Understanding Organizations in Complex, Emergent and Uncertain Environments [electronic resource] /
Davila, Anabella.author.
Elvira, Marta.author.
Ramirez, Jacobo.author.
Zapata-Cantu, Laura.author.
Explores the concept of complexity and analyses how organizational governance can contribute to environmental sustainability. A common theme in these chapters is that organizations actively engage with their environments. Consequently, organizational responses are partly the result of iterative processes with the environment.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; 1 Understanding Organizations in Complex, Emergent and Uncertain Environments: An Introduction; Part I: Complex Organizational Environments and Governance; 2 How Organizations Engage with External Complexity: A Political Action Perspective; 3 The Social Dimension of Boards' Role in Better Corporate Governance; 4 Promoting Leadership in Governance and Governance in Leadership: Towards a Supportive Research Agenda; 5 SME Adoption of Environmental Management Practices: Four Exploratory Case Studies
Part II: Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship in Complex Environments6 Engaging Small Businesses in Innovation: Building Absorptive Capacity through 'R&D Clubs'; 7 Exploring the Determinants and Dimensionality of SME e-Collaboration Trust; 8 Exploring Managerial Perceptions of the Innovation Process in Mexico; 9 The Role of Physical Space and Information Technologies in Knowledge Transfer Processes within SMEs; 10 The Motivation and Management of Highly Specialized Creative Employees; 11 From Life in Cages to Life in Projects: Metaphors for Moderns; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Explores the concept of complexity and analyses how organizational governance can contribute to environmental sustainability. A common theme in these chapters is that organizations actively engage with their environments. Consequently, organizational responses are partly the result of iterative processes with the environment.
Industrial management-Environmental aspects.
Management.
Organization.
Planning.
Leadership.
Economics.
Management science.
Behavioral economics.
Sustainability Management.
Management.
Organization.
Business Strategy/Leadership.
Economics, general.
Behavioral/Experimental Economics.