I BASICS 1. Theoretical underpinnings of a discursive approach 2. Understanding dominant discourses 3. Understanding discursive struggle 4. Understanding discursive change PART II LEVELS AND ISSUES 5. Using a discursive approach to study individual identities 6. Using a discursive approach to study organizational identities 7. Using a discursive approach to study organizational change 8. Using a discursive approach to study organizational fields PART III FUTURE CHALLENGES 9. The consumption of discourse 10. Resistance to discourse 11. Reflexivity in research on discourse 12. Materiality and discourse References Index

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Book SynopsisThe origins of organizing are conventionally seen as emerging from the historiographical works of Western social scientists in the early 20th century. Here, the authors address a gap in current literature by exploring previously unrecognized or marginalized global origins in both modern and ancient history. This innovative collection of original, research-based work covers a variety of historical epochs and theoretical streams from ancient civilizations to modern movements in philosophy and the social sciences. Among other topics, the chapters evaluate ideas of organizing by Quakers, 16th-century Jesuits and communities in the Roman Empire and ancient China. The authors creatively and insightfully engage with the historiography and philosophy of organizing, presenting alternatives to the dominant Western-focused development of organizational theory and practice. Origins of Organizing is significant in expanding the field of organizational theory to incorporate key examples that move away from mainstream and traditional perspectives. It will serve as a complementary text for graduate students in the fields of organization theory, management history and critical management studies.Contributors include: J. Bento da Silva, C. Bettin, M. Brigham, G. Burrell, P. Case, B. Czarniawska, W. Dai, H. Gaggiotti, I. Iordanou, D. Kavanagh, M. Kostera, P. Krzyworzeka, A.J. Mills, T. PeltonenTrade Review'We need to reflect upon the historical origins of organizing that extend far further than people usually think. This reflection must be critical and open to alternative histories and explanations. Origins of Organizing does just that. This book offers fascinating insights not only for those interested in organization and management history or critically oriented management and organizational studies, but for anyone engaged with organization theory or management practice, seeking for a deeper understanding of what organizing is all about. This is because the book is compiled and written in a reflexive manner that does not offer one truth but a number of perspectives that help to enrich our understanding of organizing and its various origins.' --Eero Vaara, Aalto University School of Business, Finland'Origins of Organizing is a major contribution to the ''historic turn'' in organization theory. For those wishing to explore this fascinating aspect of organizational analysis I can think of no better source. Simply an outstanding collection of essays by some of the world's foremost thinkers in the field. Highly recommended.' --John Hassard, University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: In search of alternative origins of organizing Tuomo Peltonen, Hugo Gaggiotti and Peter Case PART I THEORETICAL ORIGINS 1. Chaos: The Unspeakable Other to Origins and Organizing Gibson Burrell 2. Revisiting the sociological origins of organization theory: The forgotten legacy of Pitirim Sorokin Tuomo Peltonen 3. Neglecting the Anthropological Origins of Organizing: causes and consequences Hugo Gaggiotti, Monika Kostera and Paweł Krzyworzeka 4. She Came and Stayed: A de Beauvoirean Approach to Organizing Caterina Bettin and Albert J. Mills PART II HISTORICAL ORIGINS 5. Organizing in the Roman Empire Barbara Czarniawska 6. A Daoist epistemology for understanding an alternative origin of organizing Wenjin Dai 7. The Origins of Organizing in the Sixteenth Century Jose Bento da Silva and Ioanna Iordanou 8. The Quakers: Forgotten Pioneers Donncha Kavanagh and Martin Brigham Index

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Book SynopsisCollective action by firms is a central phenomenon in society, seen for example in standards setting, multi-stakeholder initiatives, and in relation to climate change, environmental and human rights issues. This incisive book reveals how firms set up specific devices, referred to by the authors as FCADs (Firms' Collective Action Devices), of which trade associations and chambers of commerce are the traditional forms, and investigates how firms organize themselves collectively, and their impact on the economy and democracy. Delving deeply into previously under-explored aspects of collective actions by firms, using the concepts of meta-organization and heterarchy, the book combines and expands on insights from history, political science, economics, sociology, management and organization theory. It demonstrates empirically how FCADs function on the basis of compromise and consensus, and analyzes their forms of action, their organizational dynamics and their recent evolution. This rigorous and pluridisciplinary evaluation of how businesses organize collectively will appeal to researchers and PhD students in organization studies and business management, as well as those in other disciplines who are interested in firms' collective action. It will also be a useful resource for business practitioners, public servants and politicians in contact with firms' collective action, and NGO members.Trade Review'This study is an important contribution to our knowledge of meta-organizations. Trade associations are more dynamic and important than is usually assumed. Dumez and Renou clearly show why trade associations are a theoretical and empirically fruitful area of research with great political significance, not least in global contexts. The theoretical analysis of trade associations as meta-organizations provides important new insights that are tested in an analysis of multi-stakeholder organizations.' --Göran Ahrne, Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research, Sweden'In times when a small number of powerful corporations rule the global economy, it is easy to overlook the fact that firms act collectively through large organizations to protect their interests or define the rules of the game. What are the historical roots of these collective action organizations? What are the political and economic implications of their operations? How do they operate internally? How can we analyze them? Dumez and Renou systematically answer these questions in this groundbreaking study.' --Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USTable of ContentsContents: Part 1 Firms collective action: A synoptic view 1. The emergence and evolution of business meta-organizations 2. On political and economic problems raised by business meta-organizations Part 2 Within trade associations and other meta-organizations 3. FCADs as a mix of heterarchy and hierarchy 4. Dynamic Analysis of a business meta-organization 5. The ways of acting of business meta-organizations 6. Other types FCADs Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisExploring magic as a creative necessity in contemporary business, this book clarifies the differences between magic as an organizational resource and magic as fakery, pretence and manipulation. Using this lens, it highlights insights into the relationship between anthropology and business, and organizational studies. The Magic of Organization looks at our economy and its dependence on magic, as success depends on innovation and creativity to produce the unexpected and amazing; but perhaps also the bogus and deceitful. Exposing the unpredictability of magic, the book reveals clear links between magic and uncontrollable and non-linear ways of organizing. Chapters discuss the double-edged sword of magic: while organizations, economies and finance depend on magical thought and actions for inspiration and surprise, they also fear them; what if the magic is real? With its clarity on how the turn-to-ontology in anthropology is significant for organizational studies, this book will be an illuminating read for students of creativity and innovation.Table of ContentsContents: List of contributors vii 1 Introduction 1 Hugo Letiche, Stephen A. Linstead and Jean-Luc Moriceau PART I MAGIC AND IMAGINATION 2 Introductory chapter to Part I – magic and imagination: taking strategy into the unknown 26 Per Olof Berg 3 The return of the Magi: image magic and the institutionalisation of kitsch therapeutic fantasy 59 James Fairhead 4 The persistence of magic: management and the new alchemy 82 Iain Munro 5 The intra-act of accounting 99 Ivo De Loo, Alan Lowe and Philip Smith 6 Risk management and the magical arts: rituals of risk calculation in the banking industry 125 Peter Case and Peter Pelzer 7 Markets and machines: the magic of predicting, obscuring and securing value 143 Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley PART II MAGIC AND ITS TRANSGRESSIONS 8 Introductory chapter to Part II – magic being re-understood 160 Hugo Letiche 9 Grammarye, grammatization, grammatology: interviewing technique as a magic trick 190 Jean-Luc Moriceau 10 Artaud’s dissolute magic: some thoughts on ambivalent desires 207 Heather Höpfl 11 Magification as bunny(-fication) 224 Hugo Letiche 12 Magic or the presence of absence 239 Michael Lazarin 13 Schwung magic: aesthetic subversion of organization in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari 263 Pierre Guillet de Monthoux Afterword 275 Hugo Letiche, Stephen A. Linstead and Jean-Luc Moriceau

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Book SynopsisAs we grapple with how to respond to some of the world's most pressing problems, there is growing global interest in 'social innovation' as a potential solution. But what exactly is 'social innovation'? And how can it help us to think about problems such as inequality, poverty and climate change? Danielle Logue theorizes social innovation as a contemporary manifestation of the historical tensions between 'economy' and 'society' and the simultaneous pursuit of economic and social progress. Going back to the historical work of Adam Smith and his discussion of markets and morality, the author draws on organizational and management theory to present three theoretical lenses for understanding social innovation. These lenses include theorizing social innovation as social value creation, capture and distribution; social innovation as polysemous; and social innovation as institutional change. She then considers some of the current issues confronting social innovation in practice and the challenges for organizations in 'doing good' and 'being good'. This generative introduction is targeted at graduate and doctoral students, as well as non-specialist academics. It aims to stimulate further discussion and analysis by providing a comprehensive understanding of social innovation and a choice of frameworks when examining complex and wicked problems and the organization and management of efforts to solve them. Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: the aim and structure of the book 1. Social innovation and its contemporary evolution 2. Social innovation as social value creation, capture and distribution 3. Social innovation as polysemous 4. Social innovation as institutional change 5. Social innovation: Morality, markets and theories of impact 6. Social innovation: Tensions in purpose and practice Index

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Book SynopsisWith organizational environments becoming increasingly unstable, uncertain and equivocal, the concept of resilience has become increasingly significant for management studies and practice. Resilience connotes organizational, team and individual capacities to absorb external shocks and to learn from them, while simultaneously preparing for and responding to external jolts. This book pinpoints the essential aspects of managerial and organizational resilience and offers insights that stimulate critical thinking. As the concept of resilience is essentially made up of contrasting forces, the volume presents some innovative synthetic interpretation that allows a deeper comprehension of the phenomenon and provides managers and policy makers with a solid basis for taking their decisions.This book provides an accessible yet rigorous systematization of individual resilience, team resilience and organizational resilience. Rich with real-life concept illustrations and containing practice-oriented tools, reflection questions and exercises, it shows how resilience can be cultivated across levels of organizational aggregation: individuals, teams, organizations and communities. The authors distinguish individual and collective resilience from related constructs and shed light on the boundaries of resilience and its potential implications for management practice. Elgar Introduction to Theories of Organizational Resilience will serve as a key resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students as well as academics and practitioners who are interested in deepening their understanding of resilience.Trade Review‘The book is full of real-life examples that distinguishes the boundaries of resilience and its potential implications on organisational practices [...] It describes many contrasting forces and deeper interpretations of the resilience phenomenon. It is a knowledge source for researchers of interest in resilience engineering, resilience economy and the subject of resilience in general.’ -- Mohamed Buheji, International Journal of Inspiration & Resilience Economy‘The Elgar Introduction to Theories of Organizational Resilience sets itself apart from other works by acknowledging the jargon-filled wasteland of meanings that has undermined scholarship in resilience. The book has clear goals: shedding light on the definition of resilience, distinguishing it from related ideas, setting forth models of organizational resilience, and offering a dialectical understanding of the term in practice as a process, dependent on the interaction of adaptation and reaction.’ -- Christopher L. Atkinson, International Journal of Public AdministrationTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction. The aim and structure of the book 2. Resilience in management and organization studies 3. Resilience in individuals 4. Resilience in collectives 5. The diffusion of resilience via cross-level interactions 6. Resilience as dialectical synthesis 7. Future trajectories for research on resilience Index

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Book SynopsisThe 21st century economy is fuelled by knowledge. Today, knowledge is more than an idea - it is an economic commodity. An organization's knowledge capital is a competitive and comparative advantage. Every organization must now invest in the knowledge assets of all its employees. Learning is the engine that creates and renews knowledge capital. Learning Organizations delves into why learning is an essential business operation; how modern learning is different from industrial-era training; how to discover learning sources and opportunities; how to design a learning environment and learning strategies that optimize the potential of every employee. This is essential reading for business managers, human resource professionals, and academic researchers studying knowledge economies, knowledge, and intellectual capital.Table of ContentsPart 1. Learing In The Knowledge Economy Chapter 1. Knowledge Capital and the Knowledge Economy Chapter 2. Learning Chapter 3. Learning Cultures Chapter 4. Designs for Learning Part 2. Learning environments Chapter 5. Learning at the Organization Level Chapter 6. Learning at the Team or Group Level Chapter 7. Learning at the Individual Level Part 3. Developing Learning Strategies Chapter 8. Designing and Developing an Organization-Wide Learning Strategy Chapter 9. Communicating and Socializing the Learning Strategy Chapter 10. Maintaining and Sustaining a Learning Strategy

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Book SynopsisStrategic management literature has, until now, concentrated on the analysis of how large innovative firms maintain, rebuild, or renew strategic capabilities. This important book illustrates the complex transition process involved as firms accumulate knowledge and develop new types of knowledge management to build the primary strategic capabilities. The book addresses all areas of the process including how technological capability is initially achieved through to how the firm approaches the international technological frontier. Based on a detailed case-study of a multinational Mexican firm, this insightful book argues that there is no simple progression from the accumulation of technological capability to the management of knowledge as a strategic asset.The wealth of evidence, analysis and discussion will ensure this work will be of immense value and interest to scholars, researchers, business managers and development economists alike.Trade Review'. . . this is a substantive contribution to the literature on capability development, one which breaks new ground on a hitherto little understood aspect of the knowledge management literature: knowledge management issues related with transition stage. . . Few researchers have addressed the full complexity of the transition process of capability development, drawing on such an impressive set of data and over such an extended period of time. By doing so, the book provides a range of new insights into knowledge management issues related with the process of capability development, namely, those related to the organizational knowledge creation within a latecomer firm. It should be read and discussed.' -- Muriela Padua, Journal of Evolutionary EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Part I: Theoretical and Contextual Background 2. Building Technological Capabilities in Different Theoretical Traditions 3. The Role of Knowledge Management in Re-building Strategic Capabilities 4. Methodology 5. Overview of the Technology, the Industry and the Firm Part II: The Process of Building Up Technological Capabilities from the Earliest Days On 6. The Process of Building up the Minimum Essential Knowledge Base: 1909–70 7. Starting a Transition Process Towards Building up Strategic Capabilities, 1970–90 8. The Fragility of the Transition Process in the 1990s Part III: Knowledge Management Problems Underlying the Truncated Transition Process 9. Features of Knowledge Management Contributing to the Truncated Transition Process 10. Factors Influencing the Knowledge Management Features 11. Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNew technologies, global markets and increased competitive pressures mean that companies are having to reinvent themselves, reappraise their competitive strategies and rethink the ways in which they organize business activities. This timely book illustrates how changes in strategy can translate into organizational changes within the firm itself and can influence the relationship between the firm and their employees and collaborators. The authors provide a broad theoretical and empirical assessment of these complex changes, their effect on the nature of employment, and the consequences for both employers and employees. They develop a framework that encompasses the interaction between the strategic reactions of businesses to a changing environment and the restrictions imposed by social institutions. A key theme of the book is that we are now living in an age of transition where concepts such as job security, which have played a crucial role in society, are no longer valid. Indeed, the importance of the research presented in the book is underlined by the social and political implications such changes will undoubtedly bring. Significantly, the authors view the subject matter from an interdisciplinary perspective applying tools from the fields of organizational behavior, sociology and psychology.Social economists, employment analysts, business managers, and scholars of strategic management and organizational studies will value this integrated assessment of the challenges and changes facing modern firms.Trade Review'. . . many of the contributions provide important insights into key questions surrounding the possible convergence of practices and the implications for this within and between firms. . . this volume is likely to be of considerable interest not only to students of HRM, but all concerned with the consequences of a global trend towards diminished security of tenure.' -- Geoffrey Wood, Industrial Relations'The book offers a full and wide-ranging analysis of the nature and extent of the organisational changes, and of the role played by employability in the new production contexts. Its strengths lie basically in its multidisciplinary approach, which enables the phenomenon of organisational change to be observed from different angles, and in its commitment to a balance between the pursuit of theory and its empirical underpinnings . . . In summary, this is a well-grounded and argued work, both theoretically and empirically, and will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand the complex nature of organisational change, and especially to those who, even though organisational change may not be their central object of study or concern, nonetheless seek to understand the rich and complex debate concerning processes of organisational transformation as a necessary starting point for the analysis of the broader process of transformation of a model of society.' -- Amparo Serrano Pascual, Transfer'I do not mean to propose any prescriptions for the problem of employment in our time. I leave that to the many fine specialists in the field who have contributed to this book. . . . I find this an excellent and thought-provoking volume that I hope will shed light on a theme of vital significance for people everywhere. For it is in work that people find happiness and fulfilment and meaning.' -- From the preface by Carlos Cavalle, University of Navarra, Barcelona, SpainTable of ContentsContents: Preface by Carlos Cavallé 1. Introduction: Strategy, Organization and the Changing Nature of Work 2. Employment Contracts, New Organizational Forms and Competitive Advantage for Continuous Innovation 3. Strategic Human Resource Management and the New Employment Relationships: A Research Review and Agenda 4. Employment Security, Employability and Sustainable Competitive Advantage 5. The New Deal with Employees and its Implications for Business Strategy 6. Business Strategy and Employment Systems in Spain: An Empirical Analysis 7. The Adoption of Innovative Forms of Organizing in Europe and Japan in the 1990s 8. Impacts on Employment of New Forms of Organizing: An Evaluation from a Knowledge Requirement Perspective 9. The New Employment Relationships: The Dilemmas of a Post-Downsized, Socially Excluded, and Low Trust Future Index

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Book SynopsisIn Human Nature and Organization Theory, Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto challenges the conventional wisdom that (organizational) economics is an amoral and empirically incorrect science. He treads new ground regarding the behavioural portrayal of human nature in organization theory. The book focuses on the works of Taylor, Simon and Williamson, reconstructing methods and variables of their organization theories in non-behavioural, institutional economic terms. Implications for institutional economic theory building and practical intervention are outlined. The book suggests that the image of human nature in organizational economics has to be deduced from theoretical and practical outcomes of economic analysis rather than from methods of economic analysis. If this is considered, organizational economics can make considerable moral claims, since it can generate socially desirable interaction outcomes even in the face of pluralism.This volume will appeal to a wide cross-section of organizational researchers, and also deserves to be widely read by economists, business ethics researchers and business historians.Trade Review'Wagner-Tsukamoto's book provides an original perspective on the role of human nature in theorizing about organizations. Moreover, it offers a fresh reading of some of the classics of organization theory. . . it is written in clear, nontechnical language. Moreover, it is well structured, and its key theses are easily accessible. Therefore, Human Nature and Organization Theory should be of interest to a broad group of readers who have an interest in organizational theory and institutional economics and for those interested in the fields of economics and philosophy. . . I recommend this book to anyone looking for fresh ideas on economic methodology and organization theory.' -- Matthias Meyer, Academy of Management Review'Human Nature and Organization Theory is a very satisfying read with a broad appeal that stretches across disciplinary boundaries. Its author speaks not only to a wide cross-section of organizational researchers, economists, business ethics researchers, and business historians, but also in a revelatory and practical way to business managers. . . The enduring controversy about the portrayal of human nature in organizational economics has here benefited from a truly refreshing and insightful treatment.' -- Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization'Human Nature and Organization Theory is a groundbreaking book which has a tradition that extends back to the early days of the Human Relations movement. I can recommend this book to anyone interested in the interface between the individual and the organization. It is a scholarly, thoughtful book.' -- Cary L. Cooper, CBE, Lancaster University Management School, UK'One of the most important developments in the social sciences in the last 20 years is the increasing recognition of the importance of institutional structures. This understanding is vital, for matters ranging from economic development to business efficiency. The more perceptive commentators recognise that the understanding of institutions and organisations also involves an appraisal of human nature, as situated in and moulded by these structures. Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto is one of this group. In a fresh and stimulating institutional analysis, he focuses on the key works of Frederick W. Taylor, Herbert A. Simon and Oliver E. Williamson. These important but contrasting approaches create a vital zone of enquiry, within which the author brings an engaging and interdisciplinary perspective. The result is a book that should be of interest for all social scientists wishing to understand the interactions between individuals and organisations.' -- Geoffrey M. Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire Business School, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. A Question of Method and Approach: In Search of Human Nature in Organization Research? 2. A Non-Behavioral Economic Approach to Institutional Organization: Contribution–distribution Interactions, Interest Equilibration and the Incentive-Compatibility of the Situation 3. Behavioural Approaches to Institutional Organization: Towards a ‘Science of Human Nature’? 4. Taylor’s, Simon’s and Williamson’s Search of Organizational Economics: Incentive Structures, Dilemmatic Interest Conflict and Mutual Gains 5. Organizational Behavior and Capital Utilization: Modeling Human Capital as Boundedly Rational or as Asset Specific? 6. Modeling Motivation and Cognition in Organizational Economics: Research Heuristics or the Portrayal of ‘Human Nature as We Know It’? 7. The Evolution of Institutional Organization: Economics of Environmental Change or a Behavioral Discovery Process of ‘True’ Human Nature? 8. Concluding Discussion: The End of Ethics or Is Economics the Better Moral Science? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on current cutting-edge research concerning the increasing strategic importance of subsidiary networks to the multinational firm. It combines contributions from three major related areas of inquiry: the changing theoretical conception of networks and the structure of the multinational firm, the importance of spillovers and agglomeration economies related to multinational investments, and the management of the flow of information and knowledge from headquarters to subsidiaries and vice versa. The book approaches the network structure of the firm from the different perspectives of the expert international contributors, while also combining theoretical perspectives with recent empirical evidence.Network Knowledge in International Business offers students in international business and strategy a cross-section of relevant research and current empirical evidence relating to knowledge management and the management of the modern multinational.Trade Review'. . . this is a volume that will be welcomed by advanced international business students and scholars. It provides greater international access to a significant body of research dealing with networks with MNEs and the links to knowledge management.' -- John Stanton, Global Business and Economics Review'This scholarly volume contains a range of original and well documented insights into the changing organisational characteristics of MNEs, and particularly, the increasingly important role of foreign affiliates as knowledge augmenting and disseminating entities. A great deal of new empirical evidence - both at a country and firm level - is assembled and analysed, and several new areas of research are identified. Altogether, the monograph is an essential read for all international business scholars.' -- John Dunning, University of Reading, UK and Rutgers University, US'The material in this book is required reading for a broad audience of scholars in international business, organization, management and international economics. It covers a wide range of related subjects from inter-firm networks, alliances, multinational enterprise strategies to knowledge creation and technology transfer. Network Knowledge in International Business not only provides an extremely interesting overview of many contributions to the current work on networks, knowledge and international business strategies, it also influences the long-term research agenda of major topics in the international business literature.' -- John Hagedoorn, Maastricht University and MERIT, Maastricht, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents Preface 1 Introduction Sarianna M. Lundan 2 From value chain to value networks: towards a new strategic model Xavier Lecocq, Saïd Yami 3 Strategic knowledge management: a new research agenda Bo Bernhard Nielsen 4 The MNC as a network: a closer look at intra-organizational flows Stefan Schmid, Andreas Schurig, Michael Kutschker 5 On the dynamics and coexistence of multiple subsidiary roles: an investigation of multinational operations in the UK Robert D. Pearce, Ana Teresa Tavares 6 Sources of subsidiary knowledge and knowledge transfer in MNCs Nicolai J. Foss, Torben Pedersen 7 Subsidiary absorptive capacity, MNC headquarters’ control strategies and transfer of subsidiary competencies Ulf Andersson, Ingmar Björkman, Patrick Furu 8 Subsidiary decision-making autonomy: competences, integration and local responsiveness Vitor Corado Simões, Rita Biscaya, Pedro Nevado 9 Patterns of R&D co-operation by European firms: cost-economizing vs. technology-seeking Luis Miotti, Frédérique Sachwald 10 Competence accumulation and collaborative ventures: evidence from the largest European electronics firms and implications for EU technological policies Marco Giarratana, Salvatore Torrisi 11 Exploring inward-outward linkages in firms’ internationalization: a knowledge and network perspective Lawrence S. Welch, Gabriel R.G. Benito, Pål R. Silseth, Tore Karlsen 12 Accelerated internationalization from the periphery John A. Mathews 13 The corporate supplier network within the European personal computer industry Denise Tsang Index

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Book SynopsisManaging Value-Based Organizations argues that those who fail to understand management history are destined to repeat it. Research has shown that despite the prodigious output of management books, managers still have little idea why there is so much change in the world of work or what they can do about it. Most, it seems, are still waiting for the dust to settle, expecting instead that in the near future they will be able to go back to doing things the way they have always done them.This highly innovative and accessible book takes a historical look at how the organization and management of work has changed since before the Industrial Revolution and uses this as a basis to explain: how and why organizations and management behavior have evolved over the past 500 years the importance of understanding how organizations are changing today and what they will become in the future what new organizations will look like and how managers will have to change to be effective in them, and how managers can change their organization from one which is locked in tradition to one which is flexible enough to respond positively to constant change. <Revealing both the practicalities and theories behind surviving upheaval in the workplace, academics, business managers and HR managers alike will find this book to be a fascinating and invaluable read.Trade Review'This is a well researched and thoroughly readable work. As well as giving a comprehensive and clear history of organisations and their evolving forms, it manages to explain the implications of this to practitioners today. In particular the entire discussion of the value based organisation and what this means for the exploitation of knowledge, organisational learning and innovation are relevant to younger, knowledge based organisations. The world of work has changed for ever in the increasingly knowledge based economy and the way we manage and lead has to change with it. This book provides a good insight to those that need to lead the change.' -- Bill Parsons, ARM Holdings plc'A fascinating look at why organisations are the way they are and how we can improve them. This well-written and accessible book offers intelligence, insight as well as practical advice. This is essential reading for organisational theorists as well as practitioners.' -- Binna Kandola, Senior Partner, Pearn Kandola, UK'Hoag & Cooper's work is an important addition to our understanding of organizations. I think this book will be of wide interest not only to the academic and consultative community but also business practitioners that want to better understand the organizations they operate in. I appreciate the historical and systemic context they have been able to provide for the reader. Its informative style make it a must read this year.' -- Robert Kovach, RHR International Company, UK'Academics and practitioners will find that this book presents a novel theoretical perspective. It illustrates that many features of current practice, contrary to many gurus, are consistent with the status quo that highly limits progress. For example, the authors describe what they call the myths of rightsizing, competitive advantage and balanced scorecard. The authors present extensive illustrations of how their value-based perspectives can lead to new policies and practices in managing organizations.' -- Chris Argyris, Harvard Business School, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Organizational Theory 1. Organizational Evolution 2. Traditional Organizations 3. The Horizontal Revolution 4. The Value-Based Organization Part II: The Traditional Hybrid 5. The Myth of Rightsizing 6. The Myth of Competitive Advantage 7. The Myth of the Balanced Scorecard Part III: Surviving the Upheaval 8. Implications for Organizations 9. Implications for Managers 10. Implications for Employees 11. Implications for Human Resources Managers Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhen everyone in an organization is focused on results it is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. This book uses the experience of Nokia to develop a frame-work for the organization of the future - one which is efficient, learning and healthy.Table of ContentsAbout the author Preface Acknowledgements ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING Learning as a factor of competition and a mean of survival What is learning Levels of learning Learning skills of organization Learning and feedback Learning and change How to support learning by doing PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Continuous improvement of performance as an objective The viewpoint of organization, individual and environment Planning and development discussions Daily leadership and planning meetings Connections to other human resource management processes Summary and critical success factors COMPETENCE MANAGEMENT Continuous improvement of competence as an objective Strategic management Core competence as a framework Competence management in practice Individual competence Summary and key learnings KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Continuous application of new knowledge as an objective What is knowledge management? Knowledge management in practise Intellectual capital and its measurement Summary and conclusions INTELLIGENT ORGANIZATION Can organization be intelligent? The features of intelligent organization Integrating performance, competence and knowledge management Human resources management in an intelligent organization Management in an intelligent organization On the way towards intelligent organization The ideal organization of the future Appendices Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFast track route to mastering culture and culture change Covers the key areas of culture, from how culture evolves andwhy different companies have different cultures to culturaldiagnosis and implementing successful change Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successfulbusinesses, including Amazon.com, EDS, Honda and Nissan, and ideasfrom the smartest thinkers, including Edgar Schein, Charles Handy,Geert Hofstede and Gareth Morgan. Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensiveresources guideTable of ContentsIntroduction to Express Exec Introduction Definition of Terms Evolution The E-Dimension The Global Dimension The State of the Art Lessons From Best Practice Key Concepts and Thinkers Resources Ten Steps to Managing Cultural Issues Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Index

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Book SynopsisFast track route to understanding and managing human behaviour inorganizations Covers the key areas of OB, from understanding individual andgroup behaviour patterns and attitudes to work to buildingsuccessful organizations and improving your personal effectivenessin the workplace Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successfulbusinesses, including Tesco, Sears, Sundaram-Clayton and TheNatural Step, and ideas from the smartest thinkers includingCharles Handy, Jack Wood, Edgar Schein and Shoshana Zuboff Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensiveresources guideTable of ContentsIntroduction to Express Exec Introduction Definition of Terms The Evolution of Organizational Behavior The E-Dimension The Global Dimension The State of the Art Organizational Behavior In Practice Key Concepts and Thinkers Resources Ten Steps to Making It Work Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Index

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Book SynopsisFast track route to understanding what makes organizations tick Covers the key areas of achieving organisational effectiveness,from building core skill sets and mastering the impact oftechnology and globalization, to aligning culture with directionand developing new organizational models and structures Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successfulbusinesses, including Dell, Nissan, Semco and St Luke's, and ideasfrom the smartest thinkers, including Charles Handy, ElliottJaques, Arie de Geus and Ricardo Semler. Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensiveresources guideTable of ContentsIntroduction to Express Exec introduction to Organization Express What is an Organization? The Evolution of Organizations The E-Dimension The Global Dimension The State of the Art Organizations in Practice Key Concepts and Thinkers Resources Ten Steps to Making It Work Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Index

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Book SynopsisFast track route to mastering organizational models Covers the key areas of organizational models, frombureaucracies and infocracies to chaordic alliances and workerdemocracies Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successfulbusinesses, including ASEA Brown Boveri, Bowstreet, Inc., MondragonCooperative Corporation, Softopia Japan, The Thread, and VR TechnoJapan, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Lynda M.Applegate, Christopher Bartlett and Sumantra Goshal, Dee Hock,James Clawson, Geert Hofstede, Robert Hormats, Henry Mintzberg,Gareth Morgan, Denise M. Rousseau, and Don Tapscott Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensiveresources guideTable of ContentsIntroduction to Express Exec Introduction to Organizational Models Defining Organizational Models The Evolution of Organizational Models The E-Dimension of Organizational Models The Global Dimension of Organizational Models The State of the Art of Organizational Models Organizational Model Success Stories Key Concepts and Thinkers in Organizational Models Resources for Organizational Models Ten Steps to Effective Organizational Models Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisThere never has been a time when changes in taste, social outlook and lifestyle have been faster and more fundamental. Coolsearch shows that the revolution that is going on inside the workplace and that which is taking place in the marketplace are two sides of the same coin. Traditional divisions between work and play and between home and the office are being eroded. Twenties-somethings are using their mastery of new technology to transform product development, marketing and merchandising as consumers and ideas generation and decision making as workers. But how can older companies with deeper vested interests and complex hierachies keep in touch with the needs generated by the new generation? Syrett and Lammiman show how street-wise market research, better use of technology, shorter decision making hierarchies, corporate venturing and bottom up leadership has helped a variety of seeming dinosaurs get abreast of the trends. Stories and case studies of companies such as IKEA, GMT, 3M, and L'Oreal and their championing the latest trends and thinking are throughout the book. Coolsearch draws on original research by the authors on how new ideas are inspired and shaped in organisations as well as on interviews with leading thinkers in innovation including London Business School's Costas Markides, Strategos's Gary Hamel and Insead's W Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.Trade Review?? a stimulatingly original book that goes far beyond previous analyses of youth phenomena such as Generation X and Generation Y.? (Director, May 2004) ?? one of its strengths is its practicality.? (Independent on Sunday, 16 May 2004) ??fascinating book..? (Professional Manager, September 04)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. PART ONE. 1. Cool Beginnings. 2. The Provenance of Cool. 3. Outside Cool. 4. Inside Cool. 5. Crux. PART TWO. 6. Cool Leadership. 7. Managing Cool. 8. Brainstorming Cool. 9. Branding Cool. Summary. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisSwitch on the business news and you will probably be bombarded with yet more workplace experts telling you that everyone nowadays is grossly overworked, madly juggling their work-life balance until they finally keel over and die from the sheer stress of it all. We all know that's right, don't we? The real truth is that there are millions upon millions of people who are actively disengaged from their jobs, who spend months and years sitting in offices doing next to nothing, lost in the cracks of laughably inefficient and abysmally managed large organisations, their talents wasted and long forgotten. The Living Dead unmasks the myth of the workplace for the first time. It tells the truth. Not cloaked in humour, as in Dilbert and The Office, but in plain black and white. The Living Dead will captivate anyone anywhere in the world who has ever worked in a large office environment, or those who have a genuine desire to make people's working lives more productive and enjoyable. Here are some astonishing statistics about office life you probably never knew: 40 per cent of all casual drugs users in the US (people who use drugs just once a month) still choose to do it at work. 19.6 per cent of people who take drugs at work do so at their workstation. One in three mid-week visitors to the theme park Alton Towers has taken the day off work on a dishonest pretext. One in five US workers has had sex with a co-worker during work hours. Full sex, that is. 44 per cent of men and 35 per cent of women have had at least some sexual contact at work. One third of UK young professionals are hungover at least twice a week on working days. Two thirds admitted to having called in sick due to alcohol at least once in the previous month. 70 per cent of Internet porn sites are accessed during the 9 to 5 working day. More than half of the UK's 14.5 million pet owners say they would need between two and five days off work to grieve for a dead pet, while 10 per cent said they would need as much as two weeks. Monday (23 per cent) and Friday (25 per cent) are the days most commonly taken off sick by UK employees. Wednesday is the most rarely taken (8 per cent). UK doctors receive 9 million 'suspicious' or 'questionable' requests each year for sick notes. David Bolchover writes frequently on business and management issues for The Times and The Sunday Times as well as a number of other national newspapers and specialist publications. His first book, The 90-Minute Manager, outlines the lessons which business managers can learn from football managers. Previously, he was employed for several years in a large office. But now he wants to do something with his life.Trade Review"...will captivate anyone anywhere in the world who has ever worked in a large office..."(Thisiswiltshire.co.uk, 4th October 05) "...The Living Dead will captivate anyone anywhere in the world who has ever worked in a large office environment..." (Swindon Advertiser, 4th October 2005) "...Even if you are not one of the living dead, you will find this book fascinating, entertaining and thought-provoking..." (Reading Chronicle, 9th December 2005) "...an interesting and unusual read..." (Professional Manager, January 2006) "Fantastic book...which wittily debunks popular myths about the modern workplace..." (EN Magazine, Dec 05) "...an interesting and unusual read..." (Professional Manager, Jan 2006) "...a fascinating discussion of the perils of presenteeism..." (ISCO Careerscope, Spring 06) "…a lovely waltz through what happens to us after we exit university…it makes fantastic reading…" (IET Engineering Management, August 2006) "...wry British wit...recommends...to students of organisational behaviour and anyone who has ever played computer solitaire at the office." (getAbstract, August 2006) "... explores the phenomenon of The Living Dead in an open, direct and serious way ..." (Business Executive, November 2006) '…open, direct and serious…with sufficient humour…' ( Business Executive, November 2006) Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Chapter 1. Unearthing the Last Taboo Chapter 2. My Life in the Cracks. Chapter 3. Money for Nothing. Chapter 4. The Quest for Meaning. Chapter 5. The Whole Truth, and Nothing But. Chapter 6. The Invisible Manager. Chapter 7. Autopsy and Resurrection. Chapter 8. The End of the Corporate Monolith?. Epilogue: The Kiss of Life. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis timely volume offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics of firms' behaviour and organization, providing an essential outline of the ways in which our understanding of firms and markets is evolving. Key topics, such as the interplay between labour and capital, the choice of the optimal product range and the dynamics of capital accumulation and innovation are investigated. All of these aspects of the evolution of a market are evaluated in connection with the manifold issue of information, be that related to demand uncertainty, accountancy data, the diffusion of technological knowledge, or the nature of strategic interaction among firms in market games.Technology, Information and Market Dynamics is an extensive and detailed book, offering useful indicators for both theoretical and applied research. It will appeal to economists and researchers of industrial organization and innovation.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Entry Under Uncertainty 2. Strategic Investment 3. Multiproduct Firms 4. Labour Participation 5. Financial Reporting 6. R&D and Information Sharing 7. Differential Oligopoly Games Index

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Book SynopsisGlobalization, the information technology revolution, individualization and other processes in contemporary society all impact on organizations. Organizational actors are recognizing the need to make sense of these permutations, reconstruct their identities and positions and find ways of coping with the complexity of relationships within and between organizations. This book analyses the framework of these organizational relationships and the dynamics of identity formation and bonding on several levels.Organizational practices, managerial and professional coping strategies are all explored within the context of shifting inter-organizational relationships. The findings, which are presented by an international team of contributors, are complex and demonstrate continuities as well as discontinuities. The authors analyse the way in which organizational actors, such as managers, information technology specialists, creative professionals and academic researchers make sense of the social transformations in the networking age and their impact on organizations. The organizational settings which are studied include armies, universities, non-governmental organizations, information technology development houses, telecom operators and organizations in the food production chain.This multi-disciplinary book will appeal to a wide-ranging audience of scholars, practitioners and consultants across various fields including organization and management studies, industrial relations, social psychology, work and organization psychology and sociology, HRM and employment relationships.Trade Review'I endorse this book as a general guide for anyone working to achieve results in or through organizations. . . It is an approachable yet scholarly work based on empirical exploration with wisdom for individuals, groups and organizations on an advanced range of topics. I found it valuable and recommend it highly.' -- Avis Austen, The Leadership and Organization Development JournalTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Organizational Relationships in the Networking Age: An Introduction Part I: The Framing of Organizational Relationships 2. Commitment and Community in Organizations 3. The Performance Nature of Identification: Modes of Management and Actors at Work 4. The Critical Edge of Individualization: About the ‘Culturing’ of Service Delivery and the Performance of Privacy 5. Ideology, Consensus and Organizational Effectiveness in a Fragmenting Society: Western Combatants in the Second World War Part II: Personal Coping Strategies of Organizational Actors 6. Management as a Dead End: How Managers Survive in a Culturally Complex Environment 7. The Discursive Constructions of Performing Professionals 8. Identity Creation in Temporary and Scattered Work Practices in a Relational Perspective 9. Identity Construction and Commitments of Graphic Designers Part III: Shifting Inter-Organizational Relationships and Identity Formation 10. The Construction of Identity in a Fragmenting Telecom Operator 11. Identities and Relationships in the Theatre of the Dotcom Industries 12. Changing Identities of European Farmers 13. Biotechnology: The Production of New Identities 14. Organizational Relationships in the Networking Age: A Concluding Analysis Index

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Book SynopsisDevelopments in Organizational Politics presents a comprehensive analysis of organizational politics and its meaning and application for employees and managers in modern worksites. Eran Vigoda suggests an integrative model that tries to explain how politics, and especially perceptions of politics, emerges, transforms and affects employees' performance and other work related outcomes in organizations. The analysis is based on empirical data collected over almost a decade of field studies. This data uses a variety of scientific methods to demonstrate how internal politics may be related to job attitudes, behavioral intentions as well as actual behaviors of employees. Special attention is given to non-profit organizations but analysis of businesses and private firms is also included.The book will be essential reading for academics and researchers from the fields of organizational behavior, human resource management and is also useful for practitioners who struggle through the barriers of power, influence and politics in the workplace.Trade Review'This book sheds light on the causes and consequences of political behavior conducted by civil servants in the public sector, as revealed by the author's series of studies. The book is quite exceptional by virtue of its fascinating topic, the population under consideration, and the multiplicity of research projects. Eran Vigoda contributes to our body of knowledge an integrative, empirically based, and theoretically framed account of organizational power and politics.' -- Yitzhak Samuel, University of Haifa, Israel'A most impressive book offering a comprehensive conceptual framework as well as a broad and thorough coverage of the organization politics literature to date combined with a detailed presentation of the author's own research work. Dr Vigoda insightfully clarifies the nature of organizational politics, its antecedents and outcomes, and presents a fresh and thorough discussion of the relations between organization politics and other organizational attitudes and behaviors. This is a highly recommended book for every student and scholar of organization behavior.' -- Amos Drory, Ben Gurion University, Israel'. . . The latest work from one of the emerging best and brightest. . .' -- Robert T. Golembiewski, The University of Georgia, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction to the Study of Organizational Politics 1. Political Behavior in Organizations: Between Perceptions and Implementations 2. Organizational Politics, Job Attitudes, and Work Outcomes 3. Organizational Politics, In-role Performance, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior 4. Organizational Politics and Job Distress 5. Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Organizational Politics 6. Organizational Politics in Virtual Work Sites and in a Global World 7. Summary and Implications: Interdisciplinary Reflections and New Directions Appendix 1: Measures Used in the Studies Appendix 2: Measuring Organizational Politics by the Perceptions of Organizational Politics Scale (POPS) Appendix 3: Measuring Organizational Politics by Influence Tactics Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA Grammar of Organizing provides a new, innovative perspective on the organizational challenges now facing companies in complex and dynamic business situations.This book represents a much needed departure from static theories of organizations to incorporate the dynamic and ever-changing nature of today's companies. The authors assert that management and organization theory is increasingly turning its attention to the perpetual practice of organizing and strategizing rather than just focusing on formal structures and strategies. This new paradigm is thoroughly analyzed, and the consequent management implications discussed. The book then goes on to build a much needed, coherent and fully developed theoretical framework to further expand upon this new emerging perspective. The 'activity-community' model is built around fundamental principles, and numerous case studies are used to illustrate and support this unique theoretical framework.Offering an up-to-date overview of the latest developments within organization theory, and posing a number of important questions on this changing realm, this book will prove a fascinating read for academics, students, researchers and practitioners with an interest in management and organization studies and practices.Trade Review'There are several wonderful moments in the book. . . This book is written in a highly reflective fashion and it will certainly have a place within the continental tradition of organization studies.' -- Dominika Latusek, Scandinavian Journal of Management'Anyone who wants to take an emerging, interactive view of organizing will find this book extremely helpful. In building towards and presenting their model, the authors do a terrific job of discussing these complex ideas.' -- Hans Hansen, Organization Studies'I found A Grammar of Organizing an intriguing and compelling read. It is a conceptually rich text, which deals with fundamental questions concerning our understanding of and activities within organizations. To this end the authors develop a theoretical framework built around fundamental generating principles of organizing. They support their framework with illuminating case material making it an excellent textbook for Masters level teaching in organizational behaviour or design. An insightful book which will provoke debate as well as provide innovative insights into the complexity of organizing in the twenty-first century.' -- Evelyn Fenton, University of Reading Business School, UK'A "generative" grammar of organizing - i.e. a systematic account of rules and conventions based on the concept of activities - that may help us avoid reducing our understanding of organizing to either structure or process features! This is the bold claim put forward by the authors of this book. To support their grammar, i.e. the activity-community model of organizing, the authors draw on multiple examples from organizations as well as references from the current research debate in the broad area of organization studies. The book, which is written in the Scandinavian tradition of organization studies, is an innovative and much welcome contribution to organization research in general and to the study of organizing in particular. In short, it is a distinct contribution that makes a lot of sense!' -- Per Olof Berg, Stockholm University School of Business, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Need for a New Grammar of Organizing 2. The Orientation of Activities in Time and Space 3. The Challenges of Coordination 4. Influence – Taking a Political Stand on Organizing 5. Identity Construction – Mixing Cultural Diversity and Integration in Organizing 6. Agreements – Acknowledging the Social Processes of Organizing 7. The Activity–Community Model of Organizing 8. Four Challenges of Organizing References Index

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Book SynopsisThe rapid and sweeping changes in the economy, technology, work practices and family structures mean that organizational health psychology has never been so essential for understanding stress in the workplace. This timely Research Companion is essential reading to advance the understanding of healthy behaviours within working environments and to identify problems which can be the cause of illness. Containing both theoretical and empirical contributions written by distinguished academics working in Europe, North America and Australia, the book covers leading edge topics ranging from current theories of stress, stress management, and stress in specific occupational groups, such as doctors and teachers, to the relationship of stress with well-being. It provides systematic approaches towards practical actions and stress interventions in working environments and a solid theoretical framework for future research. It will be an essential companion to research on psychology and medicine as well as stress.Trade Review'Supported by 72 distinguished contributors from over 50 different institutions, this book, based on theoretical contributions as well as empirical reports and reviews, provides an in-depth and multi-faceted perspective on contemporary issues related to stress, mental and physical health in various domains of employment. . . this well-organized volume constitutes a detailed and comprehensive work with a scope and depth that will satisfy the most critical. As such, it serves as a more than valuable source of reference to occupational health science for students and professionals alike.' -- Dirk Luchtman, Stress and Health'This volume provides systematic approaches for practical actions and stress interventions in various working environments. It also provides a theoretical framework for continuing and future research and is an important adjunct to research in psychology, medicine, and stress. It is a useful and informed volume that can be a good companion for both research and practice.' -- George W. Doherty, PsychCRITIQUES'In the book edited by Antoniou and Cooper, 72 academics and professionals from over 50 institutions in Europe, North America and Australia provide papers aimed at increasing our understanding of the conditions for more creative and healthier jobs in modern workplaces. . . I believe that this volume will provide stimulating reading for academic and postgraduate student audience of psychology and medicine.' -- Mika Kivimaki, Psychological Medicine'The 72 distinguished contributors from over 50 different institutions provide a multifaceted picture of an important area mainly to an academic and post-graduate student audience of psychology and medicine. I am pleased to recommend it for perusal, implementation and evaluation.' -- From the foreword by Lennart Levi, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Conceptualization and Theoretical Framework 1. The Role of Event Characteristics and Situational Appraisals in the Prediction of Employee Adjustment to Change and Change Implementation Success Nerina L. Jimmieson 2. Constructions of Occupational Stress: Nuisances, Nuances or Novelties? Dianna Kenny and Dennis McIntyre 3. Psychosocial Risk Factors and Work-Related Stress: State-of-the-Art and Issues for Future Research Michiel A.J. Kompier and Toon W. Taris 4. Biological Basis of Stress-Related Diseases Maria-Alexandra Magiakou and George P. Chrousos 5. The Relationship Between Ethnicity and Work Stress Grace V.F. Miller and Cheryl J. Travers 6. Eustress and Attitudes at Work: A Positive Approach Debra L. Nelson and Bret L. Simmons 7. Stress and Strain at Work: How Much is There, Who has Most and are Things Changing? Roy L. Payne 8. Stress, Alienation and Shared Leadership Marc J. Schabracq 9. Job Demands, Job Control, Strain and Learning Behavior: Review and Research Agenda Toon W. Taris and Michiel A.J. Kompier 10. The Seeds of Stress in the Organizations of Tomorrow: The Impact of New Technology and Working Methods Ashley Weinberg Part II: Stress Management Issues 11. Stress and Individual Differences: Implications for Stress Management Susan Cartwright and Lynne C. Whatmore 12. Work-Related Stress: The Risk Management Paradigm Stavroula Leka, Amanda Griffiths and Tom Cox 13. Coping with Stress through Reason Edwin A. Locke 14. An Organizational Approach to Stress Management Valerie J. Sutherland 15. Prevention Perspectives in Occupational Health Psychology Lois E. Tetrick, James Campbell Quick and Jonathan D. Quick 16. Emotional Intelligence and Coping with Occupational Stress Moshe Zeidner Part III: Stress in Specific Groups 17. Study and Student Counselling in Higher Education: An Incentive Towards a Practice-Relevant Vision Eric Depreeuw 18. Stress and Unemployment: A Comparative Review of Female and Male Managers Sandra L. Fielden and Marilyn J. Davidson 19. Stress in Veterinary Surgeons: A Review and Pilot Study Howard Kahn and Camilla V.J. Nutter 20. Structural Work Change and Health: Studies of Long Spells of Sick Leave and Hospitalization among Working Men and Women During a Period of Marked Changes in the Swedish Labour Market Gabriel Oxenstierna, Hugo Westerlund, Jane Ferrie, Martin Hyde, Jan Hagberg and Töres Theorell 21. Role-Related Stress Experienced by Temporary Employees Ellen I. Shupe Part IV: Stress, Well-being and Health 22. The Role of Psychosocial Factors in the Development of Periodontal Disease Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou, Diamanto Komboli, John Vrotsos and Zacharias Mantzavinos 23. Work–Family Conflict and Stress Paula Brough and Michael O’Driscoll 24. Workaholism in Organizations: Work and Well-being Consequences Ronald J. Burke 25. The Healthy Organization Jane Henry 26. Health Care and Subjective Well-being in Nations Bruce Kirkcaldy, Adrian Furnham and Ruut Veenhoven 27. New Technology, the Global Economy and Organizational Environments: Effects on Employee Stress, Health and Well-being Janice Langan-Fox 28. The Effects of Effort–Reward Imbalance at Work on Health Johannes Siegrist, Bianca Falck and Ljiljana Joksimovic 29. Occupational Stress and Health Charles D. Spielberger and Eric C. Reheiser 30. The Role of Emotions in Cardiovascular Disorders Juan José Miguel-Tobal and Héctor González-Ordi 31. The Impact of Short Business Travels on the Individual, the Family and the Organization Mina Westman Part V: Professional Burnout 32. Burnout and Emotions: An Underresearched Issue in Search of a Theory Dirk Enzmann 33. Proactive Coping, Resources and Burnout: Implications for Occupational Stress Esther R. Greenglass 34. Burnout and Wornout: Concepts and Data from a National Survey Lennart Hallsten 35. ‘Burning In’ – ‘Burning Out’ in Public: Aspects of the Burnout Process in Community-Based Psychiatric Services Thomas Hyphantis and Venetsanos Mavreas 36. A Mediation Model of Job Burnout Michael P. Leiter and Christina Maslach 37. Love and Work: The Relationships Between their Unconscious Choices and Burnout Ayala Malach Pines 38. Unconscious Influences on the Choice of a Career and their Relationship to Burnout: A Psychoanalytic Existential Approach Ayala Malach Pines 39. Does Burnout Affect Physical Health? A Review of the Evidence Arie Shirom and Samuel Melamed 40. Rediscovering Meaning and Purpose at Work: The Transpersonal Psychology Background of a Burnout Prevention Programme Dirk Van Dierendonck, Bert Garssen and Adriaan Visser Part VI: Emotional Intelligence at Work 41. Emotional Intelligence and Transformational Leadership Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou 42. Developing Leadership through Emotional Intelligence Richard E. Boyatzis Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive collection presents organization theory in its historical context. It includes an authoritative selection of seminal articles published since the 1960s, which exercise continuing influence on contemporary thinking about organizations. Volume one addresses classical themes, which predate and inform modern organization theory. The second volume examines current trends, and concludes with reflections on method and on theory writing. An excellent resource for those wishing to deepen their knowledge of organization theory. This collection will have particular appeal to people working in the fields of management studies, psychology, sociology, economics and political science.Trade Review'Czarniawska presents an authoritative overview of organization theory. Including the classics alongside the challenging and the provocative she gives an insight into the excitement that can be gained from the contemporary study of organized phenomena.' -- Anthony Hopwood, Saïd Business School, Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: Volume I: Central Topics Acknowledgements Introduction Barbara Czarniawska PART I CREATING THE OBJECT OF ORGANIZATION THEORY 1. Dwight Waldo (1961), ‘Organization Theory: An Elephantine Problem’ 2. Charles Perrow (1991), ‘A Society of Organizations’ 3. Nils Brunsson and Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson (2000), ‘Constructing Organizations: The Example of Public Sector Reform’ PART II SYSTEMS: OPEN, LOOSELY COUPLED OR AUTOPOIETIC? 4. Floyd H. Allport (1962), ‘A Structuronomic Conception of Behavior: Individual and Collective’ 5. Karl E. Weick (1976), ‘Educational Organizations as Loosely Coupled Systems’ 6. Niklas Luhmann (1986), ‘The Autopoiesis of Social Systems’ PART III DECISION MAKING 7. Michael D. Cohen, James G. March and Johan P. Olsen (1972), ‘A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice’ 8. James G. March (1978), ‘Bounded Rationality, Ambiguity, and the Engineering of Choice’ 9. Nils Brunsson (1982), ‘The Irrationality of Action and Action Rationality: Decisions, Ideologies and Organizational Actions’ PART IV ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING 10. Chris Argyris (1976), ‘Single-Loop and Double-Loop Models in Research on Decision Making’ 11. Bo Hedberg (1981), ‘How Organizations Learn and Unlearn’ 12. Scott D.N. Cook and Dvora Yanow (1993), ‘Culture and Organizational Learning’ PART V LEADERSHIP 13. Gary Yukl (1971), ‘Toward A Behavioral Theory of Leadership’ 14. Jeffrey Pfeffer (1977), ‘The Ambiguity of Leadership’ 15. Linda Smircich and Gareth Morgan (1982), ‘Leadership: The Management of Meaning’ PART VI POWER AND CONTROL 16. D.J. Hickson, C.R. Hinings, C.A. Lee, R.E. Schneck and J.M. Pennings (1971), ‘A Strategic Contingencies' Theory of Intraorganizational Power’ 17. William G. Ouchi (1979), ‘A Conceptual Framework for the Design of Organizational Control Mechanisms’ 18. Stewart Clegg (1981), ‘Organization and Control’ PART VII ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE 19. Edgar H. Schein (1983), ‘The Role of the Founder in Creating Organizational Culture’ 20. Linda Smircich (1983), ‘Concepts of Culture and Organizational Analysis’ 21. John Van Maanen and Stephen R. Barley (1984), ‘Occupational Communities: Culture and Control in Organizations’ Name Index Volume II: Current Trends and Disciplinary Reflection Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume I PART I NEW INSTITUTIONALISM AND ORGANIZATION THEORY 1. Roland L. Warren (1967), ‘The Interorganizational Field as a Focus for Investigation’ 2. Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell (1983), ‘The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields’ PART II ENACTMENT AND SENSEMAKING 3. Karl E. Weick (1988), ‘Enacted Sensemaking in Crisis Situations’ PART III POSTMODERN ORGANIZATION THEORY 4. Robert Cooper and Gibson Burrell (1988), ‘Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis: An Introduction’ 5. Marta B. Calás and Linda Smircich (1991), ‘Voicing Seduction to Silence Leadership’ PART IV FEMINIST ORGANIZATION THEORY 6. Joan Acker (1990), ‘Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations’ 7. Joanne Martin (1990), ‘Deconstructing Organizational Taboos: The Suppression of Gender Conflict in Organizations’ PART V REFLECTIONS ON METHODOLOGY 8. Egon Bittner (1965), ‘The Concept of Organization’ 9. Henry Mintzberg (1971), ‘Managerial Work: Analysis from Observation’ 10. John Van Maanen (1979), ‘The Fact of Fiction in Organizational Ethnography’ 11. Noel M. Tichy, Michael L. Tushman and Charles Fombrun (1979), ‘Social Network Analysis for Organizations’ PART VI REFLECTIONS ON THEORY 12. J. Kenneth Benson (1977), ‘Organizations: A Dialectical View’ 13. Gareth Morgan (1980), ‘Paradigms, Metaphors, and Puzzle Solving in Organization Theory’ 14. Karl E. Weick (1989), ‘Theory Construction as Disciplined Imagination’ 15. W. Graham Astley and Raymond F. Zammuto (1992), ‘Organization Science, Managers, and Language Games’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge, multidisciplinary Handbook comprises specially commissioned contributions surveying state-of-the-art research on the concept of organizational routines. An authoritative overview of the concept of organizational routines and its contributions to our understanding of organizations is presented. To identify those contributions, the role of organizational routines in such processes as organizational learning, performance feedback, and organizational memory is discussed. To identify how the concept can contribute to different disciplinary fields, the expert authors review applications across a range of fields including political science, sociology, and accounting. Two chapters on research methods provide expert advice on the endeavour of experimental studies and empirical field studies of organizational routines.Overall, this Handbook contains articles that identify the role of organizational routines in processes underlying the stability and change of organizations, show how the concept has been applied in different disciplinary fields, and discuss methods for carrying out empirical research using the organizational routines concept. Because of the importance issues such as the stability and change of organizations have in organization theory and strategy, this Handbook will appeal to scholars and students in business and management, in particular in organization theory, organization behaviour, and strategic management.Trade Review'The Handbook of Organizational Routines> is one of the most fruitful outcomes of the recent attempts by a number of scholars from organizational science and evolutionary economics to increase the understanding of organizational routines and provide a framework for application in empirical studies. . . the Handbook of Organizational Routines provides a valuable resource for those who would like to use the concept as the unit of analysis for organizational behavior in the field of science, technology and innovation policy.' -- Abdullah Gok, Science and Public Policy'The idea of routines has been one of the most productive in organization studies. Finally we have a broad, deep, and authoritative survey of the exciting research it has inspired.' -- Paul S. Adler, University of Southern California, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I 1. The Past, Present and Future of Organizational Routines: Introduction to the Handbook of Organizational Routines Markus C. Becker 2. The Concept of a Routine Geoffrey M. Hodgson PART II: ORGANIZATIONAL ROUTINES ACROSS DIFFERENT FIELDS 3. Organizational Routines in Political Science Timothy J. McKeown 4. Routines, ‘Going Concerns’ and Innovation: Towards an Evolutionary Economic Sociology Marc J. Ventresca and William N. Kaghan 5. Organizational Routines in Accounting John Burns and Robert W. Scapens 6. Problem Solving and Governance in the Capability-based View of the Firm: The Roles and Theoretical Representations of Organizational Routines Giovanni Dosi, Marco Faillo and Luigi Marengo PART III: ORGANIZATIONAL ROUTINES, SEARCH AND LEARNING 7. Organizational Routines in Evolutionary Theory Thorbjørn Knudsen 8. Organizational Routines and Organizational Learning Anne S. Miner, Michael P. Ciuchta and Yan Gong 9. Organizational Routines and Performance Feedback Henrich R. Greve 10. Routines and Routinization: An Exploration of Some Micro-Cognitive Foundations Nathalie Lazaric 11. Staying on Track: A Voyage to the Internal Mechanisms of Routine Reproduction Martin Schulz 12. The Role of Teams and Communities in the Emergence of Organizational Routines Patrick Cohendet and Patrick Llerena PART IV: CONDUCTING EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON ORGANIZATIONAL ROUTINES 13. Issues in Empirical Field Studies of Organizational Routines Brian T. Pentland and Martha S. Feldman 14. Conducting Experimental Research on Organizational Routines Alessandro Narduzzo and Massimo Warglien Index

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