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This book represents the coming together of two key debates within organization studies: theorizing on gender and ways of understanding resistance. These debates have been given renewed vigor with the "postmodern turn"

The new institutional economics took its roots in the transaction cost theory of the firm as an economic organization rather than purely a production function. This idea has been developed further by

This book draws on the author's own experiences implementing constraint management within UK manufacturing, using case studies to highlight the key issues that substantially enhanced bottom-line performance. It examines the roles of

Chinese Enterprise, Transnationalism, and Identity focuses on one ethnic community--the Chinese--and examines the variety of issues surrounding enterprise development from national and transnational perspectives, starting with the role played by Chinese entrepreneurs

Affinity to the Chinese culture, personalized social networks and a firm control of ownership and management have often been considered the key ingredients for the success of many diaspora Chinese transnational enterprises

In an attempt to achieve high levels of growth, profit, and competitive advantage, American businesses have been implementing a variety of management initiatives, such as TQM, reengineering, service management, self-directed work teams,

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If you are: overwhelmed by the amount of change and the difficulty in making it happen, finding failure - or limited success - with the implementation of changes, disappointed in the growth

An incredible ability awaits managers who practice Theory of Constraints (TOC) techniques: they can take a problem, look beyond the less important details, and directly identify the source of trouble. They've been

Shim (business administration, California State U.) explains software and hardware technologies for the inexperienced business manager. He discusses the importance of databases, networking, and telecommunications; explains popular accounting, finance, management, manufacturing, and

The book delivers an overall introduction to closed loop supply chains and reverse logistics, and provides both qualitative and quantitative information on the size and dimensions of the market and industry and

This book is an original analysis of change management in organisations, in the light of wider sociological perspectives. It critically examines the theoretical frameworks underpinning many contemporary accounts of organisational change.

This textbook is the first introductory primer on integrated marketing communications. It combines theory and practice to show students of marketing how different aspects of integrated marketing communications (IMC) work together.

The East Asian miracle, or its supposed demise, is always news. This book provides the first detailed analysis of the development of education and training systems in Asia, and the relationship with

This original and ambitious work provides a fascinating examination of organizations from both a postmodern and new organizational economics perspective. Combining strategy, international business and organizational theory, Organizations In Action represents a

This book explores humor and comedy in organizational settings. It aims to explore the relationship between humor and organization in a nuanced and radical way, one which reflects the richness and complexity

Red Sox fans, America's most passionate baseball devotees, have long blamed the team's failure to win the World Series on the Curse of the Bambino, brought on by trading Babe Ruth to

This valuable new book provides quality improvement teams, and their leaders, with a comprehensive set of tools and techniques to solve problems and improve processes in their organizations. The book offers experienced

This book examines the technology that is transferred in Mexico's Silicon Valley and the role that institutions of higher education and foreign electronics corporations play in the process. Riveria Vargas delineates that

Despite the considerable economic growth of the Asia-Pacific, poverty continues to be a major problem. One key way to create sustainable livelihoods and to provide poor households an escape route from poverty