Books in the Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies series

Examines public relations from a variety of different perspectives such as management, rhetoric theory, practitioner, social psychology and historical. Previously only available in hardback.

This book conceptualizes and measures the cognitive and affective aspects of subjective wellbeing from multiple different perspectives, and relates these to important factors such as values, trust, democratic rights, views about politics, and the role of the government. It examines how happiness and subjective wellbeing have evolved in Singapore.

Urban Regeneration Management analyzes the regeneration management process, locating the issues within both local and international perspectives, critiquing the theoretical literature on globalization, and analyzing a variety of case studies from across the globe.

Since the beginning of the century, there have been calls for the integration of traditional individualistic (micro) and management (macro) paradigms in Human Resource Management studies. In order to understand this so-called ¿black box,¿ the HR field needs research which is more sensitive to institutional and cultural contexts, focusing on formal and informal relationships between employees, supervisors and HR managers and the means by which these organizational participants enable and motivate one another. This book presents advanced quantitative and mixed research methods that can be used to analyze integrated macro and micro paradigms within the field of Human Resource Management. Multi actor, social network and longitudinal research practices, among others, are explored. Readers will gain insight into the advantages and disadvantages of different research methods in order to evaluate which type is most suitable to their research. This book is suitable for both advanced researchers and graduate students.

Relationship marketing builds and maintains long term relationships with customers through value creation and delivery. This book examines the key principles of relationship marketing and online relationship marketing.

Management research has expanded considerably over recent decades. The impetus for such growth comes from a wide range of forces both inside and outside of the academic community stimulate and regulate its development, while the audience for which management research might be considered to be useful and the extent of that usefulness are highly contested. This book seeks to explore the forces that drive the development of management research, shape its current state and influence its future potential.

This edited volume at Bangladesh tourism and how it has developed and flourished. It first looks at tourism policy planning and provides a comprehensive overview of topics from tourism products and services to how they are being marketed. It also discusses how private and public tourism institutions can address future long term trends.

"Management Research".

The book locates the issue of 'vulnerability' into an international context and goes beyond existing concepts of policing and vulnerability to include multi and intra-agency working, while showing how a variety of agencies in different jurisdictions prioritise and operationalise this escalating 21st Century social problem.

Innovative Business School Teaching showcases the latest pedagogic innovations that actively engage the millennial generation in learning within the business domain. In the context of the contemporary macro issues facing higher education, this book presents the latest teaching practices and tools used in higher education business teaching, clearly illustrating the practical ways in which business teachers can confront current pedagogic challenges. All of the contributors to this edited book have outstanding track records in teaching, having won national and international awards for teaching excellence, as well as publishing widely on pedagogy. Best practice teaching from multiple jurisdictions across a broad spectrum of business schools is represented. Each contributor shares their innovative teaching tools and techniques in a manner that emphasises how these tools can be adapted to other contexts, thus providing readers with an invaluable teaching resource.

For centuries, almost all economic activity was family-based. The family business rested on the division of labor among family members. Therefore the family was both socially and economically the foundation of the family business. Families were not only production units, but also education and consumption units that conveyed norm structures, values and professional identity to next generation. Although female family members have always been active participants in family businesses over the centuries, their role has often been neglected in previous studies. Women in Business Families: From Past to Present presents both conceptual and theoretically informed empirical papers addressing three related themes relevant for family business and gender in past and in present: heroic women entrepreneurs; invisibility / visibility of women in businesses; and business succession. The book Women in Business Families: From Past to Present balances between both historical and contemporary analyses. The chapters integrate the notions of time and gender in focusing on family businesses or business families in past and in present. This volume will be of vital reading to researchers and academics in the fields of Gender Studies, Family Business, Organizational studies, Entrepreneurship and the various related disciplines.

A merger or an acquisition is usually a challenging endeavor which aims to create value for the owner. However, stakeholder theory shows how such a narrow and one-sided focus is detrimental to value-creation in general ¿not only for other stakeholders within and outside the organization ¿ but also for the owner. This book shows how different stakeholders, internal and external, may play a critical role during a merger or an acquisition process. It builds on empirical examples that illustrate how various stakeholders play active roles throughout the different phases, and ultimately affect the outcome and the value formation process of the merger or the acquisition.

This book comprises current empirical studies of career-making in theatre, music, film, TV, visual arts, fashion design, and architecture from Asia, Europe, and North America. The studies analyze issues such as career management, temporality, recognition processes, competition, uncertainty, gender, chance-arbitrariness, education-to-work transition, mediators, the `individualization¿ of careers, and collaboration partnerships.

The book allows academics and practitioners to assess the state of international research in risk management and corporate governance. The chapters overlay the areas of risk management and corporate governance on both financial and operating decisions of a firm while treating legal and political environments as externalities to decisions undertaken.

Brings together considerations of the strategic relationship between technology and other resources, such as production capabilities, marketing prowess, finance and organisational culture.

Gathers a series of essays by academics and policy experts to show how the theory of local economic development has major significance for countries in the world periphery. This book presents a general conceptual discussion of the role of clusters, networks and regions in the growth and development of low-and-middle-income countries.

By using the human resource development framework, this book presents many of the features and issues that are present in emerging economies as they grapple with human resource development in the globalized and networked era.

Despite an increasing number of scattered philosophy-based discussions of management research methodology, there has not been a book that provides a systematic and more comprehensive treatment of the subject. This book addresses this gap in the market and provides new ideas and arguments for guiding management researchers.

This book considers the concepts of organisational learning and the learning organisation and critically examines their take up within the context of four contemporary work organisations in the European automotive sector.

Keijzers provides an introduction to the evolution of the collaborative stakeholder approach to sustainable development in the context of changing environmental policies.

This wide-ranging volume presents in-depth research into the effect of new information technologies on organizational structure and is based on a series of rolling surveys carried out between 1989 and the present day.

Based on a collection of research papers from international scholars, this book provides an analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing female entrepreneurs worldwide.

This text explains how telecommunications regulation works on the inside. It provides an insight into the dynamic process of regulation in the United Kingdom - a pioneer in the development of regulatory institutions and practices and includes a re-evaluation of key regulatory issues.

Constructs a comprehensive and methodical economic, planning and decision-making framework for the evaluation of proposed transportation infrastructure investment projects, based on well-established theoretical principles.

Contributors explore the interrelationship between managerialism, professionalism and gender identity in Britain, and examine the impact of change on those working in public sector organizations which have come under varying managerial pressures.