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  • Moral Imagination in the Twenty-first Century

    Individuals and Organizations

    by Patricia H. Werhane, David J. Bevan ...
    What role could or should moral imagination play in managerial and corporate decision-making? This book focuses on three simple questions: why do ordinary, decent managers engage in questionable behavior? Why do successful companies ignore the ethical dimensions of their processes, decisions, and actions? And what motivates a successful company such as McDonald's, which closed its 800 restaurants ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Systems Thinking and Moral Imagination

    Rethinking Business Ethics with Patricia Werhane

    Edited by David J. Bevan, Regina W. Wolfe, Patricia H. Werhane ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume brings together a selection of papers written by Patricia Werhane during the most recent quarter century. The book critically explicates the direction and development of Werhane’s thinking based on her erudite and eclectic sampling of orthodox philosophical theories. It starts out with an introductory chapter setting Werhane’s work in the context of the development of Business Ethics ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • Organization Theory

    Selected Classic Readings

    Edited by Derek S. Pugh ...
    This book spans seventy years of theory from Max Weber's seminal writings on bureaucratic organization to the latest management thinking represented by Handy, Peters and Waterman. Covering three main areas of interest, those of the structure of organizations, management and decision making, as well as that of organizational behaviour, this thoroughly revised and updated edition contains a vast ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Return to Meaning

    A Social Science with Something to Say

    by Mats Alvesson, Yiannis Gabriel, Roland Paulsen ...
    This book argues that we are currently witnessing not merely a decline in the quality of social science research, but the proliferation of meaningless research, of no value to society, and modest value to its authors - apart from securing employment and promotion. The explosion of published outputs, at least in social science, creates a noisy, cluttered environment which makes meaningful research ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Humanistic Management

    Protecting Dignity and Promoting Well-Being

    by Michael Pirson ...
    In a world facing multiple crises, our foundational institutions are failing to offer effective solutions. Drawing on the emerging consilience of knowledge, Michael Pirson debunks the fundamental yet outdated assumptions of human nature that guide twentieth-century management theory and practice - as captured in the 'economistic' paradigm - and instead provides an urgently needed conceptual and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Images of Organization

    by Gareth Morgan ...
    "What a "kick" I get out of teaching from Images of Organizations. What a head-snapping view of organizations it offers to my MBA students, as well as to the odd client/executive who is disposed to creep out of the practicality of business-as-usual and take in a vibrant thrilling view of organizations."— Ariane David, Ph.D., Senior Advisor/President, The Veritas GroupSince its first publication ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Making Sense of Management

    A Critical Introduction

    by Mats Alvesson, Hugh Willmott ...
    The first edition of Making Sense of Management set out to provide a fresh perspective on management that was both broad and critical, exploring how the disruptive and constructive potential of critical theory can be realized in organizations. Along the way, it has proven to be a landmark contribution to critical management studies. As well as setting the agenda for current research, this revised ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Crippling Epistemologies and Governance Failures

    A Plea for Experimentalism

    by Gilles Paquet ...
    Series series Governance Series
    In Crippling Epistemologies and Governance Failures, Gilles Paquet criticizes the prevailing practices of the social sciences on the basis of their inadequate concepts of knowledge, evidence and inquiry, concepts he claims have become methodological “mental prisons”. Paquet describes the prevailing policy development process in Canada in terms of its weak information infrastructure, poor ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Governance and Social Leadership

    by Robert A. Campbell, PhD ...
    Governance and Social Leadership examines the inadequacies of current theories on leadership in order to help us better understand the process of leadership and to suggest mechanisms for change. The proliferation of examples of poor political, religious, corporate and even grass roots leadership is troubling, to say the least. Perhaps more troubling is the resulting cynicism—and apathy—on the part ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Leadership

    Contemporary Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Brigid Carroll, Jackie Ford, Scott Taylor ...
    Written by a team of international experts and taking a truly global approach, Leadership: Contemporary Critical Perspectives is the essential guide to key concepts and contemporary concerns in leadership studies.This third edition has been revised and expanded to improve accessibility to complex theory and add cutting-edge content, including:• Three new chapters on how leadership shapes the ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Organizations

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mary Jo Hatch ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Most of us recognize that organizations are everywhere. You meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay taxes to them. But have you given much thought to where they came from, what they are today, and what they might become in the future? How and why do they have so much influence over us, and what influences them? How do ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Communities of Practice

    Learning, Meaning, and Identity

    by Etienne Wenger ...
    Series series Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
    This book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get to know what we know and by which we become who we are. The primary unit of analysis of this process is neither the individual nor social institutions, but the informal 'communities of practice' that people form as they pursue shared enterprises over ... Read more

    $52.49 USD