Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Knowledge Capital

Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion of management education and practice. At the same time, the formalization of management practice has allowed for a widespread diffusion of management ideas across sectors and continents. This book provides an up-to-date summary of the development, refinement, and diffusion of managerial ideas, adding detail and explanation to commonly held conceptions about the explosion of management knowledge.

The contributors contend that management ideas do not flow automatically but are actively shaped and transformed by knowledge...

Divided into two major parts, the book first discusses the convergence of...

At the time of its initial publication, Public Administration helped to define this field of study and practice by introducing two major new emphases: an orientation toward human behavior and human relations in organizations, and an emphasis on the interaction between administration, politics, and policy. Without neglecting more traditional concerns with organization structure, Simon, Thompson, and Smithburg viewed administration in its behavioral and political contexts. The viewpoints they express still are at the center of public administration's concerns.

• This highly topical book focuses on work-based projects as a focus for organizational learning.
  
• Establishes the link between individual, community, organization and industry learning.
  
• Suggests that organizations need to recognise and understand this link if they are to capitalize on project-based learning.
  
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• An exploration of the ways in which organizations can develop their ability to manage the future.
  
• Consists of ten papers written by authors from both sides of the Atlantic and from Asia, all of whom are distinguished scholars in the fields of strategy or organizational learning.
  
• Addresses key questions about how organizational foresight can be conceptualized and developed, and the extent to which it is possible.
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• An exploration of the ways in which organizations can develop their ability to manage the future.
  
• Consists of ten papers written by authors from both sides of the Atlantic and from Asia, all of whom are distinguished scholars in the fields of strategy or organizational learning.
  
• Addresses key questions about how organizational foresight can be conceptualized and developed, and the extent to which it is possible.
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The Future of Industrial Man is the only book by Peter Drucker in which he systematically develops a basic social theory. He presents the requirements for any society to be functioning and legitimate, and then applies these general concepts to the special case of the industrial society. In his new introduction, Drucker explains that his reference to mercantilism in The Future of Industrial Man can today be called neoconservatism, which, he asserts, denies rather than affirms the reality of industrial and postindustrial society.

Drucker outlines the major shifts of...