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Contemporary Management
Contemporary Management by Jones and George distinguishes itself through its authorship, comprehensive, current contents, rich and relevant examples and applications and experiential exercises provided in every single chapter. The cutting-edge 5th Edition continues to redefine what principles of management texts should look, sound, and feel like. As an author team Gareth Jones and Jennifer George are uniquely qualified to write about both the strategic and organizational challenges managers face. Contemporary Management is a comprehensive text that surveys the theoretical underpinnings of modern management thought and research. Through a variety of examples from small, medium, and large companies it shows the reader how those ideas are used by practicing managers. A hallmark of this text is its focus on the "Manager as a Person," which discusses managers as real people with their own personalities, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and problems.
805 pages, Hardcover
Published January 5, 2007
About the author
Gareth R. Jones
66 books30 followers Gareth R. Jones is a Professor of Management in the Lowry Mays College and Graduate School of Business at Texas A&M University. He received his B.A. in Economics/Psychology and his Ph.D. in Management from the University of Lancaster, U.K. He previously held teaching and research appointments at the University Warwick, Michigan State University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is a frequent visitor and speaker at universities in both the United Kingdom and the United States.
He specializes in strategic management and organizational theory and is well known for his research that applies transaction cost analysis to explain many forms of strategic and organizational behaviour. He is currently interested in strategy process, competitive advantage, and information technology issues. He is also investigating the relationships between ethics, trust, and organizational culture and studying the role of affect in the strategic decision-making process.
He has published many articles in leading journals of the field and his recent work has appeared in the Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Human Relations. An article on the role of information technology on many aspects of organizational functioning was recently published in the Journal of Management. One of his articles won the Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award, and he is one of the most prolific authors in the Academy of Management Review. He is or has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management, and Management Inquiry.
Gareth Jones has taken his academic knowledge and used it to craft leading textbooks in management, and three other major areas in the management discipline: organizational behaviour, organizational theory, and strategic management. His books are widely recognized for their innovative, contemporary content, and for the clarity with which they communicate complex, real-world issues to students. He comes from a long line of educators and is happy that his two children, Nicholas who is 10, and Julia who is 9, seem to show similar interests, as they are always trying to teach him new things.
He specializes in strategic management and organizational theory and is well known for his research that applies transaction cost analysis to explain many forms of strategic and organizational behaviour. He is currently interested in strategy process, competitive advantage, and information technology issues. He is also investigating the relationships between ethics, trust, and organizational culture and studying the role of affect in the strategic decision-making process.
He has published many articles in leading journals of the field and his recent work has appeared in the Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Human Relations. An article on the role of information technology on many aspects of organizational functioning was recently published in the Journal of Management. One of his articles won the Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award, and he is one of the most prolific authors in the Academy of Management Review. He is or has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management, and Management Inquiry.
Gareth Jones has taken his academic knowledge and used it to craft leading textbooks in management, and three other major areas in the management discipline: organizational behaviour, organizational theory, and strategic management. His books are widely recognized for their innovative, contemporary content, and for the clarity with which they communicate complex, real-world issues to students. He comes from a long line of educators and is happy that his two children, Nicholas who is 10, and Julia who is 9, seem to show similar interests, as they are always trying to teach him new things.
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May 18, 2021
Do we even rate academic books?? I don’t know based on what to rate it to be honest..
I am going to rate it by how easy the book itself made the course for me. Did it simplify? Explained much? Didn’t explain enough and all.
To honest it really did help, the course slides didn’t offer as much as this book did, loved how after every definition of a concept that is described in a long paragraph, the keyword is taken out of the paragraph with its definition and is listed down beneath the paragraph. Which for me it helped me to differentiate between the example explained in the paragraph and the actual meaning of the concept 5 out of 5 for that part.
But I think speaking of it from my POV as a student who had to study the book for academic purposes, I don’t think I enjoyed it or read it as it was supposed to be read, since many concepts in the book the instructor didn’t bother on mentioning but he would tell us to read the book and try to understand it through the book only, and again I don’t think the book did any less of a job to explain it properly, it was just the experience I went through that effects my overall feeling towards this book, nothing on the book directly.
I am going to rate it by how easy the book itself made the course for me. Did it simplify? Explained much? Didn’t explain enough and all.
To honest it really did help, the course slides didn’t offer as much as this book did, loved how after every definition of a concept that is described in a long paragraph, the keyword is taken out of the paragraph with its definition and is listed down beneath the paragraph. Which for me it helped me to differentiate between the example explained in the paragraph and the actual meaning of the concept 5 out of 5 for that part.
But I think speaking of it from my POV as a student who had to study the book for academic purposes, I don’t think I enjoyed it or read it as it was supposed to be read, since many concepts in the book the instructor didn’t bother on mentioning but he would tell us to read the book and try to understand it through the book only, and again I don’t think the book did any less of a job to explain it properly, it was just the experience I went through that effects my overall feeling towards this book, nothing on the book directly.
October 7, 2019
nice one
August 31, 2022
Demasiado caro para comprarlo en físico en Argentina, pero acá me tienen, con un pedazo de papel en la mochila rompiéndome la espalda. Pero al menos es ligero... de leer.
September 8, 2022
More Administration.
Something I read for Administration classes during University.
More ZzZzZz.
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PERSONAL NOTE :
[2007] [805p] [University] [Not Recommendable]
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Más Administración.
Algo que leí para clases de Administración durante la Universidad.
Más ZzZzZz.
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NOTA PERSONAL :
[2007] [805p] [Universidad] [No Recomendable]
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Something I read for Administration classes during University.
More ZzZzZz.
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PERSONAL NOTE :
[2007] [805p] [University] [Not Recommendable]
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Más Administración.
Algo que leí para clases de Administración durante la Universidad.
Más ZzZzZz.
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NOTA PERSONAL :
[2007] [805p] [Universidad] [No Recomendable]
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December 20, 2012
لا أفضل قراءة الكتب المقررة :)
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May 5, 2013nice
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October 11, 2014contemporary management
December 21, 2014
Not a great textbook.
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March 3, 2015Contemporary management is good book to be read at scholary level of education
December 26, 2020
Solid textbook. Not dreadful to read.
January 14, 2019
good book
recommended
recommended
May 20, 2017
I red most of the book when I took a MGT course at the university when doing while doing my master's.
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