Kanban is an emerging second generation agile method inspired by five decades of process excellence in the Japanese auto manufacturing industry, also known as lean thinking. Kanban uses visual management techniques that involve stakeholders and facilitates understanding of how t…
There is widespread awareness of the fact that time has been under-investigated in organizational studies. This book addresses the need to bridge the gap between the predominantly "timeless" theories and models that scholars have produced and the daily experiences of employees a…
This milestone handbook brings together an impressive collection of international contributions on macro research in organizational behaviour. Focusing on core micro-organizational behaviour issues, chapters cover key themes such as individual and group behaviour. The SAGE Handb…
What explains the great variability in economic growth and political development across countries? Institutional and organizational analysis has developed since the 1970s into a powerful toolkit, which argues that institutions and norms rather than geography, culture, or technol…
What explains the great variability in economic growth and political development across countries? Institutional and organizational analysis has developed since the 1970s into a powerful toolkit, which argues that institutions and norms rather than geography, culture, or technol…
This text presents sharp-image diagnosis - a distinctive approach to organizational consultation and planned change that reflects current research and theorizing about organizational change and effectiveness.
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.
Just as newspapers do not, typically, engage with the ordinary experiences of people's daily lives, so organizational studies has also tended largely to ignore the humdrum, everyday experiences of people working in organizations. However, ethnographic approaches provide in-depth…
This title addresses project management across all industries. First covering the essential background, from origins and philosophy to methodology, it is dedicated to concepts and techniques for practical application. Coverage includes project initiation and proposals, scope and…
