"This book evaluates operational strategies and interpersonal skill development for the successful management of modern organizations, highlighting various governance and interaction techniques that assist in mediating organizational controversies"--

"This book evaluates operational strategies and interpersonal skill development for the successful management of modern organizations, highlighting various governance and interaction techniques that assist in mediating organizational controversies"--

It is now 35 years since the death of Professor Joan Woodward, one of the founding figures of organization studies. Professor Woodward died in 1971 at the age of 54 after a relatively brief but highly distinguished career as a management researcher and teacher, and just six years after the...

Some 20 years after the emergence of configurational theory as a key perspective in organization studies in the 1990s, this approach has yet to deliver on its promise. While we know that configurations the relative arrangement of parts and elements - matters, empirical research on configurations...

The recent growth in research on the topic of evolutionary novelties inspired this volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations. While previous sociological work has done an admirable job of understanding selection and differentiation processes, it has widely ignored the origin of...