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.
The Psychodynamics of Toxic Organizations: Applied Poems, Stories and Analysis
1st Edition
By Howard Stein, Seth Allcorn
May 06, 2022
Understanding experience at work, especially in toxic organizations, is a multidimensional undertaking that must include all senses. The use of applied poetry has its primary value as an evocative approach to sensing, knowing, and understanding workplace experience. Poetry at its best condenses ...
Management and the Sustainability Paradox: Reconnecting the Human Chain
1st Edition
By David Wasieleski, Sandra Waddock, Paul Shrivastava
April 29, 2022
Management and the Sustainability Paradox is about how humans became disconnected from their ecological environment throughout evolutionary history. Begining with the premise that people have competing innate, natural drives linked to survival. Survival can be thought of in the context of long-term...
Management, Organization and Fear: Causes, Consequences and Strategies
1st Edition
By Marek Bugdol, Kazimierz Nagody-Mrozowicz
April 29, 2022
Fear is a fundamental emotion, a process combining four elements: physiological arousal, subjective feelings, cognitive interpretation and behavioural expression. The notion of fear is related to such terms as apprehension, uncertainty, risk, anxiety, horror. Fear has always accompanied people. It ...
Organizational Reliability: Human Resources, Information Technology and Management
1st Edition
By Katarzyna Tworek, Agnieszka Bieńkowska, Anna Zabłocka-Kluczka
April 29, 2022
This book explores the identified research gap and new field of study of organizational reliability. It develops a definition and theoretical internal structure of the notion of organizational reliability as well as a theoretical background describing the structure of its three pillars, and it...
Corporate Social Responsibility and SMEs: Impacts and Institutional Drivers
1st Edition
By Johan J. Graafland
December 29, 2021
The world’s people and their leaders face a complex and multifaceted set of ‘eco-social questions’. As the productivity of humanity increases, the negative external environmental effects of production and consumption patterns become increasingly problematic and threaten the human welfare. As the ...
Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Justice and the Global Food Supply Chain: Towards an Ethical Food Policy for Sustainable Supermarkets
1st Edition
By Hillary Shaw, Julia Shaw
March 31, 2021
Food is a source of nourishment, a cause for celebration, an inducement to temptation, a means of influence, and signifies good health and well-being. Together with other life enhancing goods such as clean water, unpolluted air, adequate shelter and suitable clothing, food is a basic good which is ...
The Institutional Theory of the Firm: Embedded Autonomy
1st Edition
By Alexander Styhre
March 31, 2021
The Institutional Theory of the Firm examines recent and previous organization theory literature to advocate what Evans (1995) refers to as the "embedded autonomy" of the firm, as well as its role in being simultaneously anchored in, for example, corporate legislation and regulatory practices on ...
Visual and Multimodal Research in Organization and Management Studies
1st Edition
By Markus Höllerer, Theo van Leeuwen, Dennis Jancsary, Renate Meyer, Thomas Hestbaek Andersen, Eero Vaara
March 31, 2021
This volume brings together two hitherto disparate domains of scholarly inquiry: organization and management studies on the one hand, and the study of visual and multimodal communication on the other. Within organization and management studies it has been recognized that organizational reality and ...
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 ...