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.
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 ...
The Multiple Case Study Design: Methodology and Application for Management Education
1st Edition
By Daphne Halkias, Michael Neubert, Paul W. Thurman, Nicholas Harkiolakis
September 25, 2023
Most organizations today operate in volatile economic and social environments and qualitative research plays an essential role in investigating leadership and management problems. This unique volume offers novice and experienced researchers a brief, student-centric research methods text ...
Proposal Writing for Business Research Projects
1st Edition
By Peter Samuels
August 07, 2023
This book helps students with the initial phases of their business research project, offering a clear step-by-step approach from defining aims and research questions through to conducting literature reviews and writing a methodology. Features to aid learning include chapter objectives, plentiful ...
Conflict, Power, and Organizational Change
1st Edition
By Deborah A. Colwill
May 31, 2023
A capacity for learning, adapting, and changing is an important facet of organizational resilience. What is involved in generative organizational change? Is it an event, a process, or constantly ongoing? What makes organizational change "good" for the organization? Who has the power to decide what ...
Continuous Improvement Practice in Local Government: Insights from Australia and New Zealand
1st Edition
By Matthew Pepper, Oriana Milani Price, Arun Elias
May 31, 2023
Local government plays a critical role in the provision of governance, infrastructure, and services for local communities. Over the past 30 years this sector has undergone significant reforms because of various superordinate governments policy changes. Continuous improvement and quality programs ...
Ephemeral Retailing: Pop-up Stores in a Postmodern Consumption Era
1st Edition
By Ghalia Boustani
May 31, 2023
Often described as the "hottest" retail phenomenon, ephemeral retail concerns the growth of pop-up stores as a new mode of retailing. These temporary stores "pop-up" without notice, quickly attract crowds, then disappear or morph into something else. Although they share similarities with ...