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.
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 ...
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Civilization: Our Fate Made in Machines
1st Edition
By Andreas Kaplan
September 25, 2023
Artificial intelligence is shaking up economies around the world as well as society at large and is predicted to be either the best or worst thing to happen to humanity. This book looks at what exactly artificial intelligence is, how it can be classified, how it differentiates from other concepts ...
Corporate Governance Models: A Critical Assessment
1st Edition
By Marco Mastrodascio
September 25, 2023
The activities carried out in a business organization stem from the contribution of subjects who cooperate in the expectation of obtaining adequate rewards. The ability of organisations to reach a specific level of performance is influenced by the ownership structure, while the management is ...
Fostering Wisdom at Work
1st Edition
By Jeff M. Allen
September 25, 2023
Most people can name dozens of knowledgeable people in their private and business lives, but highly value the very limited number deemed as wise. The fields of gerontology, psychology, and social science have attempted to study the phenomena of wisdom with little significant clarity or ...
Global Financialization and Corporate Innovation Strategy: The Case of Korean Firms
1st Edition
By Hwan Joo Seo, Sung Jin Kang
September 25, 2023
Technological innovation is a core aspect of corporate and national competitiveness and it is not only complex—requiring cooperation and coordination among many stakeholders—but it also involves high risk due to uncertainty. Financial markets are a key to successful technological innovation. This ...
Informal Leadership, Strategy and Organizational Change: The Power of Silent Authority
1st Edition
By Brenetia J. Adams-Robinson
September 25, 2023
Across the spectrum of organizational operations, workplace interactions have proven to be one of the most difficult activities for leaders to manage effectively, especially during any level of change. In these circumstances, leadership strategies, especially related to change and leadership ...
Privatisation in India: Journey and Challenges
1st Edition
By Sudhir Naib
September 25, 2023
This book is a comprehensive work which incisively analyses, from a theoretically informed perspective, crucial aspects of India’s journey from partial divestiture to privatisation, accompanied by case studies of enterprises being privatised in FY 2022. Naib begins with the economic role of the ...
South African Business in China: Navigating Institutions
1st Edition
By Kelly Meng
September 25, 2023
Sino-African relations have evoked a great deal of geo-strategic interest in recent years. Most attention has focused on China’s assistance to and growing involvement in the economic development of several African nations. Far less emphasis has been placed on Africans in China, and on African ...