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Beschreibung
An indispensable guide enabling business and management students to develop their professional competences in real organizational settings, this new and fully updated edition of Problem Solving in Organizations equips the reader with the necessary toolkit to apply the theory to practical business problems. By encouraging the reader to use the theory and showing them how to do so in a fuzzy, ambiguous and politically charged, real-life organizational context, this book offers a concise introduction to design-oriented and theory-informed problem solving in organizations. In addition, it gives support for designing the overall approach to a problem-solving project as well as support for each of the steps of the problem-solving cycle: problem definition, problem analysis, solution design, interventions, and evaluation. Problem Solving in Organizations is suitable for readers with a wide range of learning objectives, including undergraduates and graduates studying business and management, M.B.A students and professionals working in organizations.
An indispensable guide enabling business and management students to develop their professional competences in real organizational settings, this new and fully updated edition of Problem Solving in Organizations equips the reader with the necessary toolkit to apply the theory to practical business problems. By encouraging the reader to use the theory and showing them how to do so in a fuzzy, ambiguous and politically charged, real-life organizational context, this book offers a concise introduction to design-oriented and theory-informed problem solving in organizations. In addition, it gives support for designing the overall approach to a problem-solving project as well as support for each of the steps of the problem-solving cycle: problem definition, problem analysis, solution design, interventions, and evaluation. Problem Solving in Organizations is suitable for readers with a wide range of learning objectives, including undergraduates and graduates studying business and management, M.B.A students and professionals working in organizations.
Über den Autor
Joan Ernst van Aken worked for many years in practice as a management consultant and as a manager of management consultants before joining Eindhoven University of Technology as a Professor of Organization Science in 1990.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I. Introduction: 1. Scope and nature of this handbook; 2. Types of student projects; 3. Problem-solving projects; Part II. The Problem-Solving Project: 4. Intake and problem definition; 5. Theory-informed diagnosis of business problems; 6. Solution design; 7. Change plan design and the change process; 8. Evaluation, learning and project termination; Part III. Methods: 9. Qualitative research methods; 10. Searching and using scholarly literature; 11. Quality criteria for research; Part IV. Designs, Designing and Design Science Research: 12. Designs and designing; 13. Design science research: developing generic solutions for field problems; Part V. Cases: 14. Cases.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Management
Genre: Importe, Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781108402774
ISBN-10: 1108402771
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Aken, Joan Ernst Van
Berends, Hans
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 254 x 203 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Joan Ernst Van Aken (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.03.2019
Gewicht: 0,628 kg
Artikel-ID: 109532625

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