Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Business and Management
About the Book Series
This series brings together the most significant works in Business, Economics and Finance by Italian authors that have been selected by the Giappichelli publishing house. It features cutting-edge research, addressing all of the major issues across a wide range of individual disciplines, helping to define and advance the field.
Sustainability and Megaproject Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Franca Cantoni, Edoardo Favari
January 29, 2024
Megaprojects, also referred to in the literature as Large Engineering Projects or Major Projects, are generally defined as large-scale investment initiatives worth 1b€/$ or more and, facing similar problems independent of the country where they are implemented and the industry they belong to. The ...
Foundations of Coopetition Strategy: A Framework for Competition and Cooperation
1st Edition
By Anna Minà, Giovanni Battista Dagnino
September 25, 2023
This book disentangles the foundations of coopetition (i.e., concurrent competition and cooperation) by exploring in-depth the intellectual legacy of Eastern and Western perspectives. In particular, it detects the foundations of coopetition in three Chinese streams of thought; Confucianism, Taoism,...
Socialist Economic Development in the 21st Century: A Century after the Bolshevik Revolution
1st Edition
By Alberto Gabriele, Elias Jabbour
September 25, 2023
Over a hundred years after the first socialist revolution broke the global monopoly of capitalism, a new class of socialist-oriented socioeconomic development is coming to the fore. Capitalism is still dominant worldwide, although its hegemony is no longer undisputed, and humankind is now faced ...
Digital Transformation and Knowledge Management
1st Edition
By Lucia Marchegiani
September 26, 2022
Knowledge capital is at the core of the socio-economic global system. Profit and not-for profit firms, institutions, and organizations, in general, face unique opportunities and threats related to knowledge management. Digital technologies and digital transformation offer a wide array of ...
Redesigning Organizational Sustainability Through Integrated Reporting
1st Edition
By Fabrizio Granà
May 30, 2022
This book explores the role of accounting and reporting practices, such as corporate and integrated reports, as organizations attempt to represent sustainability. By relying upon the case of a large international oil and gas company and its recent development of integrated reporting, this book ...
Defining, Measuring and Managing Consumer Experiences
1st Edition
By Annarita Sorrentino
May 06, 2022
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the challenges that marketing faces in understanding, managing and measuring the dynamics of modern consumer behaviours and successfully managing the customer experience. The reader will gain a deeper knowledge of the approaches to consumer behaviour ...
System, Actor, and Process: Keywords in Organization Studies
1st Edition
By Roberto Albano, Ylenia Curzi, Tommaso Fabbri
May 06, 2022
System, Actor and Process: Keywords in Organization Studies is intended as an epistemological ‘compass’ to navigate through the multifaceted key concepts typically used in organizational practice and research. The book illustrates thirty-four keywords using a tripartite structure: each keyword is ...
Operations Management for Healthcare Organizations: Theory, Models and Tools
1st Edition
By Stefano Villa
November 17, 2021
Varying factors such as the aging of the population, the increasing burden of chronic conditions and the recent global pandemic have highlighted the need for a redesign of healthcare production processes. This book provides a useful framework to capture the necessary organizational conditions to ...
Risk Management in Small and Medium Enterprises
1st Edition
By Chiara Crovini
September 30, 2020
This book offers a fresh method of assessing and managing risks in SMEs, by adopting a multidisciplinary approach. In small and medium companies, the risk management process cannot be often formalised and procedures are usually integrated unconsciously into the decision-making process. Therefore, ...
Competitive Business Management: A Global Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Silvio M. Brondoni
August 14, 2020
The growth of global corporations has led to the development of new business strategies whose complexity and configuration rest on corporate networks; corporate cross-culture and intangible corporate and product assets. In global markets, corporations compete in a competitive marketspace dimension,...
Managerialism in the Public Sector: Perspectives and Prospects
1st Edition
By Andrea Tomo
August 14, 2020
The purpose of this book is to offer insights into the complex and often unclear context of public sector management, providing a new theoretical and practical approach to the analysis and interpretation of these issues. The book is grounded in the awareness that the public sector has too often ...
Strategic Corporate Responsibility: The Social Dimension of Firms
1st Edition
By Ulpiana Kocollari
August 14, 2020
In her book, Dr Ulpiana Kocollari presents a unique contribution to the debate on Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability by clearly expressing how the configuration of a firm’s social dimension can help identify inclusive corporate governance models, define innovative management ...