Critical Management Studies
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Managing Intensity and Play at Work
Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen
In this thought-provoking book Niels åkerstrøm Andersen uses a unique combination of deconstruction, systems theory and discourse theory to critically discuss topics such as the management of feelings, partnerships as second order promis...eBook:Find out more$34.36
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Coping with Excess
Edited by Barbara Czarniawska, Orvar Löfgren
What does a stockbroker in Istanbul navigating the rush of incoming trading figures have in common with a mother in Stockholm trying to organize a growing pile of baby clothes? They are both coping with excess or overflow. This book expl...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Leadership Development in the Middle East
Edited by Beverly Dawn Metcalfe, Fouad Mimouni
Leadership in the Middle East has never been as vital as it is in the wake of the global financial crisis and the Arab Spring – yet there is a lack of detailed knowledge concerning strategies for developing capacity in leadership, nation...eBook:Find out more$55.96
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Cross-Cultural Management in Practice
Edited by Henriett Primecz, Laurence Romani, Sonja Sackmann
Based on the view that culture is dynamic and negotiated between actors, this groundbreaking book contains a collection of ten cases on cross-cultural management in practice. The cases draw on field research revealing challenges and ins...eBook:Find out more$44.76
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Organizational Spaces
Edited by Alfons van Marrewijk, Dvora Yanow
This insightful book poses interesting theoretical and methodological questions for the processes of spatial design and the treatment of workspaces in organizational settings of various kinds. The contributors expertly answer the need fo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Ethics and Organizational Practice
Edited by Sara Louise Muhr, Bent Meier Sørensen, Steen Vallentin
This timely book provides a collection of critical explorations and discussions of managerial ethics and their moral foundations. It is concerned with theoretical, conceptual and practical matters, and thus provides an open and broad app...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Critical Management Studies at Work
Edited by Julie Wolfram Cox, Tony G. LeTrent-Jones, Maxim Voronov, David Weir
This book is the first of its kind to reflect on what it means to actually perform critical management studies (CMS): how consultants, researchers, teachers and managers negotiate the tensions they experience in their everyday practice.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Corporate Social Responsibility
Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee
This challenging and somewhat controversial book provides a critical perspective on contemporary discourses of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee questions the win-win assumptions of CSR and identifies the l...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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European Universities in Transition
Edited by Carmelo Mazza, Paolo Quattrone, Angelo Riccaboni
This timely and important book provides a critical analysis of the changes and challenges that currently affect European universities. Using both theoretical contributions and applied case studies, leading experts argue that universities...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Trading Places – SMEs in the Global Economy
Edited by Lester Lloyd-Reason, Leigh Sear
Lester Lloyd-Reason and Leigh Sear bring together leading researchers and thinkers in this critical guide to the ongoing, worldwide research shaping the role played by SMEs within today’s global economy. The expert contributors contend ...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Management Education and Humanities
Edited by Pasquale Gagliardi, Barbara Czarniawska
Management Education and Humanities argues that management teachers and researchers seem to be increasingly dissatisfied with the way managers are usually educated in western countries. It claims that educational practices and methods wo...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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The Myth of Japanese Efficiency
Dan Coffey
Combining case studies with accessible but rigorous production models and historical background, this provocative book challenges accepted views on Japanese production methods in the world car industry. The book argues that the ‘lean ...eBook:Find out more$40.00