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.
Happiness and Wellbeing in Singapore: Beyond Economic Prosperity
1st Edition
By Siok Kuan Tambyah, Soo Jiuan Tan, Wei Lun Yuen
May 27, 2025
To present a multifaceted and holistic perspective of what makes Singaporeans happy, Tambyah, Tan and Yuen discuss the findings and insights from the 2022 Quality of Life Survey, which examines the perceptions and views of 1,905 Singapore citizens. This is the latest survey in a series of studies ...
Nostalgic Branding in the Toy Industry
1st Edition
By Kamil Lubiński, Magdalena Grębosz-Krawczyk
April 24, 2025
In recent years, there has been a clear tendency to undertake marketing initiatives that appeal to consumers’ emotions, experiences, and memories. This book explores the essence of nostalgic branding by presenting the concept of nostalgia, analysing nostalgic attitudes and consumer behaviour, and ...
Grassroots Social Innovation: The Role of Collaboration and Experiential Learning
1st Edition
By Karolina Osterczuk
April 24, 2025
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
April 21, 2025
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 ...
Enterprise Evolution, Survival and the Businesstype: From Research to Practice
1st Edition
By Gianpaolo Abatecola
April 03, 2025
The strategic journey taken by firms starts with entrepreneurial inception and can go all the way through adaptation to sustainable enterprise, exit, or failure. This book charts how new ventures grow through co-evolution and adaptation to get past the initial problems of being new, connecting ...
Comparative Dynamics in the Comics Industry: Contrasting Cultures in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands
1st Edition
By Rudi de Vries
April 01, 2025
Due to the enormous cultural and economic impact of the Marvel movies, manga, and anime, research on the comics industry is growing, but has focused primarily on the US and Japan. This book focusses on the European comics industry to explore the complex impact of organizational and cultural ...
Reimagining Organizational Change
1st Edition
By Richard J. Badham, Brenda M. Santiago
March 27, 2025
This engaging and thought-provoking book offers a rich, multifaceted approach to mastering leadership and driving organizational change. With its extensive, playful and insightful use of cartoons, thought-provoking debriefs, and practical self-assessments, the book is designed to be not only a ...
Digital Transformation of Performing Arts: Trends in the Classical Music Industry
1st Edition
By Salvino A. Salvaggio
February 27, 2025
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 ...
Emerging Market Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Legitimacy Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Aleksandra Wąsowska
February 25, 2025
The successful entry and survival of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in foreign markets largely depend on how governments and other stakeholders perceive their legitimacy. How do emerging market MNEs legitimise their operations in distant markets? What legitimacy threats must they overcome? This ...
Globalization and Entrepreneurship: Cases from China, Japan and Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Mirjana Radović-Marković, Yao Ouyang, Md. Shajahan Kabir
February 04, 2025
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 ...
Business Schools post-Covid-19: A Blueprint for Survival
1st Edition
By Andreas Kaplan
December 19, 2024
It all began when the world’s first business school, the European School of Commerce Paris (ESCP), was established in 1819. Criticism notwithstanding, business schools have since continued their path in higher education without facing existential metamorphoses. Covid-19, however, has accelerated ...
Knowledge Management and AI in Society 5.0
1st Edition
By Manlio Del Giudice, Veronica Scuotto, Armando Papa
December 19, 2024
Society 5.0 points toward a human-centred approach by the use of modern, advanced technologies and artificial intelligence. This book explores and offers an overview of knowledge management embraced in the current scenario of Society 5.0, shedding light on its importance in a society that is ...