Managers need to develop an understanding of innovation, off-shoring, outsourcing, inter-organizational arrangements and other aspects of supply chain management. This book helps executives and management students to make better sense of these different spheres of activity by exploring them in relation to each other.

This book provides an overview of the key themes and trends in management development for senior level undergraduates, MA's and MBA's in HRM and also for professionals studying for IPD qualifications.

This book provides an overview of the key themes and trends in management development for senior level undergraduates, MA's and MBA's in HRM and also for professionals studying for IPD qualifications.

This fully revised and updated 4th edition of John Storey's successful reader in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture provides a theoretical, analytical and historical introduction to the study of popular culture, and provides key primary coverage of fundamental issues in cultural studies. Content has been revised and essays have been replaced and updated. The Reader offers students the ...

Examines the implications for various stakeholders of the new EU Directive on Information and Consultation.

A revised and fully updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to the study of contemporary popular culture. The book presents an accessible introduction to the range of theories and methods which have been used to study contemporary popular culture.

This extensively revised and updated 5th edition of Storey's market-leading textbook provides an engaging, clear and coherent introduction to cultural theory. Popular culture is used to critically examine the theories and main approaches of cultural theory, and ensures that the accessible approach of previous editions is retained. Content has been expanded and widely illustrated throughout, and

Incorporates contributions from management and business writers in areas adjacent to human resource management, including strategy, innovation and organizational learning. Focusing on the interplay between theory and practice, this book is suitable for researchers and students studying human resource management and strategy.

Offers a comprehensive, contemporary and critical review of the key issues in strategic human resource management. This book helps students to explore thinking on topics as diverse as performance, pay, process reengineering, structure, ethics, culture, change and leadership.

Essential reading for all interested in the areas of leadership and management development, this book features contributions from some of the field's leading scholars.

The subject of cultural studies has not yet been fully defined, since it is a relatively new and still-evolving area, although various schools of thought have sought to claim it as their own. This book is designed as a pedagogic resource which offers a variety of answers to the question it poses.

Drawing on 350 interviews with senior managers, this book presents a theory about the characteristics of managers in 'good innovative organizations' and 'poor innovative organizations'. It focuses on the attitudes, understandings, assumptions and interpretations of managers, who are often the ultimate decision-makers when it comes to innovation.

Offers a comprehensive, contemporary and critical review of the key issues in strategic human resource management. This book helps students to explore thinking on topics as diverse as performance, pay, process reengineering, structure, ethics, culture, change and leadership.

This exciting book sets a new agenda for the interpretation of leadership. Including contributions from some of the most distinctive leading authorities in the field, it considers the newest themes to come out of the leadership debate.

Presents the history of the idea of popular culture. This book traces the invention and reinvention of the concept of popular culture from the eighteenth-century 'discovery' of folk culture to accounts of the cultural impact of globalization. It argues that the idea of popular culture is an invention of intellectuals.

Comparing Britain and Japan, this text questions the authenticity of the popular image of Japanese personnel and management development, which has been held up as a model. It addresses such topics as different systems of selection and recruitment, and contrasting approaches to management control.

Comparing Britain and Japan, this text questions the authenticity of the popular image of Japanese personnel and management development, which has been held up as a model. It addresses such topics as different systems of selection and recruitment, and contrasting approaches to management control.

This study examines the consumption of culture from a cultural studies perspective. It explores historical work on the subject, outlines theoretical perspectives, reviews key work in ethnography, and surveys recent debates on postmodernism, consumption and identity.