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.
Entrepreneurship Development in India
1st Edition
By Debasish Biswas, Chanchal Dey
January 09, 2023
Entrepreneurship development is a major area of focus today as it has huge potential in creating jobs and self-employability and thus contributing to economic development. India, in the last few years in particular, has seen exponential growth of start-ups and new-age entrepreneurs. Both the ...
Entrepreneurship Education: Scholarly Progress and Future Challenges
1st Edition
By Gustav Hägg, Agnieszka Kurczewska
January 09, 2023
The discussion around whether entrepreneurship can be taught is becoming obsolete as the number of entrepreneurship courses, specializations and degrees is rising at an unprecedented rate all over the world and the demand for entrepreneurial education teachers or instructors is constantly growing. ...
Pop-Up Retail: The Evolution, Application and Future of Ephemeral Stores
1st Edition
By Ghalia Boustani
January 09, 2023
Ephemeral stores, also known as pop-up stores, have existed since the beginning of trade between consumers. They appeared in city centres, villages or other convenient places where they proposed an offering and then disappeared as soon as its offering was wearied. This is a very similar experience ...
Rethinking Organizational Culture: Redeeming Culture through Stories
1st Edition
By David Collins
January 09, 2023
What is organizational culture? Why does it matter? This book demonstrates that conventional wisdom on this fundamental business topic has surpassed its usefulness. The author wants neither to praise scholarship on culture nor to bury it – rather he wants to build something fit for purpose by ...
Clusters, Digital Transformation and Regional Development in Germany
1st Edition
By Marta Götz
December 19, 2022
The information age is reshaping current socio-economic structures and processes and this book touches upon the nature of clusters in the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0; I4.0). It focuses on the spatial perspective of digital business transformation and explores in natural context the ...
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 ...