"It used to be thought that when we talked about organizations and of organizational behavior, there was something already there of a definite character to be talked about. David Campbell, however, takes a quite different social constructionist stance in this book towards organi…
For many years, there has been quite a bit of talk about employee engagement as a means to lift corporate profits and reduce absenteeism and turnover. However, evidence shows that incivility and instances of employee abuse are getting worse. Additionally, with profit as the prim…
This work is a collection of chapters written by scholars from around the world. The editors outline the history of two approaches to the study of cognition in organizations, the computational approach and the interpretive approach. The chapters present research on organizationa…
Elaborates on the influential idea that organizations are interpretation systems that scan, interpret, and learn. This book contains essays that present a fresh approach to the way managers learn and act in response to their environment and the way organizational change evolves.
People go to extraordinary lengths to gain and defend their status. Those with higher status are listened to more, receive more deference from others, and are perceived as having more power. People with higher status also tend to have better health and longevity. In short, statu…
Where does the environment leave off and society begin? When expanding production and consumption drives greenhouse gas emissions that warm the planet, which in turn influence the conditions of economic expansion, it is unclear where the climate ends and the economy begins. This…
Where does the environment leave off and society begin? When expanding production and consumption drives greenhouse gas emissions that warm the planet, which in turn influence the conditions of economic expansion, it is unclear where the climate ends and the economy begins. This…
