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.
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 ...
Relationship Marketing in Professional Services: A Study of Agency-Client Dynamics in the Advertising Sector
1st Edition
By Aino Halinen
December 16, 1996
Relationship marketing is one of the most challenging marketing concepts of the decade. In a five-year 'fly on the wall' case study, Halinen explores the relationship between a Helsinki advertising agency and its international client....