Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
About the Book Series
Management, Organizations and Society represents innovative work grounded in new realities; addressing issues crucial to an understanding of the contemporary world. This is the world of organized societies, where boundaries between formal and informal, public and private, local and global organizations have been displaced or vanished along with other nineteenth century dichotomies and oppositions. Management, apart from becoming a specialised profession for a growing number of people, is an everyday activity for most members of modern societies. Management, Organizations and Society will address these contemporary dynamics of transformation in a manner that transcends disciplinary boundaries, with work which will appeal to researchers, students and practitioners alike.
Mental Health Challenges and Work: Advanced Topics and Future Research Directions
1st Edition
Edited
By Emily H. Rosado-Solomon
October 06, 2025
There is a growing recognition that poorly designed work can degrade employees’ mental health. Relatedly, there is also an acknowledgment that employees with existing mental health challenges—such as clinically significant depression and anxiety—may need particular support to thrive in the ...
Strategy and Leadership for Grand Societal Challenges: Bridging Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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By Alice Erthal, Douglas Wegner
September 08, 2025
Strategy and Leadership for Grand Societal Challenges: Bridging Theory and Practice offers a thorough examination of grand challenges (GCs), addressing the origins and impacts of these global issues while outlining practical solutions. Through a blend of theoretical exploration and real-world...
Business Networks and Organizational Resilience: Relational Capital of Companies and Times of Crisis
1st Edition
By Anna Aleksandra Walecka
August 21, 2025
Business Networks and Organizational Resilience: Relational Capital of Companies and Times of Crisis is a comprehensive monograph that investigates the interplay between a company’s relational capital and its ability to withstand and rebound from crises. Drawing on theoretical frameworks and ...
The Ethics of Sustainability in Management: Storymaking in Organizations
1st Edition
By Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen
July 30, 2025
Organizational storytelling has been taught for many years in many different places as part of organizational development, organizational change, organizational learning, and business ethics. There has not been any comprehensive framework that addresses sustainability in organizations and so this ...
Innovation and the Sharing Economy: Employment, Human Capital, and the AI Revolution
1st Edition
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By Pawan Kumar, Tanima Dutta, Sumesh Dadwal, Napinder Kaur
July 10, 2025
This book is a novel exploration of the complex interplay between modern work structures, artificial intelligence (AI), and economic sustainability. Through meticulously researched insights and real-world examples, this book unravels the intricate dynamics shaping the sharing and gig economies, ...
Management, Organizations, and Paradoxes: Insights from the Central and Eastern European Region
1st Edition
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By Malgorzata Rozkwitalska-Welenc, Agnieszka Zakrzewska-Bielawska, Anna Lis
June 26, 2025
Paradoxical tensions are persistently inevitable in today’s complex organizational world. Therefore, managers should perceive them as a lens through which they see organizations and work through them. Reconciling paradoxes requires understanding their nature and appraising them. It also involves ...
The Ideology of Managerialism: Fragments of a Future Theory
1st Edition
By Thomas Klikauer
May 27, 2025
The term “managerialism” is widely used not only in the world of business and government and this book details the theory behind the illusive idea. It distinguishes between management and managerialism and highlights the two groups pushing managerialism, namely corporate apparatchiks and the ...
Relational Capital in Business: Innovation, Value and Competitiveness
1st Edition
By Rafał Drewniak, Urszula Słupska, Zbigniew Drewniak, Iwona Posadzińska, Robert Karaszewski
May 05, 2025
The concept of relational capital mainly refers to the value of the relationships a company creates with its stakeholders. These relationships inspired the authors to analyze their importance in the context of creating value for the enterprise and to explore the importance of leadership and ...
Leadership and Organizational Sustainability: The Knowledge Management Approach
1st Edition
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By Elia Socorro Díaz Nieto, David Israel Contreras Medina, Roberto Tuda Rivas
November 28, 2024
The book presents a new type of leadership focused on sustainable human development and organizational sustainability, which is based on the self-realization of the person of the leader, which means the satisfaction of their needs, according to the scale of Abraham Maslow, through integral human ...
Liquid Organization: Zygmunt Bauman and Organization Theory
1st Edition
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By Jerzy Kociatkiewicz, Monika Kostera
October 14, 2024
Widely known as a leading intellectual, Zygmunt Bauman’s thinking is often categorized as sociology or philosophy. But his work has been hugely influential in other fields as well, not least within organization studies. From increasing management control and growing standardization of work ...
On Being At Work: The Social Construction of the Employee
1st Edition
By Nancy Harding
October 14, 2024
Inspired by the work of the philosopher Judith Butler, influenced by Marx’s theory of alienation and intrigued by theories of death, this book develops an anti-methodological approach to studying working lives. Distinctions are drawn between labour (the tasks we do in our jobs) and work (...
Organizations and the Media: Organizing in a Mediatized World
1st Edition
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By Josef Pallas, Lars Strannegård, Stefan Jonsson
October 14, 2024
The relationship between media and the organizations they cover has changed dramatically in the last few decades, which have witnessed a huge expansion of news coverage focusing on different types of organizations and their activities. In parallel, organizations have dramatically increased their ...