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  • Business Strategy

    Managing Uncertainty, Opportunity, and Enterprise

    by J.-C. Spender ...
    What is strategy? For many it is the application of a theory, model or framework. In this book Spender develops a different creative approach. Emphasizing that firms face uncertainties and unknowns (knowledge gaps) he argues that the core of strategic thinking and processes rests on the organization's leaders developing newly imagined solutions to the opportunities that these uncertainties open up ... Read more

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  • Confronting Managerialism

    How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance

    Series series Economic Controversies
    Confronting Managerialism offers a scathing critique of the influence of neoclassical economics and modern finance on business school teaching and management practice. Locke and Spender show that responsible management has given way to 'managerialism', whereby an elite caste of businessmen disconnected from any ethical considerations call the shots.The book traces the loss of managers' earlier ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Strategic Conversations

    Creating and Directing the Entrepreneurial Workforce

    Most organizations fail to take full advantage of their employees' knowledge, initiative, and imagination. In this accessible and practical book, J.-C. Spender and Bruce Strong provide a guide for building entrepreneurial workforces through carefully designed conversations between management and employees. These 'strategic conversations' make employees partners in the strategy development process, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Macroeconomic research on human capital - the stock of human capabilities and knowledge - has been extensively published but to date the literature has lacked a comprehensive analysis of human capital within the organization. The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital has been designed to fill that gap, providing an authoritative, inter-disciplinary, and up to date survey of relevant concepts, research ... Read more

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    Series series Harvard Business Essentials
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