Privatization and Supply Chain Management : On the Effective Alignment of Purchasing and Supply after Privatization
ISBN: 9780415173001 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work brings together two of the hottest issues in current management thinking in the 1990s: the impact of privatization on the performance and behaviour of the companies involved, and the increasingly important role of purchasing and supplier relationships. The notion that efficiency is improved with privatization is critically examined, as is the idea that privatized organizations have recognized the importance of the procurement role and developed both their procurement functions and supplier relationships so as to enhance competitiveness. The book should be of interest to students and...
This work brings together two of the hottest issues in current management thinking in the 1990s: the impact of privatization on the performance and be...
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930,07 zł |
Creative Technological Change : The Shaping of Technology and Organisations
ISBN: 9780415179997 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is creative technological change? This text explores new ways of thinking and acting in relation to this question in contemporary organizations. It examines how technology shapes organizations and how organizations shape technology - especially virtual and other information and computing technologies. A wide range of thinking on these issues from organizational theory, political economy, evolutionary economics, feminist analysis, the sociology of technology and the new socio-technical theory is outlined. The idea of metaphor is deployed to capture the differences between, and strengths...
What is creative technological change? This text explores new ways of thinking and acting in relation to this question in contemporary organizations. ...
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930,07 zł |
Creative Technological Change : The Shaping of Technology and Organisations
ISBN: 9780415180009 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is creative technological change? This text explores new ways of thinking and acting in relation to this question in contemporary organizations. It examines how technology shapes organizations and how organizations shape technology - especially virtual and other information and computing technologies. A wide range of thinking on these issues from organizational theory, political economy, evolutionary economics, feminist analysis, the sociology of technology and the new socio-technical theory is outlined. The idea of metaphor is deployed to capture the differences between, and strengths...
What is creative technological change? This text explores new ways of thinking and acting in relation to this question in contemporary organizations. ...
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371,97 zł |
Information Technology, Organizations and People: Transformations in the UK Retail Financial Services
ISBN: 9780415181655 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This wide-ranging volume presents in-depth research into the effect of new information technologies on organizational structure, assesses their progress towards transformation and describes the changes they are making to long-established business process roles, cultures and working practices.
The book is based upon a series of rolling surveys carried out between 1989 and the present day, and funded by leading organizations such as IBM and KPMG. It provides a detailed picture of a sector in transition during a period of anxiety and doubt dominated by restructuring, downsizing and... This wide-ranging volume presents in-depth research into the effect of new information technologies on organizational structure, assesses their progre...
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216,96 zł |
Organizations in Action: Competition Between Contexts
ISBN: 9780415182317 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This original and ambitious work provides a fascinating examination of organizations from both a post-modern and new organizational economics perspective. Combining strategy, international business and organisational theory, it represents a ground-breaking critique of prevailing mainstream modernist theories of organization. Distinctive features include: * a comprehensive analysis of social and organizational theory This original and ambitious work provides a fascinating examination of organizations from both a post-modern and new organizational economics persp... |
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134,30 zł |
Technology in Context: Technology Assessment for Managers
ISBN: 9780415183420 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most managers know very little about the technology they introduce into their firms, often preferring to leave such decisions to a small band of technological 'experts'. As a result large amounts of time and money are often wasted on inappropriate and inefficient systems. The cost of retraining and reorganising can also be prohibitive if the new technology does not deliver the desired results.
In a business environment where technology is of increasing importance, the non-technical manager cannot afford to remain in the dark. Technology in Context provides a toolkit of approaches... Most managers know very little about the technology they introduce into their firms, often preferring to leave such decisions to a small band of techn...
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930,07 zł |
Developing Managerial Competence
ISBN: 9780415183451 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Workplace training and education have increasingly been seen as pivotal factors in improving the abilities, skills and competitiveness of industry, and the aim of the Management Charter Initiative (MCI), was to improve managers' practical competency in line with this. Under the MCI, qualification was gained by proving managerial competence in work related tasks, rather than by studying for a theoretical, educational qualification such as an MBA or degree. This book provides a welcome and comprehensive analysis of the MCI within the context of modern management development. It emphasizes... Workplace training and education have increasingly been seen as pivotal factors in improving the abilities, skills and competitiveness of industry,... |
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1085,08 zł |
Developing Managerial Competence
ISBN: 9780415183468 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Workplace training and education have increasingly been seen as pivotal factors in improving the abilities, skills and competitiveness of industry, and the aim of the Management Charter Initiative (MCI), was to improve managers' practical competency in line with this. Under the MCI, qualification was gained by proving managerial competence in work related tasks, rather than by studying for a theoretical, educational qualification such as an MBA or degree. This book provides a welcome and comprehensive analysis of the MCI within the context of modern management development. It emphasizes... Workplace training and education have increasingly been seen as pivotal factors in improving the abilities, skills and competitiveness of industry,... |
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413,31 zł |
Small Firms and Network Economies
ISBN: 9780415183925 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent development experience points to the way businesses can be the key to a dynamic small business sector, especially where those links are built on high trust co-operative relations. This book reviews different types of small-business network, illustrated by an international selection of case studies, including: Chinese family business networks; ethnic minority business networks; Japanese and South Korean business group networks; Taiwan's subcontracting networks; and European industrial districts. Network promotion initiatives in Singapore, New Zealand, Scandanavia and the UK are each...
Recent development experience points to the way businesses can be the key to a dynamic small business sector, especially where those links are built o...
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800,90 zł |
Work, Change and Competition: Managing for Bass
ISBN: 9780415185264 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents an in-depth study of organizational change and innovation in one of the UK's leading retail leisure companies. Based on a remarkably deep level of access, the authors provide a fascinating longitudinal study of the management process in action - both the formal, 'on stage' aspects of strategic change and the informal, political behaviour of those involved.
Subjects covered include: * the changing contexts of the public house business * from management to managing * change processes and politics * control and empowerment * gender and public house... This book presents an in-depth study of organizational change and innovation in one of the UK's leading retail leisure companies. Based on a remarkabl...
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304,80 zł |
Rethinking the Fifth Discipline : Learning Within the Unknowable
ISBN: 9780415185295 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text presents an approach to management that has attained position on the International Hall of Fame, and explains and critiques the ideas in straight forward terms. The book aims to make fundamental improvements to the core discipline of systemic thinking. It establishes crucial developments in this area in the context of the learning organization, including creativity and organizational transformation. It is therefore a text for strategic planners, organizational change agents and consultants.
This text presents an approach to management that has attained position on the International Hall of Fame, and explains and critiques the ideas in str...
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930,07 zł |
The Concise Dictionary of Business Management
ISBN: 9780415188678 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This second edition of The Concise Dictionary of Business Management has been completely revised and updated to reflect the changing world of work and new technology. It has been expanded to include many new terms and buzzwords such as: contracting out, telecommuting, occupational choice, glass ceiling, superwoman, electronic brainstorming, the internet and the virtual corporation. It is the ideal quick reference guide for students and professionals wanting to cut through the jargon of business and management.
This second edition of The Concise Dictionary of Business Management has been completely revised and updated to reflect the changing world of...
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139,46 zł |
Encyclopedia of Japanese Business and Management
ISBN: 9780415189453 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text is a comprehensive reference source for the exploration of Japanese business and management. Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of this field, the encyclopaedia consolidates and contextualises the leading research and knowledge about the Japanese business system and Japanese management thought and practice. It is designed for scholar and student alike as a resource for teaching, independent study, and wider exploration.
This text is a comprehensive reference source for the exploration of Japanese business and management. Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of this...
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1808,47 zł |
Restructuring the Professional Organization: Accounting, Health Care and Law
ISBN: 9780415192170 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years the professions have undergone radical transformation. With the advent of rapidly changing markets, more sophisticated and demanding clients, deregulation and increased competition, the generalist professional partnerships have given way to larger, more corporate forms of organization, comprising increasingly autonomous specialist business units.
This volume critically examines these changes through an examination of the archetypes which characterize accounting, health care and law practitioners. With examples drawn from Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA,... In recent years the professions have undergone radical transformation. With the advent of rapidly changing markets, more sophisticated and demanding c...
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371,97 zł |
The Governance of Large Technical Systems
ISBN: 9780415196031 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work examines the governance of large technical systems (LTS) at firm, imdustry and state levels and the interactions between the systems and society. In particular, international contributors explore the implications of major technological, economic and social changes during the last twenty years for traditional forms of LTS governance. Their research is centred around the following themes:
* traditional forms of governance * new regulatory challenges * the governability of complex technologies * conceptual issues related to the governance of inter-organizational... This work examines the governance of large technical systems (LTS) at firm, imdustry and state levels and the interactions between the systems and soc...
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749,23 zł |
Thinking about Management: A Reflective Practice Approach
ISBN: 9780415202756 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book invites the reader to explore the more puzzling aspects of those processes called 'management'. It provides a focused collection of readings to support and encourage wider consideration of alternative ways of thinking about management and its effectiveness in contemporary organisations. Key features of this text include: * a selection of contributions which derive from historically grounded and politically aware considerations, examining alternative approaches, and drawing on a wider source of perspectives than those currently dominating management literature This book invites the reader to explore the more puzzling aspects of those processes called 'management'. It provides a focused collection of readi... |
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930,07 zł |
Thinking About Management : A Reflective Practice Approach
ISBN: 9780415202763 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text is an invitation to engage in an exploration of some of the more puzzling aspects of the processes which have come to be called management. It aims to provide a comprehensive but focused collection of readings to support and encourage wider consideration of alternative ways of thinking about management, and its effectiveness, in contemporary organizations.
This text is an invitation to engage in an exploration of some of the more puzzling aspects of the processes which have come to be called management. ...
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258,30 zł |
Organizational Change in Post-Communist Europe: Management and Transformation in the Czech Republic
ISBN: 9780415203333 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent transitional developments in the former communist countries have aroused considerable interest among economists and political scientists alike. Yet relatively little attention has been focused upon the ways in which these significant changes have impacted the micro realities of life within the transforming state-owned enterprises. This text provides a detailed examination of the complex processes of transformation in former state-owned enterprises in the Czech Republic. Drawing on case studies of organizational transformation, this book adopts a social-institutionalist approach to the...
Recent transitional developments in the former communist countries have aroused considerable interest among economists and political scientists alike....
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775,06 zł |
Technology, Organizations and Innovation: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management
ISBN: 9780415203944 / Angielski / Twarda / 2112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An authoritative collection of leading critical and contemporary writings published in the field of technology and organizations. The set spans a 50-year time period taking the reader from the first and most influential papers from the early 1950s through to some recent publications which address contemporary and emerging debates in the field at the dawn of the 21st century. Each of the 4 volumes has a particular focus upon this area of research and scholarship: the early debates; theories, paradigms and concepts; critical empirical studies; and emerging themes and future debates. The editors...
An authoritative collection of leading critical and contemporary writings published in the field of technology and organizations. The set spans a 50-y...
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6717,17 zł |
Employee Ownership, Participation and Governance: A Study of Esops in the UK
ISBN: 9780415204248 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is an examination of the origins, characteristics and performance of employee-owned firms. It focuses on firms that have converted to either partial or full employee ownership using recent institutional, fiscal and legal innovations. The book also offers an in-depth study of Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOPs).
This volume is an examination of the origins, characteristics and performance of employee-owned firms. It focuses on firms that have converted to eith...
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697,56 zł |