Chapter 1: Status as concept and social fact -- Part I: Theoretical perspectives -- Chapter 2: The manipulation of status: Causes and effects -- Chapter 3: Status and cognition: Decision making, policy implementation, and fallacies and biases in status ordered fields -- Part II: Empirical cases...

Chapter 1 Prelude: The Sociomateriality and the Legacy of Structuration Theory -- Chapter 2 Actor Network Theory and The Problem of Describing Heterogeneity -- Chapter 3 The Theoretical Positions of Institutions and Technology in Organizational Institutionalism -- Chapter 4 The Materiality of...

Chapter 1: Employee Engagement and the Employee Experience -- Chapter 2: What is Employee Engagement? -- Chapter 3: Why is Employee Engagement Important? -- Chapter 4: A Model for Employee Engagement -- Chapter 5: The Psychology of Work and Employee Engagement -- Chapter 6: The Sociology of Work...

1: Introduction to the philosophical investigation -- 2: The individuality of experience in organizational life -- 3: The I, and of the becoming a social being -- 4: Organizational dialectics and the becoming of the organization -- 5: Leadership as the direction of being -- 6: The ethical...

Vom Sinn und Unsinn der Führungs- und Managementmoden in der Verwaltung -- Die öffentliche Verwaltung und die schwierige Anpassung an moderne Zeiten -- Agile Organisation: Kalter Kaffee oder neue Erfolgsformel? -- Fehler macht man (am besten) nur einmal! Eine organisationssoziologische...

“A must-read for scholars (and reflective practitioners) interested in change, time, strategy, and innovation.” -Haridimos Tsoukas, Columbia Ship Management Professor of Strategic Management, University of Cyprus, and Distinguished Research Environment Professor of Organization Studies,...

Part 1: Why Flat Structures Work at All -- Chapter 1: What does it mean to move towards a “flatter” structure? -- Chapter 2: What managers can effectively and efficiently delegate -- Chapter 3: Why would employees ever assume extra work in a decentralized organization? -- Part 2: What...

Introduction -- Theoretical Background -- Research Design and Methodology -- Case Descriptions of the studied Communities of Practice -- CoPs as Enabler of Organizational Knowledge Creation -- CoPs as Loci of Collective Lead Userness -- CoPs as an Enhancement of Organizations’ Innovative...