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  • Putting Design Thinking to Work

    How Large Organizations Can Embrace Messy Institutions to Tackle Wicked Problems

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book discusses how the methods and mindsets of design thinking empower large organizations to create groundbreaking innovations. Arguing that innovations must effectively tackle so-called “wicked problems,” it shows how design thinking enables managers and innovators to create the organizational spaces and practices needed for breakthrough innovations. Design thinking equips actors with the ... Read more

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  • Resolving Messy Policy Problems

    Handling Conflict in Environmental, Transport, Health and Ageing Policy

    by Steven Ney ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    Our lives increasingly take place in ever more complex and interconnected networks that blur the boundaries we have traditionally used to define our social and political spaces. Accordingly, the policy problems that governments are called upon to deal with have become less clear-cut and far messier. This is particularly the case with climate change, environmental policy, transport, health and ... Read more

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    The SAGE Course Companion on Organization Theory is an accessible introduction to a challenging subject area. This book helps readers to extend their understanding of theories and make the connection between them and organizational practice. It will enhance their thinking skills in line with course requirements and provides support on how to revise for exams and prepare for and write assessed ... Read more

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  • Cultivating Communities of Practice

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    Today's economy is fueled by knowledge. Every leader knows this to be true, yet few have systematic methods for converting organizational knowledge into economic value. This book argues that communities of practice--groups of individuals formed around common interests and expertise--provide the ideal vehicle for driving knowledge-management strategies and building lasting competitive advantage. ... Read more

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  • Leading Public Design

    Discovering Human-Centred Governance

    This powerful new book provides a clear framework for understanding and learning an emerging management practice, leading public design.Drawing on more than a decade of work on public sector innovation, Christian Bason uses his extensive practical experience and research conducted among public managers in the UK, the US, Australia, Finland and Denmark to explore how public organisations can be ... Read more

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  • Change Management

    A Guide to Effective Implementation

    Now a classic in its field, the fourth edition of Change Management: A Guide to Effective Implementation continues to offer readers highly practical strategies and step-by-step guidance for applying different models of change in different organizational scenarios.New to the Fourth Edition:A third expert author, Sabina Siebert, bringing a background in sociology and cultural studiesAn improved ... Read more

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  • Stewardship

    Choosing Service Over Self-Interest

    by Peter Block ...
    Revised and expanded: this classic guide to business leadership presents "an original and profound new view on how to run an organization" ( Library Journal).Despite all the evidence calling for change, most organizations still rely on patriarchy and control as their core form of governance. The result is that they stifle initiative and spirit and alienate people from their work. In Stewardship, ... Read more

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  • Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector

    by Jacob Torfing ...
    Series series Public Management and Change series
    Governments worldwide struggle to remove policy deadlocks and enact much-needed reforms in organizational structure and public services. In this book, Jacob Torfing explores collaborative innovation as a way for public and private stakeholders to break the impasse. These network-based collaborations promise to multiply the skills, ideas, energy, and resources between government and its partners ... Read more

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  • Management

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Hendry ...
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    John Hendry, a leading management scholar, looks at the nature and practice of Management in this Very Short Introduction. Tracing the development of management over the last century, he looks not only at what managers do, but also provides an insight to modern management theory. He considers the influences of national and organizational culture, the relationship between power and domination, ... Read more

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  • Managing to Collaborate

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    Collaboration between organizations on different continents can raise issues of economic development, health, the environment, risk sharing, supply chain efficiency and human resource management. It is an activity that can touch upon almost every aspect of business and social life. In this notable text, the authors combine rigorous theory with practical examples to create a useful, practical, one ... Read more

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  • Administration and Management Theory and Techniques

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