Big data and 'the package' of the digital society is de-mystified in this important book. A group of international experts frame the debates around big data and analyse its impact in different sectors in practice. They also examine whether big data and the digital society can deliver on its promises.
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Collaborative Strategic Improvement through Network Action Learning
The Path to Sustainability
Paul Coughlan and David Coghlan
Improvement is fundamental to the competitiveness of networks and requires the participating firms to collaborate in identifying and introducing changes. This book presents collaborative strategic improvement as a cycle of activities in which firms in a network can engage together. Drawing on actual cases, authors link this cycle with disciplined action learning as a means of building upon experience generated through collaborative action. They describe how a network can learn from experience and deploy that learning in the marketplace.
Organizational Routines
Advancing Empirical Research
Edited by Markus C. Becker and Nathalie Lazaric
This book showcases advanced empirical research that applies the concept of organizational routines to understanding organizations and how they change and evolve.