Articles

Each topic article lists all books relating to the topic and includes a description of
useful Internet links related to the topic. Some books are listed under several topics.

Click here for an explanation about the topic articles.

The Societal Context of Business

Overview

1	Business and the Economy: the Challenges to conventional economics	Critique of conventional economics, The New Economy, flavours of capitalism.
2	Ecology and the Environment	Principles for ecologically sustainable economy and business, debate about resource depletion, environmental regulation
3	Complex Adaptive Systems	Resources that relate chaos and complexity theory to the practicalities of economics, businesses and the business system
4	Society and Business	Globalisation, the open society, social sustainability, the technology impact

Business Organisations in Relationship

Overview

11	Business and Organizations and their Relationships	The management philosophers on organization, business as an organism in an ecology of businesses, the customer relationship
12	Strategic Partnering	Covers issues of the competitive/cooperative balance between organisations, strategic partnering, mergers and acquisitions. Also cluster strategies

Organisations as Entities

Overview

21	Organizations and their Governance	Concerned with the legal and ethical obligations of organizations, governance, ethics, stakeholder issues, Includes not for profit and public sector issues
22	Inside the Organization (organizational capabilities)	Includes books concerned with the organization as an entity, including metaphors for thinking about organization sources of organizational success, orgnizations across cultures
23	Organizational Structure	Concerned with the formal and informal structuring of organizations, approaches to structure and management of 'boundaries'.
24	Work Organization, Teams and Work Groups	Teams and work groups and their role in organization, technologies and tools for teams
25	Change Management	Contains material focusing on organizational change, including perspectives based on culture, leadership, learning, spirit. Includes 'how to's' and issues of physical design

Management Techniques and Disciplines

Overview

31	General Management Techniques and Processes	Compendia, technique guides, risk management, project management, supply and sourcing
32	Performance and Quality Management	Quality management, performance and evaluation, reengineering
33	Strategy and Planning	Approaches to strategic planning, the strategic sources of business success, and a wide variety of perspectives on strategy formulation.
34	Scenarios and Futuring	Scenario planning, scenario thinking, future search, preferred futures
35	Innovation and Product Development	Covers issues of developing a culture of creativity, strategies for innovation and product development and associated methodologies
36	Knowledge Management	General texts, the knowledge economy, knowledge culture, measuring intangible assets,stewardship for KM, work and jobs in a knowledge economy
37	Systems Thinking	Introductory and more advanced materials on systems thinking, including systems methodologies

People and their Relationships within the Organization

Overview

41	Leadership and Followership	Perspectives on leadership and leadership qualities and relationships.
42	Learning	Material relating to building learning organizations, the importance of organizational learning and how to foster it.
43	People and Their Management	A small selection of books on the strategy of HR management and links to specialized sites. Includes issues of diversity
44	Training and Development	A selection from the huge range of books about training, development, coaching and mentoring.
45	Work and Life Balance	Concerned with the balance of life and spirit in the workplace.
46	Work Arrangements	Covers various arrangements for working - flex-time, virtual working etc - and special needs of each arrangement. Also covers discussion of the evolution of work in the 'New Economy'
47	Living/working in Relationship including communication, mental models, working with difference	Includes books on tools for making mental models of ourselves and others explicit and so building an enriched model of our world. Also includes books on conversational tools, such as dialogue. Covers the growing literature on spirituality in the workplace

The Individual

Overview

61	Individual, The (Human capacity)	Contains books on, personal mastery, accelerated learning, alternative approaches to learning, and working with difference
62	Thinking (techniques and tools)	Contains books on ways of thinking about managerial (and other) problems.

Miscellaneous

Overview

91	General Interest	A range of books likely to interest managers
92	Australian Interest	Books written in an Australian context or about Australia

The articles form the core of the site.

From here you can explore the themes that particularly interest you.

Or you can browse to get a feel for what reviewed literature is available.

New articles are being written regularly and are uploaded when completed.

The major articles have their titles in bold text.