Business, Management & Accounting: Organizational Studies

By Daniel Hjorth, Robin Holt

Entrepreneurship: A Philosophical Investigation is ground-breaking in the sense that it is the first attempt in the discipline at developing a philosophy of entrepreneurship. It builds on a curious sympathy between entrepreneurship and philosophy: whereas philosophy takes thinking to the limit of…

Hardback – 2018-10-08 
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Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship

Edited by Marilee Reimer

The unifying theme of this book is women’s employment success with the objective of profiling supportive public policy for women in global contexts from Atlantic Canada to Western Europe, Australia and China. It studies the example of first generation women’s careers in the Atlantic Canada region,…

Hardback – 2018-10-01 
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Routledge Studies in Gender and Organizations

Edited by François Cooren, Fabienne Malbois

In our daily experiences, we feel, perceive, designate, invoke or comment on other beings that are part of our world, whether these beings are people, artifacts, technologies, institutions, projects, animals, divinities, emotions, cultures, ideologies or opinions. Echoing recent developments in…

Hardback – 2018-10-01 
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Routledge Studies in Communication, Organization, and Organizing

By Nic Beech, Graeme Martin, Eugene McKenna

Human Resource Management: A Concise Approach offers a to-the-point yet rigorous overview of HRM. Using clear language, the authors cover all the key building blocks of HRM – including strategic HRM; employee resourcing; employee development; employee relations; and organizational issues – and…

Paperback – 2018-10-01 
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Edited by Tommy Isidorsson, Julia Kubisa

This is the era of flexibility. Under constant pressure to be adaptable, organizations increasingly adopt employment practices such as zero-hours contracts, the casualization of the workforce and the use of temporary and agency labour. These flexible practices are central to debates about the…

Hardback – 2018-10-01 
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Routledge Studies in Employment Relations

By Julie Hodges

The success of organizational change in a world of increasing volatility is highly dependent on the advocacy of stakeholders. It is the link between strategic decision-making and effective execution, between individual motivation and product innovation, and between delighted customers and growing…

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By David M. Boje

There is a gap in the qualitative interviewing methodology practices and comprehensive advanced approaches causing a split between practice and theory, so called Grounded Theory (inductive positivism), and Action Research. This book’s alternative is quite simple; to do 'conversational interviewing'…

Hardback – 2018-09-30 
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Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

Edited by Lawrence E. Mitchell

This title was first published in 2000:  The study of corporate governance is a relatively modern development, with significant attention devoted to the subject only during the last fifty years. The topics covered in this volume include the purpose of the corporation, the board of directors,…

Hardback – 2018-09-30 
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Routledge Revivals

By Peter Reilly

This title was first published in 2000. Workplace flexibility polarizes opinion; it is either a necessary prerequisite to survival in the global market or a means by which the rights of workers are eroded. The difference comes from a lack of shared understanding of the concept. Organizations need…

Hardback – 2018-09-30 
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Routledge Revivals

By Nick Obolensky

Most leadership assumptions are based on a deterministic view of the world. If you do X you should get Y, process can be employed for most things, and more complicated problems can be analysed to enable better decisions. Whilst these approaches suit the Simple and the Complicated, they do not work…

Paperback – 2018-09-30 
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By Mike Lotzof

Legal but Harmful is the culmination of decades of work with global corporations in ethics, communications, behaviour change and regulatory and social compliance. The book provides a text for corporate leaders, their advisors and academics and students from several disciplines, to explain why the…

Paperback – 2018-09-30 
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By Mark Hughes

Organizational change impacts upon all organizations regardless of size and sector. In this unique organizational change textbook, important ongoing debates about managing change and leading change are combined, giving a broader perspective that encourages readers to engage with both management and…

Hardback – 2018-09-26 
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