Action research in workplace innovation and regional development / edited by Werner Fricke, Peter Totterdill.

The past is an increasingly unreliable guide to the future. European workplaces and the regions in which they are located face unprecedented pressures and challenges. Whereas in recent decades incremental adaptation has largely been sufficient to cope with external change, it is no longer clear that...

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Other Authors: Fricke, Werner, Totterdill, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2004.
Series:Dialogues on work and innovation ; v. 15.
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Summary:The past is an increasingly unreliable guide to the future. European workplaces and the regions in which they are located face unprecedented pressures and challenges. Whereas in recent decades incremental adaptation has largely been sufficient to cope with external change, it is no longer clear that this remains the case. Globalisation, technological development and dissemination, political volatility, patterns of consumption, and employee expectations are occurring at a rate which is hard to measure. The rate of change in these spheres is far outstripping the rate of organisational in.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 355 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027295620
902729562X
ISSN:1384-6671 ;
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.