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.
Organisational Ambidexterity and Strategy: Design, Structure and Implementation
1st Edition
By Imo Enang, John M. Rudd
November 15, 2024
Across the last 50 years, there have been increasing studies on Organizational Ambidexterity (OA). However, there has been a disproportionate focus on the theory underpinning OA with less recourse to the implementation of OA. The primary purpose of this book is to close gaps in the understanding of...
Liquid Organization: Zygmunt Bauman and Organization Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Jerzy Kociatkiewicz, Monika Kostera
October 14, 2024
Widely known as a leading intellectual, Zygmunt Bauman’s thinking is often categorized as sociology or philosophy. But his work has been hugely influential in other fields as well, not least within organization studies. From increasing management control and growing standardization of work ...
On Being At Work: The Social Construction of the Employee
1st Edition
By Nancy Harding
October 14, 2024
Inspired by the work of the philosopher Judith Butler, influenced by Marx’s theory of alienation and intrigued by theories of death, this book develops an anti-methodological approach to studying working lives. Distinctions are drawn between labour (the tasks we do in our jobs) and work (...
Organizations and the Media: Organizing in a Mediatized World
1st Edition
Edited
By Josef Pallas, Lars Strannegård, Stefan Jonsson
October 14, 2024
The relationship between media and the organizations they cover has changed dramatically in the last few decades, which have witnessed a huge expansion of news coverage focusing on different types of organizations and their activities. In parallel, organizations have dramatically increased their ...
Pluralism in Management: Organizational Theory, Management Education, and Ernst Cassirer
1st Edition
By Eirik Irgens
October 14, 2024
Analytic philosophy has come to dominate organizational theory and management education, despite criticism from several notable scholars. The European continental philosophical tradition, on the other hand, is seen by some as a counterpoint to US- and UK-dominated functionalistic organizational ...
Storytelling in Management Practice: Dynamics and Implications
1st Edition
By Stefanie Reissner, Victoria Pagan
October 14, 2024
Since the early 2000s, storytelling as a means of managerial communication has been increasingly advocated, with a focus on the management practices of leadership, change and organizational culture. Most research on storytelling in management practice derives from practitioner experience, but ...
Dark Sides of Organizational Life: Hostility, Rivalry, Gossip, Envy and other Difficult Behaviors
1st Edition
Edited
By H. Cenk Sözen, H. Nejat Basım
October 09, 2024
Exploring the darkest side of organizations may have a potential to change our previous assumptions about business life. Scholars both in management and organizational research fields have shown interest in the "bright" side of behavioral life and have looked for the ways to create a positive ...
Proximity and the Cluster Organization
1st Edition
By Anna Maria Lis, Adrian Lis
October 09, 2024
Including the category of proximity in theoretical considerations and empirical analyzes in cluster organizations is an attempt to integrate existing approaches to understand and explain the specificity of inter-organizational cooperation developed in geographical proximity. The importance of ...
Towards the Compassionate University: From Golden Thread to Global Impact
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathryn Waddington
October 04, 2024
This book makes a significant contribution to the need for compassion in the 21st-century neoliberal university. Compassion is a process that involves (i) noticing that suffering is present in an organization; (ii) making meaning of suffering in a way that contributes to a desire to alleviate it; (...
Ending Slavery in the Corporate Supply Chain: Storytelling, Leadership, and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
1st Edition
By Richard Herder
September 16, 2024
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is a Florida-based farmworkers’ cooperative that has received international acclaim for sponsoring anti-slavery investigations. In 2011, they worked with commercial tomato growers to found the Fair Food Program, a private sector agreement that operates ...
Organizational Development, Innovation, and Economy 5.0: Challenges in the Digital Era
1st Edition
Edited
By Elżbieta Jędrych, Agnieszka Rzepka
September 09, 2024
This edited collection comprehensively explores Economy 5.0, focusing on critical aspects such as organizational development, intellectual capital, soft agent dynamics, and agility. Through in-depth analysis, real-world case studies, and forward-looking perspectives, the book provides readers with ...
Business Groups and Strategic Coopetition
1st Edition
Edited
By Wioletta Mierzejewska, Patryk Dziurski
August 26, 2024
Business Groups and Strategic Coopetition sheds lights on the poorly recognised problem of intra-organisational relationships within business groups by adopting the coopetition lens. It brings together the strategic management (coopetition and performance) and international management perspectives ...