This volume is designed to help managers respond better to the late 20th century complex business environment by balancing the need to adapt to new requirements in their competitive environments while seizing new opportunities to shape these environments.

Striking a Balance in Complexity and Knowledge Landscapes

Oliver, David

Roos, Johan

Business & Money

McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.

Co-operative strategies are looked at from a strategic management perspective, illustrating important managerial challenges, formulation and implementation of strategy, strategy content and process issues, cross-cultural management leadership, EC and global-local regional challenges. This casebook illustrates the three underlying perspectives of the firm which create competitive advantages - the environmentally based, the resource based and the competence based.

European Casebook on Cooperative Strategies (European Casebook Series in Management)

PRENTICE/HALL

Despite decades of efforts to promote gender equality, most leadership positions in business, politics, education, and even NGOs are occupied by men, and most people still work in occupations dominated by one sex. This book argues that gender imbalances in leadership and occupations are not simply a moral issue or an economic issue, but a governance issue. Gender imbalances persist in large part because the very people with the authority and influence to do something about them know very little about gender and how it works in their organizations and in society at large. Gender imbalanced governance is an expression of entrenched ideas about masculinity and femininity that lead to poor decision making. Improving the quality of governance requires action to counteract the main justifications for the status quo. Based on interviews and conversations with leaders and managers in Europe and the United States, the book presents seven of the most common explanations for persistent gender imbalances and shows how they are based on common stereotypes and myths about men's and women's abilities and preferences. This book provides a guided tour of current research about gender from a multi-disciplinary perspective. It challenges commonly held assumptions and offers alternative explanations and corresponding principles to guide individual decisions, action, and behaviour toward achieving gender balance.

Bridging the Gender Gap: Seven Principles for Achieving Gender Balance

Roseberry, Lynn

Economics

Oxford University Press

Despite decades of efforts to promote gender equality, most leadership positions in business, politics, education, and even NGOs are occupied by men, and most people still work in occupations dominated by one sex. This book argues that gender imbalances in leadership and occupations are not simply a moral issue or an economic issue, but a governance issue. Gender imbalances persist in large part because the very people with the authority and influence to do something about them know very little about gender and how it works in their organizations and in society at large. Gender imbalanced governance is an expression of entrenched ideas about masculinity and femininity that lead to poor decision making. Improving the quality of governance requires action to counteract the main justifications for the status quo. Based on interviews and conversations with leaders and managers in Europe and the United States, the book presents seven of the most common explanations for persistent gender imbalances and shows how they are based on common stereotypes and myths about men's and women's abilities and preferences. This book provides a guided tour of current research about gender from a multi-disciplinary perspective. It challenges commonly held assumptions and offers alternative explanations and corresponding principles to guide individual decisions, action, and behaviour toward achieving gender balance.

This book presents a new view of organizations which has important implications for the theory, methods and practice of management. For several years the boundaries of political science, sociology and other fields in the social sciences have been significantly rethought with the help of autopoiesis theory. The authors examine how this theory can be applied in the organization and management field, by an increased focus on knowledge and the processes of knowledge development and guidance. Intended as a standard reference for all those involved in the study of advanced organizations, Organizational Epistemology will be welcomed by graduate students, researchers and reflective practitioners alike.

Organizational Epistemology

Von Krogh, George

Business Culture

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This book highlights the challenges for firms operating in industries where traditional boundaries are vanishing and a totally new business landscape unfolds. This puts significant demand on the top management teams and their ability to perceive and interpret phenomena and patterns emerging that may influence strategy. Based upon observation of and involvement in the strategy processes of three media firms a framework for strategy processes is proposed and a practical outline of how new strategy processes should be developed is presented.

Managing Strategy Processes in Emergent Industries: The Case of Media Firms

von Krogh, Georg

Industries

Intellectual Capital refers to one of the most important sources of business advantage - the knowledge within the organisation of how to create value for customers. This is reflected in the transformation of society into knowledge work and the increasing difference between the book value and the market value of companies. This book addresses the issue of how to develop a system for visualising and measuring intellectual capital.

Intellectual Capital: Navigating the New Business Landscape (MacMillan Business)

Edvinsson, Leif

Dragonetti, Nicola C.

International

Successful companies rely on traditional factors of production for their survival. Yet the most important and sustainable sources of competitive advantage—knowledge, customer relations, supply-on-demand, micromanagement, and other forms of "intellectual capital"—often don't even appear on many companies' reporting systems. The results of this lack of attention to intellectual capital can be disastrous for companies and their stockholders. Providing an organizational system that helps managers maximize the flow of intellectual capital in their companies, Intellectual Capital presents the insights gained by leading experts from the practice, research, and consulting side of business management. Starting with a definition of intellectual capital and it main components, the book offers a step-by-step "process model" to rooting out corporate inefficiency at all levels. Illustrated with vivid case studies, the book also covers the latest thinking and practices of the "second generation" of intellectual capital practices, from consolidating intellectual capital measures into a single "IC Index" to linking them with shareholder value creation systems.

Intellectual Capital: Navigating in the New Business Landscape

Roos, Göran

Dragonetti, Nicola Carlo

Management & Leadership

NYU Press

Intellectual Capital refers to one of the most important sources of business advantage - the knowledge within the organisation of how to create value for customers. This is reflected in the transformation of society into knowledge work and the increasing difference between the book value and the market value of companies. This book addresses the issue of how to develop a system for visualising and measuring intellectual capital.

Intellectual Capital: Navigating the New Business Landscape

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Striking a Balance in Complexity and Knowledge Landscapes

European Casebook on Cooperative Strategies (European Casebook Series in Management)

Bridging the Gender Gap: Seven Principles for Achieving Gender Balance

Bridging the Gender Gap: Seven Principles for Achieving Gender Balance

Organizational Epistemology

Managing Strategy Processes in Emergent Industries: The Case of Media Firms

Intellectual Capital: Navigating the New Business Landscape (MacMillan Business)

Intellectual Capital: Navigating in the New Business Landscape

Managing Strategy Processes in Emergent Industries: The Case of Media Firms

Intellectual Capital: Navigating the New Business Landscape