Covering all the basics, as well critically reflecting on the institutions and practices of business life, the seventh edition of Managing and Organizations is essential reading for anyone studying organizational behavior at undergraduate or postgraduate level.

A coherent and comprehensive account of the different frameworks for understanding power which have been advanced within the social sciences.

The antidote to heavy-going, complex and lengthy textbooks on studying strategy.

Providing a fresh perspective on strategy from an organizational perspective through a discursive approach, this third edition features key theoretic tenets and emphasizes the practices of strategy. It encourages the reader to be open to a wider set of ideas, with a little more relevance, and with a cooler attitude towards the affordances of the digital world and the possibilities for strategy's futures. The key areas of strategy take a critical stance in the new edition, and also include are...