The Solution-Centric Organization
ISBN: 9780072262643 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Solution-Centric Organization provides a comprehensive framework for moving companies away from a product/price orientation to a successful, solution-centric approach that includes sales, marketing, communication, and a problem-solving mentality. Written by the CEO and Marketing VP of Sales Performance International (SPI)_a company that has trained thousands of senior managers in the principles of Solution Selling(R)_this business-building resource shows how to transform an organization so that it can better solve customers' problems, and thereby differentiate itself from the... The Solution-Centric Organization provides a comprehensive framework for moving companies away from a product/price orientation to a successful, so... |
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201,84 zł |
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Organization Studies
ISBN: 9780080408149 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) For the first time, prominent scholars of the major disciplines in organization studies come together to search for common ground. Economists, sociologists and psychologists put aside their disciplinary, their language and paradigm barriers, in seeking to address common problems and find universal solutions. Recent advances in population ecology, transaction cost economics, control theory, leadership studies and decision-making are among the topics covered as well as new syntheses on old confrontations between issues of power and efficiency and of rationality and norms. These papers, stemming...
For the first time, prominent scholars of the major disciplines in organization studies come together to search for common ground. Economists, sociolo...
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1102,30 zł |
Strategic Change: Building a High Performance Organization
ISBN: 9780080425719 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Hardbound. This volume brings together 12 outstanding articles from Long Range Planning - The International Journal of Strategic Management dealing with different aspects of the complex process of managing strategic change.Among the issues covered are the development of strategic vision and the creation of a sense of mission, the importance of corporate culture, the role of leadership and the factors affecting successful implementation of new strategies.Case histories are given describing the experiences of companies such as Volvo, Ciba-Geigy, and BP in their effort to become 'higher...
Hardbound. This volume brings together 12 outstanding articles from Long Range Planning - The International Journal of Strategic Management dealing wi...
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356,21 zł |
Tracks and Frames
ISBN: 9780080434322 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This path-breaking book unifies central parts of organization and management theory that have thus far been fragmented and unconnected. It integrates prior research on organizational types and transitions, and also spawns a number of new incipient theories about organizational transformations. The book develops the framework of a symbolic economy in which organizations are viewed as fundamentally concerned with symbol-processing devices.
This path-breaking book unifies central parts of organization and management theory that have thus far been fragmented and unconnected. It integrates ...
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879,54 zł |
Trade Policy and Corporate Business Decisions
ISBN: 9780195055382 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) U.S. trade policy significantly affects both domestic and world economic conditions, though a gap exists between large political issues of trade policy and day-to-day corporate business decisions in America. This collection provides a bridge between U.S. trade policies (actual and expected) and the financial, marketing, operations, organizational, and strategic aspects of corporate business policy, presenting analysis of trade policy and its volatility, and exploring its effects on the functional activities of corporations.
U.S. trade policy significantly affects both domestic and world economic conditions, though a gap exists between large political issues of trade polic...
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341,73 zł |
Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations
ISBN: 9780195085846 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book presents the latest research and theory about organizational evolutionary change. It brings together the work of organization theorists who have played key roles in challenging the orthodox adaptation views that prevailed until the beginning of the 1980s. Joel A.C. Baum and Jitendra V. Singh emphasize hierarchy of evolutionary processes at the intraorganizational level, the organizational level, the population level, and the community level. Derived from a conference held at the Stern School of Business at New York University, Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations is...
This book presents the latest research and theory about organizational evolutionary change. It brings together the work of organization theorists who ...
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894,22 zł |
Organization Theory: From Chester Barnard to the Present and Beyond
ISBN: 9780195098303 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This collection of papers is edited by renowned business thinker Oliver Williamson, who is currently Transamerica Professor of Corporate Strategy at the School of Business Administration at Berkeley. The fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chester I. Barnard's remarkable and still influential book, The Functions of the Executive, was celebrated with a seminar series at the University of California, Berkeley in the Spring of 1988. Eight of those lectures are published here. The contributors include organization specialists and sociologists (Barbara Levitt and James March; W....
This collection of papers is edited by renowned business thinker Oliver Williamson, who is currently Transamerica Professor of Corporate Strategy at t...
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573,58 zł |
Face, Harmony, and Social Structure: An Analysis of Organizational Behavior Across Cultures
ISBN: 9780195110074 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Face, Harmony, and Social Structure continues author P. Christopher Earley's investigations of the differences among people within organizations in different cultures. The concept of "face," as set forth by Earley, is a reflection of the individual's struggle for self-definition and understanding, of which a key component is a positioning of self relative to others is a social setting. Face is at the heart of social behavior and provides a consistent linking mechanism to understand behavior across cultures. Earley uses this concept of face as a basis for examination of...
Face, Harmony, and Social Structure continues author P. Christopher Earley's investigations of the differences among people within organizati...
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494,66 zł |
Storytelling in Organizations: Facts, Fictions, and Fantasies
ISBN: 9780198290957 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The book's first part develops the theory of storytelling by building on various approaches, including narrative, folkloric, ethnographic, symbolic, social constructionist, and psychoanalytic. The second offers a set of four studies that make use of stories in exploring particular aspects of organizational life.
The book's first part develops the theory of storytelling by building on various approaches, including narrative, folkloric, ethnographic, symbolic, s...
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844,89 zł |
Organizational Participation: Myth and Reality
ISBN: 9780198293781 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Team-working, partnership, quality circles, works councils, industrial democracy--are they distinct and innovative arrangements or is it a case of new wine in old bottles? In the post-war period we have seen numerous forms of organizational participation sometimes as experiments, sometimes as negotiated expediency, and sometimes as hype. Different ideas have emerged from different parts of the world, in different industries, at different times with different objectives. In this book, four experienced international analysts take the longer view and look at the changing forms of--and changing...
Team-working, partnership, quality circles, works councils, industrial democracy--are they distinct and innovative arrangements or is it a case of new...
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435,47 zł |
Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge
ISBN: 9780198295822 / Angielski / Miękka / 1008 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of Organizational Learning and related issues of knowledge in organizations. It explains its origins, current applications and where it may be going. It provides a full account of varied disciplinary approaches, and discusses major issues in the field. With contributions from leading international experts, the book will be an invaluable resource for scholars, students and professionals.
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of Organizational Learning and related issues of knowledge in organizations. It explain...
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622,91 zł |
Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge
ISBN: 9780198295839 / Angielski / Twarda / 1008 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of Organizational Learning and related issues of knowledge in organizations. It explains its origins, current applications and where it may be going. It provides a full account of varied disciplinary approaches, and discusses major issues in the field. With contributions from leading international experts, the book will be an invaluable resource for scholars, students and professionals.
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of Organizational Learning and related issues of knowledge in organizations. It explain...
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1227,20 zł |
Storytelling in Organizations: Facts, Fictions, and Fantasies
ISBN: 9780198297062 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Myths, stories, and folklore are part of the fabric and life of all organizations, enabling us to understand, identify, and communicate the character of the organization - its ambitions, conflicts, and peculiarities. Drawing on extensive fieldwork of storytelling in five organizations, this book argues that stories open valuable windows into the emotional and symbolic lives of organizations. By collecting stories in different organizations, by listening and comparing different accounts, by investigating how narratives are constructed around specific events, by examining which events in an...
Myths, stories, and folklore are part of the fabric and life of all organizations, enabling us to understand, identify, and communicate the character ...
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282,54 zł |
Theories of Organizational Stress
ISBN: 9780198522799 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The costs of stress in the workplace in most of the developed and developing world have risen, according to recent statistics revealing an increase in the number of sick days taken, labor turnover, employee burnout, premature death and decreased productivity. In one volume, this book provides all the major theories of organizational stress from the leading researchers and writers in the field.
The costs of stress in the workplace in most of the developed and developing world have risen, according to recent statistics revealing an increase in...
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844,89 zł |
Business Systems and Organizational Capabilities: The Institutional Structuring of Competitive Competences
ISBN: 9780199205172 / Angielski / Twarda / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Twenty-first century capitalism has been marked by an increasing international economic independence, and considerable differences between dominant economic systems of coordination and control. In this context, national competition and coordination within industries has increased, but the governance of leading firms, and the kinds of competences they develop, remain quite diverse. This book shows how different kinds of firms become established and develop different capabilities in different societies, and as a result are effective in particular kinds of industries and markets.
By... Twenty-first century capitalism has been marked by an increasing international economic independence, and considerable differences between dominant ec...
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292,40 zł |
The Consequences of Decision-Making
ISBN: 9780199206285 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book collects a wide range of the most important writing on decision-making by one of Europe's leading organization theorists, brought together in one volume for the first time, with an introduction from the author.
This book collects a wide range of the most important writing on decision-making by one of Europe's leading organization theorists, brought together i...
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548,92 zł |
Understanding the Firm: Spatial and Organizational Dimensions
ISBN: 9780199260799 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Firms are at the very heart of modern day life. This book addresses some of the gaps in the current state of the theory of the firm from an economic geography perspective: issues around the boundaries of the firm; the collective agency of the firm; the political firm, financial markets, and the state; and the firm in place.
Firms are at the very heart of modern day life. This book addresses some of the gaps in the current state of the theory of the firm from an economic g...
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213,43 zł |
Myths, Stories, and Organizations: Premodern Narratives for Our Times
ISBN: 9780199264476 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Each chapter of the book takes as its starting point a myth, a legend, a story or a fable and explores its contemporary relevance for a world of globalization, organizations and consumerism. Each contributor is inspired by a relatively short but rich text which is then used as a springboard for an analysis of contemporary social and organizational realities. The idea behind this book is that by looking at contemporary society through the prism of pre-modern narratives, certain features emerge in sharp relief, while others are found to be entrenched in societies across the ages. The texts that...
Each chapter of the book takes as its starting point a myth, a legend, a story or a fable and explores its contemporary relevance for a world of globa...
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832,57 zł |
Myths, Stories, and Organizations: Premodern Narratives for Our Times
ISBN: 9780199264483 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Each chapter of the book takes as its starting point a myth, a legend, a story or a fable and explores its contemporary relevance for a world of globalization, organizations and consumerism. Each contributor is inspired by a relatively short but rich text which is then used as a springboard for an analysis of contemporary social and organizational realities. The idea behind this book is that by looking at contemporary society through the prism of pre-modern narratives, certain features emerge in sharp relief, while others are found to be entrenched in societies across the ages. The texts that...
Each chapter of the book takes as its starting point a myth, a legend, a story or a fable and explores its contemporary relevance for a world of globa...
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233,16 zł |
Reasons and Rationalizations: The Limits to Organizational Knowledge
ISBN: 9780199268078 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) What is the purpose of social science and management research? Do scholars/researchers have a responsibility to generate insights and knowledge that are of practical (implementable) value and validity? We are told we live in turbulent and changing times, should this not provide an important opportunity for management researchers to provide understanding and guidance? Yet there is widespread concern about the efficacy of much research. These are some of the puzzles/pressing problems that Chris Argyris addresses in this short book. Argyris is one of the best known management scholars in the...
What is the purpose of social science and management research? Do scholars/researchers have a responsibility to generate insights and knowledge that a...
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536,59 zł |