Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
About the Book Series
Management and business studies are firmly established as a popular, important and significant area of study in the academic world. Bringing together theories and thought from a wide range of disciplines, this series features cutting -edge research addressing all the major issues in business and management today, helping to define and advance the field.
Flagship Marketing: Concepts and places
1st Edition
Edited
By Tony Kent, Reva Brown
September 05, 2012
Flagships are the physical apogee of consumerism, places where brand experiences are most defined and interactions with consumers are highly refined. This book marks the first comprehensive study of the concept of the flagship, bringing together a range of scholarly insights from the field, ...
Challenges and Controversies in Management Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Bill Lee, Catherine Cassell
July 11, 2012
Challenges and Controversies in Management Research explores the history and cultural context, current issues and controversies and potential development of research in the field of management. The collection of essays is written by scholars of international standing, and the chapters address the ...
Narrating the Management Guru: In Search of Tom Peters
1st Edition
By David Collins
June 13, 2012
David Collins, a well respected scholar of management gurus proves a critical reappraisal of the very influential work of Tom Peters. This volume examines his key works and reviews his detractors, offering an analysis of his contributions to the field of management that goes beyond the simple ...
Reconfiguring Public Relations: Ecology, Equity and Enterprise
1st Edition
By David McKie, Debashish Munshi
March 21, 2012
This book reconfigures the field of public relations so that it can better engage with the changing world of the 21st century. It identifies the virtual absence of contemporary theories that are core in other disciplines and fills the gap by integrating critical, postmodern, poststructural, ...
Development on the Ground: Clusters, Networks and Regions in Emerging Economies
1st Edition
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By Allen Scott, Gioacchino Garofoli
January 20, 2012
Edited by two leading scholars who have been instrumental in the shaping of current thinking in the field of regional and industrial economics, this volume brings together a range of theoretical and empirical contributions that analyze and explain distinct patterns of regional development, and the ...
Urban Regeneration Management: International Perspectives
1st Edition
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By John Diamond, Joyce Liddle, Alan Southern, Philip Osei
August 16, 2011
This book was born out of the need to ‘capture’ the experience and understanding of the regeneration management process that is neither UK centric nor centred exclusively on urban areas. Written by experts working in the USA, Holland, Greece, Jamaica, Turkey, Spain, Trinidad and the Czech Republic,...
Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management: Strategic Management of Knowledge Resources
1st Edition
By Federica Ricceri
February 04, 2011
It is widely held that the successful management of knowledge resources within industry creates value. However, how this value is created is less clear. This book explores the management of knowledge resources in organisations. Several of the frameworks which have been created around the world to ...
Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Carl Rhodes, Robert Westwood
December 21, 2009
This book challenges traditional organizational theory, looking to representations of work and organizations within popular culture and the ways in which these institutions have also been conceptualized and critiqued there. Through a series of essays, Rhodes and Westwood examine popular culture as ...
The Pricing and Revenue Management of Services: A strategic approach
1st Edition
By Irene C.L. Ng
June 30, 2009
In a world of changing lifestyles brought about by new services, technology and e-commerce, this book enters the arena of contemporary research with particular topicality. Integrating both theory and real world practices, Ng advances the latest concepts in pricing and revenue management for ...
Innovation Diffusion in the New Economy: The Tacit Component
1st Edition
By Barbara Jones, Bob Miller
December 05, 2008
This book unites discussions of the philosophical and scientific basis of tacit knowledge. The authors give an overview of the theories of tacit knowledge and explain how these relate to a background of philosophical, neurological and pedagogic literature. The importance of tacit knowledge for ...
Managerial Competence within the Tourism and Hospitality Service Industries: Global Cultural Contextual Analysis
1st Edition
By John Saee
December 05, 2008
This book examines cross-cultural managerial competence across all managerial functions. Focusing particularly on the hospitality and tourism industry, editor Saee examines the cross-cultural implications of planning: workplace communication, recruitment/promotion, induction, training, supervision,...
Female Entrepreneurship: Implications for Education, Training and Policy
1st Edition
By Nancy M. Carter, Colette Henry, Barra O. Cinneide, Kate Johnston
October 07, 2008
This informative book is a comprehensive, research-based text on for educators, trainers and policy makers. It provides an insightful analysis into the range of issues facing female entrepreneurs around the world, along with recommendations as to how support agencies, ...