Books in the Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies series

Understanding the latest trends and technologies and their impact on enterprises, organizations or state administrations is essential to successfully develop a business in the age of Industry 4.0.

This book is the first to systematically introduce Chinäs tourism education system and the various tourism education practices in China. It provides relevant knowledge to international tourism education providers, industry practitioners, human resource managers, government officials, and tourism academics, researchers, and students.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Halal in logistics, supply chain management and the future implications for the Halal industry. It discusses a wide range of Halal logistics practices and theories in Japan, Korea, Spain, Oman, and SEA countries.

This book looks at how successful businesses have revitalized and innovated their business models through the lens of Business Model Innovation (BMI) theories in a digital world. Its insights will interest business consultants, researchers and academics in the fields of sustainable business, organizational change, and digital transformation.

This book looks at Japanese companies in manufacturing and services sectors and how they are emerging from the prolonged uncertainty of the pandemic. Aimed at academics, researchers, and practitioners, this book provides valuable insights into how Japanese organizations are adapting to the pandemic and advancements in digital technologies.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the nature of tourism, events and practices in the digital context. It will be a useful reference to those researching on tourism, culture, hospitality and marketing and as well as destination planners, regulators, certification bodies, local tourism board authorities and policy makers.

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. It looks at three main areas of relationship marketing as understanding relationship marketing and the continuum, the drivers and scope of relationship marketing, and how organisations should restructure for successful relationship marketing in the digital context.The book also addresses the opportunities and challenges associated with the implementation of relationship marketing in various types of organisation and suggests different effective relationship-building strategies and techniques for successful customer relationship management.

This volume brings together a group of leading academics from Europe, North America and Australasia to address the nature and management knowledge in relation to rapidly changing arenas of theory and practice.

This book is focused on the increasing diversity of flagships and the ways in which they can create showcases in people's lives. This unique volume will be of interest across many disciplines including marketing, visual culture, design and urban studies.

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 ΓÇÖblack box,ΓÇÖ 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.

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.

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 brings together perspectives on employability challenges faced by countries in the Asia Pacific region and focuses on more effectively addressing these key socio-economic challenges.