General Management Theory

We are living in an era of change, uncertainty and perplexity. The Information Age is bringing new challenges to organizations and, above all, to their management. Never as now, administrative theory has become so indispensable for the success of the administrator and the organizations. The constant need for innovation and renewal, the search for flexibility and agility to provide change and transformation, the adoption of new ideas. Furthermore, it is worth noting that the administrative theory formula. Its propositions in function of two basic conditioning factors: time (history) and space (distance), which is why we are concerned in offering a vision of organizations and their context throughout this book.