Managerial Dilemmas extends the use of analytical techniques from organisational economics to the spheres of organisational culture and leadership in politics and business.

'The authors should be congratulated for not only offering an excellent tour de force of cutting-edge work in social network analysis, but also charting some new possible territories for future organizational research' - Environment and Planning Social Networks and Organizations provides a compact introduction to major concepts in the area of organizational social networks. The book covers the ..

Offers executives, managers, and knowledge workers with a guide to effective action. This journal teaches leaders how to become effective and how to lead according to the five main pillars of Drucker's philosophy on effective leaders.

Offers a historical overview of organizational communication as a discipline. This book examines methodological issues as well as theoretical ones, including quantitative and qualitative research methods and language/discourse analysis.

Providing a critique of the ways that complexity theory has been applied to understanding organizations, and outining a new direction, this book calls for a radical re-examination of management thinking.

This text examines the extent to which a network approach should inform research on collective action. Leading social movements researchers systematically map out and assess the contribution of social network approaches to their field of enquiry in light of broader theoretical perspective.

Analyzes the social side of technological risk. This book argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety - building in more warnings and safeguards - fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. It asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents.

Studying the intricacy of the organization, this work argues that it is necessary to gather local information about organizational life and subject it to abstract and metaphorical interpretation. Using a narrative approach, the book employs literary devices to reveal the workings of organizations.

The essence of Marx's philosophy, the author points out, is the human struggle for freedom, which entails the gradual emergence of a proletarian revolutionary consciousness and the discovery through conflict of the means for realising complete human freedom. She traces the development and explains the features of Marx's analysis of history.

Seeks an answer to the question: exactly what are the unique characteristics of Japanese firms in product development behaviour? This book concludes that Japanese firms uniquely manage knowledge, and they create it in the course of product development.

This treatment of the basics of project management provides all the fundamentals fledgling project managers need to successfully carry out a project.

This work investigates managing successful virtual companies. This revised edition concentrates on the importance of focusing first on people and describes how to make virtual work real. The book updates all examples and cases, adding new ones from Shell Oil, Motorola, and Pfizer, among others.

This book examines how movements are organized and the role of movement processes within organizations.

This work is a multidisciplinary study of the behaviour of complex organizations as entities. It considers individual behaviour only to the extent that it helps explain the nature of organizations. The test offers propositions about the behaviour of organizations.

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 their environments. In this landmark volume, Karl E Weick highlights how the 'sensemaking' process shapes organizational ..