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.
Industrial Development, Technology Transfer, and Global Competition: A history of the Japanese watch industry since 1850
1st Edition
By Pierre-Yves Donze
June 04, 2019
The phenomena of Japan emerging as one of the most competitive industrial nations in the twentieth century and the general shift of competitiveness to East Asia since the 1980s have been widely studied by many scholars from different fields of the social sciences. Drawing on sources from Japanese, ...
Managing Social Purpose Driven Organizations: Looking at the Third Sector
1st Edition
By Wee Beng Geok
June 04, 2019
The book examines the management of social purpose driven organizations in an Asian context, using the case study approach. It looks at these organizations during a period of major changes in the regulatory and governance environment for charities in Singapore. The focus is on how these changes ...
Turnaround Management and Bankruptcy
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Adriaanse, Jean-Pierre van der Rest
March 28, 2019
Written by leading experts in the field of business, finance, law and economics, this edited volume brings together the latest thoughts and developments on turnaround management and business rescue from an academic, judiciary and turnaround/insolvency practitioner perspective. Turnaround ...
CSR, Sustainability, and Leadership
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabriel Eweje, Ralph Bathurst
March 20, 2019
With the acceptance of CSR and Sustainability as important business performance indicators, it is timely now to assess the impact that leadership has on the development of these processes. CSR, Sustainability, and Leadership seeks to explore the integration of these three elements through an ...
Transformative Management Education: The Role of the Humanities and Social Sciences
1st Edition
By Ulrike Landfester, Jörg Metelmann
December 13, 2018
Due to the recent global financial crises, academic business schools have come in for much criticism, having, in the eyes of the public, failed in their responsibility to society by teaching future managers only how to increase their personal gain without any consideration as to their actions’ ...
Managing Project Ending
1st Edition
By Virpi Havila, Asta Salmi
December 04, 2018
Understanding project endings is a significant part of project management, yet there is relatively little work published in this important area. This book addresses the gap, focusing on the successful management of project endings, showing how to plan for the ending of a project, how to create ...
Gender Equality in a Global Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Anders Ortenblad, Raili Marling, Snjezana Vasiljevic
August 23, 2018
Gender Equality in a Global Perspective looks to discuss whether Gender Equality can be adopted as it has been defined in international documents anywhere, or whether it needs to be adapted in a more local context; discuss which factors and perspectives need to be taken into account when adapting ...
Recession at Work: HRM in the Irish Crisis
1st Edition
By Bill Roche, Paul Teague, Anne Coughlan, Majella Fahy
August 06, 2018
How has the recession affected the conduct of human resource management? How have HR departments and managers fared? Have leading firms taken measures to sustain and revive their businesses through innovative HR measures? How have union representation and influence been affected? Is the recession ...
The Business of Gamification: A Critical Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Mikolaj Dymek, Peter Zackariasson
August 06, 2018
At the turn of the century the term "gamification" was introduced as a concept to understand the process of using game mechanics in "non-game" contexts. The impact of gamification was soon evident to business practices where it had impact both on marketing and, more broadly, on the organizations ...
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions: UK Dimensions
1st Edition
By Moshfique Uddin, Agyenim Boateng
June 08, 2018
Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBM&As) activity has become an important vehicle for firms’ internationalization and corporate restructuring over the past three decades. Despite the huge volume of global CBM&A activity, however, there are few books which carefully explore the ...
Decision-Making Groups and Teams: An Information Exchange Perspective
1st Edition
By Steven Silver
June 08, 2018
In recent years, there has been increasing implementation of group and team decision-making within organizations, much of it managed electronically, between members of what are "virtual" groups or teams. Recent research into effective team implementation emphasizes "trust" as an intermediary ...
Diversity in Multinational Corporations
1st Edition
By Roxana Maiorescu, Brenda Wrigley
June 08, 2018
Globalization, information and communication technologies, and the millennials who have entered the workforce, compelled corporations to change their resistant and defensive approaches to diversity and to proactively address differences. Companies determined that embracing diversity positively ...