Strategy, Power and CSR: Practices and Challenges in Organizational Management

Organizational management, along with strategy, is the most important part of business administration. Directors must know how to manage people, make decisions and, above all, have the ability to create strategies that help organizations achieve their objectives, greater strategic competitiveness, and above-average returns. In today’s global and complex environment, traditional views towards organizational management are not enough for businesses to thrive. It’s only by bringing together different approaches can management styles develop fast enough to keep pace with the ever-changing big picture. In this innovative new look at organizational management, expert authors Santiago García-Álvarez and Connie Atristain-Suárez explore how looking through lenses of philosophy, health, communication, law, engineering, pedagogy and policy can affect a modern organization’s prospects. Built through the collective and collaborative work of the research professors at the Universidad Panamericana, this work includes interdisciplinary approaches to real-world problems. For students and researchers of business and management, this is an unmissable read. ©2020 Emerald Publishing Limited.

Forewords / Dr. Francisco Gil-Díaz and Dr. Jorge Gutiérrez-Villarreal -- Introduction/ Santiago García-Álvarez and Connie Atristain-Suárez -- 1. The Meaning of the Management Function: Discourse from Educational Institution Directors / Mónica del Carmen Meza-Mejía, Claudia María García-Casas, Claudia Fabiola Ortega-Barba and Sara Elvira Galbán-Lozano -- 2. Hospitality: An innovative Approach to Managing Contemporary Organizations / Sofia Roux-Tercero -- 3. Value Systems and Their Influence on Managerial Mindsets and Managers’ Volitions / Antonio Casanueva-Fernández and José Alberto Ross-Hernández -- 4. Burnout: A Silent Organizational Problem / María Beatriz Quintanilla-Madero -- 5. Applying System Dynamics to a Negotiation Diagram / Jacqueline Y. Sánchez-García and Carlos López-Hernández -- 6. Narrative and Family Business Firms: A Discourse Framework towards Continuity and Competitiveness / Connie Atristain-Suárez and Santiago García-Álvarez -- 7. Redefining Power via Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Alternatives for Corporate Social Responsibility / Mary Paz Agudín-Colmenares -- 8. Performance Measurement Systems in Organizations: A Good Measurement Should Tell a S.T.O.R.Y. / Juan Romero-McCarthy, Antonio Casanueva-Fernández and Erika Daniela Garza-Leal -- 9. Should I Move Aside and Let a Professional CEO Run My Company? / Margarita Hurtado-Hernández, Héctor Daniel Debernardo and Alejandro Ordoñez-Torres -- 10. Koselleck’s View of the Crisis Concept / Fernanda Llergo-Bay -- 11. A New Protocol Based on Blockchain Technology for Transparent Operation of Corporate Social Responsibility / Félix Orlando Martínez-Ríos, José Antonio Marmolejo-Saucedo and Gonzalo Abascal-Olascoaga -- 12. University Social Responsibility (USR) and Its Mission: The Case of the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico / Antonia Terán-Bustamante and Arturo Torres-Vargas -- 13. Teaching CSR at Management Faculties: The Touchstone Strategy for Organizations’ Management Challenge / Santiago González-Gómez -- 14. Virtue Ethics: A Contribution to Family Firms / Germán Scalzo and Héctor X. Ramírez-Pérez -- 15. Leadership and Social Responsibility in Business / Laura Trujillo-Liñán and Ricardo Meneses-Calzada -- 16. Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights: Challenges in a Globalized Context / Hugo Saúl Ramírez-García and Juan Francisco Díez-Spelz.