Major Works: Forthcoming Business, Management and Accounting

Forthcoming Books – Page 1

1. Outsourcing and Offshoring

   Edited by Iian Oshri

   Series: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

   The expansion of outsourcing and offshoring activities, and the emergence of new sourcing models, have profoundly challenged existing management concepts and practices. Consequently, it has become increasingly important to understand the phenomenon and its implications for business and management....

   To Be Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Business and Government

   Edited by Matthew Maguire, Graham Wilson

   Series: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

   Business and government are two of the most important actors in shaping our lives. This new four volume collection from Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Perspectives on Business and Management, will explore four key areas of the relationship: First, what is the balance of power between...

   To Be Published June 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. Risk

   Edited by Ragnar Lofstedt, Frederic Bouder

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   Can we better predict or mitigate the consequences of natural disasters, such as earthquakes and hurricanes? Can we reduce the number of oil spills? And what should be done to clean up the mess when something does goes wrong? Why are people concerned about nuclear plants, but so reckless when they...

   To Be Published June 25th 2013 by Routledge
4. Public Relations

   Edited by Robert Heath

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Public Relations is increasingly recognized as a well-established communication and management science. Indeed, the discipline has now generated an abundance of serious scholarly research which is very wide-ranging and which continues to flourish as never before. But much of the relevant literature...

   To Be Published July 2nd 2013 by Routledge
5. Project Management

   Edited by Joana Geraldi, Jonas Soderlund

   Series: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

   Projects are all around us, from the research paper we are currently working on to the major organizational changes we observe in companies. They are a purposeful, time-limited integration of diverse knowledge to reach a unique outcome, and therefore, useful vehicles to manage deliberate change...

   To Be Published August 20th 2013 by Routledge
6. Event Management

   Edited by Chris Rojek

   Series: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

   Edited by a leading scholar in the field, this new title from Routledge’s Critical Perspectives on Business and Management series is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research in Event Management. The origins of the serious study of Event Management are comparatively recent,...

   To Be Published September 22nd 2013 by Routledge
7. Routledge Library Editions: Accounting

   By Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Accounting

   Accounting carries with its history a vast number of ideas which have slowly developed along with it. The re-issued volumes in this set, available individually or as a set, together represent an unparalleled opportunity to build a library according to research interests or student requirements....

   To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Evolution of Behavioral Accounting Research (RLE Accounting)

   An Overview

   By Robert Ashton

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Accounting

   This volume collects together out of print and hard to find sources on the behavioural implications of accounting. It begins with the 1952 monograph, The Impact of Budgets on People by Chris Argyris, considered by many to mark the beginning of behavioural research in accounting and is followed by:...

   To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Perspectives on Accounting and Finance in China (RLE Accounting)

   Edited by John Blake, Simon Gao

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Accounting

   The rush of entrepreneurial activity in China has been watched with interest by the financial world. This book, the result of an international symposium on Chinese accounting and financial management, assesses the little-known accounting scene in China which up until 1978 remained behind closed...

   To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. Some Early Contributions to the Study of Audit Judgment (RLE Accounting)

    By Robert Ashton

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Accounting

    Although there has been increased emphasis on research that attempts to understand, evaluate and improve audit decision making in recent years it is less well-known that some noteworthy contributions to the study of audit judgment were made in the 1950s and 1960s. This anthology contains five such...

    To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge