Der Öffentliche Gesundheitsdienst (ÖGD) übernimmt eine wichtige Funktion in Sachen Bevölkerungsgesundheit und wird häufig, neben ambulanter und stationärer Versorgung, als 'dritte Säule' im deutschen Gesundheitswesen beschrieben. Diese sprachlich gleichwertige Positionierung spiegelt sich...

"Organizations and Society examines the costs and consequences of social life that is dominated by rational control characteristic of bureaucratic organizations large and small. Students of all interests-those who wish to run organizations someday, study them, or simply understand their...

Ein überraschender Blick auf Themen, bei denen viele der Überzeugung sind, dass sie sich diesbezüglich bereits eine klare Meinung gebildet haben. Was für ein Irrtum! Warum starten Organisationen Reformen, nur damit alles beim Gleichen bleiben kann? Weswegen verschwindet zwangsläufig die...

Exclusion is the process by which some people are out-grouped, or the state experienced by those alienated and/or marginalised. Lived Experiences of Exclusion in the Workplace shares the emotional expressions of those who have faced alienation and marginalisation -- from subtle to traumatic....

Two main accounts of the effect of social proximity between candidates competing for recognition and members of the evaluating audience can be extrapolated from extant literature on peer-based tournament rituals and cultural fields. Following a Bourdieusian tradition, one account—which we...

Why is there a need to innovate healthcare'? The basic reason stems from the sheer scale of the challenges now facing healthcare provision in the UK and across many other countries. The aim of this book is to interrogate past and current attempts to innovate in this arena and to draw-out the key...

Why is there a need to innovate healthcare'? The basic reason stems from the sheer scale of the challenges now facing healthcare provision in the UK and across many other countries. The aim of this book is to interrogate past and current attempts to innovate in this arena and to draw-out the key...

"Within Entrepreneurship Education, Team Academy is seen by some as an innovative pedagogical model that enhances social connectivity, as well as experiential, student-centred and team-based learning. It also creates spaces for transformative learning to occur. This fourth book of the Routledge...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Point of Departure -- Chapter 3. Actor Specificities and the Types of Economic Organization -- Chapter 4. Transcending Borders and Institutional Dynamics -- Chapter 5. Conflating Capitalisms: Western MNCs in Latin America -- Chapter 6. The Action Situation...

Empowering methodologies in organisational and social research / Emma Bell and Sunita Singh Sengupta -- Decolonising management knowledge and research: reflections on knowledge, processes and actors / Emanuela Girei and Loice Natukunda -- A decolonial feminist ethnography: empowerment, ethics...

Chapter 1: Status as concept and social fact -- Part I: Theoretical perspectives -- Chapter 2: The manipulation of status: Causes and effects -- Chapter 3: Status and cognition: Decision making, policy implementation, and fallacies and biases in status ordered fields -- Part II: Empirical cases...

Die kumulative Dissertationsschrift nutzt theoretische Ansätze der kritischen Management- und Organisationsforschung als gemeinsamen theoretischen Bezugspunkt zur Analyse der Wechselwirkungen zwischen Geschäftsmodellen, Unternehmenszielen, managementseitigen Kontroll- und Einflussmechanismen,...

"'Values-based organizations' are institutions, communities and NGOs which are inspired by a mission or a vocation - for these groups it is their ideals which are most important to them and economics does not have a way to incorporate that into its analysis. This book provides a short...

The concepts of practice and institution are of longstanding importance across the social sciences. This double-volume builds directly on the scholarship of Theodore Schatzki and Roger Friedland, to map out new theoretical and empirical directions at the interface between the practice and...

"This book will highlight global perspectives and present new and significant information and observations about organizational trauma and offer insights derived from a solidly and sufficiently broad knowledge base of theory, research and/or practice"--

Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox is an innovative two-part volume that enriches our understanding about paradox; both deepening the theory and offering greater insight to address the grand challenges we face in the world today. Authors demonstrate how paradox theory benefits...

This volume contains an Open Access chapter. We have witnessed an avalanche of quantitative public measures over the past decades. Research in the social sciences has shown that rankings in particular are now a driving force of social change - both, desired and undesired - in many areas of...

Our everyday lives are structured by the rhythms, values, and practices of various organizations, including schools, workplaces, and government agencies. These experiences shape common-sense understandings of how ';best' to organize and connect with others. Today, for-profit managerial firms...

Organizational trauma theory endeavors to examine the psychological and physical effects of trauma on individuals and groups within an organization. Individual trauma, the individual mental and emotional disruptions that affect the well-being of self, often contributes to organizational trauma....

Theorie: Einführung in Hintergrund, Ziele, Funktionsprinzipien und Methoden der Aufstellungsarbeit - Kontext: Relevanz durch Bezug zu aktuellen Entwicklungen und Fragestellungen in Organisationen, Management und Führung, wie VUCA, Komplexität, Selbstorganisation, Theorie U Praxis: Zahlreiche...

"Organizational diversity has become a topic of interest for practitioners and academics alike. This book explores how diversity in organizations is, and can be researched, providing readers with insights into the potential research designs for studies in contemporary organizations. This...

The concepts of practice and institution are of longstanding importance across the social sciences, that have been too disconnected. Bringing together novel theoretical statements and empirical studies that bridge these social worlds, these two volumes provide a major touchstone for scholars...

The concepts of practice and institution are of longstanding importance across the social sciences, that have been too disconnected. Bringing together novel theoretical statements and empirical studies that bridge these social worlds, these two volumes provide a major touchstone for scholars...