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.
Globalization and Entrepreneurship: Cases from China, Japan and Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Mirjana Radović-Marković, Yao Ouyang, Md. Shajahan Kabir
July 19, 2026
Globalization and Entrepreneurship explores the transformative impact of digital technologies on entrepreneurship across three distinct, but interconnected nations. It presents a comprehensive analysis of how digital advancements and AI are reshaping traditional business models and fostering ...
Grassroots Social Innovation: The Role of Collaboration and Experiential Learning
1st Edition
By Karolina Osterczuk
July 19, 2026
This book examines the transformative power of grassroots social innovations within dynamic urban landscapes. From addressing access to healthy food to navigating regulatory challenges, urban citizens are taking charge of their environments through collective action. This ethnographic exploration ...
Leadership in the Pharmaceutical Industry: From Theory to Practice
1st Edition
By Nataliia Aliekperova
July 19, 2026
Leadership in the Pharmaceutical Industry focuses on leadership in pharmaceutical organisations at three levels: individual, team, and organisational. At the individual level, it covers leadership basics, theories, types of leaders, differences between leaders and managers, leadership traits and ...
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 22, 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 ...
Digital Transformation of Performing Arts: Trends in the Classical Music Industry
1st Edition
By Salvino A. Salvaggio
June 22, 2026
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a combination of hybrid working and cultural consumption, alongside shifting audience tastes, performing arts organisations are dealing with significant challenges around digital transformation (DT). This book explores the DT of performing arts, taking readers ...
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 globalisation, 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 ‘...