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 Stephanie A. Fernhaber, Shameen Prashantham
January 05, 2015
The domain of international entrepreneurship has continued to gain momentum in an era that sees entrepreneurship and globalization as critical issues in the world of business. Given the flourish of new research in this area, there is a need to provide an up-to-date perspective on the field and its ...
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By David G. Collings, Geoffrey Wood, Paula M. Caligiuri
November 20, 2014
International human resource management (IHRM) is a key area of research in the sphere of international business and management. Described as a field in its infancy in the 1980s, IHRM has quickly advanced through adolescence and into maturity. Today, it is a vibrant and diverse discipline which ...
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By Rob F. Poell, Tonette S. Rocco, Gene L. Roth
October 28, 2014
The field of Human Resource Development (HRD) has grown in prominence as an independent discipline from its roots in both management and education since the 1980s. There has been continual debate about the boundaries of HRD ever since. Drawing on a wide and respected international contributor base...
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By Ted Baker, Friederike Welter
September 24, 2014
Research in entrepreneurship has been booming, with perspectives from a range of disciplines and numerous developing schools of thought. It can be difficult for young scholars and even long-time researchers to find their way through the lush garden of ideas we see before us. The purpose of this ...
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By David Hay, W. Robert Knechel, Marleen Willekens
September 05, 2014
Auditing has been a subject of some controversy, and there have been repeated attempts at reforming its practice globally. This comprehensive companion surveys the state of the discipline, including emerging and cutting-edge trends. It covers the most important and controversial issues, including...
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By Sonny Nwankwo, Kevin Ibeh
July 17, 2014
Although the world's poorest inhabited continent, Africa has recently shown signs of being a source of economic growth in the coming decades, with increased foreign investment - notably from China - and huge growth in GDP from a number of African states. In contrast to the heaving weight of books ...
By Richard M.S. Wilson
April 22, 2014
Many enquiries into the state of accounting education/training, undertaken in several countries over the past 40 years, have warned that it must change if it is to be made more relevant to students, to the accounting profession, and to stakeholders in the wider community. This book’s over-riding ...
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By Emma Bell, Samantha Warren, Jonathan Schroeder
August 23, 2013
The visual constitutes an increasingly significant element of contemporary organization, as post-industrial societies move towards economies founded on creative and knowledge-intensive industries. The visual has thereby entered into almost every aspect of corporate strategy, operations, and ...
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By Martin Parker, George Cheney, Valérie Fournier, Chris Land
December 11, 2013
Despite the Great Recession, slightly different forms of global capitalism are still portrayed as the only game in town by the vast majority of people in power in the world today. Unbridled growth, trade liberalisation, and competition are advocated as the only or best ways of organizing the ...
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By Carien van Mourik, Peter Walton
September 04, 2013
Financial accounting, reporting and regulation is a vast subject area of huge global importance, with interest rising significantly in the light of the ongoing global financial crisis. The authors begin with a broad overview of the subject of accounting, setting the stage for a discussion on the ...
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By Falconer Mitchell, Hanne Nørreklit, Morten Jakobsen
November 16, 2012
Over the last two decades, cost management has been an area of dynamic change and development. This is evident in the extensive inventory of new, high-profile techniques that have emerged. With cost management now firmly established as a distinct sub-discipline within management accounting, The ...
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By Denise Tsang, Hamid H. Kazeroony, Guy Ellis
June 04, 2013
Crises and scandals in the world of international management have brought a new spotlight onto how the subject is taught, studied and understood. There has been a plethora of literature on international management, but a lack of focus on how international management education (IME) can be shaped to...