Business Books imprint: 119 books
Invention and Reinvention
The Evolution of San Diego’s Innovation Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Formerly prosperous cities across the United States, struggling to keep up with an increasingly global economy and the continued decline of post-war industries like manufacturing, face the issue of how to adapt to today's knowledge economy. In Invention and Reinvention, authors Mary Walshok and Abraham...
Transforming Relationships for High Performance
The Power of Relational Coordination
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Whether from customers, supply-chain partners, policymakers, or regulators, organizations in virtually every industry are facing calls to do more with less. They are feeling compelled to provide higher-quality outcomes, more rapidly, at a lower cost.
This book offers a road-tested approach...
Empowerment Evaluation in the Digital Villages
Hewlett-Packard’s $15 Million Race Toward Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Empowerment Evaluation in the Digital Villages analyzes a $15 million community change initiative designed to bridge the digital divide in East Palo Alto, East Baltimore, and San Diego. Involving a partnership between Hewlett-Packard, Stanford University, and three ethnically diverse communities,...
Winning Choices
A Life-Changing Game Plan
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Greg Papp has found a way to take two powerful American metaphors – football and pizza – and effectively grab the attention of a sports-saturated generation that often lacks the life skills and spiritual depth required to make sound choices. Winning Choices speaks to the uncertainty that many...
Engaging Resistance
How Ordinary People Successfully Champion Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Engaging Resistance: How Ordinary People Successfully Champion Change offers an empirically based explanation that expands our understanding about the nature of resistance to organizational change and the effects of champion behavior. The text presents a new model describing how resistance occurs...
Systems Concepts in Action
A Practitioner's Toolkit
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing and analyzing; learning about; or changing...
Evaluation Foundations Revisited
Cultivating a Life of the Mind for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Evaluation examines policies and programs across every arena of human endeavor, from efforts to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS to programs that drive national science policy. Relying on a vast array of methods, from qualitative interviewing to econometrics, it is a "transdiscipline," as opposed...
by Jonathan S. Feinstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
The Nature of Creative Development presents a new understanding of the basis of creativity. Describing patterns of development seen in creative individuals, the author shows how creativity grows out of distinctive interests that often form years before one makes his/her main conributions. The book...
Tackling Wicked Problems in Complex Ecologies
The Role of Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Tackling Wicked Problems in Complex Ecologies is a call to action, focusing on the role that evaluators can play in addressing social and economic problems. Evaluation extends beyond theories and methods, encompassing a range of proven approaches for addressing ecological complexities that drive inequities...
The Social Roots of Risk
Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
The first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina showed that first world nations remain vulnerable....
Adaptive Action
Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Rooted in the study of chaos and complexity, Adaptive Action introduces a simple, common sense process that will guide you and your organization into reflective action. This elegant method prompts readers to engage with three deceptively simple questions: What? So what? Now what? The first leads to...
Organizing for Reliability
A Guide for Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Increasingly, scholars view reliability—the ability to plan for and withstand disaster—as a social construction. However, there is a tendency to evoke this concept only in the face of catastrophes, such as the British Petroleum oil spill or the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. This book frames...
The Evolution of a New Industry
A Genealogical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
The Evolution of a New Industry traces the emergence and growth of the Israeli hi-tech sector to provide a new understanding of industry evolution.
In the case of Israel, the authors reveal how the hi-tech sector built an entrepreneurial culture with a capacity to disseminate intergenerational...
Organizational Transformation
How to Achieve It, One Person at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
It is estimated that approximately seventy percent of organizations fail in their attempts to implement transformative change. This book will help lessen that rate. Using real-world examples, Bruce J. Avolio maps four states of change that any organization must go through: identifying and recognizing,...