Literature

EFFECTIVENESS Bengt Karlöf calls “The missing core of business administration”. All organised activity aims at creating value that is higher than the cost for producing that value. Effectiveness has been accepted as basic literature in business at a couple of Swedish Universities.

THE A TO Z OF MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS AND MODELS (pdf) the book contains more than 120 well-known concepts and over 400 references. The book is aimed at practicing managers who have responsibility for leading, controlling and developing some sort of organisational unit and for students of management at all levels.

RE-ORGANISATION has been well received in Sweden and has been published by Springer Publishing in English. The book gives practical guidelines to managers facing the issue of whether to reorganize or not. It deals with a number of critical issues in this situation such as true motive for reorganisation, questions of power and the anatomy, physiology and psychology of organisations.

BENCHLEARNING (pdf) ISBN 0-470-84200-8 John Wiley & Sons and EFFECTIVENESS exist in English. STRATEGY PROCESSES AND TOOLS has been translated into English but not yet published. The book contains a step by step model for strategy work with tools appropriate for each step. It also contains important aspects on the strategy process compared with operational management. MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS AND MODELS has been published in English and German and has been accepted for publication in Russia and Chinese.

These books have been translated into a large number of languages, including exotic ones like Chinese and Russian. Bengt frequently lectures to audiences drawn from the business world, public administration and academia.

Below please find a collection of some of the titles that have been published globally by Bengt Karlöf: