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.
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 ...
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 ...
The Corporation of the Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Stuart Orr, Paul Hunter
October 09, 2024
Although largely unseen, the industrial revolution taking place before us is picking up steam ─ dramatically. Dissolution of traditional global trading partnerships, the effect of COVID-19 on supply chains and the formation of new trading blocks, such as China’s Belt and Road initiatives,...
Consumer Packaging Strategy: Localisation in Asian Markets
1st Edition
By Huda Khan, Richard Lee, Polymeros Chrysochou
October 08, 2024
The consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry is dominated by major Western brands. The dominance of such major brands extends to burgeoning Asian markets. These conglomerates often rely on packaging as a strategic tool to entice Asian consumers. This book illustrates how packaging as a marketing tool...
Understanding Procrastination at Work: Individual and Workplace Perspectives
1st Edition
By Beata Bajcar
September 23, 2024
Understanding Procrastination at Work focuses primarily on procrastination in the workplace, and offers a synthetic and comprehensive review of major theoretical concepts and empirical findings on general procrastination and its specific manifestations, causes, and consequences in the workplace. ...
Cross-cultural Knowledge Management: Cultural Influences in China and Brazil
1st Edition
By Jacky Hong, Jorge Muniz Jr.
August 26, 2024
Knowledge has become increasingly complex and important for organizations. Despite the growing recognition of the factors that enable knowledge management in organizations, our understanding about the unique cross-cultural challenges is rather limited. In particular, how cultural differences ...
Digital Entrepreneurship and the Global Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By J. Mark Munoz
August 26, 2024
Digital entrepreneurship refers to business activities in the digital media and information and information and communication technologies. It encompasses entrepreneurial pursuits in areas such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, internet of things, and augmented reality among many more. The ...
Human Resources Management in Multinational Companies: A Central European Perspective
1st Edition
By Marzena Stor
August 26, 2024
Human resource management (HRM) has a significant impact on companies' performance, as evidenced by research conducted in multinational companies (MNCs) based in Central Europe. This book provides a unique perspective of activities conducted in the HRM field in local subsidiaries of such ...
Organizational Management and the COVID-19 Crisis: Security and Risk Management Dilemmas
1st Edition
Edited
By Wioletta Sylwia Wereda, Jacek Woźniak, Justyna Stochaj
August 26, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has re-shaped organizations on many levels: resource, process, structural and relational. Such a wide range of forced changes has resulted in a greater need to implement risk management principles and procedures to secure an organization's position in the market. This book ...
Design Thinking in Cultural and Heritage Management: Creating Solutions in the Field of Culture
1st Edition
By Lubomira Trojan, Łukasz Wróblewski
August 22, 2024
The ability to discover and respond to societal needs in the field of culture requires an integrated, interdisciplinary, and cross-sectoral approach. Such a holistic view is offered by the design thinking method, which has been extracted from the field of design and could be applied also in the ...
How to Manage and Survive during a Global Crisis: Lessons for Managers from the COVID-19 Pandemic
1st Edition
By Piyush Sharma, Tak Yan Leung
July 26, 2024
Sharma and Leung explore the differences in the national and organizational responses to COVID-19 across various countries. The COVID-19 global pandemic is possibly the worst healthcare disaster ever, and recent studies highlight several differences in the response to COVID-19. Some countries acted...