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.
Regional Climate Leadership in East Asia and the Pacific
1st Edition
By Kate Crowley, Akihiro Nakamura
December 31, 2024
This book defines regional climate leadership in East Asia and the Pacific as a novel addition to the climate leadership theory. It develops criteria for measuring such leadership on a country basis and uses these for assessing the efforts of developed, lesser-developed, and developing countries ...
Navigating the Ecological Transition: A Business School Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Hugues Bouthinon-Dumas, Arijit Chatterjee, Bernard Leca
December 09, 2024
The transition towards sustainability is now a major issue that has taken centre stage in public debate, policy circles, scientific forums, and business roundtables. Higher education institutions focusing on educating tomorrow’s managers and leaders and on business practices are doubly challenged ...
Enterprise Risk Management: Technical, Cognitive, and Social Perspectives
1st Edition
By Mirna Jabbour, Jason Crawford
December 02, 2024
ERM is considered a dynamic capability that is critical to companies’ success from strategic and performance perspectives and is increasingly implemented in response to growing pressure from external stakeholders to enact and add legitimacy to existing management control systems. However, ...
CSR Reporting and the Belt and Road Initiative: Implementation by Chinese Multinational Enterprises
1st Edition
By Ruopiao Zhang, Carlos Noronha, Jieqi Guan
November 28, 2024
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a major development strategy launched by the Chinese government with the goal of fostering economic cooperation among countries along the proposed routes. The BRI marks a new era in which multinational enterprises (MNEs) from developing countries are beginning ...
Corporate Social Hypocrisy: CSR in the Era of Global Crises
1st Edition
By Dalia Steimikiene, Asta Mikalauskienė, Gabija Stanislovaitytė
November 28, 2024
Many new challenges including competitiveness are emerging for sustainable business during this era of disruption. This book analyses these challenges to sustainable development and growth and addresses the impact of corporate social responsibility on the competitiveness of organisations. The ...
Information, Security and Society in the COVID-19 Pandemic
1st Edition
Edited
By Natalia Moch, Wioletta Sylwia Wereda, Jerzy Stańczyk
November 28, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced society to re-evaluate security, crisis and risk management principles and policies so we are better prepared to deal with contemporary threats. This book provides an overview of selected and key changes that have taken place in the security environment across ...
Start-up Strategy and Entrepreneurial Development: Evolving Business Models and Economic Trends
1st Edition
Edited
By Iwona Skalna, Aleksandra Gąsior
October 28, 2024
The emergence of start-up companies and new forms of entrepreneurship has become a significant challenge for entrepreneurs and decision-makers who shape the businesses and economies of the future. This book presents the results of international research, analyses, and experiences with start-ups, ...
Entrepreneurship in the BRICS: Economic Development and Growth in the Post-Pandemic World
1st Edition
Edited
By Ndivhuho Tshikovhi, Fulufhelo Netswera, Ravinder Rena
October 14, 2024
Entrepreneurship is a tool of innovation promotion that supports sound economic environments as it stimulates economic growth and development. The BRICS nations, i.e., Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, are a group of emerging countries comprising the highest developmental block of the ...
Mergers and Acquisitions: The Critical Role of Stakeholders
1st Edition
Edited
By Helén Anderson, Virpi Havila, Fredrik Nilsson
October 14, 2024
A merger or acquisition is usually a challenging endeavor with a single ultimate aim: to create value for the owner. However, stakeholder theory shows how such a narrow and one-sided focus is detrimental to value-creation in general – not only for other stakeholders within and outside the ...
Pioneers in Marketing: A Collection of Biographical Essays
1st Edition
By D.G. Brian Jones
October 14, 2024
Pioneers in Marketing: A Collection of Biographical Essays discusses eight historically important marketing scholars whose careers collectively spanned over 100 years. An introductory chapter describes the role of biography in the study of marketing thought, and introduces the eight subjects in ...
Corporate Compliance and Conformity: A Convenience Theory Approach to Executive Deviance
1st Edition
By Petter Gottschalk
October 09, 2024
Traditionally, control in organizations is concerned with top-down approaches, where executives attempt to direct their employees’ attention, behaviors, and performance to align with the organization’s goals and objectives. This book takes a new approach by turning the problem of control upside ...
Corporate Culture and Globalization: Ideology and Identity in a Global Fashion Retailer
1st Edition
By Yi Zhu
October 09, 2024
This book offers an ethnographic analysis of how corporate culture has been transformed in the age of globalization and promotes the importance of a national ideology’s role in corporate culture studies. Based on 15 months of participant observation as a shop-floor salesperson, this book explores ...