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“daniel a levinthal”

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  • Evolutionary Processes and Organizational Adaptation

    A Mendelian Perspective on Strategic Management

    by Daniel A. Levinthal ...
    How do firms adapt? There are two basic starting points from which to answer that question. One is premised on ideas of rational choice and intentionality, while the other is a process of evolutionary dynamics. Both are well-defined and operate as powerful intellectual attractors. Using the ideas of Gregor Mendel as a useful touchstone, this book aims to construct a middle-ground between these two ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • Harnessing Complexity

    by Robert Axelrod, Michael D Cohen ...
    Harnessing Complexity will be indispensable to anyone who wants to better comprehend how people and organizations can adapt effectively in the information age. This book is a step-by-step guide to understanding the processes of variation, interaction, and selection that are at work in all organizations. The authors show how to use their own paradigm of "bottom up" management, the Complex Adaptive ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Harnessing Complexity

    Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier

    by Michael D Cohen, Robert Axelrod ...
    Recent advances in the study of complexity have given scientists profound new insights into how natural innovation occurs and how its power can be exploited. Now two pioneers in the field, Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen, provide leaders in business and government with a guide to complexity that will help them make effective decisions in a world of rapid change.Building on evolutionary biology ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Strategic Reframing

    The Oxford Scenario Planning Approach

    by Angela Wilkinson, Rafael Ramirez ...
    Traditional strategy assumes stability and predictability. Today's world is better characterised by turbulence, uncertainty, novelty and ambiguity - conditions that contribute disruptive changes and trigger the search for new ways of coping. This book aims to become the premier guide on how to do scenario planning to support strategy and public policy. Co-authored by three experts in the field, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Systems Concepts in Action

    A Practitioner's Toolkit

    by Bob Williams, Richard Hummelbrunner ...
    Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing and analyzing; learning about; or changing and managing a challenge or set of problems.The book is the first to cover in detail such a wide ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Uncontrolled

    The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society

    by Jim Manzi ...
    How do we know which social and economic policies work, which should be continued, and which should be changed? Jim Manzi argues that throughout history, various methods have been attempted -- except for controlled experimentation. Experiments provide the feedback loop that allows us, in certain limited ways, to identify error in our beliefs as a first step to correcting them. Over the course of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • What's Worth Teaching?

    Rethinking Curriculum in the Age of Technology

    by Allan Collins ...
    Series series Technology, Education—Connections Series
    This important contribution to the future of education, by bestselling author and renowned cognitive scientist Allan Collins, proposes a school curriculum that will fit the needs of our modern era. Offering guidelines for deciding what is important to learn in order to become a knowledgeable person, a good citizen, a thoughtful worker, and a valuable friend in the 21st century, Collins considers ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Case Theory in Business and Management

    Reinventing Case Study Research

    by Evert Gummesson ...
    ′This meticulous book submits research and the research process to deep scrutiny. It debunks the unhelpful dichotomy between quantitative and qualitative research and highlights the great value of multi-method and interactive research, approaches that have greatly deepened our thinking.′– Professor Adrian Payne, University of New South Wales, Australia / Professor Pennie Frow, University of ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Organizational Routines

    How They Are Created, Maintained, and Changed

    Edited by Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Claus Rerup, Haridimos Tsoukas, Ann Langley ...
    Series series Perspectives on Process Organization Studies
    Over the past 15 years, organizational routines have been increasingly investigated from a process perspective to challenge the idea that routines are stable entities that are mindlessly enacted. A process perspective explores how routines are performed by specific people in specific settings. It shows how action, improvisation, and novelty are part of routine performances. It also departs from a ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Creativity

    Edited by Tudor Rickards, Mark A. Runco, Susan Moger ...
    Series series Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing
    Creativity can be as difficult to define as it is to achieve. This is a complex and compelling area of study and this volume is perfectly poised to explore how creativity can be better understood, and used, in a range of contexts. The book not only centres on creativity in wider organizational theory, but also defines the conditions in which creativity can flourish, and assesses how the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Exploring the Field of Business Model Innovation

    New Theoretical Perspectives

    by Oliver Gassmann, Karolin Frankenberger, Roman Sauer ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Presenting a broad literature review of scholarly work in the area of Business Model Innovation, this new book analyses 50 management theories in the context of BMI to yield valuable new insights. Research on BMI is still in its infancy and has so far proved to be more than just a sub-discipline of strategy or innovation research. Exploring the field of Business Innovation demonstrates the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Climate Risk and Business

    New Challenges for Organizations

    by Anna Dowbiggin ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Addressing the urgency of radical decarbonization as a mitigative response to climate risk, this book explores how business can respond to the challenges of climate risk, through various transformational processes. Those processes involve cognitive transformations, organizational changes, climate risk integration into risk management practices, shifts in corporate reporting and disclosure as well ... Read more

    $58.49 USD