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Tacit knowledge is one of the most important, yet least understood, resources of any business firm. Variously regarded as a source of wisdom, a store of creative power, and facilitator of competitive advantage, tacit knowledge has long been viewed as an organizational resource. In Creating Knowledge Advantage, Nigel Holden and Martin Glisby go beyond this to argue that tacit knowledge is also a significant factor which shapes and reshapes cros...

Globalization, the new economy, and the IT revolution are some of the words used when researchers as well as practitioners try to explain the seemingly ever-increasing speed of change in contemporary society. Whatever the label, organizations today are facing change in a host of different ways. Sometimes they act as "change-takers, " forced to adapt to changes and innovations coming from the outside. At other times they are "change-makers, " w...

The literature on strategy in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is fairly limited despite their great innovative talents. This book provides the reader with a thorough insight into six companies and their prerequisites for creating growth. Strategy Execution focuses on a varied picture of Scandinavian SMEs, and illustrates how this group of companies can contribute with new ways of managerial thinking and progress in the business commu...

This book is a contribution to the development of theory and method on organisational change through interactions with real people in real organisations. Grounded in a theory of reality, based on a particular conceptualising method, and illustrated with reference to real case studies, the authors explicate how to do both theory and method on organisational change in a novel, concise and very readable way.

Improving Students' Learning Outcomes is a book for educators and administrators in higher education who have a genuine interest in developing an inspired curriculum centered on student learning. Integrating theoretical perspectives with empirical practice, researchers and practitioners from four continents discuss why and how students' learning outcomes can be improved. The book offers new theoretical approaches to the understanding of studen...

The book is for everyone interested in software development and/or open innovation processes and will be of particular interest for organisational scholars as it draws heavily on sociological concepts like institutional logics, institutional work and institutional actors.

Sixteen chapters that in their own way colours the Nordic rainbow of research within Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

This book provides a creative and practical, down to earth perspective on how to tackle the complex planning problems characterised by multiple criteria or measures of performance. The book is intended for all who are interested in the theory and practice of planning, no matter whether the field is economic planning, strategic planning, town planning, ecological planning, energy planning -- or just planning itself as a purposeful activity in s...

The contemporary economy is primarily understood through the rationalist and formalist lenses of economic theory and its accompanying (mainstream) theories of organisation and management. In this corpus of work, the economy is commonly portrayed as emerging on the basis of the calculated and instrumental use of heterogeneous resources. Innovation, the capacity to produce new goods and services, being of key importance in a competitive capitali...

The book offers an important look at the extraordinary power and promise of post-colonialism as a critical perspective in management and organisation studies.

This book offers insight and reflections upon the academic career for the recent Ph.D. the book gathers professors from different disciplines, countries and contexts, brought together through a passion for research. The book's contributors provide their unique reflections on their career and personal experiences thereof, giving insights into how the system really works. After reading this book the reader is able to reflect on their own career ...

Ideal as a textbook for students of marketing at university level (business schools and MBA-programs).

This book deals with the substantive issues and procedures of the EU Trade Barrier and illustrates the value and growing importance of TBR in its detailed analysis of leading decisions.

The book presents five exciting cases of companies that have all made remarkable changes in strategic direction and have achieved exceptional results.

This book demonstrates how the success of foreign companies depends on the extent to which they can benefit from structural transformation.

In the discourse of business advantages, shareholder value and coming to terms with the future, developing innovative competency is paramount to the survival of organisations. Using experience from real-life, real-time case studies from a large Danish pharmaceutical company Lotte Darsø guides the reader through the seemingly chaotic phases of problem framing, brainstorming, antagonistic communication and innovative crystallisation. The major f...

The book examines how industrial leaders met the challenge from the democratic movements and how this affected democratisation processes and management models in the Nordic region.

The book demonstrates the advantages of involving practitioners as co-producers of meaningful and usable knowledge.

The academic study of organizations is in a condition of heterodoxy, where diverse methods and theories collide and compete, gathered together only in the broken net of a name. This book assembles some of the bits that break off in the process of this col

Business ethics, corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship, values-driven management, corporate governance, and ethical leadership are necessary horizons for the legitimacy of corporations in the process of globalization. Based on hermeneutic