The fields of business and management have grown exponentially as areas of research and education. This growth presents challenges for readers trying to keep up with the latest important insights. Routledge Focus on Business and Management presents small books on big topics and how they intersect with the world of business research.
Individually, each title in the series provides coverage of a key academic topic, whilst collectively, the series forms a comprehensive collection across the business disciplines.
By Gary Warnaby
June 26, 2024
Much city marketing and branding activity is future-oriented; aimed at achieving a forward-looking vision for places. The aim of this activity is to attract visitors, residents and/or inward investment, and focused on communicating attractive place attributes to create a differentiated spatial ‘...
By Barbara Fryzel, Aleksander Marcinkowski
June 06, 2024
Organizational Aesthetics attempts to reconstruct artful representations of the organizational world and businesspeople. It looks at organizations and management through the eyes of artists, painters and photographers and decodes meanings contained in artistic messages, grasping the aesthetic ...
By Ewa Lechman, Joanna Radomska, Ewa Stańczyk-Hugiet
May 29, 2024
This book offers the reader a novel perspective on how digital contexts and open strategy approaches – the act of opening up strategic initiatives beyond company managers to involve front-line employees, stakeholders, and entrepreneurs – are related. Going beyond the claim that digital media drives...
By Gaia Grant
May 29, 2024
Purpose-driven Innovation Leadership for Sustainable Development investigates how to create a culture that supports sustainable purpose-driven innovation and growth. This book takes readers through an in-depth case study, offering invaluable insights from a ‘paradox’ lens on how to balance ...
By Jon-Arild Johannessen
May 27, 2024
The most important goals for an organization in the Fourth Industrial Revolution will be innovation and enhanced performance. Creativity is a means for promoting these goals – a creative person is a productive person who uses all their resources to attain specific goals. Da Vinci Creativity should ...
By Jason Russell
May 27, 2024
Management and labor have been adversaries in American and Canadian workplaces since the time of colonial settlement. Labor lacked full legal legitimacy in Canada and the United States until the mid-1930s and the passage of laws that granted collective bargaining rights and protection from ...
By Frederick Harry Pitts
May 27, 2024
This book introduces new approaches that deploy concepts from Marx’s critique of political economy to renew the study of labour, value and social antagonisms in the broad area of management and organisation studies. Exploring established and emergent strands of Marxian theorising inside and ...
By Tara Kissoon
May 27, 2024
This book explores the strategic decisions made by organizations when implementing cybersecurity controls and leveraging economic models and theories from the economics of information security and risk-management frameworks. Based on unique and distinct research completed within the field of...
By Patrizia Gazzola, Stefano Amelio
May 27, 2024
Performance Measurement in Non-Profit Organizations: The Road to Integrated Reporting addresses the issue of performance measurement in nonprofit companies with the aim of defining a system of useful measures to understand, manage, and improve the performance of such companies by employing systems ...
By Sylwia Bąk, Piotr Jedynak
May 27, 2024
Crises like the COVID-19 pandemic are wake-up calls for enterprises to review their current risk management models. This book suggests a more robust risk management maturity model and illustrates the application in crisis situations. The book surveys existing risk management maturity models and ...
By Jordi Diaz, Daphne Halkias, Paul W. Thurman
May 27, 2024
With the world in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, associated labor market challenges are bringing changes to how business schools offer executive education to the future workforce. The COVID-19 pandemic has further underlined the need for such change through impacts on today’s ...
By Tadeusz A. Grzeszczyk
May 01, 2024
Although some people had considerable doubts about the usefulness of such solutions in the past, AI plays a growing role in modern business. It can be expected that the interest in it will also lead to an increase in supporting the planning, evaluation and implementation of projects. In particular,...