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Further permissions questions can be emailed to [email protected]. With deep appreciation to Dorothy, the playwright and partner in my life, and to my parents, who started my life. Richard L. Daft, PhD, is the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Professor Daft specializes in the study of organization theory and leadership.
He was the associate editor-in-chief of Organization Science and served for three years as associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly. He has also authored dozens of scholarly articles, papers, and chapters. Professor Daft is currently working on a new book, The Executive and the Elephant. He also is an active teacher and consultant. He has taught management, leadership, organizational change, organizational theory, and organizational behavior. Professor Daft served as associate dean, produced for-profi t theatrical produc- tions, and helped manage a start-up enterprise.
Managing for Innovation in a Changing World In recent years, organizations have been buffeted by massive and far-reaching social, technological, and economic changes. Any manager who still believed in the myth of stability was rocked out of complacency when, one after another, large fi nancial insti- tutions in the United States began to fail. Business schools, as well as managers and businesses, were scrambling to keep up with the fast-changing story and evaluate its impact.
This edition of Management addresses themes and issues that are directly rel- evant to the current, fast-shifting business environment. The world in which most students will work as managers is undergoing a tremendous upheaval. Ethical turmoil, the need for crisis management skills, e-business, rapidly changing technologies, globalization, outsourcing, global virtual teams, knowledge management, global supply chains, the Wall Street melt- down, and other changes place demands on managers that go beyond the techniques and ideas traditionally taught in management courses.
