Routledge Frontiers of Business Management
About the Book Series
Routledge Frontiers of Business Management is a research series focusing on entrepreneurial, innovative and managerial aspects of business. It aims to provide advanced, cutting-edge work to enrich existing discussion. The book series therefore, will be of interest to those who want to learn more about emerging business trends, key challenges in business management and dynamic models of these key areas.
For more information about this series, please contact Commissioning Editor, Kendrick Loo at [email protected]
Women Entrepreneurship in Family Business
1st Edition
Edited
By Vanessa Ratten, Léo Paul Dana, Veland Ramadani
September 25, 2019
There has been growing attention placed on the role of female run and managed business in the global economy due to the increasing emphasis on gender equity. Despite the importance of female entrepreneurship, there has only been recently increased research attention devoted to entrepreneurship in ...
Digital Business and Sustainable Development: Asian Perspectives
1st Edition
By Yongrok Choi
June 04, 2019
The Internet has ushered in a new era in the economies of networking. With the increasing need for optimization based on these network economies, the IT-based e-business has become a platform for study as well as daily practice. In a similar vein, global warming has raised many issues which come ...
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Smart Cities
1st Edition
By Vanessa Ratten
June 04, 2019
There has been increased emphasis on smart cities due to the economic, environmental and technological shifts that have impacted on society. This book focuses on how cities are becoming smarter, more innovative and entrepreneurial due to the increased pressures placed on them from ...
Human Resource Management and the Global Financial Crisis: Evidence from India's IT/BPO Industry
1st Edition
By Ashish Malik
June 04, 2019
This book analyses managerial responses and people management strategies and processes adopted to deal with the challenges imposed by the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). It examines how key actors in the system exercised strategic choices in a given strategic environment, as well as how they ...
Internal Marketing: Another Approach to Marketing for Growth
1st Edition
By Tatsuya Kimura
June 04, 2019
Establishing, developing, or promoting a brand or product in a market stems from aligning of divisions within an organization, with the perspective of providing value to customers – an idea which is known as internal marketing. Unlike external marketing, internal marketing ensures that ...
Japanese Management in Evolution: New Directions, Breaks, and Emerging Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Tsutomu Nakano
June 04, 2019
Japanese Management in Evolution illustrates the significant changes that have been taking place in Japanese business by focusing on "emerging industries" in the relatively neglected service and "creative" sectors as well as other key industries, and to put those changes in historical perspective ...
Management Control Systems in Japan
1st Edition
By Takashi Shimizu
June 04, 2019
As the world's third-ranking economic power, Japan's style of management, such as the lifetime employment system, the seniority system, and an enterprise union, has been well studied. However, little else is known about the Japanese management control systems (MCSs) and management ...
Fostering Local Entrepreneurship in a Multinational Enterprise
1st Edition
By Joe J. Amberg, Sara L. McGaughey
May 24, 2019
Corporate entrepreneurship involves new business creation within established companies, the strategic renewal of existing business, and, ultimately, the search for sustainable competitive advantage in an increasingly globalised economy. Yet it remains elusive for many firms. In a collaboration ...
Corporate Sustainability Assessments: Sustainability practices of multinational enterprises in Thailand
1st Edition
Edited
By Jerome D. Donovan, Cheree Topple, Eryadi K. Masli, Teerin Vanichseni
June 28, 2018
Sustainable development is an internationally recognised objective for governments, businesses and societies. However, how the private sector engages with sustainability in a systematic way through their business activities remains unclear. This book evaluates the sustainability practices of the ...
Japanese Management: International perspectives
1st Edition
By Hitoshi Iwashita
June 28, 2018
This book provides a new understanding of the constellations of logics in Japanese management practices in Asia and the West. Through comparative ethnographic case studies in a Japanese multinational corporation (MNC), the book explores the cultural meanings of family, corporation, market and ...
Managing Convergence in Innovation: The new paradigm of technological innovation
1st Edition
Edited
By Kong-Rae Lee
June 28, 2018
Technology in several forms, especially Information Technology (IT), has a strong tendency to converge at varying degrees. This phenomenon of converging innovation is likely to deepen and widen in the future due to intense competition in global markets. Asian manufacturing firms in particular lead ...