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1. Gossip and Organizations

   By Kathryn Waddington

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   Gossip is a complex and ubiquitous phenomenon, widely found and variously practiced. Gossip and Organizations provides the reader with an analysis of gossip and informal knowledge across different national, organizational and cultural contexts, drawing upon empirical findings and the author's...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. Organizations and the Bioeconomy

   The Management and Commodification of the Life Sciences

   By Alexander Styhre

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   The advancement of the life sciences and the technosciences has enhanced the longevity of citizens in the Western world, and half of the generation born in the first decade of the new millennium is now expected to live to the age of one hundred years. In a society with such longevity and affluence,...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. Time in Organizational Research

   Edited by Robert A. Roe, Mary J. Waller, Stewart R. Clegg

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   Today there is widespread awareness of the fact that time has been under-investigated in organizational studies. This book addresses the need to bridge the gap between the predominantly "timeless" theories and models that scholars have produced and the daily experiences of employees and managers,...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Efficiency and Management

   By Guy Callender

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   It is widely accepted that management concepts such as strategic management, human resource management and management development have a well-defined body of knowledge designed to inform management praxis, however the notion of efficiency has no such body of knowledge to support its application...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Managing Corporate Values in Diverse National Cultures

   The Challenge of Differences

   By Philippe d'Iribarne

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   How should a Western company manage cross-culturally corporate values in its foreign subsidiaries? Do these values make sense everywhere and can they assumed to be universal or, on the contrary, are they culturally Western specific? Philippe d’Iribarne provides answers to these timely and urgent...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
6. Fair Trade Organizations and Social Enterprise

   Social Innovation through Hybrid Organization Models

   By Benjamin Huybrechts

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   For several decades, social enterprises have been pioneers in the conception and implementation of a pathbreaking social innovation: Fair Trade (FT). Fair Trade Social Enterprises have created a movement which has challenged mainstream trading practices and offered development opportunities for...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
7. Commitment to Work and Job Satisfaction

   Studies of Work Orientations

   Edited by Bengt Furåker, Kristina Håkansson, Jan Ch Karlsson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   People’s work orientations and attitudes to paid work are highly important for the welfare of any country. Still, little is currently known about how such attitudes are distributed among different countries, men and women, classes, occupations, age groups and so on. Even less is known about how...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
8. Gender Equity in Science and Engineering

   Advancing Change in Higher Education

   By Diana Bilimoria, Xiangfen Liang

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   Women faculty’s participation in academic science and engineering is critical for future US global competitiveness, yet their underrepresentation particularly in senior positions remains a widespread problem. To overcome persistent institutional resistance and barriers to change, the NSF ADVANCE...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
9. Imagining Organizations

   Performative Imagery in Business and Beyond

   Edited by Paolo Quattrone, Nigel Thrift, Chris Mclean, Francois-Regis Puyou

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   Organizations rely extensively upon a myriad of images and pictorial representations such as budgets, schedules, reports, graphs, and organizational charts to name but a few. Visual images play an integral role in the process of organizing. This volume argues that images in organizations are ‘...

   Published August 11th 2011 by Routledge
10. Why Organizational Change Fails

    Robustness, Tenacity, and Change in Organizations

    By Leike van Oss, Jaap van 't Hek

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    Change in organizations can arise spontaneously, or it can begin in response to a planned process of change. Even planned change is not as predictable as one might like it to be; it is often partial or incomplete, or the results of change may not be what one hoped. The aspects of an organization...

    Published May 24th 2011 by Routledge