Routledge Companions are prestige collections of original contributions, expertly curated by leading scholars. Spanning the business disciplines, the books in this series incorporate established and emerging global research themes around the management and organisation of business operations, strategy and leadership.
Individually, Routledge Companions in Business and Management provide impactful one-stop-shop publications. Collectively, they represent a comprehensive learning and research resource for researchers, postgraduate students and reflective practitioners around the world.
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By Joan Marques
March 05, 2019
The Routledge Companion to Management and Workplace Spirituality provides readers with a broad, cutting-edge overview of the discipline of management spirituality and religion (MSR). Marques has gathered leading scholars from around the world who share their insights and research on important ...
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By Jin Chen, Alexander Brem, Eric Viardot, Poh Kam Wong
February 18, 2019
Innovation contributes to corporate competitiveness, economic performance and environmental sustainability. In the Internet era, innovation intelligence is transferred across borders and languages at an unprecedented rate, yet the ability to benefit from it seems to become more divergent among ...
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By Stephen J. Perkins
November 20, 2018
The Routledge Companion to Reward Management provides a prestige reference work and a state-of-the-art compilation, mapping out contemporary developments and debates on rewarding people in employment, and how they relate to business, corporate governance and management. Reward management stands at...
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By Jon Stobart, Vicki Howard
November 20, 2018
Retail history is a rich, cross-disciplinary field that demonstrates the centrality of retailing to many aspects of human experience, from the provisioning of everyday goods to the shaping of urban environments; from earning a living to the construction of identity. Over the last few decades, ...
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By Robert P. Gephart, Jr., C. Chet Miller, Karin Svedberg Helgesson
October 25, 2018
This volume provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the latest management and organizational research related to risk, crisis, and emergency management. It is the first volume to present these separate, but related, disciplines together. Combined with a distinctly social and organizational...
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By Haiyan Zhou
August 28, 2018
There is increasing interest in accounting issues in China. Despite a relatively short history, China's stock market is the world's second largest. This growth has been accompanied by increasing demand for accounting information alongside reforms of accounting and auditing rules, as international ...
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By Mike Wright, Kevin Amess, Nick Bacon, Donald Siegel
September 26, 2018
Management Buyouts (MBOs) first came to prominence in the US during the early 1980s, and have subsequently become a global phenomenon and a highly significant transaction within the corporate restructuring landscape Although much recent attention has focused on private equity (PE) backed buyouts, ...
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By Anne-Sophie Fernandez, Paul Chiambaretto, Frédéric Le Roy, Wojciech Czakon
August 28, 2018
As more and more strategic alliances are forged between competitors, a dedicated word has been coined to described this strategy: coopetition. Coopetition strategy research began in the early 1990s and has been steadily increasing; yet, a global overview of the field has been lacking. This ...
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By Gabriele Suder, Monica Riviere, Johan Lindeque
August 10, 2018
International Business is a well-established research field, in which regionalisation has recently gained significant prominence. Europe comprises marketplaces characterised by unique patterns of highly advanced economic integration. No other marketplace in the world has progressed to the same ...
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By Gilad Livne, Garen Markarian
June 18, 2018
The concept of "fair value" marked a major departure from traditional cost accounting. In theory, under this approach a balance sheet that better reflects the current value of assets and liabilities. Critics of fair value argue that it is less useful over longer time frames and prone to distortion ...
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By Kurt J. Engemann
June 18, 2018
Aware that a single crisis event can devastate their business, managers must be prepared for the worst from an expansive array of threats. The Routledge Companion to Risk, Crisis and Security in Business comprises a professional and scholarly collection of work in this critical field. Risks come in...
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By Adrian Wilkinson, Tony Dundon, Jimmy Donaghey, Alexander Colvin
May 14, 2018
Comprising five thematic sections, this volume provides a critical, international and interdisciplinary exploration of employment relations. It examines the major subjects and emerging areas within the field, including essays on institutional theory, voice, new actors, precarious work and ...