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.
Fearless Leadership: Managing Fear, Leading with Courage and Strengthening Authenticity
1st Edition
By Morten Henriksen, Thomas Lundby
December 19, 2022
All management starts with self-management – handle fear and become an authentic leader. Often, the problem with management is not theoretical, but practical. Managers know enough about leadership, but a lot of them do not act accordingly. They know what should be done in a given situation but fear...
Gender Bias in Organisations: From the Arts to Individualised Coaching
1st Edition
By Gillian Danby, Malgorzata Ciesielska
December 19, 2022
Government and organisational policies are not enough to challenge socially constructed expectations towards gender. Arts based methods derived from sensemaking, metaphors and storytelling can support women in modifying behaviours triggered by gender stereotype threat and help them cope better in ...
Management in the Non-Profit Sector: A Necessary Balance between Values, Responsibility and Accountability
1st Edition
By Renato Civitillo
December 19, 2022
Despite the significant importance of the non-profit Sector, there is a relative limitation of possible modelling related to the management of the Non-Profit Institutions (NPIs). The studies and the research are concentrated in the analysis of the characteristics and the limitations related to the ...
Entrepreneurship for Rural Start-ups: Lessons and Guidance for New Venture Creation
1st Edition
Edited
By Gloria Jiménez-Marín, Alejandro López Rodríguez, Miguel Torres García, José Guadix Martín
September 26, 2022
Entrepreneurs who start out with no network, no money, no market and scarce resources find a big contrast between what they read in books and the success stories from the Valley and their reality, specially first-timers. Most entrepreneurial books focus on the Business Canvas Model, simplifying the...
Human Resource Management in the Indian Tea Industry
1st Edition
By Nirmal Roy, Debasish Biswas
September 26, 2022
Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization policy was advocated in India in 1991 under the supervision of P.V. Narasimha Rao, the then Prime Minister of India. As a consequence, the tea plantation industry was largely affected. It has confronted difficult competition because of the ...
Digitalised Talent Management: Navigating the Human-Technology Interface
1st Edition
Edited
By Sharna Wiblen
August 29, 2022
This book focuses on digitalised talent management—the use of information technologies in talent management. The book affords theoretically, methodologically and empirically informed insights that are especially salient given the need for executives and organisations to balance the role of humans ...
Entrepreneurship and Work in the Gig Economy: The Case of the Western Balkans
1st Edition
By Mirjana Radović – Marković, Borislav Đukanović, Dušan Marković, Arsen Dragojević
August 29, 2022
The crisis caused by COVID-19 poses a major challenge for the global economy and business. It has been a test for economic resilience, and how this crisis will affect business activities will be determined by their competitiveness. Only firms that have succeeded in reorienting and quickly adapting ...
Artificial Intelligence in Accounting: Practical Applications
1st Edition
By Cory Ng, John Alarcon
August 01, 2022
Artificial Intelligence in Accounting: Practical Applications was written with a simple goal: to provide accountants with a foundational understanding of AI and its many business and accounting applications. It is meant to serve as a guide for identifying opportunities to implement AI initiatives ...
Consumer Behaviour and Social Network Sites: The Impact of Negative Word of Mouth
1st Edition
By Sarah Zaraket
August 01, 2022
This book provides a solid understanding of electronic word of mouth (eWOM) by taking the reader through the process of information diffusion from rumour generation in times of traditional word of mouth (WOM) to negative social eWOM and examining how consumers process it. Consumer Behaviour and ...
Innovation in Africa: Fuelling an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for Growth and Prosperity
1st Edition
By Deseye Umurhohwo
August 01, 2022
This book emphasizes the need for promoting innovation on the African continent. It identifies the roadblocks for entrepreneurs and discusses ways for developing an ecosystem for innovators to pave a way through the barriers and create ground-breaking products and new technologies which meet ...
Entrepreneurial Urban Regeneration: Business Improvement Districts as a Form of Organizational Innovation
1st Edition
By Rezart Prifti, Fatma Jaupi
May 30, 2022
In today's world, towns and cities dynamically develop over time and that's why urban regeneration is a widely experienced phenomenon. How can Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) create necessary conditions for the development of these phenomena? What is the role that BIDs have in entrepreneurial...
Strategic University Management: Future Proofing Your Institution
1st Edition
By Loren Falkenberg, M. Elizabeth Cannon
May 30, 2022
Universities are being buffeted by multiple disruptive trends, including increased competition for both funding and students, as well as from new institutions that are nimbler and more responsive to the external environment. To survive this reality, university leaders must engage in effective ...