Organisational theory and behaviour Books

This book explores fractal process patterns of managing and organizing agency within the context of co-creative, post-humanist process assemblages. With a view toward ethics in organization development, it offers theory, research methods, and praxis...

This book reviews the development of the field of intellectual capital reporting, including core concepts, latest developments, the main components of intellectual capital, how a statement is built, and key indicators of each component. It further...

Robert Cooper was one of the leading theorists of organization working in England over the past few decades. For Robert Cooper: Collected Work is a repository of pieces and extracts that stand the test of time. This innovative collection will...

This book presents a vision of change management centered on five key elements, rationale, effect, focus, energy, and connection. It offers practitioners and students a model and method for diagnosing, approaching, and developing change management in a...

This book reviews the existing empirical evidence and provides an integrative framework for the growing body of literature that is situated at the intersection of two highly debated topics: M&A activities and executive compensation.

Gender Equality and Work-Life Balance describes the work-life practices of men in the United States. The purpose is to increase gender equality at work for all employees. With a focus on leave policy inequalities, this book argues that men experience a...

This new volume in the distinguished Praxiology series examines the confluence of praxiology, pragmatics, and systemics in the study of systemic change through human inquiry, particularly small group activities, human organizations, and globalizing...

This book shows how systematic strategic planning (SSP) can be used on real-world projects for professionals at any skill level. It illustrates how this systematic methodology and its analysis tools -- using workshop and brainstorming approaches -- can...

This book presents the first ever comprehensive approach to evaluating and redesigning Human Resource Development (HRD) function and intervention to maximise their contribution to business excellence.

What will be the right place for humans in the new economy of AI, avatars, automation, and 3D virtual worlds? Our job will be to bring wisdom to our workplace and the marketplace, working with intelligent machines, and this book is the roadmap.

This edited collection comprehensively explores Economy 5.0, focusing on critical aspects such as organizational development, intellectual capital, soft agent dynamics, and agility.

Most nonprofits approach strategic planning in ways that take too much time and effort, focus on the wrong issues, and set up the plan to be something that gathers dust on a shelf rather than being implemented. If you want a different approach, this is...

Throughout the book, the authors provide organizational executives with a systematic framework for thinking about strategic decision-making in a hostile environment leaning on analysis of real-world cases to draw out ontologies and methods for guiding...

This book covers the intersection of behavior analysis and management, including a comprehensive examination of different topics within organizational behavior management. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of...

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the powerful intersection between behavior science and performance improvement and demonstrates the myriad ways in which this science can advance performance improvement. The chapters in this book were...

This book reviews the antinomy of rationality and selfishness raised from egoism, though rationality and selfishness are understood as basic evolutionary dynamics of humans and other organisms in both classical economics and evolutionary biology. Based...

This book offers a service science perspective on platform orchestration and on collaborative consumption, providing an overview of research topics related to service dominant logic in multi-sided markets. The chapters give an international and...

This book presents an in-depthempirical analysis of consumer response to alternative policies for energyconservation. Its main focus is on innovative policy instruments that haveattracted increasing attention from academics and energy conservation...

This book investigates the ways in which social norms and bounded rationality shape different contracts in the real world. It brings into focus existing research into optimal contracts, draws important lessons from that research, and outlines prospects...

This is the first book to examine behavioral theories on social preference from institutional and philosophical perspectives using economic experiments. The experimental method in economics has challenged central behavioral assumptions based on...

A gem of a book-well researched, provocative, full of useful tools and guidance. A book that every leader should read and take action. Well done!"- EDUARDO SALAS, Rice University, co-author of Teams that Work"Anchored in the Toyota Production System,...

In Strategy Realized – The Business Hierarchy of Needs®, Jim shares the 29 elements he uses to help his clients create significantly greater success than they had ever thought possible via a best practices model for developing and...

30 years of tact, talent and toil poured into 30 chapters.Each chapter shall give you with practical insights on how to run and manage small and medium scale business enterprise.

Introducing "Culture Drives Strategy" by Dr. Pratik P. Surana Organisational culture is the unsung hero behind effective company strategies, according to Dr. Pratik P. SURANA, a business strategy consultant with more than 25 years of expertise, five...

The volume offers an exploration of methods for analysis of emotion in negotiation, such as cognitive modeling, discourse analysis, all testing, subsequent multidimensional scaling, impression rating, and graph modeling for conflict resolution,...

8 radical lessons from 100 of the world’s most inspiring companiesToday’s workplaces are broken. Badly broken. With 85% of employees disengaged, 23% feeling burned out and 37% believing that their job makes no useful contribution to society,...

This edited volume makes a contribution to the literature on happiness research by compiling studies based on cross-national research and from diverse academic disciplines. The book is distinctive in that it contains both theoretical and empirical...

This is the first book to examine the linkages among natural and organizational accidents and disasters in the modern era and clarifies the mechanisms involved and the significance of emerging problems, from the aging of vital infrastructure for the...

This is the first book to investigate individual's pessimistic and optimistic prospects for the future and their economic consequences based on sound mathematical foundations. The book focuses on fundamental uncertainty called Knightian uncertainty,...

​„Irren ist menschlich" - das alte Sprichwort wird auch durch die Wissenschaft bestätigt: Uns Menschen unterlaufen ständig Denkfehler. Dieses Buch stellt über 300 solcher kognitiver Irrtümer und Verzerrungen, die im Alltag auf uns lauern, auf...

Thorsten Tham highlights the fundamental changes that have swept Germany's footballing landscape in recent years and presents theory-based impact hypotheses about forms of stimulus that can raise the loyalty of football-affine target groups before,...

In his research, Sören Köcher provides valuable insights on the paradoxical effects of the magnitude of a loyalty program medium-i.e. the sheer number of points, miles, or stamps credited for every purchase and required for reward redemption-on the...

Sebastian Burchhardt develops a game theory model that analyzes the possible behavioral patterns of employees during M&A processes and the impact of such patterns on the success of the transaction itself. The result is the development of a...

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Organisation und Verwaltung - Sonstiges, Note: 1,7, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Institut für Sozialwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Bürgerhaushalte haben sich im Bereich der...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Organisation und Verwaltung - Sonstiges, Note: 1,3, Universität Kassel (UNIKIMS- Die Management School der Uni Kassel), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage der...

These proceedings highlight research on the latest trends and methods in experimental and behavioral economics. Featuring contributions presented at the 2017 Computational Methods in Experimental Economics (CMEE) conference, which was held in Lublin,...

As the 64th volume in the prestigious Nebraska Series on Motivation, this book focuses on impulsivity, a multi-faceted concept that encompasses such phenomena as the inability to wait, a tendency to act without forethought, insensitivity to consequences,...

This book reflects the current thinking and research on how consumers' perception of product risks and benefits affects their behavior. It provides the scientific, regulatory and industrial research community with a conceptual and methodological...

This book explains how investor behavior, from mental accounting to the combustible interplay of hope and fear, affects financial economics. The transformation of portfolio theory begins with the identification of anomalies. Gaps in perception and...

This transdisciplinary volume puts forward proposals for wiser, socially just and sustainable socio-economic systems in transition. There is growing support for the view that the end of capitalism is around the corner, but on which conceptual and ethical...

This book rehabilitates beta as a definition of systemic risk by using particle physics to evaluate discrete components of financial risk. Much of the frustration with beta stems from the failure to disaggregate its discrete components; conventional beta...

This volume brings together cutting-edge research from emerging and senior scholars alike representing a variety of disciplines that bears on human preferences for fairness, equity and justice. Despite predictions derived from evolutionary and economic...

This work proposes that Carl Menger's Subjective Theory of Value (STV), and its subsequent elaboration by Ludwig von Mises as Praxeology, provides a useful alternative to more common methods in the study of action and social phenomena, and more...

This book is the transcript of a witness seminar on the history of experimental economics, in which eleven high-profile experimental economists participated, including Nobel Laureates Vernon Smith, Reinhard Selten and Alvin Roth. The witness seminar was...

This book presents essential insights on environmental policy derived from behavioral economics. The authors demonstrate the potential of behavioral economics to drive environmental protection and to generate concrete proposals for the efficient design...

Neoclassical economists assume that people act to maximize their well-being: they choose based on their desires and only desire what they will like. Neuroscientists and psychologists disagree. Their research demonstrates that cues and evolutionary quirks...

This textbook is an introductory guide to applying behavioral sciences and systemic thinking into public policy design and implementation. It presents an innovative public management toolkit to handle 'wicked' social problems - those not very...