This comprehensive Handbook provides an analysis of new venture creation research. The contributors critically discuss and explore the current literature as well as suggest improvements to the field. They reveal a strong sense of both the ‘state-of-the-art’ (what has and has not…
The recent economic crisis was not just caused by a failure of regulation or economic policy; it was a story of the failure of management in a fundamental sense—a deeply flawed approach to management that encouraged bankers to pursue opportunities without regard for their long-t…
Critical management studies - or C.M.S. - has emerged over the last ten years at the term to describe a diverse group of work that has adopted a critical or questioning approach to traditional concerns of management studies. This text examines some of the key issues in the field.
Innovation drives economic change, but what drives innovation? Fransman argues that people's beliefs, or visions of the world, are an important determinant of the innovation process.
Highlighting the key issues that affect businesses which have adopted the Internet as a means of trading or improving internal processes, this book explores the management of e-businesses and the formulation, implementation and evaluation of e-business strategies. Case studies i…
Highlighting the key issues that affect businesses which have adopted the Internet as a means of trading or improving internal processes, this book explores the management of e-businesses and the formulation, implementation and evaluation of e-business strategies. Case studies i…
The 7 habits of highly effective people is recognised as one of the most influential books ever written. In this seminal work, Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centred approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights a…
The aim of this thesis is to examine the experience of time of four professional occupational groups working in public sector organisations and the factors affecting this experience. The literature on time and work is examined to delineate the key parameters of research in this …
Malawi is seen as a society in transition, and as a consequence, it is argued, Malawian managers face particular problems where traditional and Western values intersect. The role of the Polytechnic of Malawi as a provider of management education in this environment is thus probl…
A participant observation method was employed :in the study of a 20-week stoppage at Ansells Brewery Limited, a constituent company of Allied Breweries (U.K.). The strike, :involving 1,000 workers, began :in opposition to the implementation of a four-day working week and culmina…
In this thesis, I view the historical background of Zimbabwe to show the patterns of traditional life that existed prior to settlerism. The form, nature, pace and impact of settlerism and colonialism up to the time of independence are also discussed to show how they affected the…
The objective of the research is to evaluate the degree of success in applying profitsharing as a form of participation in developing command economies, Egypt being the model. Participation is spoken of as a new management ideology to overcome workers' alienation resulting from …
This thesis is concerned with the management processes concerned with complex strategic decision in organisations. The research has sought to explore these processes by taking as its focus the reconstruction of decision processes a) on the basis of an historical study of an indu…
This thesis is based on ethnographic research carried out on a Liverpool protest movement which occurred between November, 1980 and July,1983. The protest movement was waged by residents of the working class community of Croxteth Liverpool who wished to retain their state second…
This thesis reports a cross-national study carried out in England and India in an attempt to clarify the association of certain cultural and non-cultural characteristics with people's work-related attitudes and values, and with the structure of their work organizations. Three pe…
