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Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

About the Book Series

Management, Organizations and Society represents innovative work grounded in new realities; addressing issues crucial to an understanding of the contemporary world. This is the world of organized societies, where boundaries between formal and informal, public and private, local and global organizations have been displaced or vanished along with other nineteenth century dichotomies and oppositions. Management, apart from becoming a specialised profession for a growing number of people, is an everyday activity for most members of modern societies. Management, Organizations and Society will address these contemporary dynamics of transformation in a manner that transcends disciplinary boundaries, with work which will appeal to researchers, students and practitioners alike.

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Organizing through Empathy

Organizing through Empathy

1st Edition

Edited By Kathryn Pavlovich, Keiko Krahnke
August 06, 2018

Empathy dissolves the boundaries between self and others, and feelings of altruism towards others are activated. This process results in more compassionate and caring contexts, as well as helping others in times of suffering. This book provides evidence from neuroscience and quantum physics that it...

Pierre Bourdieu, Organization, and Management

Pierre Bourdieu, Organization, and Management

1st Edition

Edited By Ahu Tatli, Mustafa Ozbilgin, Mine Karatas-Ozkan
August 06, 2018

Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist, philosopher, and anthropologist, has been widely studied and analyzed in academic circles, particularly in sociology, where his ideas about power relations in social life helped to define the contemporary field. While many other sociological theories and ...

Sexual Orientation at Work Contemporary Issues and Perspectives

Sexual Orientation at Work: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Fiona Colgan, Nick Rumens
August 06, 2018

 Sexual Orientation at Work: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives brings together contemporary international research on sexual orientation and draws out its implications for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and heterosexual employees and managers. It provides new empirical and theoretical ...

Advancing Organizational Theory in a Complex World

Advancing Organizational Theory in a Complex World

1st Edition

Edited By Jane Qiu, Ben Luo, Chris Jackson, Karin Sanders
June 08, 2018

While research in organisational studies has become increasingly rich and complex, organisation researchers are constantly challenged by the growing quest for theoretical advancement and innovation. To conduct theoretically rigorous and innovative research, contemporary researchers and students ...

Boundary-Spanning in Organizations Network, Influence and Conflict

Boundary-Spanning in Organizations: Network, Influence and Conflict

1st Edition

Edited By Janice Langan Fox, Cary Cooper
June 08, 2018

In more recent times, the essence of the gatekeeper's role has moved to the 'boundary spanner' - a systems thinker who understands the specific needs and interests of the organization and whose greatest asset is their ability to move across and through the formal and informal features of the modern...

Counter-Narratives and Organization

Counter-Narratives and Organization

1st Edition

Edited By Sanne Frandsen, Timothy Kuhn, Marianne Wolff Lundholt
June 08, 2018

Counter-Narratives and Organization brings the concept of "counter-narrative" into an organizational context, illuminating these complex elements of communication as intrinsic yet largely unexplored aspect of organizational storytelling. Departing from dialogical, emergent and processual ...

Critical Management Studies Global Voices, Local Accents

Critical Management Studies: Global Voices, Local Accents

1st Edition

Edited By Christopher Grey, Isabelle Huault, Véronique Perret, Laurent Taskin
June 08, 2018

Critical Management Studies (CMS) is often dated from the publication of an edited volume bearing that name (Alvesson and Willmott, 1992). In the two decades that have followed, CMS has been remarkably successful in establishing itself not just as a ‘term’ but as a recognizable tradition or ...

Doing Organizational Ethnography

Doing Organizational Ethnography

1st Edition

Edited By Anne Reff Pedersen, Didde Humle
June 08, 2018

This book presents a new way of understanding organizational ethnography due to its strong emphasis on what the word organizational means in organizational ethnography. In the past five years, a new organizational studies research field has developed involving organizational ethnographies, which is...

For Robert Cooper Collected Work

For Robert Cooper: Collected Work

1st Edition

Edited By Martin Parker, Gibson Burrell
June 08, 2018

Robert Cooper, who died in 2013, was the leading theorist of organization working in England over the past few decades. Describing himself as a ‘social philosopher,’ he was one of the first writers to introduce post-structuralist and post-modern thought into theories of organization but was always ...

Management and Neoliberalism Connecting Policies and Practices

Management and Neoliberalism: Connecting Policies and Practices

1st Edition

By Alexander Styhre
June 08, 2018

After the financial collapse of 2008 and the bailing out of banks in the US and the UK, the long-term viability of the neoliberal doctrine has come under new scrutiny. The elimination of regulatory control, the financialization of the economy including the growth of increasingly complex financial ...

Management and Organization of Temporary Agency Work

Management and Organization of Temporary Agency Work

1st Edition

Edited By Bas A.S. Koene, Nathalie Galais, Christina Garsten
June 08, 2018

Over the past two decades the use of flexible employment relations has increased in most developed countries. The growth of temporary agency work constitutes a significant component of this development. Organizations are now facing the challenges of managing a ‘blended workforce’, i.e. a workforce ...

Managing Corporate Values in Diverse National Cultures The Challenge of Differences

Managing Corporate Values in Diverse National Cultures: The Challenge of Differences

1st Edition

By Philippe d'Iribarne
June 16, 2017

How should a Western company manage cross-culturally corporate values in its foreign subsidiaries? Do these values make sense everywhere and can they assumed to be universal or, on the contrary, are they culturally Western specific? Philippe d’Iribarne provides answers to these timely and urgent ...

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