Routledge Companions in Business and Management
About the Book Series
Routledge Companions are prestige collections of original contributions, expertly curated by leading scholars. Spanning the business disciplines, the books in this series incorporate established and emerging global research themes around the management and organisation of business operations, strategy and leadership.
Individually, Routledge Companions in Business and Management provide impactful one-stop-shop publications. Collectively, they represent a comprehensive learning and research resource for researchers, postgraduate students and reflective practitioners around the world.
The Routledge Companion to Risk, Crisis and Security in Business
1st Edition
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By Kurt J. Engemann
September 30, 2020
Aware that a single crisis event can devastate their business, managers must be prepared for the worst from an expansive array of threats. The Routledge Companion to Risk, Crisis and Security in Business comprises a professional and scholarly collection of work in this critical field. Risks come in...
The Routledge Companion to Tax Avoidance Research
1st Edition
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By Nigar Hashimzade, Yuliya Epifantseva
September 30, 2020
An inherently interdisciplinary subject, tax avoidance has attracted growing interest of scholars in many fields. No longer limited to law and accounting, research increasingly has been conducted from other perspectives, such as anthropology, business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and ...
The Routledge Companion to the History of Retailing
1st Edition
Edited
By Jon Stobart, Vicki Howard
September 30, 2020
Retail history is a rich, cross-disciplinary field that demonstrates the centrality of retailing to many aspects of human experience, from the provisioning of everyday goods to the shaping of urban environments; from earning a living to the construction of identity. Over the last few decades, ...
The Routledge Companion to Strategic Risk Management
1st Edition
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By Torben Andersen
December 12, 2019
Managing risk in and across organizations has always been of vital importance, both for individual firms and for the globalized economy more generally. With the global financial crisis, a dramatic lesson was learnt about what happens when risk is underestimated, misinterpreted, or even overlooked. ...
The Routledge Companion to Lean Management
1st Edition
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By Torbjorn H. Netland, Daryl J. Powell
December 10, 2019
Interest in the phenomenon known as "lean" has grown significantly in recent years. This is the first volume to provide an academically rigorous overview of the field of lean management, introducing the reader to the application of lean in diverse application areas, from the production floor to ...
The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy
1st Edition
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By Tobias Jung, Susan D. Phillips, Jenny Harrow
December 10, 2019
Philanthropy – the use of private resources for public purposes – is undergoing a transformation, both in practice and as an emerging field of study. Expectations of what philanthropy can achieve have risen significantly in recent years, reflecting a substantial, but uneven, increase in global ...
The Routledge Companion to Production and Operations Management
1st Edition
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By Martin K. Starr, Sushil K. Gupta
December 10, 2019
This remarkable volume highlights the importance of Production and Operations Management (POM) as a field of study and research contributing to substantial business and social growth. The editors emphasize how POM works with a range of systems—agriculture, disaster management, e-commerce, ...
The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Modern Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
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By David Audretsch, Erik Lehmann
December 10, 2019
Once relegated to the dusty shelves of ancient muses, research and scholarship on entrepreneurship has exploded as a field of research, with impactful additions from a range of disciplines rendering the field a tricky one to traverse. The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Modern Entrepreneurship...
The Routledge Companion to Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
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By Ted Baker, Friederike Welter
September 18, 2018
Research in entrepreneurship has been booming, with perspectives from a range of disciplines and numerous developing schools of thought. It can be difficult for young scholars and even long-time researchers to find their way through the lush garden of ideas we see before us. The purpose of this ...
The Routledge Companion to Creativity
1st Edition
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By Tudor Rickards, Mark A. Runco, Susan Moger
September 04, 2018
Creativity can be as difficult to define as it is to achieve. This is a complex and compelling area of study and this volume is perfectly poised to explore how creativity can be better understood, and used, in a range of contexts. The book not only centres on creativity in wider organizational ...
The Routledge Companion to Alternative Organization
1st Edition
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By Martin Parker, George Cheney, Valérie Fournier, Chris Land
August 23, 2018
Despite the Great Recession, slightly different forms of global capitalism are still portrayed as the only game in town by the vast majority of people in power in the world today. Unbridled growth, trade liberalisation, and competition are advocated as the only or best ways of organizing the ...
The Routledge Companion to Strategic Human Resource Management
1st Edition
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By John Storey, Patrick Wright, David Ulrich
August 23, 2018
Combining up-to-date research, innovative content and practical perspectives, this book is the benchmark by which all other strategic HRM reference works should be measured. Leading figures from around the globe survey the current state of the discipline, while also introducing and exploring new, ...