Given innovation's chaotic nature, organizations struggle to make decisions when managing
innovation. Both academics and practitioners hope artificial intelligence can solve this …

This new edition of the successful textbook Organization Theories discusses various
approaches to theory formation in organization research, offers a critical presentation of the …

Climate change, economic crises, migration, and terrorism are among the many problems
that challenge public governance in modern societies. Many of these problems are …

What are the conditions for political development and decay, and the likelihood of sustained
political order? What are the limits of established rule as we know it? How much stress can …

The seventh edition of Sociology, Work and Organisation is outstandingly effective in
explaining how we can use the sociological imagination to understand the nature of …

Agent-based models (ABMs) are increasingly used in the management sciences. Though
useful, ABMs are often critiqued: it is hard to discern why they produce the results they do …

To evaluate, to assess the worth or value of something, is a very common activity. This book
focuses on evaluation as applied social research, an activity sometimes called program …

Ongoing transformations of the political organization of Europe, where both the nation-state
and the European Union are challenged, make it possible to explore phenomena that are …

In this paper, we respond to recent critiques about the state of organization theory that have
characterized it as being anachronistic, overly theoretical, or lacking the right kind of theory …

Acknowledging that both analysts and practitioners face problems of meaningful
categorization of social order in general, and the European political-administrative system in …