Business Research

The Routledge Companion to Arts Marketing

Edited by Daragh O'Reilly, Ruth Rentschler, Theresa Kirchner

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

The relationship between the arts and marketing has been growing ever more complex, as the proliferation of new technologies and social media has opened up new forms of communication. This book covers the broad and involved relationship between the arts and marketing. It frames "arts marketing" in...

To Be Published October 28th 2013 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Accounting Education

By Richard M.S. Wilson

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

Accounting education has come under fire over the years from various quarters: including the accounting profession, the business world and students. Calls for accounting to be taught in different ways have stemmed from changes in practice, increasing uncertainty, the recognition of risk, more...

To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge

Boundary-Spanning in Organizations

Network, Influence and Conflict

Edited by Cary Cooper, Janice Langan-Fox

Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

In more recent times, the essence of the gatekeeper's role has moved to the 'boundary spanner' - a systems thinker who understands the specific needs and interests of the organization and whose greatest asset is their ability to move across and through the formal and informal features of the modern...

To Be Published August 13th 2013 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Visual Organization

Edited by Emma Bell, Jonathan E. Schroeder, Samantha Warren

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

The visual constitutes an increasingly significant element of contemporary organization, as post-industrial societies move towards economies founded on creative and knowledge-intensive industries. The visual has thereby entered into almost every aspect of corporate strategy, operations, and...

To Be Published August 11th 2013 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to the Future of Marketing

Edited by Luiz Moutinho, Enrique Bigné, Ajay K. Manrai

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

The face of Marketing has changed substantially in the last few years. With more and more research conducted in marketing and consumer behaviour fields and technological breakthroughs occurring on a regular basis, the future of marketing is set to be very exciting. Going beyond a state-of-the-art...

To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Alternative Organization

Edited by Martin Parker, George Cheney, Valérie Fournier, Chris Land

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

Despite regular banking, economic and financial crises affecting the world, mildly different forms of global capitalism are still portrayed as the only game in town by the vast majority of opinion shapers in the world today. Unbridled growth, trade liberalisation, and competition toward greater...

To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy

Edited by Jenny Harrow, Tobias Jung, Susan Phillips

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

Philanthropy – the use of private funds for public benefit and social change – is undergoing a transformation, both in practice and as an emerging field of study. The increased internationalization and competition for philanthropic funding is prompting governments to examine how their policy, tax...

To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Strategic Project Management

Edited by Amos Haniff, Tomas Blomquist, Antonio Calabrese

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

Since the 1990s the growth in project management practices outside the traditional project based industries of construction and engineering into mainstream management has been rapid. As a consequence, a new stream of research has emerged where project management is no longer confined to product...

To Be Published March 29th 2014 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to International Management Education

Edited by Denise Tsang, Hamid H. Kazeroony, Guy Ellis

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

Crises and scandals in the world of international management have brought a new spotlight onto how the subject is taught, studied and understood. There has been a plethora of literature on international management, but a lack of focus on how international management education (IME) can be shaped to...

To Be Published June 5th 2013 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Accounting, Reporting and Regulation

Edited by Carien van Mourik, Peter Walton

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

Financial accounting, reporting and regulation is a vast subject area of huge importance globally with interest rising significantly in the light of the ongoing global financial crisis. In the first part, a broad overview of the subject of accounting is presented which sets the stage for some of...

To Be Published August 18th 2013 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Accounting Communication

Edited by Lisa Jack, Jane Davison, Russell Craig

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

One of the prime purposes of accounting is to communicate and yet, to date, this fundamental aspect of the discipline has received relatively little attention. The Routledge Companion to Accounting Communication represents the first collection of contributions to focus on the power of communication...

Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Public-Private Partnerships

Edited by Piet de Vries, Etienne B. Yehoue

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

A public-private partnership (PPP) is a contractual arrangement with appropriate risk sharing between public and private partners for the delivery of public infrastructure or services, which is intended to create value-for-money to the taxpayer. The Routledge Companion to Public-Private...

Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption

Edited by Russell W. Belk, Rosa Llamas

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

The first generation that has grown up in a digital world is now in our university classrooms. They, their teachers and their parents have been fundamentally affected by the digitization of text, images, sound, objects and signals. They interact socially, play games, shop, read, write, work,...

Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Identity and Consumption

Edited by Ayalla A. Ruvio, Russell W. Belk

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

"Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are," said Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Today, "You are what you consume" is more apt. Barbara Krueger’s ironic twist of Descartes - "I shop therefore I am" - has lost its irony. Such phrases have become commonplace descriptions of our identity in the...

Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Cost Management

Edited by Falconer Mitchell, Hanne Nørreklit, Morten Jakobsen

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

Over the last two decades, cost management has been an area of dynamic change and development. This is evident in the extensive inventory of new, high-profile techniques that have emerged. With cost management now firmly established as a distinct sub-discipline within management accounting, The...

Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Organizational Change

Edited by David Boje, Bernard Burnes, John Hassard

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

Organizations change. They grow, they adapt, they evolve. The effects of organizational change are important, varied and complex and analyzing and understanding them is vital for students, academics and researchers in all business schools. The Routledge Companion to Organizational Change offers a...

Published October 30th 2011 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to International Business Coaching

Edited by Michel Moral, Geoffrey Abbott

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

An effective coach can help the business leader make sense of the challenges and complexities of modern international business, unlocking the potential of both leader and organization. This important new handbook offers the first comprehensive and detailed introduction to the theory and practice of...

Published December 22nd 2008 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Creativity

Edited by Tudor Rickards, Mark A. Runco, Susan Moger

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

Creativity can be as difficult to define as it is to achieve. This is a complex and compelling area of study and this volume is perfectly poised to explore how creativity can be better understood, and used, in a range of contexts. The book not only centres on creativity in wider organizational...

Published November 19th 2008 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Strategic Human Resource Management

Edited by John Storey, Patrick M. Wright, David Ulrich

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

Combining up-to-date research, innovative content and practical perspectives, this book is the benchmark by which all other strategic HRM reference works should be measured. Leading figures from around the globe survey the current state of the discipline, while also introducing and exploring new,...

Published November 19th 2008 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Accounting History

Edited by John Richard Edwards, Stephen P. Walker

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

The Routledge Companion to Accounting History shows how the seemingly innocuous practice of accounting has pervaded human existence in fascinating ways at numerous times and places; from ancient civilisations to the modern day, and from the personal to the political. Placing the history of...

Published July 20th 2008 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Nonprofit Marketing

Edited by Adrian Sargeant, Walter Wymer Jr

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

This timely collection of cutting-edge articles offers a complete overview of marketing in the nonprofit sector. Written by a leading team of international experts, it examines the issues faced by public and nonprofit organizations in marketing and raising funds, and provides a comprehensive...

Published November 21st 2007 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Fair Value and Financial Reporting

Edited by Peter Walton, David Tyrrall

Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

Comprising contributions from a unique mixture of academics, standard setters and practitioners, and edited by an internationally recognized expert, this book, on a controversial and intensely debated topic, is the only definitive reference source available on the topics of fair value and financial...

Published May 23rd 2007 by Routledge