Changing Paradigms: The Transformation of Management Knowledge for The 21st Century - Hardcover

Clarke, Thomas; Clegg, Stewart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002570157 ISBN 13: 9780002570152

Publisher: HarperCollins Business, 1998

Synopsis

A concise guide to modern management thinking.

Management paradigms, the system of ideas by which managers understand and act upon the economic world, have undergone a rapid process of transformation in recent years.

Throughout the world a more sophisticated, cerebral approach to rethinking companies is apparent, and a familiarity with a variety of management theories is often required by managers in response to the rapid evolution of the business environment.

Changing Paradigms explains how current developments in management ideas relate to traditional forms of management thought and practice, and examines which paradigms are likely to be durable in the next century.

In highly competitive environments, those who succeed are often unencumbered by past paradigms, and fully engaged in inventing new paradigms of business. This book constitutes a unique analytical study of management innovation and business strategy.

About this title

Synopsis:

Management paradigms, the system of ideas by which managers understand and act upon the economic world, have undergone a rapid process of transformation in recent years. Throughout the world a more sophisticated, cerebral approach to rethinking companies is apparent, and a familiarity with a variety of management theories is often required by managers in response to the rapid evolution of the business environment. "Changing Paradigms" explains how current developments in management ideas relate to traditional forms of management thought and practice, and examines which paradigms are likely to be durable in the next century. In highly competitive environments, those who succeed are often unencumbered by past paradigms, and fully engaged in inventing new paradigms of business. This book constitutes an analytical study of management innovation and business strategy.

About the Author:

Thomas Clarke is a Visiting Professor at a business school in Sao Paulo, Brazil and at the European Foundation for Management Development. In 1992 he was appointed to the first chair of Corporate Governance at Leeds University Business School.

Stewart Clegg is acknowledged as a leading academic authority throughout the world on the study of power in organizations. He presently holds the Foundation Chair in Management at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Business
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0002570157
• ISBN 13: 9780002570152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 324