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.
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
Edited
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 ...
Professions and Metaphors: Understanding professions in society
1st Edition
Edited
By Andreas Liljegren, Mike Saks
December 10, 2019
Professions and Metaphors: Understanding Professions in Society explores the way that two traditions have contributed to our understanding of both theory and society over recent decades. In the first tradition, the growing literature on metaphors has helped to guide thinking, providing insights ...
Socially Responsible Capitalism and Management
1st Edition
By Henri Savall, Michel Péron, Véronique Zardet, Marc Bonnet
December 05, 2019
In the current crisis context, capitalism is questioned by its detractors or defended by its partisans. The concept of Socially Responsible Capitalism (SRC) is based on the entrepreneurial spirit. It encourages exemplary behaviors, such as effective, efficient and ethical behaviors, by stimulating ...
Governance, Resistance and the Post-Colonial State: Management and State Building
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Murphy, Nimruji Jammulamadaka
September 25, 2019
The manifestation of the colonial nation-state as a legal-bureaucratic-police structure – an exploitation tool – undermined customary modes of governance in colonies. When post-World War II independence of colonies transferred ownership of the state structure to the colonized elite, ...
How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization
1st Edition
By Thorvald Gran
June 12, 2019
How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization seeks to shed understanding on how speaking or speech-acting affects how we are organized and how we influence each other and wield power. It is suggested that speaking is a major clue to organization and to the creation of new ...
The Organization of Craft Work: Identities, Meanings, and Materiality
1st Edition
Edited
By Emma Bell, Gianluigi Mangia, Scott Taylor, Maria Laura Toraldo
June 06, 2019
This edited book focuses on the organization and meaning of craft work in contemporary society. It considers the relationship between craft and place and how this enables the construction of a meaningful relationship with objects of production and consumption. The book explores the significance of ...
The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism
1st Edition
By Timothy Kuhn, Karen L Ashcraft, Francois Cooren
June 06, 2019
The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism revolves around a two-part question: "What have work and organization become under contemporary capitalism—and how should organization studies approach them?" Changes in the texture of capitalism...
Reframing Institutional Logics: Substance, Practice and History
1st Edition
By Alistair Mutch
October 08, 2018
How are we to characterise the context in which organisations operate? The notion that organisational activity is shaped by institutional logics has been influential but it presents a number of problems. The criteria by which institutions are identified, the conflation of institutions with ...
Dance and Organization: Integrating Dance Theory and Methods into the Study of Management
1st Edition
By Brigitte Biehl
August 23, 2018
Dance and Organisation is the first comprehensive work to integrate dance theory and methods into the study of management, which have developed an interest in the arts and the humanities. Dance represents dynamics and change and puts the moving body at the centre, which has been ignored and ...