Books in the Management, Organizations and Business series

* This book looks at how to foster innovation in organizations, focusing on managers as the key participants in the process. * Presents an original theory about the characteristics of managers in "good innovative organizations" and "poor innovative organizations.

* Helps managers to understand how their organisations' performance could be improved. * Presents an overview of the advice on organisational improvement facing managers. * Classifies and evaluates various different approaches. * Highlights the relationships between strategy and capability.

Written in a highly accessible style by a small distinguished team, this is a wide--ranging account of the whole subject of management development, underpinned by the most extensive data set ever made available.

International Management focuses on the most crucial challenge faced by managers of multinational companies today -- that of the generation and transfer of knowledge across national settings, organizations and networks.

* Offers a unique combination of both critiques and SHRM recommendations and prescriptions. * Includes a new section on managing organisational structures. * Set text for one of the largest MBA programmes in Europe. * Includes learning objectives, mini--cases and research results, summaries and discussion questions.

This book advances a design--based approach for the investigation and creation of sustainable organizations. The learning--by--design framework is utilized to examine learning in six successful companies in different industries and national settings and provides a roadmap for improving systematic learning in organizations.