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.
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 ...
Stories for Management Success: The Power of Talk in Organizations
1st Edition
By David Collins
September 30, 2021
We tend to assume that we may divide our activities into talk and action. In so doing we tend to suggest that talk is subordinate to action. Taking issue with these presumptions, Stories for Management Success: The Power of Talk in Organizations argues that talk is central to what managers do. ...
A Short Guide to People Management: For HR and line managers
1st Edition
By Antonios Panagiotakopoulos
June 30, 2021
There is a plethora of information available for busy HR practitioners but what they really need is a clear, concise and comprehensive analysis of the theory and practice of people management within contemporary organizations. Indeed, much has been written about Human Resource Management and ...
Accounting for Biological Assets
1st Edition
By Rute Gonçalves, Patrícia Lopes
June 30, 2021
This book explores accounting for biological assets under IAS 41 – Agriculture, and explains the recent adjustments introduced by the IASB which allow firms to choose between cost or revaluation models concerning mature bearer plants. Identifying the firm and country-level drivers that inform the ...
Auditing Teams: Dynamics and Efficiency
1st Edition
By Mara Cameran, Angelo Ditillo, Angela Pettinicchio
June 30, 2021
The recent audit failures which have rocked financial markets worldwide have accentuated the need for a better understanding of the link between risk, control and audit quality; as well as emphasising the need to open the "black box" of the ways auditing firms actually function. Reflecting these ...
Evaluating IT Projects
1st Edition
By Eriona Shtëmbari
June 30, 2021
Project management disciplines have been a part of IT for many years. Why then, are so many challenges still directly associated with how a project is managed? Many projects fail for a myriad of reasons; most, however, stem from poor or inadequate project evaluation and performance appraisal, while...