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Managing change, creativity and innovation / Patrick Dawson and Constantine Andriopoulos.

By: Dawson, Patrick [author.].
Contributor(s): Andriopoulos, Constantine [author.].
Los Angeles, California, USA : SAGE Publications Inc., ©2017Edition: 3rd edition.Description: xxvi, 638 pages illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text ISBN: 1473964288; 9781473964280 (pbk); 147396427X; 9781473964273.Subject(s): Organizational change -- Management | Creative ability in business -- Management | Organizational change -- Management -- Case studies | Creative ability in business -- Management -- Case studiesDDC classification: 658.406 D32 Other classification: CBA
Contents:
Introduction -- The process of change, creativity and innovation -- A brief history of management thought in the development of concepts, theories and business practice -- Classifying theories of organizational change -- Change management practice: choices, lessons learned and key considerations -- Human dimensions: readiness, time perspectives, communication, power, politics and resistance -- Conventional frameworks: planning, diagnostics and sequence -- New developments and postmodern ideas: dialogue and meaning -- The processual turn: politics, context and time -- Creative industries, innovative cities and changing worlds -- The individual: promoting critical thinking -- The group: nurturing teamwork -- The leader: promoting new ideas at work -- The internal environment: orchestrating structure, systems and resources -- Culture: enabling and constraining creative precesses at work -- Conclusion.
Summary: This title provides an integrative overview of the concepts of change, creativity and innovation, as Patrick Dawson and Constantine Andriopoulos define, explain and use plentiful examples and case studies to take the student through the essential theories and business processes.
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Previous edition: 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The process of change, creativity and innovation -- A brief history of management thought in the development of concepts, theories and business practice -- Classifying theories of organizational change -- Change management practice: choices, lessons learned and key considerations -- Human dimensions: readiness, time perspectives, communication, power, politics and resistance -- Conventional frameworks: planning, diagnostics and sequence -- New developments and postmodern ideas: dialogue and meaning -- The processual turn: politics, context and time -- Creative industries, innovative cities and changing worlds -- The individual: promoting critical thinking -- The group: nurturing teamwork -- The leader: promoting new ideas at work -- The internal environment: orchestrating structure, systems and resources -- Culture: enabling and constraining creative precesses at work -- Conclusion.

This title provides an integrative overview of the concepts of change, creativity and innovation, as Patrick Dawson and Constantine Andriopoulos define, explain and use plentiful examples and case studies to take the student through the essential theories and business processes.

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