What makes your company great today, however, won't necessarily make it great tomorrow. Evolving is critical to long-term corporate performance and health. Humankind's greatest invention isn't the wheel, it is organization: people working together towards a goal that is beyond w…
While the term neural networks may be unfamiliar to many organizational psychologists, exciting new applications of artificial intelligence are attracting notice among organizational behavior researchers. In "Neural Networks in Organizational Research: Applying Pattern Recogniti…
Provocative new management principles and practices that create effective organizations for shareholders and society. Management experts Lawler and Worley have developed a set of management principles that enable organizations to be both successful and responsible. Existing comm…
Organization scholars have long acknowledged that control processes are integral to the way in which organizations function. While control theory research spans many decades and draws on several rich traditions, theoretical limitations have kept it from generating consistent and…
"Organization scholars have long acknowledged that control processes are integral to the way in which organizations function. While control theory research spans many decades and draws on several rich traditions, theoretical limitations have kept it from generating consistent an…
Organizations: a very short introduction
Most of us recognize that organizations are everywhere. You meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay taxes to them. But have you given much thought to where they came from, what they are today, and what …
The world is quickly changing in ways we find hard to comprehend. Successful methods of dealing with problems have become outmoded. To be successful, you can't just be good. You also need to be creative. In "Creative Intelligence", innovation expert Bruce Nussbaum charts the mak…
Pioneering thinker in organizational communication David Boje here compiles a collection of new essays on the theme of 'antenarrative,' or non-linear narrative, as applied to organizations and business, bringing together different approaches and philosophical interpretations of …
In response to the theories that promise to lead us beyond bureaucracy into an era where products, services, and controls will be perfectly tailored to human needs, this work maintains that it is business as usual. Each chapter contains critiques of the postmodern theory of mode…
The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of real-world organizations and th…
'The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organizations' synthesizes and extends existing research on ethics in organizations by explicitly focusing on 'ethico-politics'- where ethics informs political action. It draws connections between ethics and politics in and around…