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.
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 ...
Managing Complexity in Healthcare
1st Edition
By Lesley Kuhn, Kieran Le Plastrier
January 29, 2024
Managing Complexity in Healthcare introduces the ComEntEth (Complex Entropic Ethical) model as an integrated bio-medical and philosophical approach to understanding how people get things done in healthcare. Drawing on the complexity sciences, studies of entropy in living organisms and the ethics of...
Organizations and Complex Adaptive Systems
1st Edition
By Mahsa Fidanboy
January 29, 2024
Organizations and Complex Adaptive Systems explains complexity theory within the organizational studies and discusses the applicability of complex adaptive systems principles for intraorganizational and interorganizational levels. Complex adaptive systems and complexity theory have been ...
Organizations, Strategic Risk Management and Resilience: The Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism
1st Edition
By Patrizia Gazzola, Enrica Pavione, Ilaria Pessina
January 29, 2024
Organizations, Strategic Risk Management and Resilience: The Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism aims to identify, analyse and underline the importance of having a conceptual framework designed to develop and improve the risk management and resilience for organizations, particularly during times of ...
Power in Business Relationships: Dynamics, Strategies and Internationalisation
1st Edition
By Dariusz Siemieniako, Maciej Mitręga, Hannu Makkonen, Gregor Pfajfar
January 29, 2024
Focusing on the issue of power as the main building block of relationships between business buyers and sellers, this book explains the complex nature of power with its multidimensional and multi-directional character. As a complex construct, inter-firm power is treated as a matter of perception as...
Work Organizational Reforms and Employment Relations in the Automotive Industry: American Employment Relations in Transition
1st Edition
By Kenichi Shinohara
January 29, 2024
General Motors (GM)'s attempt to adapt the renowned Toyota production system for its own automotive manufacturing plants had historically produced disappointing results. Why was it not sufficiently successful? This book aims to shed insights into GM's failed attempt through the analysis of ...
The Business of New Process Diffusion: Management of the Early Float Glass Start-ups
1st Edition
By Brychan Celfyn Thomas, Alun Merlyn Thomas
October 02, 2023
The Business of New Process Diffusion explores entrepreneurship, innovation and process diffusion through the example of the development of float glass. The significance of the glass industry as a vehicle for studying innovation activities has been recognised for some time. By using it as an ...