Routledge Focus on Business and Management
About the Book Series
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.
The K-Pop Content Strategy: Marketing Models for Creative Success
1st Edition
By Dominique Falla
July 29, 2026
In an era where digital algorithms dictate visibility, creative professionals are struggling to attract audiences and sustain long-term careers. Yet, K-pop has seemingly mastered the art of digital engagement, successfully leveraged global fandoms and bypassed traditional media gatekeepers. This ...
AI and Resilient Organizations: Human-Centered Design for Industry 5.0
1st Edition
Edited
By Magdalena Kossowska-Lai, Marcin Grzegórzek, Anna Sołtysik-Piorunkiewicz, Witold Chmielarz
June 05, 2026
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool for automation; it is becoming the operating system of modern organizations. AI and Resilient Organizations explores how agentic, data-centric AI can enhance human creativity, ethics, and adaptability while building organizational resilience. This ...
Evolution of the Global Fitness Industry: Strategy, Sustainability and Innovation
1st Edition
By Patrizia Gazzola, Enrica Pavione, Francesco Ferrazzano
May 21, 2026
The pandemic has taught us all how important it can be to look after our physical and mental health, and how worthwhile it is to invest in taking care of ourselves. This short book illustrates the main trends that are modifying the fitness industry worldwide and highlights contemporary relevance to...
Supply Chain Collaboration: The Impact of Horizontal Cooperation
1st Edition
By Anna Tatarczak
May 08, 2026
In today’s volatile world, supply chains face unprecedented challenges from globalization, digital disruption, sustainability pressures, and unexpected crises. While vertical collaboration between suppliers and buyers has received significant attention, horizontal cooperation – collaboration ...
Job Satisfaction and Sustainable Employee Development: Engagement, Well-Being, and Passion
1st Edition
By Barbara A. Sypniewska, Małgorzata Baran, Andrzej Jagodziński
January 30, 2026
Job Satisfaction and Sustainable Employee Development aims to present knowledge about job satisfaction from the perspective of employee well- being. The book provides new theoretical and practical insights into job satisfaction in relation to employee well-being, passion for work, and engagement. ...
Leadership and Strategic Management: Decision-Making in Times of Change
1st Edition
By Paolo Boccardelli, Federica Brunetta
January 29, 2026
Managers are facing unprecedented complexity, volatility, and ambiguity, quickly adapting their decision-making, leadership, vision, and strategies. Megatrends and forces of change have profound implications for business models, processes, and organizational structures, calling into question ...
From Risk Profiling to Enterprise Resilience: Interdependencies in Management
1st Edition
By Sylwia Bąk, Piotr Jedynak
December 26, 2025
From Risk Profiling to Enterprise Resilience introduces readers to a new approach to risk profiling theory and methodology, as well as relationships between an enterprise’s risk profile and its resilience to crises. Given the need to reflect on changes in approaches to risk and risk management in ...
Open Strategy for Digital Business: Managing in ICT-Driven Environments
1st Edition
By Ewa Lechman, Joanna Radomska, Ewa Stańczyk-Hugiet
December 26, 2025
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...
Place Marketing and Temporality
1st Edition
By Gary Warnaby
December 26, 2025
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 focus on communicating attractive place attributes to create a differentiated spatial ‘...
Organizational Aesthetics: Artful Visual Representations of Business and Organizations
1st Edition
By Barbara Fryzel, Aleksander Marcinkowski
December 25, 2025
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 ...
Purpose-driven Innovation Leadership for Sustainable Development: A Qualitative Case Study Approach
1st Edition
By Gaia Grant
December 25, 2025
Purpose-driven Innovation Leadership for Sustainable Development presents invaluable insights into how leaders can balance competing innovation demands. The book reports on research from an in-depth case study, which reveals the importance of developing highly adaptative and innovative responses ...
Critical Thinking in Public Policy and Management
1st Edition
By Michael Macaulay
November 27, 2025
Critical thinking is a crucial skillset for policy and management scholars and practitioners. This book outlines the ways in which this skillset is sometimes overlooked and how it can be enhanced. It defines constructive critical thinking, outlining some common applications before looking more ...