Bücher der Reihe Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

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.

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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.

This book offers a comprehensive look at the current literatures and research based on empirical data from across different countries in Africa. It focuses on the work of leading scholars of management in and around Africa and the African Context, exploring whether we can at this point refer to `African Management¿ as an emerging and distinct stream in the scholarly discourse in management. The main themes are macro and micro issues of Management in Africa, each chapter illustrating the historical or traditional view of Management in Africa versus the newer western business management perspective. This book presents current, in-depth, rigorous research and identifies future research and propositions, enabling scholars and students to gain an in-depth understanding of management as it is evolving and practiced in Africa.

Addresses environmental questions within the context of global business. A counterpoint to the US-oriented literature on this topic, this work sets out ways to equip public relations to respond to and re-imagine itself in the light of major forecasts and trends for uncertain business, environment and social conditions.

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.

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.

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.

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.