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Management and business studies are firmly established as a popular, important and significant area of study in the academic world. Bringing together theories and thought from a wide range of disciplines, this series features cutting -edge research addressing all the major issues in business and management today, helping to define and advance the field.
This book explores how Chinese enterprises implement green human resource management (green HRM), and how it affects employee green and non-green work behaviors through multiple underlying mechanisms and depends on individual green values and perceived organizational support. The authors provide…
Hardback – 2019-12-20
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
In order to understand collaborative research activity in the United States, it is important to understand the contextual environment in which firms pursue a collaborative research strategy. The U.S. environment for formal collaborative research was established through a number of policy…
Hardback – 2019-12-19
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
This book looks at the development of vocational education and training in China and how it is crucial to human resource development and improving competitiveness. It briefly outlines the contextual issues related to vocational education and training in China, the importance of vocational…
Hardback – 2019-09-27
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
This book investigates the legitimacy of the current Australian Financial Services Licensee-Authorised Representative (AFSL-AR) licensing model, as specified in the Commonwealth Corporations Act 2001. The book rectifies the deficiency in scholarly attention to this matter by developing a new…
Hardback – 2019-09-25
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Whilst there has been an increased interest in minorities and their contribution to society, the literature on minorities and under-represented communities is still weak. This edited volume discusses entrepreneurship in the context of minorities and the role they play in society. The book looks at…
Hardback – 2019-08-30
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Ethical Branding and Marketing: Cases and Lessons provides current perspectives on fascinating global cases focusing on the specific combination of the two fields of "ethics" and "branding," on their relationship, and on how that joint perspective shapes brands, companies, business strategies, and…
Hardback – 2019-04-29
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
With the acceptance of CSR and Sustainability as important business performance indicators, it is timely now to assess the impact that leadership has on the development of these processes. CSR, Sustainability, and Leadership seeks to explore the integration of these three elements through an…
Paperback – 2019-03-20
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
This book explores the new product development process of firms developing frugal innovation for the base-of-the-pyramid (BOP) markets in developing countries. Frugal innovations are products characterised by an affordable price-point, durability, usability and core functionalities that are highly…
Hardback – 2019-01-17
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Due to the recent global financial crises, academic business schools have come in for much criticism, having, in the eyes of the public, failed in their responsibility to society by teaching future managers only how to increase their personal gain without any consideration as to their actions’…
Paperback – 2018-12-13
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
What goes on in a small firm that lives or dies by its capacity to innovate? How are decisions made on new product development, and how does that feed into the ecological, social and financial sustainability of the firm? This book answers the questions through an in-depth look at a small business…
Hardback – 2018-12-04
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Understanding project endings is a significant part of project management, yet there is relatively little work published in this important area. This book addresses the gap, focusing on the successful management of project endings, showing how to plan for the ending of a project, how to create…
Paperback – 2018-12-04
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Organizations increasingly use temporary designs. Many temporary organizations are assembled by "mixing and matching" building blocks from static, bureaucratic, parent organizations into a temporary configuration. At the same time, such "mixed and matched" temporary organizations often operate…
Hardback – 2018-11-20
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Gender Equality in a Global Perspective looks to discuss whether Gender Equality can be adopted as it has been defined in international documents anywhere, or whether it needs to be adapted in a more local context; discuss which factors and perspectives need to be taken into account when adapting…
Paperback – 2018-08-23
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
How has the recession affected the conduct of human resource management? How have HR departments and managers fared? Have leading firms taken measures to sustain and revive their businesses through innovative HR measures? How have union representation and influence been affected? Is the recession…
Paperback – 2018-08-06
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
At the turn of the century the term "gamification" was introduced as a concept to understand the process of using game mechanics in "non-game" contexts. The impact of gamification was soon evident to business practices where it had impact both on marketing and, more broadly, on the organizations…
Paperback – 2018-08-06
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Globalization, information and communication technologies, and the millennials who have entered the workforce, compelled corporations to change their resistant and defensive approaches to diversity and to proactively address differences. Companies determined that embracing diversity positively…
Paperback – 2018-06-08
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
In recent years, there has been increasing implementation of group and team decision-making within organizations, much of it managed electronically, between members of what are "virtual" groups or teams. Recent research into effective team implementation emphasizes "trust" as an intermediary…
Paperback – 2018-06-08
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBM&As) activity has become an important vehicle for firms’ internationalization and corporate restructuring over the past three decades. Despite the huge volume of global CBM&A activity, however, there are few books which carefully explore the…
Paperback – 2018-06-08
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Innovative Business School Teaching showcases the latest pedagogic innovations that actively engage the millennial generation in learning within the business domain. In the context of the contemporary macro issues facing higher education, this book presents the latest teaching practices and tools…
Paperback – 2018-06-08
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Informal economic activity, defined as exchanges made by individuals and organizations in extra-legal or non-bureaucratic contexts, represents a significant and growing share of global economic activity. The informal economy brings to mind images of street vendors in markets and bazaars throughout…
Paperback – 2018-06-08
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
The idea of using models to inform business practice seems appealing, as it suggests the abstraction and control of a large, complex subject by means of a smaller, easily manipulated mechanism. In reality, however, many models prove inadequate when translated into business methods. Monitoring…
Paperback – 2018-06-08
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
For centuries, almost all economic activity was family-based. The family business rested on the division of labor among family members. Therefore the family was both socially and economically the foundation of the family business. Families were not only production units, but also education and…
Hardback – 2018-04-09
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
As Singapore continues to grow as a nation, the happiness and wellbeing of Singaporeans and what matters to them also change. This book conceptualizes and measures the cognitive and affective aspects of subjective wellbeing from multiple perspectives and relates these to important factors such as…
Hardback – 2018-03-29
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Professions are increasingly linked with enterprise at a number of interrelated levels. By considering the relationship of professions to the enterprise contexts in which they work, this book reveals the dilemmas posed to professional groups, and the opportunities and constraints that can arise in…
Hardback – 2018-03-07
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Labour markets are becoming more dynamic in response to pressures from globalisation, new technologies and trade agreements, as well as cross-border migration, inter-generation differences, changing education imperatives and employer expectations. By focusing on several Asia Pacific countries, this…
Hardback – 2017-11-27
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Complexity theory including the concepts of chaos and emergence has been considered one of the most revolutionary products of the 20th century having influence on science, technology and economics among others. Any complex systems, such as organisms, societies, stock market or the Internet, have…
Hardback – 2017-10-12
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Strategies, Leadership and Complexity in Crisis and Emergency Operations will bring together the main themes of strategy, operational leadership, organizational dynamics and complexity in the context of crisis and emergency operations; creating a book that is timely and relevant for research and…
Hardback – 2017-09-21
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Today, some suppliers have grown increasingly powerful and in certain cases, earn revenues that rival or even exceed that of their automaker clients. In the pre-globalisation period, automakers wielded absolute power over their significantly smaller suppliers. This book reveals the upending of this…
Hardback – 2017-08-31
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
The book examines the management of social purpose driven organizations in an Asian context, using the case study approach. It looks at these organizations during a period of major changes in the regulatory and governance environment for charities in Singapore. The focus is on how these changes…
Hardback – 2017-08-08
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Collective bargaining between employers and trade unions has profoundly changed working conditions in companies around the globe. But why do we start work at the age of 10, 16, 18 or 24? Why do we work 6, 8, 10 or more hours a day? These questions are becoming increasingly pertinent as working…
Paperback – 2017-05-31
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
This book offers a comprehensive look at the current literatures and research based on empirical data from across different countries in Africa. It focuses on the work of leading scholars of management in and around Africa and the African Context, exploring whether we can at this point refer to ‘…
Paperback – 2017-05-31
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Written by leading experts in the field of business, finance, law and economics, this edited volume brings together the latest thoughts and developments on turnaround management and business rescue from an academic, judiciary and turnaround/insolvency practitioner perspective. Turnaround…
Hardback – 2017-03-09
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
The phenomena of Japan emerging as one of the most competitive industrial nations in the twentieth century and the general shift of competitiveness to East Asia since the 1980s have been widely studied by many scholars from different fields of the social sciences. Drawing on sources from Japanese,…
Hardback – 2016-10-28
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
The field of management research is commonly regarded as or aspires to be a science discipline. As such, management researchers face similar methodological problems as their counterparts in other science disciplines. There are at least two ways that philosophy is connected with management research:…
Hardback – 2016-09-06
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
In 1993, in order to stop an economic freefall on the island of Cuba, Fidel Castro’s government reluctantly instituted a series of reforms to compensate for the demise of foreign aid from Moscow. These policies ushered in a broad spectrum of national and international consumer products and services…
Paperback – 2016-08-03
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Economy, Work and Education: Critical Connections addresses effects of neoliberal capitalism in particular regard to work and education. The book elaborates key aspects and problems of generalized policy models of knowledge-based economies and learning societies in contexts of liberalized firm…
Paperback – 2016-07-27
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Based on research on the European Human Capital and Mobility Programme, this book provides an overview of the evolution of middle management in Europe, including: * comparative analysis of their changing role * analysis of the evolution of managerial practices * a study of the consequences of…
Paperback – 2016-07-08
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Foresight for Organizations will acquaint the reader with various foresight methods and tools, to show the reader how these methods are used, what the pitfalls are and how the methods relate to each other. This innovative volume offers the reader the ability to carry out a study of the future by…
Paperback – 2016-05-06
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Regulatory Governance and Risk Management will be the first book addressing the diffusion of risk-based governance in the coal mining industry from a health and safety standpoint. More specifically, it aims to understand a puzzling phenomenon. Since the 1990s, the approach of risk-based governance…
Paperback – 2015-09-03
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
The asymmetry of responsibilities between management and corporate governance both for day-to-day operations and the board’s monthly or quarterly review and evaluation remains an unresolved challenge. Expertise in the area of risk management is a fundamental requirement for effective corporate…
Paperback – 2015-09-03
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
This book comprises current, original, empirical studies of career-making in theatre, music, film, TV, visual arts, fashion design, and architecture from Asia, Europe, and North America. This format facilitates comparative analysis of central features of career-making within as well as across both…
Paperback – 2015-09-03
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Since the beginning of the century, there have been calls for the integration of traditional individualistic (micro) and management (macro) paradigms in Human Resource Management studies. In order to understand this so-called ’black box,’ the HR field needs research which is more sensitive to…
Paperback – 2015-06-23
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Business Excellence and Total Quality Management (TQM) models provide a means of measuring the satisfaction of customers, employees and shareholders simultaneously. A number of such models currently exist, but, the author argues, none of these address all dimensions of TQM.This book introduces the…
Paperback – 2015-06-09
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
When globalization affects jobs and economies, policy makers strive to plan, design and implement actions to support their communities and businesses (Ansell and Gash 2007). Furthermore, local development policies are at the core of international cooperation programs or more in general represent a…
Hardback – 2015-05-08
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Throughout the world, the use of some kind of a formal transportation project evaluation procedure is a requirement. Yet, by and large, these are partial; in fact, much weight is often placed on the initial -pre-engineering -phases of the planning process, when vital information, such as accurate…
Paperback – 2014-04-22
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Global Advertising, Attitudes and Audiences is a post-Mcdonaldization view of marketing power, consumer pleasure, and audience protest. The psychological process wherein consumers actively make sense of advertising and branding and integrate them with living is fundamentally important in thinking…
Paperback – 2013-09-03
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Focusing on Business to Customer (B2C) internet business, and on firms that offer intangible products and/or services that can be directly consumed via the world wide web, Strategic Management and Online Selling also covers immaterial products and online news information or home banking.…
Paperback – 2012-11-02
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
A merger or acquisition is usually a challenging endeavor with a single ultimate aim: to create value for the owner. However, stakeholder theory shows how such a narrow and one-sided focus is detrimental to value-creation in general – not only for other stakeholders within and outside the…
Hardback – 2012-10-29
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
The range of sustainability objectives has now developed from relatively simple issues of environmental protection to a full array of interwoven social, economic and ecological issues, nationally and internationally. The involved process of sustainable development has now become a permanent and…
Paperback – 2012-09-12
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Flagships are the physical apogee of consumerism, places where brand experiences are most defined and interactions with consumers are highly refined. This book marks the first comprehensive study of the concept of the flagship, bringing together a range of scholarly insights from the field,…
Paperback – 2012-09-05
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies