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.
The Innovative Business School: Mentoring Today’s Leaders for Tomorrow’s Global Challenges
1st Edition
By Daphne Halkias, Michael Neubert, Paul W. Thurman, Chris Adendorff, Sameh Abadir
May 30, 2022
The Innovative Business School formulates a blueprint for the innovative business school of the next decade, with proposed areas of innovation which will train executives to transform the coming technological disruptions into an avenue for world economic development and prosperity. Offering a new ...
Organizational Justice and Organizational Change: Managing by Love
1st Edition
By Dominique David
May 06, 2022
Although various factors contribute to failed change, one of the key reasons for change failure is the inability of leaders to gain the trust of employees, to understand the interaction between their subordinates, and to convince them to support change and to commit the energy and effort necessary ...
Cultural Proximity and Organization: Managing Diversity and Innovation
1st Edition
By Federica Ceci, Francesca Masciarelli
April 29, 2022
Cultural proximity consists in shared language, codes ,and norms of communication and exchange between actors. It is generally considered important for organizations, enhancing communication and facilitation interaction between actors. In such situation, diversity is often seen as a source of ...
Global Entrepreneurship Analytics: Using GEM Data
1st Edition
By Milenka Linneth Argote Cusi, León Darío Parra Bernal
April 29, 2022
This innovative book proposes new methodologies for the measurement of entrepreneurship by applying techniques of demography, engineering, mathematics and statistics. Using the data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), statistical demographic techniques are used for the evaluation of ...
The Customer Experience Model
1st Edition
By Adyl Aliekperov
April 02, 2022
For any company, defining the most efficient marketing concept to create a competitive customer experience (CX) is vital for sustained development. The focus of this research is the creation of a comprehensible practical approach to the development of client experience: the Сustomer Experience ...
Adolescents, Family and Consumer Behaviour: A Behavioural Study of Adolescents in Indian Urban Families
1st Edition
By Harleen Kaur, Chandan Deep Singh
December 13, 2021
Buying decision making is a complicated process, in which a consumer’s decision is under the influence of others. The buyer’s decision making is directed in such a way that they must act as a consumer in society. Media and family are key socializing agents for adolescents. Moreover, changes in the ...
Careers and Talent Management: A Critical Perspective
1st Edition
By Cristina Reis
December 13, 2021
Careers and Talent Management challenges and deconstructs the notion of the "perfect career" in order to provide new perspectives on talent management and career creation. It argues that the skills that organizations typically look for as indicative of superstar performance are not necessarily ...
Distributed Leadership and Digital Innovation: The Argument For Couple Leadership
1st Edition
By Caterina Maniscalco
December 13, 2021
When it comes to digital innovation, much research has been done with regard to the optimization of teams, but little attention has been given to leadership structures. This book presents a comprehensive research background on innovation leadership and its evolution over the years, examining how it...
Effective Workforce Development: A Concise Guide for HR and Line Managers
1st Edition
By Antonios Panagiotakopoulos
December 13, 2021
Developed for busy HR practitioners and trainers, this book provides a concise guide to the theory and practice of employee training in contemporary organisations. Reflecting the importance of employee development to learning-based organisations in the knowledge economy, it clearly links employee ...
Employment Relations and Ethnic Minority Enterprise: An Ethnography of Chinese Restaurants in the UK
1st Edition
By Xisi Li
December 13, 2021
This book is the first piece of extensive research in studying employment relations in ethnic Chinese small businesses in Britain. It contributes to existing knowledge in three respects. Empirically, it examines the nature of employment relations in the ethnic Chinese restaurant sector in the UK ...
Ethics, Meaning, and Market Society
1st Edition
By Laszlo Zsolnai
December 13, 2021
This book explores the underlying causes of the pervasive dominance of ‘unethics’ in contemporary affairs in economics, business, and society. It is argued that the state of unethics is related to the overexpansion of market and market values in all spheres of social life and human activities. A ...
Globalization and Entrepreneurship in Small Countries
1st Edition
By Mirjana Radović-Marković, Rajko Tomaš
December 13, 2021
The changeable business environment requires a new business framework and an understanding of the global market trends and the culture that will impact on business. Globalization and Entrepreneurship in Small Countries considers important business principles and makes them accessible for ...