State of the Art in Business Research
About the Book Series
Advances in theory, methods and applied knowledge alongside structural changes in the global economic ecosystem, present researchers with challenges in seeking to stay abreast of their fields and navigate new scholarly terrains.
This series presents shortform books which provide an expert map to guide readers through new and rapidly evolving areas of research. Each title will provide an overview of the area, a guide to the key literature along with time-saving summaries of how theory interacts with practice.
As a collection, these books provide a library of theoretical and conceptual insights into business research. Each book contributes to an understanding of the state of the art, as a foundation stone for a new generation of research.
Organization Theory: A Research Overview
1st Edition
By Gibson Burrell
January 29, 2024
This shortform book presents an overview of theoretical and empirical work in the field of organization theory. In doing so, it both provides a critical analysis of the state of knowledge in the field and offers recommendations for future directions. It is about both thinking differently, and ...
Organizing Corporeal Ethics: A Research Overview
1st Edition
By Alison Pullen, Carl Rhodes
January 29, 2024
This book explores the meaning and practice of corporeal ethics in organized life. Corporeal ethics originates from an emergent, embodied, and affective experience with others that precedes and exceeds those rational schemes that seek to regulate it. Pullen and Rhodes show how corporeal ethics is ...
Business History: A Research Overview
1st Edition
By John F. Wilson, Ian G. Jones, Steven Toms, Anna Tilba, Emily Buchnea, Nicholas Wong
September 25, 2023
The evolution of business history offers some radical ways forward for a discipline which is rich in potential. This shortform book offers an expert overview of how the field has relevance for contemporary business studies as well as the social sciences more broadly, as well as practitioners ...
Complexity in Organizations: A Research Overview
1st Edition
By Stig O. Johannessen
September 25, 2023
Written with pace and clarity, this book is a comprehensive and compact overview and introduction to the research landscape of complexity in organizations. In addition to conveying a gripping history of how complexity has influenced organizational ideas, theories, and practices throughout the 20th...
Language, Translation and Management Knowledge: A Research Overview
1st Edition
By Susanne Tietze
September 25, 2023
The book provides insights, description and analysis over the knowledge production process within business, organization, and management research. Importantly, it does so from a language and translation perspective. It critically engages with the role of English in this process and provides ...
Managing Decline: A Research Overview
1st Edition
By Antti Sihvonen, Juha-Antti Lamberg, Henrikki Tikkanen
September 25, 2023
A growing body of literature in the area of business administration has focused on the phenomenon of decline. These studies span multiple levels of analysis and draws on a range of disciplines, including strategic management, economics, and economic geography. Managing Decline: A Research ...
Philosophy and Management Studies: A Research Overview
1st Edition
By Raza Mir, Michelle Greenwood
September 25, 2023
Irrespective of whether one thinks of philosophy explicitly, each organizational researcher is a philosopher. A philosophical position is predicated on a variety of approaches relating to ontology, epistemology, methodology, ethics, and political positions. Depending on where one stands with regard...
Public Management: A Research Overview
1st Edition
By Tom Entwistle
September 25, 2023
Public Management: A Research Overview provides a structured survey of the state of the art of public management research. Looking at the enduring themes of bureaucracy, autonomy, markets and collaboration, each chapter introduces key foundational studies before reviewing contemporary research. ...
Remote Working: A Research Overview
1st Edition
By Alan Felstead
September 25, 2023
The coronavirus pandemic forced work back into the home on a massive scale. The long-held belief that work and home are separate spheres of economic life was turned on its head overnight. Many employees were new to this way of working and many employers had to manage a disparate workforce for the ...
Work and Stress: A Research Overview: A Research Overview
1st Edition
By Philip Dewe, Cary L Cooper
September 25, 2023
Stress is a leading cause of ill health in the workplace. This shortform book analyses, summarises and contextualises research around stress at work. The book begins by exploring the impact and challenges of technology and the challenging and changing contours and boundaries of the nature of work....
Talent Management: A Research Overview
1st Edition
By Anthony McDonnell, Sharna Wiblen
January 09, 2023
Talent management is a central element of managerial discourse and organisational practice. This short-form book provides a succinct overview on the state of research on talent management. The authors set out the key themes, arguments, trends and future research trajectories of talent management, ...
Work in the Gig Economy: A Research Overview
1st Edition
By James Duggan, Anthony McDonnell, Ultan Sherman, Ronan Carbery
January 09, 2023
Throughout the last decade, the ‘gig economy’ has emerged as one of the most significant developments in the world of work. As a novel, hyper-flexible form of labour, gig work features a uniquely fragmented working arrangement wherein independent workers partner with digital platform organisations ...