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.
Work Orientations: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings
1st Edition
Edited
By Bengt Furåker, Kristina Håkansson
March 31, 2021
Work orientations and work attitudes have to do with the productive capacities in society. Insofar as individuals are positively oriented towards contributing their labour, we can expect a great amount of work to be done and to be carried out efficiently, carefully and responsibly. These subjective...
Business and Peace-Building: The Role of Natural Resources Companies
1st Edition
By Carol Bond
December 18, 2020
In a world struggling to adapt to seismic social and environmental changes, the time is now for businesses to prioritise creating local conditions of peace. This book builds on original research foregrounding ‘peace’ as a core business outcome for natural resources industries. Especially in ...
Counterproductive Work Behaviors: Understanding the Dark Side of Personalities in Organizational Life
1st Edition
By Aaron Cohen
December 18, 2020
There has been a growing interest among scholars in the fields of organizational behaviour and industrial psychology in what can be termed "the dark side of the organizations." A main concept in this regard this is both important and relevant counterproductive work behaviours (CWBs), which can be ...
Gender Equality in Public Services: Chasing the Dream
1st Edition
By Hazel Conley, Margaret Page
December 18, 2020
The provision of state funded and democratically accountable care services represents one of the most potentially transformative advances in gendered social relations and equality for women by ‘defamilizing’ care and providing paid work. But the cost of providing these services, which women have ...
Organisational Space and Beyond: The Significance of Henri Lefebvre for Organisation Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen Dale, Sytze F. Kingma, Varda Wasserman
December 18, 2020
Through the focus on organizational space, using the reception and significance of the seminal work on the subject by sociologist Henri Lefebvre, this book demonstrates why and how Lefebvre's work can be used to inform and elaborate organisational studies, especially in view of the current interest...
Organizational Identity and Memory: A Multidisciplinary Approach
1st Edition
By Andrea Casey
December 18, 2020
Organizational Identity and Memory analyzes the relationship between organizational identity and organizational memory, in particular history and commemoration. The goal is to further our understanding of the role of this relationship in processes critical to today’s organizations: the evolution of...
Organizational Research: Storytelling in Action
1st Edition
By David M. Boje
December 18, 2020
‘Organizational research methods’ (ORM) are making an ontological turn by studying the nature of Being, becoming, and the meaning of existence in the world. For example, without ontology, there is no ‘ground’ and no ‘theory’ in Grounded Theory (GT). This book explores ten ways to develop fourth ...
Organizational Theory and Aesthetic Philosophies
1st Edition
By Antonio Strati
December 18, 2020
Diverse philosophies constitute the theoretical ground of the study of the aesthetic side of organization. In fact, there is not a single unique philosophy behind the organizational research of the aesthetic dimension of organizational life. Organizational Theory and Aesthetic Philosophies will ...
Relational Research and Organisation Studies
1st Edition
By Charlotte Øland Madsen, Mette Vinther Larsen, Lone Hersted, Jørgen Gulddahl Rasmussen
December 18, 2020
This volume lays out a variety of ways of engaging in research projects focused on exploring the everyday relational practices of organizing and leading is presented. The main focus is through elaborate examples from the author’s own research to further the understanding of how it is possible to ...
The Dark Side of Emotional Labour
1st Edition
By Jenna Ward, Robert McMurray
December 18, 2020
The Dark Side of Emotional Labour explores the work that the rest of society would rather not think about, the often unseen work that is emotionally disturbing, exhausting, upsetting, and stigmatising. This is work that is simultaneously undesirable and rewarding, work whose tasks are eschewed and ...
The Democratic Organisation: Democracy and the Future of Work
1st Edition
By Thomas Diefenbach
June 24, 2020
Prevailing models of organisation divide people into owners, managers and employees, forcing especially the latter to obey, to behave, and to function well within a hierarchical and managerial pecking order. However, there is no natural law suggesting the need for such organisations, not in market ...
Storytelling for Sustainability in Higher Education: An Educator's Handbook
1st Edition
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By Petra Molthan-Hill, Heather Luna, Tony Wall, Helen Puntha, Denise Baden
April 15, 2020
To be a storyteller is an incredible position from which to influence hearts and minds, and each one of us has the capacity to utilise storytelling for a sustainable future. This book offers unique and powerful insights into how stories and storytelling can be utilised within higher education to ...