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Book Description
The concept of innovation management and learning organizations concepts strongly emphasize the high role of human/intellectual capital in the company and the crucial function of knowledge in modern society. However, there is often a paradox between managerial language and actual practice in many organizations: on one hand, knowledge-workers are perceived as the most valued members of organizations while, on the other, they are being manipulated and engineeredcommonly driven to burn-out, and deprived of family life. All this leads to the emergence of new organizational phenomena that, up to now, have been insufficiently analyzed and described.

Management Practices in High-Tech Environments studies this issue thoroughly from an international, comparative, cross-cultural perspective, presenting cutting-edge research on management practices in American, European, Asian and Middle-Eastern high-tech companies, with particular focus on fieldwork-driven, but reflective, contributions.

About the Author
Dariusz Jemielniak, PhD assistant professor of management at Kozminski Business School (Poland). He was a visiting researcher at Cornell University (2004-2005), Harvard University (2007), University of California Berkeley (2008). He also co-edited of Handbook of Research on Knowledge-Intensive Organizations (2009). He was a recipient of scholarships and awards from Fulbright Foundation, Foundation for Polish Science, Collegium Invisibile, Kosciuszko Foundation. He published in journals such as Journal of Organizational Change Management, Knowledge Transfer, The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, or The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. His research focuses on knowledge-intensive workplace and professions, which he analyzes by the use of qualitative methods.

Jerzy Kociatkiewicz, PhD - lecturer at the School of Accounting, Finance, and Management at the University of Essex in Colchester, UK, having previously worked in Sweden and Poland. Most of his research focuses on narrativity, space, and technology in organizations. His publications include articles in journals such as Human Resource Development International; Knowledge Transfer; Qualitative Sociology; and Studies in Cultures, Organizations, and Societies. He has also published numerous book chapters, and co-edited, with Dariusz Jemielniak, Handbook of Research on Knowledge-Intensive Organizations (2009).