Organizational Studies Books

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1. Critical Leadership

   Leader-Follower Dynamics in a Public Organization

   By Paul Evans, John Hassard, Paula Hyde

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

   Critical approaches to leadership studies have sought to challenge the normative position of leadership as residing solely within the formal leader and have gone as far as to undermine the traditionally held assumption of leadership as a "real" phenomenon. The book offers a critical account of the...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. Leading and Implementing Business Change Management

   Making Change Stick in the Contemporary Organization

   By David J. Jones, Ronald J. Recardo

   Being change capable is the "new normal" for today’s growth-minded organizations. The "do more with less" strategies of the past are no longer effective in preparing organizations to meet the increasing challenges for growth, competitiveness and innovation required of them in this new era. Business...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Critical Path Analysis in Practice

   Collected papers on project control

   Edited by Gail Thornley

   Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
4. Cooperatives and Community Development

   Edited by Vanna Gonzales, Rhonda Phillips

   Series: Community Development – Current Issues Series

   In celebration of cooperatives’ contributions to community development processes and outcomes worldwide, the United Nations designated 2012 as the Year of the Cooperative. Today, as in the past, cooperatives have proved effective in bringing people and organizations together to accomplish a broad...

   Published April 18th 2013 by Routledge
5. Consumer Behavior Analysis

   (A) Rational Approach to Consumer Choice

   Edited by Donald A. Hantula, Victoria K. Wells

   Consumption is the primary economic activity in our post-industrial society. We are consumers, not producers. Consumer behavior analysis is leading heterodox marketing scholarship and innovative applied behavioral work, with much to offer both constituencies. This volume shows how consumer behavior...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Institutionalization of Social Welfare

   A Study of Medicalizing Management

   By Mikael Holmqvist

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Today most countries rely on formally organized welfare programs - in some cases to the extent that they are labeled "welfare states". These programs, which have been constructed over the last decades, make up a larger national and international system of good intentions. Overall, it appears...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
7. Managing Sport Organizations

   Responsibility for Performance

   By Daniel Covell, Sharianne Walker

   Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Managing Sports Organizations is still the most interesting, challenging, and student-focused introduction to sport management currently available. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book explores every key topic, issue and concept...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
8. Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

   Theory and Behaviour

   By Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

   Re-issuing volumes originally published between 1949 and 1995 this 31 volume set examines the theory and behaviour of organizations. Topics covered include: the sociology of work leadership and organizations politics at work theory and practice of company organization patterns of business...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
9. Handbook of Organizations (RLE: Organizations)

   Edited by James March

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

   This book charts the state of organizational research and theory during the 1960s. A compendium of results, references, concepts ideas and theories, this Handbook will be of interest to both academics in organizational theory and managers facing operating problems of organizations....

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Sociology of the Workplace (RLE: Organizations)

    Edited by Malcolm Warner

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach. The study of the workplace is approached from the standpoint of industrial sociology, industrial relations, industrial anthropology and other related disciplines. It includes contributions from economists and psychologists as well as from...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge