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.
Purpose-driven Innovation Leadership for Sustainable Development: A Qualitative Case Study Approach
1st Edition
By Gaia Grant
June 07, 2024
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 ...
Organizational Aesthetics: Artful Visual Representations of Business and Organizations
1st Edition
By Barbara Fryzel, Aleksander Marcinkowski
June 06, 2024
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 ...
Open Strategy for Digital Business: Managing in ICT-Driven Environments
1st Edition
By Ewa Lechman, Joanna Radomska, Ewa Stańczyk-Hugiet
May 29, 2024
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...
Creativity, Innovation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The da Vinci Strategy
1st Edition
By Jon-Arild Johannessen
May 27, 2024
The most important goals for an organization in the Fourth Industrial Revolution will be innovation and enhanced performance. Creativity is a means for promoting these goals – a creative person is a productive person who uses all their resources to attain specific goals. Da Vinci Creativity should ...
Management and Labor Conflict: An Introduction to the US and Canadian History
1st Edition
By Jason Russell
May 27, 2024
Management and labor have been adversaries in American and Canadian workplaces since the time of colonial settlement. Labor lacked full legal legitimacy in Canada and the United States until the mid-1930s and the passage of laws that granted collective bargaining rights and protection from ...
Marx in Management and Organisation Studies: Rethinking Value, Labour and Class Struggles
1st Edition
By Frederick Harry Pitts
May 27, 2024
This book introduces new approaches that deploy concepts from Marx’s critique of political economy to renew the study of labour, value and social antagonisms in the broad area of management and organisation studies. Exploring established and emergent strands of Marxian theorising inside and ...
Optimal Spending on Cybersecurity Measures: Risk Management
1st Edition
By Tara Kissoon
May 27, 2024
This book explores the strategic decisions made by organizations when implementing cybersecurity controls and leveraging economic models and theories from the economics of information security and risk-management frameworks. Based on unique and distinct research completed within the field of...
Performance Measurement in Non-Profit Organizations: The Road to Integrated Reporting
1st Edition
By Patrizia Gazzola, Stefano Amelio
May 27, 2024
Performance Measurement in Non-Profit Organizations: The Road to Integrated Reporting addresses the issue of performance measurement in nonprofit companies with the aim of defining a system of useful measures to understand, manage, and improve the performance of such companies by employing systems ...
Risk Management Maturity: A Multidimensional Model
1st Edition
By Sylwia Bąk, Piotr Jedynak
May 27, 2024
Crises like the COVID-19 pandemic are wake-up calls for enterprises to review their current risk management models. This book suggests a more robust risk management maturity model and illustrates the application in crisis situations. The book surveys existing risk management maturity models and ...
The Innovative Management Education Ecosystem: Reskilling and Upskilling the Future Workforce
1st Edition
By Jordi Diaz, Daphne Halkias, Paul W. Thurman
May 27, 2024
With the world in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, associated labor market challenges are bringing changes to how business schools offer executive education to the future workforce. The COVID-19 pandemic has further underlined the need for such change through impacts on today’s ...
Artificial Intelligence and Project Management: An Integrated Approach to Knowledge-Based Evaluation
1st Edition
By Tadeusz A. Grzeszczyk
May 01, 2024
Although some people had doubts about the usefulness of such solutions in the past, artificial intelligence (AI) plays a growing role in modern business. It can be expected that the interest in it will also lead to an increase in support for the planning, evaluation, and implementation of projects....
Leadership and Strategic Management: Decision-Making in Times of Change
1st Edition
By Paolo Boccardelli, Federica Brunetta
May 01, 2024
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 ...