With remarkable regularity a ?new idea? surfaces in the management community. Often it results from repackaging a long-lived management issue or truth. Conversely, the current vogue, Knowledge Management, is a genuinely new concept. In summary this involves the processes that ensure all the knowledge, explicit and implicit, that exists in the organisation is organised in a way that enables it t…

this book bets on the future. It tries as much as possible to respond to the needs of those who are rapidly becoming integrated in modern life, and to the aspiration of the rising generations to an Islamic thought that is capable of taking account of the four major revolutions witnessed by humanity since the end of the Middle Ages in Europe. The first revolution was Copernicus?s discovery that …

The concept of fair division is as old as civil society itself. Aristotle's equal treatment of equals was the first step toward a formal definition of distributive fairness. The concept of collective welfare, more than two centuries old, is a pillar of modern economic analysis. Reflecting fifty years of research, this book examines the contribution of modern microeconomic thinking to distributi…

Organizations usually conduct self-assessments to better understand their own performance and to address their strategic issues and thus, ultimately, to improve their performance. Organizational self-assessment is often used as a diagnostic, or a starting point, for organizations implementing an internal change or strategic planning process, or both. It can also be used as a way to engage in di…

Culture is information that people acquire from others by teaching, imitation, and other forms of social learning. On a scale unknown in any other species, people acquire skills, beliefs, and values from the people around them, and these strongly affect behavior. People living in human populations are heirs to a pool of socially transmitted information that affects how they make a living, how t…

Appropriating and modifying the sociological concept of role distance, the chapter highlights the impersonal way in which legal actors enact their roles and reveals their avowedly strategic forms of communication as weapons deployed within what is sometimes a literally life-and-death agon. In a coercion-saturated environment, speech is the continuation of force by other, and milder, means. Chap…

From this perspective and that of Genesis, the opposite of looking at, listening to, or grasping is not blackness, silence, or lack of pressure, but unstructured energy, energy that does not afford the perceiving of things or events in the world. The energy in the physical world and the energy coded by the receptors at the periphery are neutral. Perceiving is not merely attending to parts of th…

With remarkable regularity a ?new idea? surfaces in the management community. Often it results from repackaging a long-lived management issue or truth. Conversely, the current vogue, Knowledge Management, is a genuinely new concept. In summary this involves the processes that ensure all the knowledge, explicit and implicit, that exists in the organisation is organised in a way that enables it t…

Modern managers and students of management are inundated with advice on how to change organisations in order to improve their effectiveness. This book makes sense of all this competing advice, considering the best ways for organisations to develop their strategic capabilities in a fast-changing world.The authors map all the major routes to organisational improvement and classify them into a num…

Complexity is a relatively new discipline with immense power to change our way of thinking and seeing the world. This, in turn, can change the way we ?manage?, design and structure organisations and create new ways of working and relating. The book has brought together a set of selected papers by European and American academics from a variety of disciplines, that look at both the development of…