Listening to Your Intuition

There are several definitions available for intuition in various disciplines such as psychology, philosophy and ancient wisdom literature. Since intuition is an internal process of tracing perceiving and interpreting information, this topic usually remains outside the scope of mainstream entrepreneurship and management scholarly research. However, entrepreneurs and managers use intuition for various purposes in navigation […]

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Managing VUCA Through Integrative Self-Management

In this book, experts discuss whether volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) represent a challenge or a business opportunity. More intense debates on global climate change, increased turbulence in financial quarters, increased job insecurity and high levels of stress at the workplace are attracting attention in the context of organization behavior and entrepreneurship. Fear and confusion […]

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Introduction to VUCA

This chapter gives a background to this work and also provides an overview of this book. The VUCA world (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) may have presented challenges for businesses, but it can be seen as opportunities for enterprising and innovating companies, who value interconnectedness and transparency. Companies, who understand that no one individual can […]

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Researcher Preparation for Indigenous Fundamental Research Through Collaborative Participation

A researcher is the most crucial constituent in any research and re-search under Communities of Practice, specifically for research domain concerning the social aspect of human existence. This chapter presents a collaborative auto-ethnography of researchers’ preparation for undertaking indigenous fundamental research. The chapter has three major sections ‘why researcher preparation?’ followed by ‘how it was […]

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Introducing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to a Spiritual and ‘Superstitious’ India?

The Bhartiya (Indian) biocentric worldview and associated social responsibility as an integral part of society. Without any formal structures of social charity, the Bhartiya way of life is intertwined with social responsibility. Some of important concepts presented include: First being from Bhartiya traditional values and belief of nishkaam karm meaning selfless action. Second is the […]

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Organizational Innovation by Integrating Simplification: Learning from Buurtzorg Nederland

Explains a client-focus approach to be easily applied in different contexts This book presents the theory of integrating implification and it provides a profound evidence based study of Buurtzorg Nederland. The case itself, forming the building block of the theory, has received tremendous interest in the Netherlands and abroad. This is the first international book […]

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Exploring Indigenous Concepts of Public Administration: Learning for leadership and governance.

The discourses on public management majorly focus on the managerial approach in public sector organisation and employees. Public governance orientation is also focussed on decentralized institutions. Both are about instilling competitiveness and an attempt towards displacing the rule bound and hierarchical concepts of public Administration. Kincheloe and Steinberg (2008) suggested in their study on indigenous […]

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A Post-colonial Perspective towards Education in Bharat

The article explores what could be a post-colonial perspective to the education delivery. If we believe that majority of the problems faced in Bharat have their roots in the colonial residue left in the society post-Independence, we should explore what can be done today. For this exploration was made whether gurukul system of indigenous education can provide […]

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