Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
About the Book Series
How do firms work? What networks are involved in driving organizations forward? This series presents titles which look at the dynamics of organizations and the particular effects of different types of business networks. It covers topics such as:
- Industrial networks
- Transaction cost economics
- Organization theory
- Change and information
- New theories of the firm.
It considers both the economic, cultural and environmental factors that govern the success and failure of business networks and organizations.
Strategic Inter-Organizational Relationships: The Impact of the Relational Business Model on Resilience and Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By Milena Ratajczak-Mrozek, Bartosz Deszczyński
April 28, 2026
This book explores the power of relationships in shaping resilient and sustainable businesses. In an era of uncertainty, where disruptions challenge organisations globally, strong inter-organisational and social connections can be the key to companies’ survival and long-term success. The authors ...
Industrial Clusters in International Value Chains: Conceptual Advancement and Empirical Evidence from European ICT Clusters
1st Edition
By Joanna Bohatkiewicz-Czaicka, Marta Gancarczyk
December 25, 2025
Clusters are considered crucial nodes in the ongoing transformation of international value chains (IVCs). Due to technological advancements and external shocks, such as pandemic and political conflicts, value chains (VCs) have been spatially and functionally shortening, and clusters are well suited...
Partnerships for Regional Innovation and Development: Implementing Smart Specialization in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Marta Gancarczyk, Anna Ujwary-Gil, Manuel González-López
May 31, 2023
This monograph presents the experience in the implementation of smart specialization strategies (S3) from multilevel policy governance, as well as from the bottom-up perspectives of firms, clusters, and networks in selected European countries. The presented research focuses on relevance and ...
Organizational Networks and Networking Competence: Contemporary Challenges in Management and Employment
1st Edition
By Marzena Fryczyńska
August 29, 2022
Networks and networking are essential concepts that transform organizational, economic, and social practices. Human capital is both a source of competitive advantage and a value that allows individual employees to develop their careers and find satisfaction in their employment. The book addresses ...
Organizational Network Analysis: Auditing Intangible Resources
1st Edition
By Anna Ujwary-Gil
June 30, 2021
The integrated meta-model for organizational resource audit is a consistent and comprehensive instrument for auditing intangible resources and their relations and associations from the network perspective. This book undertakes a critically important problem of management sciences, poorly recognized...
Customer Loyalty and Supply Chain Management: Business-to-Business Customer Loyalty Analysis
1st Edition
By Ivan Russo, Ilenia Confente
December 12, 2019
Many business-to-business (B2B) managers think that customers act rationally and base decisions mostly on price, customer loyalty isn’t considered. Companies outsource various activities, which enable them to improve efficiency, reduce costs, focus more on core competencies and improve their ...
Uncertainty and Economic Evolution: Essays in Honour of Armen Alchian
1st Edition
By John L. Lott Jr.
January 17, 2019
The theory of the firm has recently undergone a dramatic transformation, drawing heavily on the pathbreaking work of Armen Alchian. This volume explores his contribution to the debate, including essays by Harold Demetz, Ben Klein, Jerry Jordan and Art Devany....
Uniting Diverse Organizations: Managing Goal-Oriented Advocacy Networks
1st Edition
By Angel Saz-Carranza
May 24, 2017
Networks are made up of organizations. Often a central unit, or "Network Administrative Organization" (NAO), manages an entire network of organizations that collaborate to achieve an overall network-level goal. Goal-directed networks are those that come together to achieve a shared objective, in ...
Shopfloor Matters: Labor - Management Relations in 20th Century American Manufacturing
1st Edition
By David Fairris
August 03, 2016
Building on the work of labor historians, industrial relations scholars, and institutional labor economists, this book offers not only a comprehensive analysis of the changing nature of shopfloor labor-management relations in the large manufacturing firms of this century, it also supplies empirical...
The End of the Professions?: The Restructuring of Professional Work
1st Edition
By Jane Broadbent, Michael Dietrich, Jennifer Roberts
April 27, 2016
What has been the impact of deregulation and a rapidly changing socio-economic environment on the professions? The cross-disciplinary contributions to this volume examine the changing role of the professions....
The New Mutualism in Public Policy
1st Edition
By Johnston Birchall
April 27, 2016
Mutuality has become a topic of debate recently for a whole range of academics and social commentators. The 'demutualisation' of banks and building societies has been partnered by the idea of a 'new mutualism' , forming a set of social values and beliefs, and this collection looks at the ...
Econometric Analysis of the Real Estate Market and Investment
1st Edition
By Peijie Wang
January 20, 2016
This book provides an economic and econometric analysis of real estate investment and real estate market behaviour. Peijie Wang examines fluctuations in the real estate business to reveal the mechanisms governing the interactions between the industry and other sectors of the economy....