Here we present a roundup of the publications by IESE's professors and researchers between August and December 2011.
Global Trends: Facing Up to a Changing World
By Adrian Done
We treat the past as if it were obvious, and the future as if it were an inevitable continuation of what we are currently living. This book attempts to fill in the gaps in our limited understanding, investigating the global trends that will radically change the world in which we work. The financial crisis, climate change, technological changes: these things and more will greatly affect the global business terrain during your professional lifetime. Are you ready?
Management Ethics: Placing Ethics at the Core of Good Management
By Domènec Melé
The recent financial crisis has awakened a sensibility to ethics in business and management, and an increased interest in understanding how ethics and economics are intertwined. This book assesses these relationships in an accessible and engaging way for managers, entrepreneurs, directors and executives alike.
Asian Versus Western Management Thinking: Its Culture-Bound Nature
By Kimio Kase, Alesia Slocum & Yingying Zhang
As our world becomes ever more local, with managers increasingly having to engage with foreign ways of doing business, this book attempts to address an important management question: to what extent are theories of management universally applicable, and to what point are they specific to particular cultural, national and temporal contexts?
Conflict, Crisis and Creativity: A Study of Role Evolution in Creative Teams
By Kandarp Mehta
The dynamics of creative teams can be complex yet fluid. This book looks at how the different stages of role evolution affect the expression of new ideas in a creative team. It is based on research conducted at 13 different motion picture shoots through participant observation. The conclusions of the research establish a relationship between evolution of individual roles within teams and expression of new ideas within the team.
Iceberg Sighted: Decision-Making Techniques to Avoid Titanic Disasters
By Miguel A. Ariño & Pablo Maella
Making decisions and putting them into practice is the most important task of directors and individuals in society. But how do we know when our decision-making process is faulty? The authors look at what went wrong in the decision-making processes of those who constructed and captained the Titanic, and why this faulty decision-making led it to sink on that fateful night in April 1912. They highlight 10 key principles to make better decisions.
Sustaining Innovation: Collaboration Models for a Complex World
By Steven P. MacGregor & Tamara Carleton (Editors)
The systematic and continuous generation of value in any innovation system relies on collaboration between different groups, who must overcome multiple, often competing agendas and needs to work together fruitfully over the long term. Featuring contributions from leading researchers, business leaders, and policy makers representing North America, Europe, India, Africa, and Australasia, this volume investigates different combinations of collaborative arrangements among innovation actors, many of which are changing conventional expectations of institutional relationships.
