This book looks at the practical needs of creating and maintaining an effective EA within a 21st century business through the use of pragmatic modelling. The book introduces the concepts behind enterprise architectures, teaches the modelling notation needed to effectively realis…
Organizations change. They grow, they adapt, they evolve. The effects of organizational change are important, varied and complex and analyzing and understanding them is vital for students, academics and researchers in all business schools. The Routledge Companion to Organization…
The world of management is in crisis - the old remedies no longer work and organizations are failing at an increasing rate. Although many talk of joined up thinking, few offer practical guidance on how to achieve this in organizations. The Fractal Organization sets down the prac…
This text provides an analysis of forms of organizational subversion, including "absenteeism", humour and the politics of sexuality. The authors criticize orthodox organizational analysis and map out the terrain across which organizational "misbehaviour" occurs. They examine the…
Reveals the strategies a major design firm uses to foster innovative thinking throughout an organization and overcome the naysayers who stifle creativity. The role of the devil's advocate allows individuals to raise questions and concerns that effectively kill new projects and i…
An extensive array of changes and innovations have taken place in and across work organizations and networks of organizations and workers, facilitated by new technologies and technological forms. This has initiated an interest in technological change as one of the conditions for…
