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.
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 ...
Digital Social Entrepreneurship: Implications for People, Planet, and Profit
1st Edition
Edited
By Veronica Scuotto, Norris Krueger, Manlio Del Giudice
November 14, 2025
This book discusses the emerging phenomenon of digital social entrepreneurship, which relies on the use and embracement of new technologies, and investigates the social implications and value for people, profit, and planet. The authors examine the use of new technologies such as artificial ...
AI and the Future of Leadership: Opportunities and Threats for Hybrid Organisations
1st Edition
By Adrian Jarvis
November 09, 2025
AI and the Future of Leadership explores the profound implications of artificial intelligence for leadership theory and practice. As Artificial Intelligence technologies become increasingly embedded in organisational life, this book interrogates the readiness of current leadership models to ...
Entrepreneurship Education and Student Empowerment: Innovation in the EU
1st Edition
By Chiara Bartoli, Federica Brunetta
October 16, 2025
A scholarly work that explores the intersection of entrepreneurship education, innovation, and student empowerment within the European Union, this book investigates the transition from student to entrepreneur. It provides an in-depth analysis of the theoretical and empirical aspects of ...
Artificial Intelligence and Project Management: An Integrated Approach to Knowledge-Based Evaluation
1st Edition
By Tadeusz A. Grzeszczyk
September 29, 2025
Although some people had doubts about the usefulness of such solutions in the past, artificial intelligence (AI) plays a growing role in modern business. It can be expected that the interest in it will also lead to an increase in support for the planning, evaluation, and implementation of projects....
Entrepreneurial Attributes: Accessing Your Inner Entrepreneur for Business and Beyond
1st Edition
By Andrew Paul Clarke
September 29, 2025
Everybody wants their employer to recognise and value the skills and attributes they have, but not everybody feels those skills are valued. Entrepreneurial Attributes: Accessing Your Inner Entrepreneur for Business and Beyond looks at the link between skills, actions and attributes, and the value ...
Global Digital Technology Convergence: Driving Diffusion via Network Effects
1st Edition
By Ewa Lechman, Adam Marszk
September 29, 2025
Since the 1970s, we have witnessed unprecedented diff usion of digital technologies in both speed and geographic coverage. These technologies are pervasive and disruptive, and lead to profound shifts and transformations in societies and economies. Many claim that emerging network externalities are ...
Sustainable Organizational Change: The Social Change Model for Systems
1st Edition
By Joshua D. Burton, Barbara Carter
September 25, 2025
The Social Change Model for Systems (SCMS) is a robust system for facilitating organizational change. SCMS integrates technical and social controls to ensure organizational effectiveness. This book introduces SCMS as an alternative to traditional control systems, emphasizing the interplay between ...
Organisational Flexibility in an Age of Chaos: Mismanagement, Disorganisation, and Strategy
1st Edition
By Andrés Hatum
September 15, 2025
This groundbreaking book challenges conventional management wisdom by arguing that mismanagement and disorganisation are not failures but endemic features of organisational life in turbulent times. Through rigorous theoretical analysis and rich case studies, including an in-depth examination of ...
Digital Entrepreneurship and Disruptive Innovation: Intersections of Regional Development, Innovation Systems, and Sustainability
1st Edition
By Jordi Diaz, Daphne Halkias, Tatiana Harkiolakis
September 09, 2025
A new generation of entrepreneurs are leveraging artificial intelligence, data analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT) and other revolutionary technologies for greater social and environmental good. These digital entrepreneurs are developing disruptive solutions to the most pressing sustainability ...