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Creativities
Chris Bilton, Stephen Cummings, dt ogilvie
What is creativity and how can we best nurture creativity in different contexts? Drawing on a wide range of cases from the arts, business, design, media and sports, Creativities encourages readers to discover, mix, and adapt their own ve... -
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Resolving the Crisis in Research by Changing the Game
Morten Huse
This groundbreaking book arrives at a time of growing concern for the future of true scholarship. Calling for coordinated efforts to reorganise the scholarly ecosystem, Morten Huse reflects on the past and looks to the future to uncover ...eBook:Find out more$23.96
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Robotization of Work?
Barbara Czarniawska, Bernward Joerges
In 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...eBook:Find out more$23.96
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Organizations Evolving
Howard E. Aldrich, Martin Ruef, Stephen Lippmann
Organizations Evolving offers a unique theoretical framework for understanding organizational emergence, persistence, change and decline. This updated and revised third edition presents an evolutionary view that provides a unified unders...eBook:Find out more$46.36
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Social Entrepreneurship
Edited by Pascal Dey, Chris Steyaert
Pascal Dey and Chris Steyaert provide a timely critique on the idea of social entrepreneurship and its reputation as a means for positive social change. The book uses different traditions and modes of critique to interrogate, disrupt and...eBook:Find out more$37.60
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Individualism and Inequality
Ralph Fevre
A belief in individual self-determination powered the development of universal human rights and inspired social movements from anti-slavery to socialism and feminism. At the same time, every attempt to embed individualism in systems of e...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Elgar Introduction to Organizational Discourse Analysis
Marco Berti
Our knowledge and understanding of organizations is both enabled and constrained by invisible relationship of power that are embedded in the ways in which we act and speak. The notion of discourse has been used by many authors to describ...eBook:Find out more$35.20
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Handbook of Critical Policy Studies
Edited by Frank Fischer, Douglas Torgerson, Anna Durnová, Michael Orsini
Critical policy studies, as illustrated in this Handbook, challenges the conventional approaches public policy inquiry. But it offers important innovations as well, in particular its focus on discursive politics, policy argumentation and...eBook:Find out more$57.60
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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$31.16
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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$35.16
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A Theory of Organizing
Barbara Czarniawska
This new edition of ‘A Theory of Organizing’ continues to promote a processual view of organizing, and presents a theory developed by combining multiple field studies with recent theoretical insights. The author defends the constructioni...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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Contemporary Issues in Management
Edited by Lindsay Hamilton, Laura Mitchell, Anita Mangan
This book is for upper-level students, managers and academics who are interested in exploring the ‘messy reality’ of the contemporary workplace and in considering how things might be done differently. In particular, it offers a critical ...eBook:Find out more$35.96