Product Description: The BRICS countries are heralded for their double digit economic growth rates and while this has indeed been impressive, particularly in India and China, it is clear that significant social and environmental fault-lines have developed in these regions...read more

Product Description: Alexander Schieffer and Ronnie Lessem introduce a groundbreaking development framework and process to address the most burning issues that humanity faces. While conventional top-down, outside-in development has reached a cul-de-sac, a new, integral form of development is emerging around the world...read more

Product Description: A unique analysis of how a combination of diverse, culturally based approaches are implicitly or explicitly built into the development of a business or organisation. Addressing key issues in developmental management, the author demonstrates how principles of ecology can be applied to different stages of organisational development at both local and global level...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This stimulating, clearly written and well-structured text is a comprehensive introduction to the principles of management and organisational behaviour, as well as a corrective to the eurocentric bias of most management texts. It develops a trans-cultural perspective which draws on insights from across the world to examine different management styles, cultures and stages of business development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Managing in Four Worlds is the first business book to focus simultaneously on physical and human nature, as embodied in culture, as the basis of sustainable business development internationally. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text integrates the work of major new paradigm management thinkers across the globe, focusing in turn upon personal development, group synergy, organizational learning and sustainable development. It has been written to enable practitioners to manage uncertainty, conflict and complexity...read more

Product Description: Highly successful in hardback and now available in paperback, Total Quality Learning will help students of management, management trainers and line managers to develop the ability to assess and improve their management skills.The book demonstrates that by developing a parallel approach to learning and innovation the very substance of business can be transformed...read more

Product Description: Portrays the main European management styles and the philosophical, economic and social contexts in which business is undertaken in France, Germany, Britain and Italy. This work aims to provide a basis for a third force to compare and contrast with Japan and Europe.

Product Description: In a climate of global economic recession and western political stagnation, the Anglo Saxon world seems to have entered a structurally based recession that convential wisdom cannot resolve. This book addresses this structural problem head on to help managers, organizations and economies to evolve...read more

Product Description: The two dominant factors in organizational life in the 21st century are likely to be quality and learning. This book is a synthesis of these two strands and demonstrates that by developing a parallel approach to learning and innovation the very substance of business can be transformed...read more

Product Description: Companies today that want to retain talented staff have to provide them with continuing oppotunities for professional and managerial development. this will become increasingly important as the demographic reality of fewer young people in the market place begins to take effect...read more

Product Description: Almost overnight `corporate culture' have become bywords in management circles. In this book Ronnie Lessem explains the evolution of the concept and proposes ways to transform cultural theory into corporate practice. Using case material from Britain and the United States he illustrates the four major approaches to managing cultural change available to managers today: primal, rational; developmental; metaphysical...read more