Coffee and Conflict in Colombia
Part of the Pentalemma Series on Managing Global Dilemmas
Summary
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Organizational Development
- 2. Action Research
- 3. Force Field Analysis
- Conclusion
- Other Books by this Author
Figure 1.1: Locations of Pentalemma Inc. and Caffeine Supply.
Figure 2.1: Repeating the P-A-O-R cycle stage by stage, Scudder (2019).
Figure 3.1: Kurt Lewin’s 1951 Force-Field Analysis applied to stakeholders.
Coffee and Conflict in Colombia provides readers with a hands-on approach to dealing with the complexities unique to international management. The book draws strategically on this complexity to help readers cultivate greater critical thinking. It goes beyond the usual static business decisions related to setting the right price or memorizing truisms of management, choosing instead dynamic real-world cases that require detailed deliberation and creative problem-solving. While the book has been fictionalized, it draws on firsthand fieldwork and rigorous research on actual business cases with many characteristics that readers will recognize.
Each of the three chapters in the book starts out with a brief background of the context and the company, and then confronts the reader with a formidable and escalating challenge to work through. The scenarios include a high degree of complexity that companies often face in fragile environments that are unusually uncertain, whether in developing or industrialized countries.
With a focus on cross-sector collaboration, and managing the tensions between financial, social and environmental priorities, the trilogy ←xi | xii→helps readers learn how to develop creative solutions to seemingly insurmountable dilemmas. The book contributes in this way to management skills as well as to the knowledge needed to resolve issues in economic development, peace and conflict studies, political science, international relations and related fields.
Although the topics deal with high levels of complexity, they are written in an engaging and accessible way for current and future managers interested in stakeholder management, business in developing countries, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), sustainable business, international entrepreneurship, strategic leadership and global business issues.
Coffee and Conflict in Colombia is written as a trilogy to let readers experience how a business challenge evolves over three distinct phases in one location. This design enables readers to “stack” their learning from one part of the book to another. As business issues take on an increasingly global character, the material is organized to help the next generation of business leaders prepare for a wide range of scenarios in uniquely challenging environments.
Details
- Pages
- XVI, 88
- Publication Year
- 2020
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781433175657
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781433175664
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781433175671
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433175688
- DOI
- 10.3726/b16468
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2020 (March)
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien, 2020. XVI, 88 pp., 3 b/w ill.