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.
Informal Leadership, Strategy and Organizational Change: The Power of Silent Authority
1st Edition
By Brenetia J. Adams-Robinson
September 25, 2023
Across the spectrum of organizational operations, workplace interactions have proven to be one of the most difficult activities for leaders to manage effectively, especially during any level of change. In these circumstances, leadership strategies, especially related to change and leadership ...
Privatisation in India: Journey and Challenges
1st Edition
By Sudhir Naib
September 25, 2023
This book is a comprehensive work which incisively analyses, from a theoretically informed perspective, crucial aspects of India’s journey from partial divestiture to privatisation, accompanied by case studies of enterprises being privatised in FY 2022. Naib begins with the economic role of the ...
South African Business in China: Navigating Institutions
1st Edition
By Kelly Meng
September 25, 2023
Sino-African relations have evoked a great deal of geo-strategic interest in recent years. Most attention has focused on China’s assistance to and growing involvement in the economic development of several African nations. Far less emphasis has been placed on Africans in China, and on African ...
The Multiple Case Study Design: Methodology and Application for Management Education
1st Edition
By Daphne Halkias, Michael Neubert, Paul W. Thurman, Nicholas Harkiolakis
September 25, 2023
Most organizations today operate in volatile economic and social environments and qualitative research plays an essential role in investigating leadership and management problems. This unique volume offers novice and experienced researchers a brief, student-centric research methods text ...
Proposal Writing for Business Research Projects
1st Edition
By Peter Samuels
August 07, 2023
This book helps students with the initial phases of their business research project, offering a clear step-by-step approach from defining aims and research questions through to conducting literature reviews and writing a methodology. Features to aid learning include chapter objectives, plentiful ...
Conflict, Power, and Organizational Change
1st Edition
By Deborah A. Colwill
May 31, 2023
A capacity for learning, adapting, and changing is an important facet of organizational resilience. What is involved in generative organizational change? Is it an event, a process, or constantly ongoing? What makes organizational change "good" for the organization? Who has the power to decide what ...
Continuous Improvement Practice in Local Government: Insights from Australia and New Zealand
1st Edition
By Matthew Pepper, Oriana Milani Price, Arun Elias
May 31, 2023
Local government plays a critical role in the provision of governance, infrastructure, and services for local communities. Over the past 30 years this sector has undergone significant reforms because of various superordinate governments policy changes. Continuous improvement and quality programs ...
Ephemeral Retailing: Pop-up Stores in a Postmodern Consumption Era
1st Edition
By Ghalia Boustani
May 31, 2023
Often described as the "hottest" retail phenomenon, ephemeral retail concerns the growth of pop-up stores as a new mode of retailing. These temporary stores "pop-up" without notice, quickly attract crowds, then disappear or morph into something else. Although they share similarities with ...
Human Resource Management and the Implementation of Change
1st Edition
By Paritosh Mishra, Balvinder Shukla, R Sujatha
May 31, 2023
With the increased pace of global, economic and technological development, change has become an inevitable feature of any organisation to survive in the competitive market. If it is a planned change process, the HR practitioner can use any of the existing general models or theories of change and ...
Human Resource Management for Organisational Change: Theoretical Formulations
1st Edition
By Paritosh Mishra, Balvinder Shukla, R Sujatha
May 31, 2023
Change can take place in various forms, gradual or abrupt, incremental or transformational. It is a requirement in modern day society that everyone, whether at individual or organisational level, understands the softer nuances of this concept and prepares for it. During scenarios of change ...
Small Business, Big Government and the Origins of Enterprise Policy: The UK Bolton Committee
1st Edition
By Robert Wapshott, Oliver Mallett
May 31, 2023
The Report of the Committee of Inquiry on Small Firms (the Bolton Committee Report) was produced at a time of significant political change. The 1970s in the UK saw the beginning of the end for interventionism and ‘big government’ and the emergence of a new free market, economic liberalism. However,...
Building Virtual Teams: Trust, Culture, and Remote Working
1st Edition
By Catalina Dumitru
January 09, 2023
Exploring the practices developed by remote teams to maintain trust across cultures, this book offers both theoretical and practical resources to enable better working in challenging contexts of project work. This book emphasizes building trust between team members from a practice perspective, ...