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Systems Thinking eBook Series

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  • The Management Thought of Louis R. Pondy

    Reclaiming the Enthinkment Path

    by David M. Boje ...
    Series series Systems Thinking
    Louis R. Pondy was a leading management and organizational studies scholar whose work on open systems helped launch and define the future of the field. This book offers an assessment of Pondy’s contribution, through critical reflection on what happened to the relationship between conflict theory and “beyond open systems.”Exploring the ways in which Louis R. Pondy theorizes conflict and systems, ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

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  • Organizations

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mary Jo Hatch ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Most of us recognize that organizations are everywhere. You meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay taxes to them. But have you given much thought to where they came from, what they are today, and what they might become in the future? How and why do they have so much influence over us, and what influences them? How do ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds

    Crisis and emergence in metamodernity

    by Jonathan Rowson, Layman Pascal ...
    Series Book 1 - Dispatches
    No doubt the 21st century will continue to surprise us, but the battle for the soul of humanity appears to be quickening. Do we have what it takes to save ourselves from ourselves? The internet has fundamentally changed our experience of shared life, for good and bad. The spiritual and ecological exhaustion of modernity is watched and discussed in a public realm mostly controlled by private ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Images of Organization

    by Gareth Morgan ...
    "What a "kick" I get out of teaching from Images of Organizations. What a head-snapping view of organizations it offers to my MBA students, as well as to the odd client/executive who is disposed to creep out of the practicality of business-as-usual and take in a vibrant thrilling view of organizations."— Ariane David, Ph.D., Senior Advisor/President, The Veritas GroupSince its first publication ... Read more

    $125.59 CAD

  • Non-Representational Theory

    Space, Politics, Affect

    by Nigel Thrift ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known. It revolves around three key functions. It:introduces the rather dispersed ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • The Cultural Logic of Computation

    by David Golumbia ...
    Advocates of computers make sweeping claims for their inherently transformative power: new and different from previous technologies, they are sure to resolve many of our existing social problems, and perhaps even to cause a positive political revolution.In The Cultural Logic of Computation, David Golumbia, who worked as a software designer for more than ten years, confronts this orthodoxy, arguing ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies

    Edited by Ann Langley, Haridimos Tsoukas ...
    The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies provides a comprehensive and timely overview of the field. This volume offers a compendium of perspectives on process thinking, process organizational theory, process research methodology and empirical applications. The emphasis is on a combination of pedagogical contributions and in-depth reviews of current thinking and research in each of the ... Read more

    $147.99 CAD

  • The Idea of English in Japan

    by Philip SEARGEANT ...

    $19.99 CAD

  • Pragmatism and Organization Studies

    by Philippe Lorino ...
    Many streams of research in organization and management have criticized the mainstream view of organizations as decision-making and information-processing structures, controlled through rational representations (substantive or procedural rationality). In spite of their differences, these streams of research share some key theoretical principles: Their processual view of organizing as 'becoming', ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

  • Storytelling Organizations

    by David Boje ...
    "Boje does not reflect trends, he is among those who set them" - Hervé Corvellec, Department of Service Management, Lund University"How can I know what I think until I see what David Boje says? What he says about storytelling will forever change what we thought we knew about stories. With remarkable control over a complex argument, Boje recovers, re-punctuates, and re-animates a world of narrative ... Read more

    $97.59 CAD

  • Managing in Uncertainty

    Complexity and the paradoxes of everyday organizational life

    by Chris Mowles ...
    The reality of everyday organizational life is that it is filled with uncertainty, contradictions and paradoxes. Yet leaders and managers are expected to act as though they can predict the future and bring about the impossible: that they can transform themselves and their colleagues, design different cultures, choose the values for their organization, be innovative, control conflict and have ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD

  • Marketing Theory

    Foundations, Controversy, Strategy, and Resource-advantage Theory

    by Shelby D. Hunt ...
    One of the true classics in Marketing is now thoroughly revised and updated. "Marketing Theory" is both evolutionary and revolutionary. As in earlier editions, Shelby Hunt focuses on the marketing discipline's multiple stakeholders. He articulates a philosophy of science-based 'tool kit' for developing and analyzing theories, law-like generalizations, and explanations in marketing science. Hunt ... Read more

    $446.61 CAD