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Mapping the Management Journey : Practice, Theory, and Context.
Title:
Mapping the Management Journey : Practice, Theory, and Context.
Author:
Dopson, Sue.
ISBN:
9780191526909
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (375 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- A Note on the Referencing System -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: When the Map Changed? -- PART I: A WORLD OF CHANGE -- 1 Globalization's Regional Reality -- 2 A Tougher World: Managerial Work and Behaviour -- 3 The Technology of the Possible: IT, Innovation, Capitalism, and Globalization -- 4 There and Back Again? Organization Studies 1965-2006 -- 5 Forward to the Past or Back to the Future? Leadership, 1965-2006 -- PART II: A BROADER LENS -- 6 Public Management: Shifting Challenges and Issues -- 7 Professional Service Firms: The Challenges of Innovation -- 8 Insights into the Management of Major Projects -- 9 The Retailing Sector: Barrow Boys, Big Business, and New Technology -- PART III: MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS: TOWARDS A NEW SYNTHESIS -- 10 Information Management: A New Age, A New Subject -- 11 Corporate Strategy and Structure: The Rise and ?Fall of the Conglomerate -- 12 Employment Relations: From Industrial Relations to Human Resource Management -- 13 Operations Management: Realizing Its Strategic Role -- 14 The Brave New World of Business Marketing -- PART IV: MAPPING THE FUTURE -- 15 Forty Years of Scenarios: Retrospect and Prospect -- 16 In Pursuit of Agility: Reflections on one Practitioner's Journey Undertaking, Researching, and Teaching the Leadership of Change -- About the Editors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
The last five decades have seen a sea-change in management studies. The world of business has been transformed by powerful forces: globalization, IT, outsourcing and all manner of organizational reshaping. This book, written by specialist experts, analyses these developments in Management Studies, giving a concise guide to specific areas.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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