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1. Organizations and Working Time Standards

   A Comparison of Negotiations in Europe

   By Jens Thoemmes

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   Collective bargaining between employers and trade unions has profoundly changed working conditions in companies around the globe. But why do we start work at the age of 10, 16, 18 or 24? Why do we work 6, 8, 10 or more hours a day? These questions are becoming increasingly pertinent as working...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
2. Management in Africa

   Macro and Micro Perspectives

   Edited by Terri Lituchy, Betty Jane Punnett, Bill Buenar Puplampu

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   This book offers a comprehensive look at the current literatures and research based on empirical data from across different countries in Africa. It focuses on the work of leading scholars of management in and around Africa and the African Context, exploring whether we can at this point refer to ‘...

   Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
3. Strategic Management and Online Selling

   Creating Competitive Advantage with Intangible Web Goods

   By Susanne Royer

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   Focusing on Business to Customer (B2C) internet business, and on firms that offer intangible products and/or services that can be directly consumed via the world wide web, Strategic Management and Online Selling also covers immaterial products and online news information or home banking....

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
4. Mergers and Acquisitions

   The Critical Role of Stakeholders

   Edited by Helén Anderson, Virpi Havila, Fredrik Nilsson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   A merger or acquisition is usually a challenging endeavor with a single ultimate aim: to create value for the owner. However, stakeholder theory shows how such a narrow and one-sided focus is detrimental to value-creation in general – not only for other stakeholders within and outside the...

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. Business, Government and Sustainable Development

   By Gerard Keijzers

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   The range of sustainability objectives has now developed from relatively simple issues of environmental protection to a full array of interwoven social, economic and ecological issues, nationally and internationally. The involved process of sustainable development has now become a permanent and...

   Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
6. Flagship Marketing

   Concepts and places

   Edited by Tony Kent, Reva Brown

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   Flagships are the physical apogee of consumerism, places where brand experiences are most defined and interactions with consumers are highly refined. This book marks the first comprehensive study of the concept of the flagship, bringing together a range of scholarly insights from the field,...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Challenges and Controversies in Management Research

   Edited by Bill Lee, Catherine Cassell

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   Challenges and Controversies in Management Research explores the history and cultural context, current issues and controversies and potential development of research in the field of management. The collection of essays is written by scholars of international standing, and the chapters address the...

   Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge
8. Narrating the Management Guru

   In Search of Tom Peters

   By David Collins

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   David Collins, a well respected scholar of management gurus proves a critical reappraisal of the very influential work of Tom Peters. This volume examines his key works and reviews his detractors, offering an analysis of his contributions to the field of management that goes beyond the simple...

   Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
9. Reconfiguring Public Relations

   Ecology, Equity and Enterprise

   By David McKie, Debashish Munshi

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   This book reconfigures the field of public relations so that it can better engage with the changing world of the 21st century. It identifies the virtual absence of contemporary theories that are core in other disciplines and fills the gap by integrating critical, postmodern, poststructural,...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
10. Development on the Ground

    Clusters, Networks and Regions in Emerging Economies

    Edited by Allen J. Scott, Gioacchino Garofoli

    Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

    Edited by two leading scholars who have been instrumental in the shaping of current thinking in the field of regional and industrial economics, this volume brings together a range of theoretical and empirical contributions that analyze and explain distinct patterns of regional development, and the...

    Published January 22nd 2012 by Routledge