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Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Thaler, R., & Sunstein, C. (2009). Nudge : Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness.

A. Bryman (Ed), Doing Research in Organisations, Routledge, 2013.
P. Dawson & C. Andriopoulos, Managing change, creativity and innovation. Sage. 2017
S. Fineman, Y. Gabriel, & D. Simms, Organizing and Organizations. Sage, 2010.
A. Furnham, The psychology of behaviour at work: The individual in the organisation, Psychology Press, 2005.
S. Haslam, Psychology in Organisations: The Social Identity Approach, Sage, 2004.
S. Haslam; S. Reicher, & M. Platow. The New Psychology of Leadership. Identity, Influence and Power. Psychology Press, 2011.
J. Hayes, The theory and practice of change management. Palgrave. 2018
G. Morgan, Images of Organisation, Sage, 2006.
E. H. Schein, Organisational Psychology (3rd edn), Prentice Hall, 1988.
E.H. Schein, Organizational culture and leadership (Vol. 2). John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
P. Spector, Industrial and Organisational Psychology: Research and Practice, John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
K. E. Weick, Sense Making in Organisation, Addison Wesley, 1995.
K. E. Weick, Making Sense of the Organization, Wiley-Blackwell, 2000.

Diamond, J. (2005). Collapse. How societies choose to fail or succeed. New York: Penguin Books.
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M. Billig, Arguing and Thinking: A Rhetorical Approach to Social Psychology, CUP, 1987.
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