.... Chapter 11 covers four different global contexts: politics, information technology, sports and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. In all four contexts, women leaders remain the exception. Significant cultural/political differences across the globe afford different leadership opportunities to women. The chapter...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 --> Leadership Change Technology Communication In the past decade, there has been a proliferation of books about change and change management. One cannot open a business magazine or management journal without facing admonitions about...

... analysis Technology Innovation Behaviour Stability Resilience Inertia Change In the spirit of full disclosure, the tile of the work Edited by Becker and Lazaric, Organizational Routines: Advancing Empirical Research, makes a bold statement as to the progress made towards...

...Nick Forster New technologies are revolutionising the world of work. They have already become an integral part of organisations throughout the world, driving the growth of the two most powerful new forces in the global economy – cyberspace and computing power. In turn, these are creating formidable...

... Day-to-day managerial work activity in two large centres of a major retail bank which was restructuring to achieve the "virtual organisation"actually changed far less radically than the technology theoretically allowed. Researchers in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University...

... © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Organizational culture Intellectual capital Creativity Success Technology Britain's high-performance economy in 2010 - if managers don't stand in the way Keywords: Organizational culture, Intellectual capital, Creativity,Success...

...Darwish A. Yousef This study focuses primarily on exploring the role of organizational culture and level of technology used in the organization as predictors of decision‐making styles in a non‐western country, the United Arab Emirates. Results suggest that organizational culture, and level...

.... The discussion is illustrated with examples drawn from seven companies in which the relationship of scientific knowledge to the decision‐making process was being studied. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Human resource management Knowledge‐based systems Organizational profiles Strategic planning Technology...

...Elaine K. Bailey; Morton Cotlar Addresses the critical need for managers to be trained in the use of current technology. Also discusses strategies to manage more effectively with technology in the international marketplace. © MCB UP Limited 1993 International trade Management...

...R.A. Proctor Argues the case for formalized creativity decision support systems. Technology, both in terms of hardware and software, now supports the possibility of a decision support system which can benefit from creative problem‐solving mechanisms. Given the need for creative thinking in business...