Business & Management

This study in organisation theory draws heavily on the Theory of Social Intergration as stated by H.J. van Dongen and on Weick's theory of reducing equivocality in processes of social interaction. Case studies of cooperative alliances between Chinese and Western enterprises are presented to introduce and develop these concepts.

This book discusses numerous tools that can help managers to increase the competitiveness of their business, make mergers & acquisitions into a success, and help them to avoid surprise attacks from corporate raiders or Private Equity firms.

This is a book about people and how they function in organizations. It is about how we have constructed ‘things’ that no longer leave room for open communication, true humanity and beauty. People are literally lost in organizations.

This book is about using technological innovation as a strategic weapon in the international competitive arena. It describes concepts and methods to gain competitive advantage through technical excellence and how to manage the associated processes in the organisation.

This book offers a new approach to managing complexity, which is more relevant today than ever before. A distinction is made between sound project management practices for straightforward predictable projects and sound practices for complex projects involving considerable uncertainty and risk.

This study addresses a key question in business: do organizational capabilities relate to bottom line performance? It is a hard struggle to assess intangible, organizational capabilities, but due to web-based technology, serious advances have been made to measure organizational architecture, a comprehensive conceptualization and dimensionalization of organizational capabilities.

This study advocates an employee focused approach to organizing. The study is concerned with the relationships between employee behavior as a primary organizational macro variable, and the macro variables organizational culture, management practices, and organizational structures and systems, as well as between these latter variables mutually.

This seminal work gives the overall blueprint for sociocracy: the next evolutionary step beyond democracy. Developed in the rough and tumble of real Dutch businesses, the sociocratic circle organization uses the principles of the new science of cybernetics to empower everyone in the organization through consent-based decision-making.

This book explores a method for producing organization permanently, for reflecting on organization, for taking decisions and making adjustments.

Taran Patel challenges the conventional fashion in which culture has been evoked in popular international business literature. Stereotypes of Intercultural Management urges managers to question the national and corporate culture stereotypes they are so fond of.