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.
Towards better Performing Transport Networks
1st Edition
By Bart Jourquin, Piet Rietveld, Kerstin Westin
July 11, 2012
The performance of current transport systems is inadequate when viewed in terms of economic efficiency, sustainability and safety. Drawing together key an impressive list of contributors from the vast field of transportation economics including Kenneth Button, David Banister and Juan ...
Privatisation and Financial Collapse in the Nuclear Industry: The Origins and Causes of the British Energy Crisis of 2002
1st Edition
By Simon Taylor
June 13, 2012
A timely contribution and incisive analysis, this is the story of the British experiment in privatizing the nuclear power industry and its subsequent financial collapse. It tells how the UK's pioneering role in nuclear power led to bad technology choices, a badly flawed restructuring of the ...
Procuring Complex Performance: Studies of Innovation in Product-Service Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Nigel Caldwell, Mickey Howard
May 30, 2012
This book examines the management of Procuring Complex Performance (PCP) in large-scale programmes that includes the downstream support phase in sectors such as construction, healthcare, transport, aerospace, marine and defence. It brings together a series of edited chapters to explain why the ...
Developments in the Call Centre Industry: Analysis, Changes and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Julia Connell, John Burgess
March 21, 2012
Over the past ten years there has been a massive growth in call centres worldwide. These centres are said to represent the most dynamic growth area in white-collar employment internationally since the mid 1990s. Yet the footloose and global nature of the industry means that jobs will always be ...
Universities, Innovation and the Economy
1st Edition
By Helen Lawton-Smith
March 21, 2012
Universities are increasingly expected to be at the heart of networked structures contributing to society in meaningful and measurable ways through research, the teaching and development of experts, and knowledge innovation. While there is nothing new in universities’ links with industry, what is ...
Deregulation, Innovation and Market Liberalization: Electricity Regulation in a Continually Evolving Environment
1st Edition
By L. Lynne Kiesling
March 13, 2012
Over the past 50 years the US economy has experienced economic dynamism and technological change at a dizzying pace, driven substantially by innovation in digital communication technology. This dynamism has had limited effects in the electricity industry, and institutional change within the ...
Business Networks: Strategy and Structure
1st Edition
By Emanuela Todeva
November 15, 2011
Although social, political, technological and business networks hold our modern world together, we still lack a good understanding of what business networks are, how they work, and the language of network analysis that we may apply to solve common, everyday problems. This book looks at such ...
Markets in Fashion: A phenomenological approach
1st Edition
By Patrik Aspers
November 15, 2011
Interest in contemporary cultural industries has grown in the past decade, as they take on a greater significance in our increasingly consumer-led society. Focusing on the world of fashion photography, this book presents an interdisciplinary approach in which this and other aesthetic markets, such ...
Location Behaviour and Relationship Stability in International Business Networks: Evidence from the Automotive Industry
1st Edition
By Bart Kamp
August 25, 2010
This new book investigates how the relationships of international business networks (one buyer-multiple suppliers) develop over time, looking at the geographical angle as well as an actor composition point of view. Bart Kamp presents a framework that reveals what business-to-business (...
Organization and Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Alison Linstead, Stephen Linstead
December 07, 2008
Exploring identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and in the social sciences, this book focuses on how ideas about identity can be applied to organization and management studies. The contributors, all respected authorities in the field, use and develop recent philosophical thought on ...
Thinking Organization
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Linstead, Alison Linstead
October 07, 2008
Drawing on both analytical and continental traditions, this thought-provoking book takes a balanced look at the contributions philosophy can make to improving our understanding of what it means to organize. The essays consider three areas: representing organization, knowing organization, and the ...
Building Chaos: An International Comparison of Deregulation in the Construction Industry
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerhard Bosch, Peter Philips
April 11, 2003
This collection draws on international comparisons from the main industrialized countries in a key field - the construction industry. One only has to walk around almost any major city in the industrialized economies of the world to see how well the construction industry is doing and this study is a...