The ideal firm has been studied over several centuries, yet little is known about what makes one successful and another fail. This pioneering book brings together leading researchers investigating the concept of the firm from a neuroscientific perspective

Corruption in organizations is creating an increasing number of victims and causing huge costs. This timely book brings together international researchers who address the causes and consequences of corruption in organizations and the action needed to reduce levels of corruption worldwide

Drawing on candid accounts from practitioners, producers and industry representatives, this informative and proactive volume investigates the challenges facing today's fair trade movement and provides unique insights into the workings of social and economic power in world markets

In this volume, higher education leaders explore the challenges facing colleges and universities operating in today's environment with constrained budgets and discuss a variety of strategies and solutions being employed to help ensure the ongoing vitality of America's colleges and universities

This important and timely book provides a systematic treatment of temporary organizations--an increasingly prevalent organizational form in which organizations work together on a joint task--for example, a movie production, a rescue operation, development of a new product--for an ex ante limited...

Martin Ricketts, a leading scholar in this field, has selected the seminal papers from a variety of traditions that illustrate the evolution of thinking on 'the firm' over a considerable period of time. The firm as a vehicle for entrepreneurial initiative and the exercise of business judgement...

Contents: Introduction: the aim and structure of the book -- 1. Language and organization -- 2. The discourse of 'organizational discourse -- 3. The power of metaphors -- 4. Discourse as a map -- 5. Discourse as organizing -- 6. Discource as mask: silence, emptiness and ambiguity in discourse --...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Adams, R.B., B.E. Hermalin and M.S. Weisbach (2010), 'The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey', Journal of Economic Literature, 48 (1), 55-107. -- Audretsch, D.B. (1995), Innovation and Industry...

pt. I. The micro-foundations of economic organization : extending behavioral assumptions on knowledge, interest, and rationality -- pt. II. The constitution of economic organization between interacting and contracting -- pt. III. The shaping of economic organization between design and evolution...