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.
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
Edited
By David 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
Edited
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 ...
The Poetic Logic of Administration: Styles and Changes of Style in the Art of Organizing
1st Edition
By Kaj Skoldberg
September 11, 2014
The Poetic Logic of Administration is an investigation of the most important organizational forms of our time, theoretically as well as practically. Central to the presentation are four main trends: the rational bureaucracy, the human network, the harmonious system and the strong culture.The book ...
Gossip and Organizations
1st Edition
By Kathryn Waddington
February 14, 2014
Gossip is a complex and ubiquitous phenomenon, widely found and variously practiced. Gossip and Organizations provides the reader with an analysis of gossip and informal knowledge across different national, organizational and cultural contexts, drawing upon empirical findings and the author's ...
Text/Work: Representing Organization and Organizing Representation
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Linstead
September 03, 2013
The concepts of social sciences, social action and organizations as texts, are no longer unfamiliar ones. The use of language in social analysis has made researchers acutely aware of the importance of language use, not only to contain and express experience but also to create second order accounts ...
Efficiency and Management
1st Edition
By Guy Callender
September 18, 2012
It is widely accepted that management concepts such as strategic management, human resource management and management development have a well-defined body of knowledge designed to inform management praxis, however the notion of efficiency has no such body of knowledge to support its application ...