Summaries: the best textbooks for organization and management summarized

Summaries of the best textbooks for organization and management

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  • Contents: a selection of summaries of the best textbooks for business organization, economics and marketing
  • Study areas: Organization management, organization theory, organizational change, organizational behavior
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Summary with Organizational Change by Senior and Swailes

Summary with Organizational Change by Senior and Swailes

Summary of Organizational Change by Senior & Swailes written in 2014, donated to WorldSupporter

CHAPTER A: ORGANIZATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTS

A.1 Organizations

According to Tony Watson (2002) a common factor of organizations is the idea that organizational have goals which act as a glue holding together the various systems used to produce things. In this sense, organizations can be seen as people interacting to achieve some defined purpose. A typical working definition of.........Read more

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Summary International Business and Management (Kelly)

Summary International Business and Management (Kelly)

This summary of International Business and Management (Kelly) was written in the 2013-2014.

Chapter A: Introduction

For many organizations, international business is a vast and significant source of opportunity. Due to labor that is becoming increasingly mobile, and ict that enables companies to overcome time barriers, organizations cannot remain ethnocentric. (in the belief that there home market is superior) For the growth of international business are many explanations; free trade has opened borders and barriers, there is more open information and communication. Liberalization resulted in mobility of people, goods, services and capital. Not only importing and exporting is simplified, also

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Summary Operations Management (Heizer & Render)

Summary Operations Management (Heizer & Render)

This summary of Operations Management (Heizer & Render) is written in 2013-2014.

Chapter 1: Operations and Productivity

What is Operations Management?

Production: the creation of goods and services

Operations Management (OM): Activities that add value to the creation of goods and services by transforming inputs to outputs.

Organizing to produce goods and services

Organizations need to perform three functions to ensure a smooth production and the organization’s.........Read more

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Summary Management control systems: performance measurement, evaluation and incentives

Summary Management control systems: performance measurement, evaluation and incentives

This summary of Management control systems: performance measurement, evaluation and incentives by Merchant is  written in 2013-2014.

CHAPTER A

1.1 Introduction

Management control is important for organizations because failures in management control can lead to large financial losses, reputation damage, and possibly even to organizational failure.

Despite the importance of having good management control systems (MCSs), management critics have argued that adding controls does not always lead to better control and that the MCSs in common use cause.........Read more

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Summary Philosophies Of Organizational Change (Smith)

Summary Philosophies Of Organizational Change (Smith)

This summary of Philosophies of Organizational Change van Sutherland & Smith is written in 2014 and donated to JoHo WorldSupporter

Chapter 1: Changing context

A philosophy of organization change is ‘the set of assumptions, tacit beliefs, conscious theories and implementation of approaches that govern a change agent’s way of looking at the organizational world and the best approach to introducing change’. The

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