Balancing the challenges of today with the promise of tomorrow : a presidential perspective / F. King Alexander -- Strengthening the academic presidency : recommendations for presidents and governing boards / Robert M. O'Neil -- Aligning institutional vision with policymakers' and the public's...

Despite increasing research efforts, there is still much confusion regarding the nature and contribution of the most intangible forms of capital. This book develops a comprehensive and unifying conception of intangible capital in order to understand its role with respect to economic growth,...

Business Networks and Strategic Alliances in China addresses how knowledge transfer and innovation are interwoven within complex networks and how social capital contributes to the acquisition of crucial resources and business success in multi-type enterprises in China. The book explains how...

Charles Whalen's book identifies avenues leading to the revitalization of industrial relations as an academic discipline. The contributors, a stellar assemblage of the field's leading scholars, demonstrate there is much work to be done: the scope and intellectual content of industrial relations...

This volume examines some of the most pressing employment and compensation issues confronting academic administrators. Contributors discuss topics such as: ageing of faculty, changing economic conditions and shifts in faculty employment patterns, rapid increases in health care costs and trends...

Introduction -- 1. History of management - what is the future for research on the past? / Marie Laure Djelic -- 2. In search of what accounting is not: speculations on the future of valuing, transparency and a new aesth-etics for governing capitalism and democracy / Paolo Quattrone -- 3. From...

The need for a new grammar of organizing -- The orientation of activities in time and space -- The challenges of coordination -- Influence - taking a political stand on organizing -- Identity construction : mixing cultural diversity and integration in organizing -- Agreements : acknowledging the...

A work exposing and exploring the phenomena of the dysfunctional workplace is long overdue. This fascinating book does just that, uncovering the subversiveness, counter-productive behaviour and unspoken 'issues' that managers struggle with on a daily basis

Contents: Preface -- Introduction to the handbook on the temporal dynamics of organizational behavior / Yannick Griep and Samantha D. Hansen -- Part I: The need to look at organizational behavior from a dynamic perspective -- 1. How a dynamic way of thinking can challenge existing knowledge in...