This handbook's range of topics is divided into four sections: Framing the Field: Introducing Some Big Questions, Macro-organizational Behavior and Immanent Processes, Macro-organizational Behavior and Key Practices, and Organizing on a Macro Scale. Some specific topics include:…
Businesses and other organizations are increasingly hiring anthropologists and other ethnographically-oriented social scientists as employees, consultants, and advisors. The nature of such work, as described in this volume, raises crucial questions about potential implications t…
Businesses and other organizations are increasingly hiring anthropologists and other ethnographically-oriented social scientists as employees, consultants, and advisors. The nature of such work, as described in this volume, raises crucial questions about potential implications t…
Berkshire Hathaway, the $300 billion conglomerate that Warren Buffett built, is among the world's largest and most famous corporations. Yet, for all its power and celebrity, few people understand Berkshire, and many assume it cannot survive without Buffett. This book proves them…
Berkshire Hathaway, the 300 billion conglomerate that Warren Buffett built, is among the world's largest and most famous corporations. Yet, for all its power and celebrity, few people understand Berkshire, and many assume it cannot survive without Buffett. This book proves that …
Based on anthropological fieldwork among Chinese traders in Sarawak, this work interrogates the Confucian capitalism thesis which dominates the approach to Chinese business behaviour in management and social sciences.
With its wide range of current case illustrations and concise summaries, this book will welcome today's MBA student to the wider world of 21st century international business.
"The ways in which commercial organizations and service providers 'style' themselves - creating the image they wish to portray to their potential consumers - is a long-established area of research in the fields of sociology and business studies. However language also plays an im…
