Routledge Focus on Business and Management
About the Book Series
The fields of business and management have grown exponentially as areas of research and education. This growth presents challenges for readers trying to keep up with the latest important insights. Routledge Focus on Business and Management presents small books on big topics and how they intersect with the world of business research.
Individually, each title in the series provides coverage of a key academic topic, whilst collectively, the series forms a comprehensive collection across the business disciplines.
Supply Chain Collaboration: The Impact of Horizontal Cooperation
1st Edition
By Anna Tatarczak
May 13, 2026
In today’s volatile world, supply chains face unprecedented challenges from globalization, digital disruption, sustainability pressures, and unexpected crises. While vertical collaboration between suppliers and buyers has received significant attention, horizontal cooperation – collaboration ...
Job Satisfaction and Sustainable Employee Development: Engagement, Well-Being, and Passion
1st Edition
By Barbara A. Sypniewska, Małgorzata Baran, Andrzej Jagodziński
January 30, 2026
Job Satisfaction and Sustainable Employee Development aims to present knowledge about job satisfaction from the perspective of employee well- being. The book provides new theoretical and practical insights into job satisfaction in relation to employee well-being, passion for work, and engagement. ...
Leadership and Strategic Management: Decision-Making in Times of Change
1st Edition
By Paolo Boccardelli, Federica Brunetta
January 29, 2026
Managers are facing unprecedented complexity, volatility, and ambiguity, quickly adapting their decision-making, leadership, vision, and strategies. Megatrends and forces of change have profound implications for business models, processes, and organizational structures, calling into question ...
From Risk Profiling to Enterprise Resilience: Interdependencies in Management
1st Edition
By Sylwia Bąk, Piotr Jedynak
December 26, 2025
From Risk Profiling to Enterprise Resilience introduces readers to a new approach to risk profiling theory and methodology, as well as relationships between an enterprise’s risk profile and its resilience to crises. Given the need to reflect on changes in approaches to risk and risk management in ...
Open Strategy for Digital Business: Managing in ICT-Driven Environments
1st Edition
By Ewa Lechman, Joanna Radomska, Ewa Stańczyk-Hugiet
December 26, 2025
This book offers the reader a novel perspective on how digital contexts and open strategy approaches – the act of opening up strategic initiatives beyond company managers to involve front-line employees, stakeholders, and entrepreneurs – are related. Going beyond the claim that digital media drives...
Place Marketing and Temporality
1st Edition
By Gary Warnaby
December 26, 2025
Much city marketing and branding activity is future-oriented; aimed at achieving a forward-looking vision for places. The aim of this activity is to attract visitors, residents and/or inward investment, and focus on communicating attractive place attributes to create a differentiated spatial ‘...
Organizational Aesthetics: Artful Visual Representations of Business and Organizations
1st Edition
By Barbara Fryzel, Aleksander Marcinkowski
December 25, 2025
Organizational Aesthetics attempts to reconstruct artful representations of the organizational world and businesspeople. It looks at organizations and management through the eyes of artists, painters, and photographers and decodes meanings contained in artistic messages, grasping the aesthetic ...
Purpose-driven Innovation Leadership for Sustainable Development: A Qualitative Case Study Approach
1st Edition
By Gaia Grant
December 25, 2025
Purpose-driven Innovation Leadership for Sustainable Development presents invaluable insights into how leaders can balance competing innovation demands. The book reports on research from an in-depth case study, which reveals the importance of developing highly adaptative and innovative responses ...
Critical Thinking in Public Policy and Management
1st Edition
By Michael Macaulay
November 27, 2025
Critical thinking is a crucial skillset for policy and management scholars and practitioners. This book outlines the ways in which this skillset is sometimes overlooked and how it can be enhanced. It defines constructive critical thinking, outlining some common applications before looking more ...
Digital Social Entrepreneurship: Implications for People, Planet, and Profit
1st Edition
Edited
By Veronica Scuotto, Norris Krueger, Manlio Del Giudice
November 14, 2025
This book discusses the emerging phenomenon of digital social entrepreneurship, which relies on the use and embracement of new technologies, and investigates the social implications and value for people, profit, and planet. The authors examine the use of new technologies such as artificial ...
AI and the Future of Leadership: Opportunities and Threats for Hybrid Organisations
1st Edition
By Adrian Jarvis
November 09, 2025
AI and the Future of Leadership explores the profound implications of artificial intelligence for leadership theory and practice. As Artificial Intelligence technologies become increasingly embedded in organisational life, this book interrogates the readiness of current leadership models to ...
Entrepreneurship Education and Student Empowerment: Innovation in the EU
1st Edition
By Chiara Bartoli, Federica Brunetta
October 16, 2025
A scholarly work that explores the intersection of entrepreneurship education, innovation, and student empowerment within the European Union, this book investigates the transition from student to entrepreneur. It provides an in-depth analysis of the theoretical and empirical aspects of ...