Despite decades of efforts to promote gender equality, most leadership positions in business, politics, education, and even NGOs are occupied by men, and most people still work in occupations dominated by one sex. This book argues that gender imbalances in leadership and occupations are not simply a moral issue or an economic issue, but a governance issue. Gender imbalances persist in large part because the very people with the authority and influence to do something about them know very little about gender and how it works in their organizations and in society at large. Gender imbalanced governance is an expression of entrenched ideas about masculinity and femininity that lead to poor decision making. Improving the quality of governance requires action to counteract the main justifications for the status quo. Based on interviews and conversations with leaders and managers in Europe and the United States, the book presents seven of the most common explanations for persistent gender imbalances and shows how they are based on common stereotypes and myths about men's and women's abilities and preferences. This book provides a guided tour of current research about gender from a multi-disciplinary perspective. It challenges commonly held assumptions and offers alternative explanations and corresponding principles to guide individual decisions, action, and behaviour toward achieving gender balance.

Product Description: Offers the 10 key management lessons essential to mstering complexity and making sense of modern corporate life.

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Written by some of the leading international scholars in the field, this book presents the current state-of-the-art in knowledge management. The book offers a strong response to the need for a body of scientific knowledge on the understanding, managing and measuring of knowledge in organizations and brings an international perspective to bear on the issues bridging theory and practice through case study illustrations from Europe, Japan and American companies. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Successful companies rely on traditional factors of production for their survival. Yet the most important and sustainable sources of competitive advantage—knowledge, customer relations, supply-on-demand, micromanagement, and other forms of "intellectual capital"—often don't even appear on many companies' reporting systems...read more

Product Description: Using both established as well as more recent modes of inquiry, this book sheds new light on an increasingly important dimension of organizational cooperation and competition - that of knowledge and knowledge transfer. Based on research and practice, the book addresses a wide range of issues concerning the management of knowledge, from knowledge transfer between organizations to knowledge management within organizations...read more

Product Description: This book presents a new view of organizations which has important implications for the theory, methods and practice of management. For several years the boundaries of political science, sociology and other fields in the social sciences have been significantly rethought with the help of autopoiesis theory...read more

Product Description: Co-operative strategies are looked at from a strategic management perspective, illustrating important managerial challenges, formulation and implementation of strategy, strategy content and process issues, cross-cultural management leadership, EC and global-local regional challenges...read more

Product Description: Written by leading experts from the US, Europe and Japan, this book represents the state-of-the-art thinking about strategy. Specially commissioned pieces from the world's leading commentators and researchers have been drawn together by the editors into a highly focused overview of the crucial role of strategic processes...read more

Product Description: Strategic alliances are becoming increasingly important as a long-term response to the move towards globalization of businesses, and to their need to learn and adapt quickly, gain access to new markets, and diffuse new technologies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)