… we think of managers and managing organizations and … management roles and functions
or as just managing organizational structures and systems. Instead, I suggest that managing is …

… influence of management on all aspects of our lives is enor mous. Attempts to understand
management, … This book is about how management research is done, including the underlying …

… For that reason, each chapter of this book discusses an aspect of the study of organizations
but links this to an aspect of management. I will say a great deal about this linkage between …

… Not only is the book very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap, but it is also quite …
an overview of what has become one of the most influential fields of management: strategy. …

Like many publishing ventures this book originated at a lunch with my then Editor. Although
it was a very fine lunch, I was not initially receptive to Patrick Brindle’s suggestion that I write …

… We realize that, although intended as a ‘reasonably cheap’ text, this book will not be
affordable to potential readers in many countries where the general level of income makes it very …

… What one can expect from ‘a very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book’ in a
field where even the heaviest textbook is not remotely interesting let alone inspiring? It turns …

I wouldn’t necessarily say that marketing has always fascinated me, and it’s quite possible
that I will get bored with it eventually and move on to some other field of human endeavour–it …

… The Concise Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘study’ variously as ‘a thing to be secured by
pains or attention’, ‘devotion of time and thought to acquiring information, especially from …

… well beyond the subjects of economics, business and management. Globalization is so
multifaceted that it becomes relevant to almost all elements of society and culture, including …