Critical Management Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Public-Private Partnerships in the USA

   Lessons to be Learned for the United Kingdom

   By Tony Wall

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

   Broadly, a Public-Private Partnership (or PPP) is any collaboration between the public and private sector, but research in the UK has tended to focus on those that have been used for major infrastructure projects, such as roads, schools, and hospitals. This book compares and contrasts PPP research...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Routledge Companion to Identity and Consumption

   Edited by Ayalla A. Ruvio, Russell W. Belk

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   "Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are," said Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Today, "You are what you consume" is more apt. Barbara Krueger’s ironic twist of Descartes - "I shop therefore I am" - has lost its irony. Such phrases have become commonplace descriptions of our identity in the...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. 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
5. The Marketing Matrix

   How the Corporation Gets Its Power – And How We Can Reclaim It

   By Gerard Hastings

   In the hands of the corporate sector, marketing has turned us into spoilt, consumption-obsessed children who are simultaneously wrecking our bodies, psyches and planet. Given the fiduciary duties of the corporation, notions like consumer sovereignty, customer service and relationship building are...

   Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Identity Politics at Work

   Resisting Gender, Gendering Resistance

   By Jean Helms Mills, Albert J Mills, Robyn Thomas

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   This book represents the coming together of two key debates within organization studies: theorizing on gender and ways of understanding resistance. These debates have been given renewed vigour with the 'postmodern turn' in organization studies and feminist theory. Fusing these two literatures...

   Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
7. Leadership as Emotional Labour

   Management and the 'Managed Heart'

   Edited by Marian Iszatt-White

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   Even if we don’t realise it, most of us are now familiar with the idea of ‘emotional labour’; that ‘service with a smile’ which everyone from cabin crew to restaurant or call centre staff is expected to give, irrespective of what they actually feel or think. This book considers the complex ways in...

   Published September 7th 2012 by Routledge
8. Consumption and Spirituality

   Edited by Diego Rinallo, Linda Scott, Pauline Maclaran

   Series: Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research

   This book sheds light on the consumption of spiritual products, services, experiences, and places through state-of-the-art studies by leading and emerging scholars in interpretive consumer research, marketing, sociology, anthropology, cultural, and religious studies. The collection brings together...

   Published August 23rd 2012 by Routledge
9. Marketing Technologies

   Corporate Cultures and Technological Change

   By Elena Simakova

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   Global corporations initiate, join and maintain socio-technological change and hence, alter the ways in which we organize our lives. Demanding significant investment of resources and time, the development and implementation of new technologies on different levels must take into consideration these...

   Published August 21st 2012 by Routledge
10. Rediscovering Collective Bargaining

    Australia's Fair Work Act in International Perspective

    Edited by Breen Creighton, Anthony Forsyth

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

    This book examines countries that have tried, with varying degrees of success, to use legislative strategies to encourage and support collective bargaining, including Australia’s Fair Work Act. It is the first major study of the operation and impact of the new collective bargaining framework...

    Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge