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A research agenda for management and organization studies

Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara (contributor) - 2016

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...

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Handbook of social capital : the troika of sociology, political science, and economics

Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard (contributor); … - 2009

The Handbook of Social Capital offers an important contribution to the study of bonding and bridging social capital networks, balancing the'troika' of sociology, political science and economics. Eminent contributors, including Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom, explore the different scientific...

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The quest for a general theory of leadership

Goethals, George R. (contributor); … - 2006

In this compelling book, top scholars from diverse fields describe the progress they have made in developing a general theory of leadership. Led by James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the classic Leadership (1978), they tell the story of this intellectual venture and the...

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Knowledge diffusion and innovation : modelling complex entrepreneurial behaviours

Morone, Piergiuseppe - 2010

Modern economies are described as 'knowledge based'. This book investigates the meaning of such a statement, assessing the relevance of knowledge and the channels through which knowledge is exchanged, both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective

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Complexity and ecosystem management : the theory and practice of multi-agent systems

Janssen, Marco (ed.) - International Society for Ecological Economics … - 2002

The quality of ecosystems is affected by the actions of different stakeholders who use them in a variety of ways. In order to understand this complex relationship between humans and nature, it is vital to understand the complexity of the interacting agents. The authors in this book attempt to do...

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Research companion to emotion in organizations

Cooper, Cary L. (contributor); … - 2008

This Companion brings together many leading scholars to address a wide range of topics in 38 chapters, across five levels of organizational analysis – including within-person, between-person (individual differences), relationships, groups, and the organization as a whole. Chapters tackle...

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Handbook on the economics of happiness

Bruni, Luigino (contributor); Porta, Pier Luigi (contributor) - 2007

This book is a welcome consolidation and extension of the recent expanding debates on happiness and economics. Happiness and economics, as a new field for research, is now of pivotal interest particularly to welfare economists and psychologists. This Handbook provides an unprecedented forum for...

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The economics of environmental risk : information, perception and valuation

Smith, Vincent Kerry - 2022

"Featuring real world examples of how risk information affects public choices, The Economics of Environmental Risk expertly demonstrates that policy makers need to consider how people learn about those risks. Offering insights into examples such as hazardous waste, radon, smoking, hurricanes and...

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The entrepreneur as business leader : cognitive leadership in the firm

Scheer, Silke - 2009

An entrepreneur who decides to found a firm and to hire employees has to tackle two central problems: their employees' coordination and motivation. Drawing on findings from cognitive, social and organizational psychology, this book sheds new light on the relevance of bounded rationality and...

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Handbook of entrepreneurial cognition

Mitchell, Robert J. (contributor) - 2014

Entrepreneurial cognition research is at a crossroads, where static views give way to dynamic approaches. This Handbook … draws on a variety of perspectives from experts in the field of entrepreneurial cognition to highlight the key elements in a … socially-situated view, where cognition is action-oriented, embodied, socially-situated, and distributed. It provides readers …

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