A result of many years of research and practice, Changing the Performance is a book about the arts and about business, and the interplay between…

Considering the recent impact of the capital market on corporate strategy, this text analyzes, through argument and supportive case studies, how pressures from the capital…

Mergers and acquisitions remain one of the most common forms of growth, yet they present considerable challenges for the companies and management involved. The effects…

The brewing industry, through its network of public houses, has a profound impact on the lives of much of the population of United Kingdom. Exploring…

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…

In the current period of globalization, Governing Interests presents new research on the impact of internationalization on the organization and representation of business interests through…

One of the dangers in any political system is that the principles that underlie and characterize it may, through their application, bring about its destruction.…

A fundamental problem of public sector governance relates to the very way of thinking it reflects; where organization is thought of as a ‘thing’, a…

Accelerating global change is generating a volatile, shifting and potent array of risks and threats for business and corporate management. If business is to survive…

Part of the Complexity as the Experience of Organizing series, this book applies complex responsiveness theory to real-life leadership experiences. It features contributions from and…