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State of the Art in Business Research


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Advances in theory, methods and applied knowledge alongside structural changes in the global economic ecosystem, present researchers with challenges in seeking to stay abreast of their fields and navigate new scholarly terrains.

This series presents shortform books which provide an expert map to guide readers through new and rapidly evolving areas of research. Each title will provide an overview of the area, a guide to the key literature along with  time-saving summaries of how theory interacts with practice.

As a collection, these books provide a library of theoretical and conceptual insights into business research. Each book contributes to an understanding of the state of the art, as a foundation stone for a new generation of research.

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Comparative Corporate Governance A Research Overview

Comparative Corporate Governance: A Research Overview

1st Edition

By Thomas Clarke
January 29, 2024

Corporate governance developed to maintain the accountability, stability, and performance of corporations. It has evolved to concern not just the financial health of the company, but its social and environmental impact. There is considerable international institutional diversity in corporate ...

Management Gurus A Research Overview

Management Gurus: A Research Overview

1st Edition

By David Collins
January 29, 2024

Building upon decades of research, this shortform book distils the rise of management’s gurus. The author analyses the economic and political changes which facilitated the rise of this new group and offers reflections on the controversies around the development of ‘guru theory’ (a reasonably stable...

Organization Theory A Research Overview

Organization Theory: A Research Overview

1st Edition

By Gibson Burrell
January 29, 2024

This shortform book presents an overview of theoretical and empirical work in the field of organization theory. In doing so, it both provides a critical analysis of the state of knowledge in the field and offers recommendations for future directions. It is about both thinking differently, and ...

Organizing Corporeal Ethics A Research Overview

Organizing Corporeal Ethics: A Research Overview

1st Edition

By Alison Pullen, Carl Rhodes
January 29, 2024

This book explores the meaning and practice of corporeal ethics in organized life. Corporeal ethics originates from an emergent, embodied, and affective experience with others that precedes and exceeds those rational schemes that seek to regulate it. Pullen and Rhodes show how corporeal ethics is ...

Professions and Professionalism A Research Overview

Professions and Professionalism: A Research Overview

1st Edition

By Mike Dent
October 06, 2023

Professions have long provided a dependable body of expertise that organisations have relied upon to fulfil goals. Issues around equality and diversity alongside challenges to expert knowledge in the neo-liberal era have created profound challenges for this type of worker, even while creating ...

Business History A Research Overview

Business History: A Research Overview

1st Edition

By John F. Wilson, Ian G. Jones, Steven Toms, Anna Tilba, Emily Buchnea, Nicholas Wong
September 25, 2023

The evolution of business history offers some radical ways forward for a discipline which is rich in potential. This shortform book offers an expert overview of how the field has relevance for contemporary business studies as well as the social sciences more broadly, as well as practitioners ...

Complexity in Organizations A Research Overview

Complexity in Organizations: A Research Overview

1st Edition

By Stig O. Johannessen
September 25, 2023

Written with pace and clarity, this book is a comprehensive and compact overview and introduction to the research landscape of complexity in organizations. In addition to conveying a gripping history of how complexity has influenced organizational ideas, theories, and practices throughout the 20th...

Language, Translation and Management Knowledge A Research Overview

Language, Translation and Management Knowledge: A Research Overview

1st Edition

By Susanne Tietze
September 25, 2023

The book provides insights, description and analysis over the knowledge production process within business, organization, and management research. Importantly, it does so from a language and translation perspective. It critically engages with the role of English in this process and provides ...

Managing Decline A Research Overview

Managing Decline: A Research Overview

1st Edition

By Antti Sihvonen, Juha-Antti Lamberg, Henrikki Tikkanen
September 25, 2023

A growing body of literature in the area of business administration has focused on the phenomenon of decline. These studies span multiple levels of analysis and draws on a range of disciplines, including strategic management, economics, and economic geography.   Managing Decline: A Research ...

Philosophy and Management Studies A Research Overview

Philosophy and Management Studies: A Research Overview

1st Edition

By Raza Mir, Michelle Greenwood
September 25, 2023

Irrespective of whether one thinks of philosophy explicitly, each organizational researcher is a philosopher. A philosophical position is predicated on a variety of approaches relating to ontology, epistemology, methodology, ethics, and political positions. Depending on where one stands with regard...

Public Management A Research Overview

Public Management: A Research Overview

1st Edition

By Tom Entwistle
September 25, 2023

Public Management: A Research Overview provides a structured survey of the state of the art of public management research. Looking at the enduring themes of bureaucracy, autonomy, markets and collaboration, each chapter introduces key foundational studies before reviewing contemporary research. ...

Remote Working A Research Overview

Remote Working: A Research Overview

1st Edition

By Alan Felstead
September 25, 2023

The coronavirus pandemic forced work back into the home on a massive scale. The long-held belief that work and home are separate spheres of economic life was turned on its head overnight. Many employees were new to this way of working and many employers had to manage a disparate workforce for the ...

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