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.
Organizations and the Bioeconomy: The Management and Commodification of the Life Sciences
1st Edition
By Alexander Styhre
May 31, 2017
The advancement of the life sciences and the technosciences has enhanced the longevity of citizens in the Western world, and half of the generation born in the first decade of the new millennium is now expected to live to the age of one hundred years. In a society with such longevity and affluence,...
Managerial Cultures: A Comparative Historical Analysis
1st Edition
By David Hanson
August 26, 2016
How did the conduct of business come to be so different in different countries? Why are some less developed countries in the process of rapid industrialization while so many others remain poor? Analysts often point to national differences in the cultures of business to explain these patterns. What ...
Leadership as Emotional Labour: Management and the 'Managed Heart'
1st Edition
Edited
By Marian Iszatt-White
August 03, 2016
Even if we don’t realise it, most of us are now familiar with the idea of ‘emotional labour’; that ‘service with a smile’ which everyone from cabin crew to restaurant or call centre staff is expected to give, irrespective of what they actually feel or think. This book considers the complex ways in...
Commitment to Work and Job Satisfaction: Studies of Work Orientations
1st Edition
Edited
By Bengt Furåker, Kristina Håkansson, Jan Ch Karlsson
July 27, 2016
People’s work orientations and attitudes to paid work are highly important for the welfare of any country. Still, little is currently known about how such attitudes are distributed among different countries, men and women, classes, occupations, age groups and so on. Even less is known about how ...
Fair Trade Organizations and Social Enterprise: Social Innovation through Hybrid Organization Models
1st Edition
By Benjamin Huybrechts
July 27, 2016
For several decades, social enterprises have been pioneers in the conception and implementation of a pathbreaking social innovation: Fair Trade (FT). Fair Trade Social Enterprises have created a movement which has challenged mainstream trading practices and offered development opportunities for ...
Hierarchy and Organisation: Toward a General Theory of Hierarchical Social Systems
1st Edition
By Thomas Diefenbach
December 01, 2015
Most people take the conditions they work and live in as a given, believing it to be normal that societies are stratified and that organisations are hierarchical. Many even think that this is the way it should be - and are neither willing nor able to think that it could be otherwise. This book ...
Gender Equity in Science and Engineering: Advancing Change in Higher Education
1st Edition
By Diana Bilimoria, Xiangfen Liang
September 03, 2015
Women faculty’s participation in academic science and engineering is critical for future US global competitiveness, yet their underrepresentation particularly in senior positions remains a widespread problem. To overcome persistent institutional resistance and barriers to change, the NSF ADVANCE ...
Storytelling and the Future of Organizations: An Antenarrative Handbook
1st Edition
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By David M. Boje
September 03, 2015
Storytelling is part of social action and interaction that actually shapes the future of organizations. Organization and management studies have overwhelmingly focused to date on rational narrative structures with beginnings, middles, and ends, where narrative has proved to be a handy concept in ...
Why Organizational Change Fails: Robustness, Tenacity, and Change in Organizations
1st Edition
By Leike van Oss, Jaap van 't Hek
September 03, 2015
Change in organizations can arise spontaneously, or it can begin in response to a planned process of change. Even planned change is not as predictable as one might like it to be; it is often partial or incomplete, or the results of change may not be what one hoped. The aspects of an organization ...
International Management and International Relations: A Critical Perspective from Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Ana Guedes, Alex Faria
May 07, 2015
Over the last few decades, the field of management enlarged its boundaries, especially in international terms, in a very rapid fashion—mainly because of the arrival of the so-called era of globalization. Many renowned scholars have criticized the universal approach given to ‘management’ in the ...
Style Differences in Cognition, Learning, and Management: Theory, Research, and Practice
1st Edition
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By Stephen Rayner, Eva Cools
February 27, 2015
This book aims to mark fifteen years of contributions to the field of style research in cognition and learning presented at the annual conference of the European Learning Styles Information Network. The style field is a multidisciplinary, global community made up of researchers in several domains ...
The Public Services under Reconstruction: Client experiences, professional practices, managerial control
1st Edition
By Marja Gastelaars
February 27, 2015
This book examines the services in and around the public domain. The author analyses a number of socio-cultural changes that are generally considered relevant to these services, including the rationalising efforts of the New Public Management and the introduction of IT. The book particularly ...