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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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 ...