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In this book, Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the 'creative class' - people who work in information-age economic sectors and in industries driven by innovation and talent.

This book presents an HRM scenario in a number of south-east Asian and Pacific Rim countries, highlighting the growth of the HR function in these countries, their dominant HRM systems and the

The book presents a series of researched biographies of professional accountants who immigrated to the United States and developed their careers there in the late nineteenth / early twentieth century. These accountants

First published in 1986

This indispensable text offers students a high quality treatment of strategic operations management. It provides the reader with a clear understanding of the importance and nature of operations strategy by determining exactly

This book examines how and why corporate strategy, structure and culture is continuing to change markedly in South East Asia. Among the issues that have forced widespread changes in the region are

Business Welsh is a reference manual for native speakers and second language learners who wish to use Welsh in a business or professional environment. This book comprises a wide range of sample

Inter-firm relations are not new. But fast developments in technology and globalization have led to increased opportunities for international alliances, and an upsurge in the interest in inter-organizational relations. With the time

An examination of the relationship between written communication in academic and workplace contexts. Written for writing researchers, teachers, program designers, and others concerned with writing in academic and business arenas.

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

The relatively new field of organizational improvisation is concerned with the pressures on organizations to react continually to today's ever-changing environment. Organizational improvisation has important implications for such subjects as product innovation,

In the past decade, complexity-based thinking has exerted increasing, yet somewhat controversial influence over management theory and practice. This has in some part been due to the influence of a number of

The perspective of complex responsive processes draws on analogies from the complexity sciences, bringing in the essential characteristics of human agents, understood to emerge in social processes of communicative interaction and power-relating.

As a discipline, Informatics has over the years developed from a narrow focus on data processing and software development, towards an emphasis on people's use of technology and its impact on their

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Decisions Without Hierarchy is based on a two-year examination of three feminist organizations: a peace group, health collective, and business women's group. From these case studies, Iannello constructs a model of organizations