Institutions Incorporated draws together aspects of human and organizational corporeality and links them to institutions. Throughout European anthropology and culture the body has been conceptualized as the 'dark side' to soul and reason. This book explores the 'dark side' of institutions, their...

Individuum und Organisation - Revisited: Neue Konturen eines organisationswissenschaftlichen Forschungsfeldes? -- Organizational Legitimacy as Deliberation: Towards a New Political Role of the Business Firm -- Elitenzirkulation und organisationaler Wandel. Ein Beitrag zu einer politischen...

The last two decades increasingly have challenged the field of management by confronting it with rapidly growing levels of dynamism, inter-connectedness, and complexity. Systems-based management approaches, their promise already proven, offer great potentials for influencing and coping with this...

“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,...

The purpose of the book is to devise an alternative conceptual vocabulary for studying innovation by stressing the role of social, contextual and cultural perspectives. This vocabulary is drawn on a service and on sociological perspectives on innovation based on the ontological assumption that...

Organizations are increasingly facing continuous and highly complex changes that require more proactive strategies, policies and management practices. Conscious of this reality, this book provides information and debate on principles, strategies, models, techniques, methodologies and...

This edited book examines the relationship between the materiality of artefacts and managerial techniques, combining the recent scholarly interest on socio-materiality with a focus on management. Exploring managerial techniques, the social and material tools used by actors to guide or facilitate...

Teamology: The Construction and Organization of Effective Teamsdemonstrates how psychiatrist C. G. Jung’s cognition theory, a cornerstone of modern personality typology, may be used to form and organize effective problem-solving teams through a novel quantitative transformation of numbers from...

Struktur und Grundprobleme einer Ethik organisationalen Handelns -- Entscheidungen, Routinen und soziale Kontexte als Basis organisationalen Handelns -- Individuelle Präferenzen und kommunikative Orientierung im Management -- Normative Verständigung über Commitments als Kern einer...