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1. Deregulation, Innovation and Market Liberalization

   Electricity Regulation in a Continually Evolving Environment

   By L. Lynne Kiesling

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

   Over the past 50 years the US economy has experienced economic dynamism and technological change at a dizzying pace, driven substantially by innovation in digital communication technology. This dynamism has had limited effects in the electricity industry, and institutional change within the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Privatisation and Financial Collapse in the Nuclear Industry

   The Origins and Causes of the British Energy Crisis of 2002

   By Simon Taylor

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

   A timely contribution and incisive analysis, this is the story of the British experiment in privatizing the nuclear power industry and its subsequent financial collapse. It tells how the UK's pioneering role in nuclear power led to bad technology choices, a badly flawed restructuring of the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Developments in the Call Centre Industry

   Analysis, Changes and Challenges

   Edited by Julia Connell, John Burgess

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

   Over the past ten years there has been a massive growth in call centres worldwide. These centres are said to represent the most dynamic growth area in white-collar employment internationally since the mid 1990s. Yet the footloose and global nature of the industry means that jobs will always be...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
4. Universities, Innovation and the Economy

   By Helen Lawton-Smith

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

   Universities are increasingly expected to be at the heart of networked structures contributing to society in meaningful and measurable ways through research, the teaching and development of experts, and knowledge innovation. While there is nothing new in universities’ links with industry, what is...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
5. Business Networks

   Strategy and Structure

   By Emanuela Todeva

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

   Although social, political, technological and business networks hold our modern world together, we still lack a good understanding of what business networks are, how they work, and the language of network analysis that we may apply to solve common, everyday problems. This book looks at such...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
6. Markets in Fashion

   A phenomenological approach

   By Patrik Aspers

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

   Interest in contemporary cultural industries has grown in the past decade, as they take on a greater significance in our increasingly consumer-led society. Focusing on the world of fashion photography, this book presents an interdisciplinary approach in which this and other aesthetic markets, such...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
7. Location Behaviour and Relationship Stability in International Business Networks

   Evidence from the Automotive Industry

   By Bart Kamp

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

   This new book investigates how the relationships of international business networks (one buyer-multiple buyers) develop over time, looking at the geographical angle as well as an actor composition point of view. Bart Kamp presents a framework that reveals what business-to-business (b2b)&...

   Published August 27th 2010 by Routledge
8. Procuring Complex Performance

   Studies of Innovation in Product-Service Management

   Edited by Nigel Caldwell, Mickey Howard

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

   This book examines the management of Procuring Complex Performance (PCP) in large-scale programmes that includes the downstream support phase in sectors such as construction, healthcare, transport, aerospace, marine and defence. It brings together a series of edited chapters to explain why the...

   Published August 11th 2010 by Routledge
9. Organization and Identity

   Edited by Alison Linstead, Stephen Linstead

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

   Exploring identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and in the social sciences, this book focuses on how ideas about identity can be applied to organization and management studies. The contributors, all respected authorities in the field, use and develop recent philosophical thought on...

   Published December 6th 2008 by Routledge
10. Thinking Organization

    Edited by Stephen Linstead, Alison Linstead

    Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

    Drawing on both analytical and continental traditions, this thought-provoking book takes a balanced look at the contributions philosophy can make to improving our understanding of what it means to organize. The essays consider three areas: representing organization, knowing organization, and the...

    Published October 6th 2008 by Routledge