Values, Rationality, and Power: Developing Organizational Wisdom av Brad C. (Kwantlen Polytechnic University Canada) Anderson

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<i>Values, Rationality, and Power: Developing Organizational Wisdom </i>demonstrates that organizations can act wisely. A critical realist framework and phonetic research approach is used to perform an embedded single case study of a group''s attempt to develop and spread a medical innovation within a Canadian healthcare authority. <div><br></div><div>The study''s exploration of how to spread innovation through a healthcare system will help readers to gain insight into why groups resist change and how individuals can exercise their values, rationality, and power to overcome this resistance. Presenting a framework to conceptualize and study wisdom, the book identifies that values guide wise action, that knowledge is required but insufficient for wisdom, and finally that wisdom is action-oriented. The results of the case study demonstrate the power that values possess to drive organizational behaviour. </div><div><br></div><div>Offering a unique insight into how values, rationality, and