Organizational Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. The Chinese Transformation of Corporate Culture

   By Colin Hawes

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   In recent years, Chinese policymakers and corporate leaders have focused significant attention on the concept of corporate culture. This book will reveal the political, social and economic factors behind the enormous current interest in corporate culture in China and provide a wide range of case...

   Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge
2. Improving Organizational Interventions For Stress and Well-Being

   Addressing Process and Context

   Edited by Caroline Biron, Maria Karanika-Murray, Cary Cooper

   This book brings together a number of experts in the field of organizational interventions for stress and well-being, and discusses the importance of process and context issues to the success or failure of such interventions. The book explores how context and process can be incorporated into...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Managing Organizational Ecologies

   Space, Management, and Organizations

   Edited by Keith Alexander, Ilfryn Price

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   The term Facilities Management has become global but fraught with confusion as to what the term signifies. For some, notably in the USA, Facilities Management remains a discipline of human ecology. Elsewhere the term has become conflated with an alternative meaning: providing or outsourcing the...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. Time in Organizational Research

   Edited by Robert A. Roe, Mary J. Waller, Stewart R. Clegg

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   Today there is widespread awareness of the fact that time has been under-investigated in organizational studies. This book addresses the need to bridge the gap between the predominantly "timeless" theories and models that scholars have produced and the daily experiences of employees and managers,...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Sexualities, Work and Organizations

   By James Ward

   Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

   Sexuality is arguably the most under-researched of all diversity areas in work organizations. This book brings together and relates stories of minority sexual identity from six organizations drawn from three different industry sectors: the Emergency Services, the Civil Service and the Banking...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Institutionalization of Social Welfare

   A Study of Medicalizing Management

   By Mikael Holmqvist

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Today most countries rely on formally organized welfare programs - in some cases to the extent that they are labeled "welfare states". These programs, which have been constructed over the last decades, make up a larger national and international system of good intentions. Overall, it appears...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Innovative Bureaucracy

   Bureaucracy in an Age of Fluidity

   By Alexander Styhre

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   Highly original and based on unique empirical research in the fields of organization theory and organization behaviour, this work makes an invaluable contribution to the literature on bureaucracy and innovation. Focusing on a study of two major companies working with innovation and new product...

   Published May 14th 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 May 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Dynamics of Organizational Collapse

   The Case of Barings Bank

   By Helga Drummond

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   The collapse of Barings’ Bank was a commercial catastrophe that resonated worldwide, showing what kind of secrets can lie behind an apparently successful organization. Following Nick Leeson’s arrest and subsequent conviction for fraud, investment banks anxiously reviewed their risk management...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
10. Managing Corporate Values in Diverse National Cultures

    The Challenge of Differences

    By Philippe d'Iribarne

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    How should a Western company manage cross-culturally corporate values in its foreign subsidiaries? Do these values make sense everywhere and can they assumed to be universal or, on the contrary, are they culturally Western specific? Philippe d’Iribarne provides answers to these timely and urgent...

    Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge