The financial industry's invention of complex products such as credit default swaps and other derivatives has been widely blamed for triggering the global financial crisis of 2008. "Codes of Finance" takes readers behind the scenes of the equity derivatives business at one of th…
This book presents organizational communication from both a communication and managerial perspective.
Bureaucrats are important symbols of the governments that employ them. Contrary to popular stereotypes, they determine much about the way policy is ultimately enacted and experienced by citizens. While we know a great deal about bureaucrats and their actions, we know little abou…
The authors provide an authoritative and practical introduction to organisational behaviour. Coverage of topics and issues combined with a wealth of learning tools help students experience organisational behaviour and guide them to becoming better managers.
At the birth of the Internet Age, computer technologists in small, aggressive software development companies became part of a unique networked occupational community. They were creative, team-oriented, and enthusiastic workers who built "boundaryless careers," hopping from one e…
Organizations: a very short introduction
Organization happens in the act of working with others to accomplish a desired future state. It can happen through intentionally designed activity, spontaneous improvisation, or some combination of the two, but it always requires coordinated effort. This volume provides a lively…
In this work the authors present a general theory of bureaucracy and use it to explain behaviour in large organizations and to explain what determines efficiency in both governments and business corporations. The theory uses the methods of standard neoclassical economic theory. …
This book aims to fill a significant gap in the literature by providing a practical guide to the application of Critical Realism (CR) in empirical research projects. It explores the methodological consequences of committing to a CR ontology, the assumptions that researchers from…
