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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...

Creative Space summarizes and integrates the various up-to-date approaches of computational intelligence to knowledge and technology creation including the specific novel feature of utilizing the creative abilities of the human mind, such as tacit knowledge, emotions and instincts, and intuition. It analyzes several important approaches of this new paradigm such as the Shinayakana Systems Approach, the organizational knowledge creation theory, in particular SECI Spiral, and the Rational Theory of Intuition resulting in the concept of Creative Space. This monograph presents and analyzes in...