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.
Distributed Leadership and Digital Innovation: The Argument For Couple Leadership
1st Edition
By Caterina Maniscalco
December 13, 2021
When it comes to digital innovation, much research has been done with regard to the optimization of teams, but little attention has been given to leadership structures. This book presents a comprehensive research background on innovation leadership and its evolution over the years, examining how it...
Effective Workforce Development: A Concise Guide for HR and Line Managers
1st Edition
By Antonios Panagiotakopoulos
December 13, 2021
Developed for busy HR practitioners and trainers, this book provides a concise guide to the theory and practice of employee training in contemporary organisations. Reflecting the importance of employee development to learning-based organisations in the knowledge economy, it clearly links employee ...
Employment Relations and Ethnic Minority Enterprise: An Ethnography of Chinese Restaurants in the UK
1st Edition
By Xisi Li
December 13, 2021
This book is the first piece of extensive research in studying employment relations in ethnic Chinese small businesses in Britain. It contributes to existing knowledge in three respects. Empirically, it examines the nature of employment relations in the ethnic Chinese restaurant sector in the UK ...
Ethics, Meaning, and Market Society
1st Edition
By Laszlo Zsolnai
December 13, 2021
This book explores the underlying causes of the pervasive dominance of ‘unethics’ in contemporary affairs in economics, business, and society. It is argued that the state of unethics is related to the overexpansion of market and market values in all spheres of social life and human activities. A ...
Globalization and Entrepreneurship in Small Countries
1st Edition
By Mirjana Radović-Marković, Rajko Tomaš
December 13, 2021
The changeable business environment requires a new business framework and an understanding of the global market trends and the culture that will impact on business. Globalization and Entrepreneurship in Small Countries considers important business principles and makes them accessible for ...
Heidegger and Entrepreneurship: A Phenomenological Approach
1st Edition
By Håvard Åsvoll
December 13, 2021
This book proposes that entrepreneurial practice is often considered an "applicable" paradigm. An "applicable" paradigm - which focus too much on planned, analytical, calculable, tool-based and ready-to-hand modes of decision making action. Hence, the equally important "theory of Nothing" has not ...
Liminality in Organization Studies: Theory and Method
1st Edition
By Maria Rita Tagliaventi
December 13, 2021
In a time of flexible and mutable work arrangements, there is hardly a domain of organizing that has not been affected by liminality. Temporary workers who switch companies based on projects, consultants who operate at the boundaries between the consultant and the client companies, or ‘hybrid ...
The Neuroscience of Rhetoric in Management: Compassionate Executive Communication
1st Edition
By Dirk Remley
December 13, 2021
Executives continue to lose their position because of inability to communicate organizational decisions to employees and boards effectively. More than just the words one writes or speaks, communication includes one’s actions and other non-verbal attributes that carry meaning for audiences. Further,...
The Politics of Organizational Change
1st Edition
By Robert Price
December 13, 2021
Politics is an aspect of everyday life within organizations, and is a force that inhibits individual and collective behaviour. If not fully understood, it can impede organizational change and development. In order to minimise the political aspects of organizational dynamics there is a need to ...
The Search for Entrepreneurship: Finding More Questions Than Answers
1st Edition
By Simon Bridge
December 13, 2021
Since the 1980s, governments have often sought to encourage entrepreneurship on the assumption that it creates small businesses which are the primary drivers of job creation. Largely because of this assumption, entrepreneurship has become a valid subject for academic research attracting extensive ...
Women, Work and Migration: Nursing in Australia
1st Edition
By Diane van den Broek, Dimitria Groutsis
December 13, 2021
This book looks at the migration and work experiences of six women who have migrated to Australia from China; Zimbabwe; South Korea; the United Kingdom; India and the Philippines. It sets their journeys out into three distinct periods of migration, including the first period of their lives when ...
Public Relations Crisis Communication: A New Model
1st Edition
By Lisa Anderson-Meli, Swapna Koshy
September 30, 2021
This book explores the definition, nature and context of public relations crises; it also examines and defines the main elements of public relations crises and positions it in the context of the current communication sphere.Public Relations Crisis Communication: A New Model investigates existing ...