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The Failure of Civil Society?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

The Failure of Civil Society?

A look at the voluntary sector in Japan, which has emerged strongly only in recent years.

Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Project Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 944

Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Project Management

In recent years, organizational project management (OPM) has emerged as a field focused on how project, program and portfolio management practices strategically help firms realize organizational goals. There is a compelling need to address the totality of project-related work at the organizational level, providing a view of organizations as a network of projects to be coordinated among themselves, integrated by the more permanent organization, and to move away from a focus on individual projects. This comprehensive volume provides views from a wide range of international scholars researching OPM at a cross-disciplinary level. It covers concepts, theories and practices from disciplines allied to management, such as strategic management, organization sciences and behavioural science. It will be a valuable read for scholars and practitioners alike, who are looking to enrich their understanding of OPM and further investigate this new phenomenon.

The Quadrant Puzzles
  • Language: en

The Quadrant Puzzles

This piece of fiction may at first disturb those singularly pursuing “success” for it lays bare their identities and the nature of their personal relationships. However, by the end of the book there would clearly appear comfort and redemption. A novel that defies genres, it is about how unabashed opportunity creations lead to Orwellian outcomes. This is a must read for a beleaguered market civilization. This book has its share of heroes and villains. But in the end there is a universal triumph for every human being. A novel of immense reconciliation. It has the power to heal the earth and the human heart. Here is a bold attempt to synthesize philosophy and everyday living, the east and t...

Megaproject Leaders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Megaproject Leaders

Megaproject Leaders brings together 18 prominent academics who interviewed 16 great megaproject leaders originating from 10 different countries. Based on a reflective methodological approach, these chapters investigate the managing of megaprojects from a human perspective, identify new trends in the managing of megaprojects and identify lessons learned from the personal views of the interviewees. The novel ideas presented will appeal to academics, practitioners and university students.

Novel Approaches to Organizational Project Management Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 480

Novel Approaches to Organizational Project Management Research

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: CBS Press

Project management (PM), traditionally employed to implement projects, has developed into Organizational Project Management, as organizations are increasingly using projects to deliver strategies. The emergence of program and portfolio management has also contributed to this move. PM researchers need to become more innovative in their research approaches. They need to connect with the broader currents of social science in relevant fields, such as organization theory. Outside the specific field, there is a great deal that can usefully be imported, transformed, and translated so that it is fit for project management research purposes. More trans-disciplinary, translational, and transformationa...

Managing VUCA Through Integrative Self-Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Managing VUCA Through Integrative Self-Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-05-06
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  • Publisher: Springer

In this book, experts discuss whether volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) represent a challenge or a business opportunity. More intense debates on global climate change, increased turbulence in financial quarters, increased job insecurity and high levels of stress at the workplace are attracting attention in the context of organization behavior and entrepreneurship. Fear and confusion have become part and parcel of business, often undermining trust, cooperation and inspiration. As a response, a new way of organizing self-management has emerged. The book combines practical wisdom from East and West, to develop integrative self-management theory and practice; provides direction to support an integrative mind-set, integrative organization and integrative leadership; and presents VUCA as an opportunity and necessity for development and growth, rather than a threat.

Diffusion of knowledge management systems: mission definitely possible
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 106

Diffusion of knowledge management systems: mission definitely possible

This e-book investigates the factors impacting on the diffusion of Knowledge Management Systems (KMS). Although this research is of interest to other disciplines, no attempt has been made to synthesize this material as it relates to KMSs. There is some literature on the factors influencing the adoption and diffusion of various technologies, but there is none on the factors for KMS adoption and diffusion.

The Handbook of Project Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 603

The Handbook of Project Management

This practice-oriented handbook presents practitioners and students with a comprehensive overview of the essential knowledge and current best practices in project management. It includes the most up-to-date thinking in the discipline, describing recent developments in a way that practitioners can immediately use in their work. The Handbook of Project Management was the first “APM Body of Knowledge Approved” title for the Association for Project Management. Over the course of six editions, The Handbook of Project Management has become the definitive desk reference for project management practitioners. The team of expert contributors, selected to introduce the reader to the knowledge and s...

Systems Literacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 105

Systems Literacy

Conversations were introduced by Bela H. Banathy around 1980 as an alternative to the classical conferences which usually consist only of presentation of streamlined papers and short question slots. In a Conversation a small group of systems scientists and practitioners meets for several days to discuss in a self-guided way a topic of scientific and social importance. The overarching theme for the IFSR Conversation 2016 was "Systems Literacy". It aims at developing systemic "principles" or "big ideas" as orienting guidelines for application of systems science in across disciplines and provide for appropriate dissemination and world wide acceptance. Systems Literacy could be defined as unders...

Systems Education for a Sustainable Planet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 247

Systems Education for a Sustainable Planet

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-04-24
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  • Publisher: MDPI

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Systems Education for a Sustainable Planet" that was published in Systems