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.
Human Resource Management and Occupational Health and Safety
1st Edition
By Carol Boyd
June 24, 2003
Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is a complex area which interacts widely with a broader spectrum of business interests and concerns. To date OHS has been confined to the periphery of Human Resource Management (HRM), where its role, influence and importance have been overlooked. This text sets ...
Perspectives on Public Relations Research
1st Edition
By Danny Moss, Dejan Vercic, Gary Warnaby
June 05, 2003
The practice and study of public relations has grown significantly within Europe over the past decade, yet as a discipline, it remains a relatively unexplored field. This volume of papers brings together contributions from some of the leading international public relations academics and ...
Managing Technological Development
1st Edition
By Hakan Hakansson, Alexandra Waluszewski
October 25, 2002
In this book, the story of how IKEA and its paper producers struggled to solve the problem of creating environmentally friendly paper constitutes the foundation of a discussion of technological development. Through a detailed analysis of the case-study, the authors demonstrate the necessity of ...
Regulation and Organisations: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Lars Engwall, Glenn Morgan
January 22, 2002
During the 1980s and 1990s, organisations have undergone both regulation and deregulation. This set of papers written by a distinguished selection of international experts examines the nature of regulation, its evolution in particular sectors and its impact on social and economic equality. It draws...
Work and Unseen Chronic Illness: Silent Voices
1st Edition
By Margaret Vickers
July 11, 2001
In an increasingly ageing society, medicine, hygiene and nutrition have reduced the impact of acute and life-threatening illnesses. However, whilst we are living longer, the chance of developing or contracting a chronic illness is increasing.There are a growing number of working adults affected by ...
Organisational Learning in the Automotive Sector
1st Edition
By Dr Penny West, Penny West
October 12, 2000
This book considers the concepts of organisational learning and the learning organisation, and critically examines their take up within the context of four contemporary work organisations in the European automotive sector. Within this dynamic environment, the pursuit and implementation of ...
Telecommunications Regulation: Culture, Chaos and Interdependence Inside the Regulatory Process
1st Edition
By Clare Hall, Christopher Hood, Colin Scott
February 08, 2000
Using unprecedented access to the key actors inside the UK Office of Telecommunications (OFTEL) and supporting interviews, this book explores how telecommunications regulation works from the inside....
Neo-Industrial Organising: Renewal by Action and Knowledge Formation in a Project-intensive Economy
1st Edition
By Eskil Ekstedt, Rolf A. Lundin, Anders Soderholm, Hans Wirdenius
July 26, 1999
Neo-Industrial Organising explores an emerging area of importance in management and organisation studies, namely the trend towards a projectization of the economy as a whole and the inter- and intra-organisational relations of renewal projects. By reporting on the experiences of twenty-five ...
HRM, Technical Workers and the Multinational Corporation
1st Edition
By Patrick McGovern
June 26, 1998
This book is the first major in-depth study of the impact of contemporary management practices on a rapidly expanding set of white-collar occupations, namely technical workers. It investigates whether HRM schemes such as employee appraisals and performance related pay have transformed technical ...
Information Technology, Organizations and People: Transformations in the UK Retail Financial Services
1st Edition
By Jeff Watkins
May 29, 1998
This wide-ranging volume presents in-depth research into the effect of new information technologies on organizational structure, assesses their progress towards transformation and describes the changes they are making to long-established business process roles, cultures and working practices. The ...
The Internationalization of Small to Medium Enterprises: The Interstratos Project
1st Edition
Edited
By Rik Donckels, Antti Haahti, Graham Hall
May 07, 1998
The Internationalization of Small to Medium Enterprizes uses information from annual surveys of companies in Europe during the period spanning the formation of a single European market. It addresses issues affecting small businesses such as marketing, entrepreneurship, export strategies and the ...
Job Design and Technology: Taylorism vs Anti-Taylorism
1st Edition
By Hans D. Pruijt
October 02, 1997
Despite global competition and the need for speed, flexibility and quality, trends such as lean production and McDonaldization show that Taylorism remains alive and well in the contemporary workplace. There is however a countermovement, particularly in North-West Europe, where successful ...