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.
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 ...
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 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 ...