Joan Ernst van Aken (The Netherl Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Hans Berends (Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit)

Problem Solving in Organizations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 3., überarb. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 203mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781108402774
• ISBN-10: 1108402771
• Artikelnr.: 48859349

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.