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Download or read book Managing Services written by Kathryn Haynes and published by Academic. This book was released on 2014 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a collection of perspectives on service and service management written by leading researchers in the field. It considers the range and importance of services, the challenges of managing services and recent contemporary innovations in services and service management.
Download or read book The Exceptional Manager written by Research Fellow Rick Delbridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do businesses go beyond the prescriptive policies and make the shift from the 'low road' of cost to the 'high road' of innovation and value? This book presents an analysis of the context and the challenges, and offers managers and consultants a range of ideas that are helpful to their companies.
Download or read book Strategic Transformation written by M. Hensmans and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very few companies are successful in undertaking strategic transformation while maintaining long term superior financial performance. This book, by leading strategy experts, draws upon extensive interviews with business leaders and insights from companies faced with this challenge.
Download or read book Strategy Innovation and Change written by Robert Galavan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any organization must ask three interrelated questions in order to develop its strategy: where are we, where do we want to be, and how will we get there? While the questions do not change over time, the realities and environments that companies face do. Given today's realities, how should companies answer these questions as they face the challenges of the 21st century? In this book, leading business school educators use their academic, yet managerially-relevant, research to explore these questions. They divide the book into three sections - Understand Your Situation, Develop Your Options, and Lead the Change - and take the reader through some of the latest thinking that helps answer these questions. All the authors have extensive international experience of working with senior managers and are well known academic researchers in their field. They present their ideas in a straightforward, lively, and purposeful way. Their goal is to inform, challenge, and provide practical advice and tools. The book serves as a guide to a range of contemporary business challenges, such as managing uncertainty, creating new markets through innovation, energizing people, leading clever people in organizations with limited hierarchy, and introducing radical change. The central focus is on the core concerns and responsibilities of senior management - strategy and leadership. Clear, crisp, and to the point, this book provides an invaluable and coherent summary of some of the best current business school thinking on contemporary challenges facing organizations. It will be an ideal guide for both MBAs and practicing managers.
Download or read book Disliked Practices written by Nicolas Rohde and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2010 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the concept of organizational practices has become increasingly popular in organization studies. The focus of research that follows a "practice approach" is on the actual activities in organizations as opposed to prescribed procedures or standardized routines. This book is about a hitherto neglected category of practice, namely, disliked practices in organizations. On the basis of an empirical study in three German companies, the author reveals how continuous practicing of disliked practices results in a discrepancy between practitioners and their practices. This stands in contrast to previous literature, which understands practices as being exclusively positive and in which the consent of the practitioner to their practices is generally assumed. Based on the findings from the inductive study, the author develops a Theory of Disliked Practices, which explicates findings about the nature and the evolvement of disliked practices, and the negative effects of disliked practices on practitioners and organizational functioning. This book addresses researchers, lecturers, students and all those interested in organization studies and related disciplines, such as industrial-organizational psychology and sociology. The results of the study have significant implications for practice theory and methodology. Moreover, the theoretical model presented in this book provides a valuable basis for further research. Beyond that, the book will be insightful for managers and consultants who strive to improve the well-being of employees and overall organizational functioning.
Download or read book Managing Global Customers written by George S. Yip and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multinational companies need to manage their relationships with multinational customers with a globally integrated approach. This book provides a systematic framework for developing and implementing such global customer management programs. It draws on in-depth research at over 20 major U.S. and European multinational companies, such as ABB, Bechtel, BP, Bosch, British Airways, Carrefour, Daimler-Chrysler, Hewlett-Packard, HSBC, IBM, Schlumberger, Shell, Siemens, Tesco, Unilever, Vodafone, Wal-Mart, and Xerox. Readers will learn how to · think about managing global customers in the context of their overall global strategy · develop effective global customer management programs · overcome barriers to implementation and success · build better relationships with important customers · get the entire company to engage with managing global customers This book takes a strategic, total business, and not just sales approach to managing global customers. It also takes a customer as well as a supplier perspective. The book provides guidance on both strategy and implementation. Yip and Bink's Managing Global Customers takes a systematic and logic driven approach, yet provides many creative insights and practical advice. Managing Global Customers highlights the rewards of taking a step beyond global account management to create a Global Customer Management approach, integrating globally all aspects of the relationship between supplier and customer. The book gives a framework that guides international companies in using their relationships with global customers to their full potential. George Yip, author of the widely-praised Total Global Strategy, and Audrey Bink tackle in-depth one of the most important aspects of global strategy: How to manage global customers.
Download or read book The Science of Service Systems written by Haluk Demirkan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Science of Service Systems intends to stimulate discussion and understanding by presenting theory-based research with actionable results. Most of the articles focus on formalizing the theoretical foundations for a science of service systems, examining a wide range of substantive issues and implementations related to service science from various perspectives. From the formal (ontologies, representation specifications, decision-making and maturity models) to the informal (analysis frameworks, design heuristics, anecdotal observations), these contributions provide a snapshot in time of the gradually emerging scientific understanding of service systems. The Science of Service Systems, along with its companion text, Service Systems Implementation, is designed to present multidisciplinary and multisectoral perspectives on the nature of service systems, on research and practice in service, and on the future directions to advance service science. These two volumes compose a collection of articles from those involved in the emerging area known as service science.
Download or read book Stakeholder Theory written by M. Bonnafous-Boucher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New standards of corporate behaviour have been established in developed countries, obliging them to record information about the 'triple bottom line' in their annual reports. Corporations, especially multinational companies, have had to develop new strategic orientations. Research on social, environmental and overall ethical behaviour of companies has been developed. The concept of stakeholder has simultaneously gained a kind of 'metaphoric evidence'. The book comments on the American theoretical foundations of the notion of Corporate Social Responsibility, and more specifically, the concept of the stakeholder, and it defines a European perspective.
Download or read book Routine Dynamics written by Christian A. Mahringer and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the power of routines in navigating our increasingly complex world, this volume argues that routines are as much engines of change as they are of stability, and that organizations are in a position to benefit from both.
Download or read book Organizing Reflection written by Michael Reynolds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of leading-edge contributions from pre-eminent international scholars in the field, Organizing Reflection makes a stimulating and distinctive contribution to the study of reflection. By doing so, it offers the first shift from the individual reflective practitioner to processes of collective and public reflection. The unique and varied contributions focus on the development of notions such as public reflection, collective reflection, and critical reflection. In doing so, they provide critical insights into new thinking and approaches to the role of reflection in organizations, as well as the conceptualization and delivery of learning and change. Organizing Reflection will be of interest to scholars working in business, professional, management and organization studies, to human development academics, and to scholarly practitioners in organizations.
Download or read book Building Capacity with Research written by Robin Wensley and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) is a UK research initiative, funded primarily by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to run in the first instance from 2002 to 2006. It primarily supports a wide range of fellows undertaking management research often on a team and multi-disciplinary basis. The paper looks more closely at one of the major strands of AIM research: that related to productivity and performance of the UK economy in an international economy. We consider the results and implications of a range of studies that have considered the potential impact of management in this area. We also consider some of the broader questions related to the challenges of undertaking research which is both of high quality and also achieves impact in the worlds of policy and practice and the nature of the initiative itself.
Download or read book Business Research Methods written by Alan Bryman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adaptation of 'Social Research Methods' by Alan Bryman, this volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the area of business research methods. It gives students an assessment of the contexts within which different methods may be used and how they should be implemented.
Download or read book Uncertainty and Strategic Decision Making written by and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, leading researchers on Managerial and Organizational Cognition consider the foundations of individual and social cognition and their effect on strategic decision-making.
Download or read book International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2010 written by Gerard P. Hodgkinson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the twenty-fifth volume in the most prestigious annual series for the field of industrial and organizational psychology. Continuing the tradition of providing scholarly, up-to-the-minute reviews and updates of theory and research, this volume surveys developments in such familiar areas as employee selection, team cognition and adaptation, leadership, and diversity management. Newer topics include corporate communications, coaching, and positive organizational behavior. Each chapter offers a comprehensive and critical survey of the topic and is supported by a valuable bibliography.
Download or read book The SAGE Dictionary of Qualitative Management Research written by Richard Thorpe and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-12-19 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ′This comprehensive work extends general ideas, concepts, and techniques of qualitative research into the realm of management research...This is a crucial reference tool for anyone conducting research in this field of study′ - CHOICE With over 100 entries on key concepts and theorists, the Dictionary of Qualitative Management Research provides full coverage of the field, explaining fundamental concepts and introducing new and unfamiliar terms. This book provides: - Definitions - Examples in the field of management studies - Criticisms and possible future directions Engagingly written by specialists in each area, this dictionary will be the definitive and essential companion to established textbooks and teaching materials in qualitative management research.
Download or read book Handbook of Research Methods on Human Resource Development written by Mark N.K. Saunders and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Human Resource Development (HRD) research has developed, a growing variety of quantitative and qualitative data collection procedures and analysis techniques have been adopted; research designs now include mono, multiple and mixed methods. This Hand
