Book Series in Business, Management, Finance & Accounting

Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

New & Published Titles:

Organization and Identity

Edited by Alison Linstead, Stephen Linstead

Exploring identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and in the social sciences, this book focuses on how ideas about identity can be applied…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48802-0 (Routledge)

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Thinking Organization

Edited by Stephen Linstead, Alison Linstead

Drawing on both analytical and continental traditions, this thought-provoking book takes a balanced look at the contributions philosophy can make to improving our understanding of…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48801-3 (Routledge)

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Deregulation, Innovation and Market Liberalization

Electricity Regulation in a Continually Evolving Environment

By L. Lynne Kiesling

Over the past 50 years the US economy has experienced economic dynamism and technological change at a dizzying pace, driven substantially by innovation in digital…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77282-2 (Routledge)

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Decisions: Risk and Reward

By Johnnie E.V. Johnson, Alistair Bruce

In recent years leading figures in a variety of fields - political, financial, medical, and organizational - have become acutely aware of the need to…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42628-2 (Routledge)

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Privatisation and Financial Collapse in the Nuclear Industry

The Origins and Causes of the British Energy Crisis of 2002

By Simon Taylor

A timely contribution and incisive analysis, this is the story of the British experiment in privatizing the nuclear power industry and its subsequent financial collapse.…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43175-0 (Routledge)

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Location Behaviour and Relationship Stability in International Business Networks

Evidence from the Automotive Industry

By Bart Kamp

This new book investigates how the relationships of international business networks (one buyer-multiple buyers) develop over time, looking at the geographical angle as well as…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39962-3 (Routledge)

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Formula Funding of Public Services

By Peter C. Smith

The use of formulae has become widespread in recent years across most developed countries. In the UK, a conservative estimate is that annually £150 billion…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36289-4 (Routledge)

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Government Managing Risk

Income Contingent Loans for Social and Economic Progress

By Bruce Chapman

Higher education rates are increasing throughout the Western world, yet at the same time, government budgets face increasing constraints. This has ensured that the importance…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-28778-4 (Routledge)

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Universities, Innovation and the Economy

By Helen Lawton-Smith

Universities are increasingly expected to be at the heart of networked structures contributing to society in meaningful and measurable ways through research, the teaching and…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32493-9 (Routledge)

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Developments in the Call Centre Industry

Analysis, Changes and Challenges

Edited by Julia Connell, John Burgess

Over the past ten years there has been a massive growth in call centres worldwide. These centres are said to represent the most dynamic growth…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35702-9 (Routledge)

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Series Details:

How do firms work? What networks are involved in driving organizations forward?

This series presents titles which look at the dynamics of organizations and the particular effects of different types of business networks.

It covers topics such as:

  • industrial networks
  • transaction cost Economics
  • organization theory
  • change and information
  • new theories of the firm

It considers both the economic, cultural and environmental factors that govern the success and failure of business networks and organizations.

Forthcoming Titles:

Entrepreneurship and Organization: Politics, Passion, and Creation
By Daniel Hjorth
To be published November 1st 2010

Management of International Business Networks
By Emanuela Todeva
To be published October 1st 2010

Procuring Complex Performance: Studies of Innovation in Product-Service Management
Edited by Mickey Howard, NIGEL CALDWELL
To be published July 24th 2010