Routledge Open Business and Economics
About the Book Series
Routledge Open Business and Economics provides a platform for the open access publication of monographs and edited collections across the full breadth of these disciplines including accounting, finance, management, marketing and political economy. Reflecting our commitment to supporting open access publishing, this series provides a key repository for academic research in business and economics.
Books in the series are published via the Gold Open Access model and are therefore available for free download and re-use according to the terms of Creative Commons licence. They can be accessed via the Routledge and Taylor & Francis website, as well as third party discovery sites such as the Directory of OAPEN Library, Open Access Books, PMC Bookshelf, and Google Books.
Note that the other Business and Economics series at Routledge also all accept open access books for publication.
Just Transition and the European Green Deal: Regional Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Everardus Wilhelmus (Michiel) Stapper, Marcin Baron, Ralph Horne, Nevelina Pachova, Monika Wieczorek-Kosmala
December 18, 2025
This book examines how the concept of the just transition - the idea that environmental and social concerns must be reconciled - has been implemented in European Union policies. Over the past decade, the just transition has gained traction in both policy and academic circles. With the introduction ...
Environmental, Social, and Governance Ratings: Risks, Regulations, and Market Dynamics
1st Edition
By Patrycja Chodnicka-Jaworska
October 16, 2025
In recent years, the world of finance and investments has changed, considering measures related to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors for socially responsible investments. ESG scoring and ratings are used to estimate ESG risk. This book presents ESG ratings and scorings and their ...
Redefining Management: The Manager/Leader-Relevant Stakeholder Paradigm
1st Edition
By Ovidiu Nicolescu, Ciprian Nicolescu
October 01, 2025
Redefining Management: The Manager/Leader-Relevant Stakeholder Paradigm presents a groundbreaking shift in management philosophy, theory, and practice, introducing the innovative concept of the manager/leader-relevant stakeholder. This paradigm challenges the traditional manager-subordinate model ...
The European Digital Economy: Drivers of Digital Transition and Economic Recovery
1st Edition
Edited
By Judyta Lubacha, Beata Mäihäniemi, Rafał Wisła
July 31, 2025
The “digital economy” is a conceptual umbrella referring to markets, organizations and their networks that are based on digital technologies, communication, data processing and e-commerce. It is multidimensional and its dynamic structure must be analysed from various dimensions, such as economic – ...
Digitization, Trust and SMEs
1st Edition
By Anna Wziątek-Staśko, Karolina Pobiedzińska
July 30, 2025
This book exposes two inspiring research categories: digitization and trust. Digitization is a phenomenon that dynamically modifies the modern world in almost every area. Modern technologies, artificial intelligence and humanoid robots are instruments with an increasingly significant impact on the ...
Philosophy and Management: Great Minds and Organizational Ideas
1st Edition
By Łukasz Sułkowski, Zdzisława Dacko-Pikiewicz, Katarzyna Szczepańska-Woszczyna
July 30, 2025
This book invites readers on an intellectual journey where the great minds of philosophy intersect with contemporary organizational challenges. With classical and modern philosophical thought as its backbone, Philosophy and Management: Great Minds and Organizational Ideas demonstrates that the most...
Digital Platforms in Finance and Supply Chain Management: Governance, Ethics, and Industry 5.0
1st Edition
By Piotr Łasak, Sławomir Wyciślak
July 24, 2025
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of digital platforms as the driving force of the modern economy, exploring their evolution, governance, and integration across financial and supply chain ecosystems. It presents a synthesis of theories, strategic models, and empirical insights to address ...
Digital Internationalisation of Firms: Strategies, Challenges and Legal Aspects
1st Edition
Edited
By Marzanna K. Witek-Hajduk, Magda Górska Grginović, Bartosz Targański
June 15, 2025
Digital Internationalisation of Firms offers a comprehensive examination of the digital outward internationalisation of firms, focusing on both Internet-based and Internet-enabled businesses, including SMEs and large enterprises. This monograph provides in-depth analysis of the processes, modes, ...
Energy Cluster Policies for Sustainable Industrial Transformation: An Institutional Perspective
1st Edition
By Marta Gancarczyk, Joanna Bohatkiewicz-Czaicka, Jacek Gancarczyk, Damian Tomczyk
April 23, 2025
Environmental changes and related public policies require an energy-focused sustainable industrial transformation (SIT) that reconciles economic, environmental, and social objectives. Local energy clusters are conducive to these transformative processes since they represent institutional structures...
Open Innovation and Startups
1st Edition
By Michał Bańka
April 01, 2025
This book comprehensively discusses the cooperation of corporations with startups in the context of accelerator programs. It focuses on recognizing how open innovation can catalyze startups’ development and success, and benefit corporations through access to new business models, innovative products...
Blockchain Technology in Project Finance: A Legal and Practical Model for Financing Mega-Investments
1st Edition
By Witold Srokosz, Paweł Lenio, Grzegorz Sobiecki
February 06, 2025
There is currently no comprehensive scientific study that addresses the problem of financing projects using Distributed Ledger (blockchain) Technology (DLT) that are not themselves embedded in the blockchain ecosystem, particularly in the context of long-term and capital-intensive investments. This...
Organizing Sustainable Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Aneta Kuźniarska, Karolina Mania, Monika Jedynak
December 18, 2024
The role and meaning of sustainable development have been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. However, there has recently been a dynamic increase in interest in the subject, which results in numerous, in-depth scientific research and publications with an interdisciplinary dimension...