Organization Theory Meets Strategy

In A Translation Theory of Knowledge Transfer, Kjell Arne R¿vik develops a new theory on the challenges of transferring and sharing knowledge across organizational borders. Based on extensive research, he proposes a new, reframing idea of knowledge transfer...

This book is a rigorous yet accessible introduction to contemporary practice theories, discussing their distinctive contribution to the study of work and organizations. It surveys their origins, theoretical assumptions, concepts, and application.

This book aims to make the pragmatist intellectual framework accessible to organization and management scholars. It presents some fundamental concepts of Pragmatism, their potential application to the study of organizations and the resulting theoretical,...

Spans seventy years of theory from Max Weber's seminal writings on bureaucratic organization to the management thinking represented by Handy, Peters and Waterman. This title covers three areas of interest, those of the structure of organizations,...