This book critically examines key features of the contemporary organizational landscape by focusing on major beneficiaries of recent historical political-cultural transformations involving the embrace of market fundamentalism and a market society: namely, corporations, those who direct them, and…
Hardback – 2020-04-01
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This book investigates the impact of adolescents on consumer behaviour in families, particularly in the light of extensive changes in the socio-cultural environment of India. The composition, behaviour, and values of Indian families are unique, and, thus, so are the influences on adolescents. Young…
Hardback – 2020-03-15
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Routledge Focus on Business and Management
The lack of women on boards has galvanised much public and policy interest, which has led to many countries introducing quotas for women on boards, or to concerted voluntary action. However the way that directors are appointed remains opaque and prone to the influence of gender. Using a social…
Hardback – 2020-01-14
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Routledge Studies in Gender and Organizations
The literature on Change Management works from the premise that management possesses the power to achieve change and this is evident in that resistance is little more than a footnote in most textbooks. This assumption sits uneasily, however, with the high failure rate of Change Management…
Hardback – 2020-01-10
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Routledge Studies in Organizational Change & Development
This book examines the effectiveness of corporate takeovers. The dominant ideologies of corporate takeovers include synergistic gains and its managerial disciplinary role. These dominant themes are being undermined by the challenges of costly acquisitions. The UK Takeover Code is a regulatory…
Hardback – 2019-12-20
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Routledge Research in Corporate Law
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
Care is a human ability we all need for growing and flourishing. It implies considering the needs and interests of others, and the quality of how we relate to each other is often defined by care. While the value of care in private life is widely recognized, its role in the public sphere is…
Hardback – 2019-12-18
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Routledge Studies in Business Ethics
This book is unique given its scholarly angle in unmasking irresponsible leadership (IL) by focusing on its meaning. For the first time the concept of irresponsible leadership (IL) is explored in depth, the plethora of terms used in various disciplines is synthesized, and the ped-andragogy of…
Hardback – 2019-12-02
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The Principles for Responsible Management Education Series
This third volume in the Routledge Series on Women Writers in Organization Studies challenges us to think again about the implications of gender, embodiment and fluidity for organizing and managing. The themes of this book disrupt our understanding of dualisms between sex (men and women), gender (…
Hardback – 2019-11-27
Routledge
Routledge Focus on Women Writers in Organization Studies
2020 will mark thirty years since the first publication of Judith Butler’s ground-breaking book, Gender Trouble. Here, and in subsequent work, Butler argues that gender and other forms of identity can best be understood as performative acts. These acts are what bring our subjectivities into…
Hardback – 2019-10-04
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Routledge Studies in Gender and Organizations
The manifestation of the colonial nation-state as a legal-bureaucratic-police structure – an exploitation tool – undermined customary modes of governance in colonies. When post-World War II independence of colonies transferred ownership of the state structure to the colonized elite,…
Paperback – 2019-09-26
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Contemporary organisation development (OD) in practice draws on sophisticated theory and tools to advance organisational change, using a range of concepts and techniques including positive psychology, appreciation, and active engagement with the workforce. OD is considered to be humanistic and…
Hardback – 2019-09-20
Routledge