Bücher der Reihe Advanced Series in Management

The volume is divided into two parts. Contributions in the first section raise questions about the meanings of age and age diversity, as well as how and when age matters in organisations. The second part of the book examines the role and contributionof HR practices in forging an age-inclusive workplace.

Why do firms die? This volume explores international and cross-disciplinary perspectives, carrying out a forensic examination of 'how and why' companies die in order to understand the lessons 'dead firms' may have to offer.

The purpose of this volume is to examine new ways of working, technologies and working environments and the impact of these on our behaviors at work. Addressing trust, social cohesion and diversity, leadership, teamwork and innovative work behavior, we show that NWW-practices are changing everyone's work anytime, anyplace, anyhow.

This volume views innovation of HRM in two ways: At one end, HR practices and policies should be designed to support innovative organizational members and climates, new ideas, and larger capacities. At the other end, the HRM function evolves by applying new structures to the practices, and by involving new agents in the management process.

What do shared service models involve? Which business processes can and/or should be shared? This ASM volume deals with such questions relating to the increasingly popular use of Shared Service Centers in organizations. The volume intends to move beyond debating the relevance of shared services towards more systematic research action.

Explores the organization of diplomacy for international entrepreneurship at the micro level: the diplomats' and individual entrepreneurs' perspective. This book takes an interdisciplinary perspective, combining the fields of business administration and public administration, specifically international entrepreneurship and international relations.

This volume utilizes empirical and theoretical approaches to shed light on an exciting set of emerging, stimulating new uses of technology that stretch creativity beyond conventional limits.Understand how the social media revolution is pushing boundaries and challenging anyone involved in the management of people.

This book focuses on the concept and role of relational practices as a way to understand and study processes of organizing. Relational practices are conceived as an ongoing, everyday process resulting in more participative ways of organizing.

Presents consistency/intentionality platforms and evolution models that help to evaluate the learning and renewal capability of an organization and to improve its enabling infrastructure. This book presents the living composition model which is an interpretation of the theory of living, self-producing systems.

Focusing primarily on the application of the theories of complexity to organisations, it slowly helped to disseminate ideas on complexity. The 14 international authors in this volume reflect this interest in 10 chapters that range from the very practical application of the theory to more philosophical reflections on its nature and applicability.

Until recently real people worked in real locations to conduct business, whether in large corporations, or smaller businesses. These papers consider the implications for managers directing staff who work outside the physical confines of a location using telecommunication technologies.