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.
Business Clusters: An International Perspective
1st Edition
By Martin Perry
February 28, 2007
Clusters of specialized businesses are being promoted around the world, aided by high-profile examples such as Silicon Valley. Using evidence from high- and low-income economies, as well as detailed case studies that show the special conditions behind successful clusters, this book provides a new ...
Information Warfare in Business: Strategies of Control and Resistance in the Network Society
1st Edition
By Iain Munro
February 28, 2007
Information Warfare in Business provides a significant and interesting perspective on the concept of the network organization. It illustrates the relations between information technology and organization, and in particular, between business organizations and the recent revolution in military ...
Economies of Network Industries
1st Edition
By Hans Werner Gottinger
May 23, 2003
Hans Göttinger examines different types of network industries such as railways, telecommunications and new media, and the economics thereof. An accent on history is something that makes this book stand apart from others in the area. The author's accessible writing style and knowledgeable research ...
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...
A Comparison of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Europe and in the USA
1st Edition
By Solomon Karmel, Justin Bryon
May 15, 2002
Developed from a study commissioned by the European Capital Markets Institute, this book examines the impact of private equity and capital markets on the development of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the United States and the European Union. It also seeks to understand the nature of ...
Democracy and Efficiency in the Economic Enterprise
1st Edition
Edited
By Ugo Pagano, Bob Rowthorn
March 11, 2002
The collapse of central planning was hailed as evidence of the economic and moral superiority of capitalism over any possible alternative. The essays in this book challenge that claim. The case for more democratic forms of enterprise management is considered from a variety of viewpoints. One ...
Managing Professional Identities: Knowledge, Performativities and the 'New' Professional
1st Edition
Edited
By Mike Dent, Stephen Whitehead
November 21, 2001
This book addresses the nature of current shifts in professional and managerial knowledge and practice, particularly in relation to power and accountability. Connecting with current debates concerned with work and identity, the book will present a range of theoretical and empirical accounts of the ...
Supply Chains, Markets and Power: Managing Buyer and Supplier Power Regimes
1st Edition
By Andrew Cox, Paul Ireland, Chris Lonsdale, Joe Sanderson, Glyn Watson
October 26, 2001
Supply Chains, Markets and Power takes resource-based thinking forward by stressing the need for a dynamic and entrepreneurial conception of resource acquisition and management. This book will be essential reading for all those with a professional or academic interest in supply chain management....
Managing Buyer-Supplier Relations: The Winning Edge Through Specification Management
1st Edition
By Rajesh Nellore
September 21, 2001
Managing suppliers is a complex process that is often underestimated. This book presents research carried out by a practising manager in the automotive industry, coupled with over six hundred interviews with representatives from the automotive, aircraft and white goods industries, in order to ...
Stability and Change in High-Tech Enterprises: Organisational Practices in Small to Medium Enterprises
1st Edition
By Neil Costello
November 30, 2000
How do firms live through and experience change? The authors examine four high-technology firms, providing a rich analysis of their routines, and illustrating how people are continually engaged with change. The book develops a broader concept of routine, and identifies the persistence of routine ...
Privatization and Supply Chain Management: On the Effective Alignment of Purchasing and Supply after Privatization
1st Edition
By Andrew Cox, Lisa Harris, David Parker
June 21, 1999
This book brings together two of the 'hottest issues' in current management thinking: the impact of privatization on the performance and behaviour of the companies involved, and the increasingly important role of purchasing and supplier relationships. The notion that efficiency is improved with ...
The Governance of Large Technical Systems
1st Edition
Edited
By Olivier Coutard
May 14, 1999
This work examines the governance of large technical systems (LTS) at firm, imdustry and state levels and the interactions between the systems and society. In particular, international contributors explore the implications of major technological , economic and social changes during the last twenty ...