Foreign Ownership and the Japanese Firm

George Olcott

Conflict and Change focuses on five Japanese companies acquired by foreign firms in the last ten years (including Nissan, Chugai Pharmaceutical and Shinsei Bank) to show how take-overs by foreign companies have changed HR and organizational practices traditionally associated with Japanese firms.

Simon French, John Maule, Nadia Papamichail

Behavioral studies have shown that while humans may be the best decision makers on the planet, we are regularly subject to biases, inconsistencies and irrationalities in our decision making. This book explores perspectives from many different disciplines to show how we can deliberate and make better decisions.

A Therapeutic Approach

Alan Goldman

Unethical CEO behavior, white collar crime, property deviance, employee grievances and lawsuits, organizational terrorism, and workplace violence have all provided the impetus for an examination of the darker side of leadership.

Achieving Sustainable Success through Leadership, Strategies, and Value Creation

David Rainey

Rainey advocates a holistic approach to the business environment, arguing that managers must work with all stakeholders, both internal and external, to create long-term success.

Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations

Edited by Thomas B. Lawrence, Roy Suddaby, Bernard Leca

This book sets a new research agenda within the field of institutional work by analyzing the ways in which individuals, groups, and organizations work to create, maintain, and disrupt the institutions that structure their lives.

The Intensification of Managerial Work in the USA, UK and Japan

John Hassard, Leo McCann, Jonathan Morris

Based on in-depth interviews with over two hundred middle and senior managers working in large corporations, this book shows how the working lives of managers have been subjected to major disruption, involving work intensification and reduced opportunities for career progression.

J. David Johnson

This innovative book provides a thorough analysis of knowledge networks, focusing on how relationships contribute to the creation of knowledge, its distribution within organizations, how it is diffused and transferred, and how people find it and share it collaboratively.

Innovating for Success

Peter Lorange

Lorange draws on his extensive experience in the shipping industry to show how companies can adapt to the fast-moving and volatile world of maritime business by devising strategies for future success, including specialization and innovation.

The Silent Efficacy of Indirect Action

Robert C. H. Chia, Robin Holt

Using examples from the world of business, economics, military strategy, politics and philosophy, this book argues that success may inadvertently emerge from the everyday coping actions of a multitude of individuals, none of whom intended to contribute to any preconceived design.

Building on the Singapore Experiment

Charles Hampden-Turner

Drawing on the lessons learned from an experiment at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, the book argues that not only is it possible to describe the innovative process, we can also teach, measure, evaluate, and model it.