http://books.emeraldinsight.com/rss.asp Emerald Bookstore - Subject Browse en Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781780520001 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781780520001 Attempts to build a bridge between POB and Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS). This volume includes contributions from both fields, and theories and studies in which a positive individual perspective (POB) is combined with a positive organization perspective (POS). Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762305063 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762305063 Illustrates the breadth of questions and approaches that are amenable to qualitative research. Of theoretical relevance and pragmatic significance, this book is aimed at organizational scholars and practitioners. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762304882 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762304882 Aims to stimulate thinking on quality-related issues and to facilitate bringing quality into the mainstream of organizational effectiveness. This volume spans a range of topics from the transference of quality practices across multinational boundaries to the role of performance feedback systems in achieving quality-based objectives. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762307395 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762307395 Collects together quality-related theory and research papers. This book examines the evolution and development of the discipline. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780080430744 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780080430744 Addresses the subject of event analysis and the learning organisation in context to safety management systems. This book shows how to manage various responses to an accident, how to collect and analyse data to derive the lessons, and how to deal with the different and conflicting objectives of judicial procedures and organisational learning. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780857245939 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780857245939 Focuses on how market categories shape processes of production and consumption and how these activities in turn shape category systems. This volume explores topics such as: how new categories emerge, become enacted and gain consensus, how categories are used by market agents, and how category systems change over time. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762312221 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762312221 Consists of papers that focus on 'collaborative capital' - broadly defined as the organizational assets that enable people to work together well. This volume is manifested in such outcomes as increased innovation and creativity, commitment and involvement, flexibility and adaptability, leveraging of knowledge, and enhanced learning. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762304967 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762304967 A comparative study of how the industrial relations systems come to be and of changes in such systems in non-industrialized countries since the 1980s. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781780522845 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781780522845 Considers how diverse types of communities influence organizations, as well as the associated benefit of developing an accounting for community processes in organizational theory. This title focuses on social proximity and networks that has characterized the work on communities. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762311323 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762311323 Complex collaboration refers to situations where working together effectively across boundaries is critical for complex projects and problems. This volume addresses such issues as unit of analysis, critical relationships, resource development, virtual teaming, and improvement processes. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762308927 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762308927 Appreciative Inquiry has touched and affected the life of thousands who apply its principles in a wide range of settings including industry, government and not-for-profit organizations. This book revolves around three main themes: we live in worlds our questions create, appreciative discourse and narrative, and the design of inquiring systems. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762312870 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762312870 Advocates an organizational science that focuses on advancing a scholarship of positive human organizations, positive relationships and positive modalities of change, which promise to be of world benefit for individuals, organizations and communities. This title aims to advance a 'scholarship of the positive' and 'positive scholarship'. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781559387552 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781559387552 Covers such topics as the content for corporate environmental action, the framework for analysis of corporate environmentalism, the costs of environmental protection and legal compliance, and consumer demand in the market. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780857241771 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780857241771 Emotions have widespread effects in organizations and underlie a broad range of dynamics in organizations. This volume explores the role that emotion plays in such diverse organizational phenomena as entrepreneurship, change, service failure, and creativity. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781846639401 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781846639401 The rapidly growing recognition of the importance of emotion in understanding all aspects of organizational life is facilitating the development of focused areas of scholarship. This volume includes articles, which represent a selection of the papers presented at the sixth International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762314140 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762314140 ????? Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780080443492 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780080443492 Combining the experiences of safety science and knowledge management in service organisations, this book focuses on individual and group processes and on organisational strategy or societal and environmental issues. It addresses questions such as how can an organisation learn from its successes and failures, from its experiences and accidents Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762313310 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762313310 Innovation has become one of the primary core competencies of effective organizations. This volume includes chapters that explore a variety of methods and settings that show how collaboration can be utilized to enable and enhance innovation. It also discusses the importance of collaborative environments to improve innovation. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781781909225 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781781909225 The Institutional Logics Perspective is one of the fastest growing new theoretical areas in organization studies (Thornton, Ocasio & Lounsbury, 2012). Building on early efforts by Friedland & Alford (1991) to "bring society back in" to the study of organizational dynamics, this new scholarly domain has revived institutional analysis by embracing a Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781781909201 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781781909201 The Institutional Logics Perspective is one of the fastest growing new theoretical areas in organization studies (Thornton, Ocasio & Lounsbury, 2012). Building on early efforts by Friedland & Alford (1991) to "bring society back in" to the study of organizational dynamics, this new scholarly domain has revived institutional analysis by embracing a Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT