The knowledge, resources, and computing power of billions of people are self-organizing into a massive collective force. This book investigates how small businesses can achieve success by using a dynamic ecosystem of partners to co-create and peer-produce value in a networked economy.

Providing comprehensive coverage, this book spans the range of individual, group and organizational factors, as well as examines changing complex and global environments.

This book is a comprehensive survey of 'neoinstitutional economics', which integrates different economic theories.

This book examines the changes in General Motors' organization between 1924 and 1970.

As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. Born to a cabaret dancer and soon orphaned in a scandalous murder-suicide, Lilly finds refuge at a Catholic orphanage, coming under the wing of the, at times, severe Sister August, the first in a string of lost loves. There she meets Hanne Schmidt, a teen prostitute, and forms a bond that will last

A clear, step-by-step approach to designing an organization in today's volatile business world.

Offers exercises, tools and techniques for sustaining organisational learning over the long term, as well as suggestions, advice, cautions and warnings based on the experience of people who have already followed the path suggested by the author in The Fifth Discipline .

To truly transform your organization, you must learn to transform your own mindset. This book's approach brings organization development (OD) into the mainstream of leaders' approaches to change, expanding and integrating the fields of OD, leadership, change management, and consciousness.

How do corporations and other organizations transmit their cultures over time? This book grounds its analysis in mathematical tools and computer simulation, and offers a comprehensive answer to this question. It is for students of organization theory and behavior, cultural studies, strategic management, sociology, economics, and social simulation.

This study aims to broaden the general understanding of change in organizational populations by examining the dynamics of numbers of organizations in populations. The authors examine labour unions, newspapers, publishing, brewing firms, life insurance companies and banks.

Features a story about a penguin colony in Antarctica that illustrates key truths about how deal with the issue of change. The penguins are living happily on their iceberg as they have done for many years. Then one curious penguin discovers a potentially devastating problem threatening their home - and pretty much no one listens to him.

This revised edition of Employing Bureaucracy is an attempt to understand how industrial labour was transformed and to identify the historical process by which good jobs were created. It is, therefore, an account of the bureacratization of employment.

In 1998 John Wood was a rising executive at Microsoft . Then a trip to Nepal inspired him to set up schools and libraries in the developing world.

Compares the actions of the British and US Armies in Southeast Asia to variables that allowed or prevented adaptation to events on the ground. It compares the development of counterinsurgency doctrine in the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) with the development in the Vietnam Conflict (1950-1975).

Presents a paperback collection of 46 readings that focuses on how people function with and within organizations, and how to make the working relationship function best. This edition includes coverage of classic OD articles, coverage of topics such as self-directed teams, centers of excellence, and learning organizations.

A set of complementary hands-on tools for learning about and applying a deeper and practical theory for diagnosis and design.

Rejecting the belief, common among politicians, that all would be well in society if only the public sector operated more like the private sector, this book sets out a fresh approach to creating successful hospitals, police forces, universities, charities, and other non-profit-making organisations.

The second edition of this work shows managers how to drive out the fears - such as fears of losing credibility, being ostracised, or being fired - that keep employees from fully participating in the workplace.