Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

Shows that interdisciplinary developments between the previously distinct fields of International Management (IM) and International Relations are important for the construction of a Latin America perspective in the field of International Management, contributing to the development of the IM field in other parts of the world.

Offering a challenge to management scholarship, this book exposes the subtexts of five influential texts by Taylor, Follett, Drucker, Mintzberg and Kanter. It encourages readers to recognise the stories that management theories tell, and more significantly, those that they exclude.

This book considers the ways in which the need to show (or hide) particular emotions translate into job roles ¿ specifically those of leaders or managers ¿ where the relationships are lasting, multi-directional and have complex, ongoing goals. The book contends that these multifaceted relationships contribute unique characteristics to the nature of the emotional labour required and expounds and explores this new genus within the `emotional labour¿ species.

Gossip is a complex and ubiquitous phenomenon, widely found and variously practiced by different individuals and groups. This book presents an analysis of gossip and informal knowledge across different national, organizational and cultural contexts, in various organizations in Australia and the UK.

This book addresses the need to bridge the gap between the predominantly "timeless" theories and models that scholars have produced and the daily experiences of employees and managers, in which time is salient and extremely important.

This book provides a deeper understanding of job satisfaction and the circumstances under which people participate in various activities, coloring their subjective relationships to them. It also explores the effects of labor market changes and working conditions on work orientations and work attitudes. The analyses in each of the chapters make use of survey data from different countries, an approach which allows international comparisons, providing information from Europe, North America, and beyond.

The modern business relies extensively upon myriad images and pictorial representations. This book provides a fresh disciplinary space in which to experiment and capture the significant role that images and other forms of engagements play in the performance of the organizational activities that make business possible.

The concept of narrative is explored in many different fields from organization studies to studies on identity, psychology, and learning. This book offers a systematic examination of non-traditional narrative inquiry in the management realm, organizing and developing its approach, and providing insights for management students and scholars.

Presents research and a 'global paradigm' for the theory of style differences in human performance. This title intends to extend an understanding of style differences in learning, thinking and behavior, developing style research methodology, assessment, and applying style in learning, organizational learning, technology and pedagogy.

Offers an introduction to the literature on vision and visuality that is relevant to organizational theory, proposes a theoretical framework for visual culture in organizations, and provides empirical illustrations to the theoretical framework.

Aimed at scholarly researchers and academics in the field, this edited volume draws upon case-based research from both humanities and social sciences to expand the scientific and practical potential of counter-narrative in and around organizations.

There is widespread awareness of the fact that time has been under-investigated in organizational studies. This book addresses the need to bridge the gap between the predominantly "timeless" theories and models that scholars have produced and the daily experiences of employees and managers, in which time is important.

This groundbreaking new study considers both gender and entrepreneurship as symbolic forms, looking at their diverse patterns and social representation.

Alfred North Whitehead's work is a landmark in process philosophy. Theorists such as Niklas Luhmann, Bruno Latour, Karl Weick and James March have contributed significantly towards a process view of organization. This book interprets and discusses central aspects of their thinking with the help of a canvas of process thinking given by Whitehead.

Analyzes an organization (IKEA) as a basis for values based service for sustainable business. This book provides an overview of the history of IKEA and the social and environmental perspectives that have acted as driving forces for creating economic value.

Considers how organizations operate as spaces in which minds are gendered and men and women constructed. Covers organizational culture, the gendering of organizations, post-modernism and organizational analysis and critical management.

This book presents a sound theoretical and empirical basis for understanding the evolving and changing nature of stress in contemporary organizations.

In this innovative and insightful collection, an international selection of leading management scholars explore key topics in current organizational discourse, including networked organizations, control and ambiguity, technologies, work and responsibility, extending Bauman's liquid modernity to the "liquid organization".

Despite being a critical success factor for an organization, beginning in the 1970s, the term - 'boundary spanning' has had an intermittent research history: there has been no systematic body of research that has evolved over time. This book aims to invigorate, excite, and expand the literature on boundary spanning in a diverse range of disciplines such as sociology, organizational psychology, management, medicine, defence, health, social work, and community services. The book serves as the first collection of reviews on boundary spanning in organizations.

This book challenges the existing paradigm of capitalism by providing scientific evidence and empirical data that empathy is the most important organizing mechanism. The book is unique in that it provides a comprehensive review of the transformational qualities of empathy in personal, organizational and local contexts. Integrating an understanding based upon scientific studies of why the fields of positive psychology and organizational scholarship are important, it examines the evidence from neuroscience and presents leading-edge studies from quantum physics with implications for the organizational field. Together the chapters in this book attempt to demonstrate how empathy helps in the reduction of human suffering and the creation of a more just society.

Focusing on the issues of theorizing on gender and ways of understanding resistance, this volume offers a progressive understanding of the current debate on compliance versus resistance, and highlights the strategies most needed for organizational survival.

"Arguing that most current organisations are orthodox, hierarchical, anti-democratic, oppressive, unfair and unjust; this book presents a viable alternative, a better type of organisation - the democratic organisation"--

Proposes the replacement of the generalised term efficiency with the more comprehensive notion of performance efficiency to provide a basis on which to evaluate management behaviour.