Book Series in Business, Management, Finance & Accounting

Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

New & Published Titles:

Business Networks

Strategy and Structure

By Emanuela Todeva

Although social, political, technological and business networks hold our modern world together, we still lack a good understanding of what business networks are, how they…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36838-4 (Routledge)

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Change in the Construction Industry

An Account of the UK Construction Industry Reform Movement 1993-2003

By David M. Adamson, Anthony H. Pollington

The UK construction industry is the sixth largest industry in the UK in terms of turnover. During the last decade, it has undergone an unprecedented…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38599-2 (Routledge)

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Knowledge Flows in European Industry

Edited by Yannis Caloghirou, Anastasia Constantelou, Nicholas Vonortas

The channels and mechanisms of knowledge flows define the links that make up production and innovation systems. As such, they relate directly or indirectly to…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32707-7 (Routledge)

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Towards better Performing Transport Networks

By Bart Jourquin, Piet Rietveld, Kerstin Westin

The performance of current transport systems is inadequate when viewed in terms of economic efficiency, sustainability and safety. Drawing together key an impressive list of…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37971-7 (Routledge)

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Strategic and Organizational Change

From Production to Retailing in UK Brewing 1950-1990

By Alistair Mutch

The brewing industry, through its network of public houses, has a profound impact on the lives of much of the population of United Kingdom. Exploring…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36050-0 (Routledge)

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Markets in Fashion

A phenomenological approach

By Patrik Aspers

Interest in contemporary cultural industries has grown in the past decade, as they take on a greater significance in our increasingly consumer-led society. Focusing on…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34619-1 (Routledge)

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Working in the Service Sector

A Tale from Different Worlds

Edited by Gerhard Bosch, Steffen Lehndorff

The rise to prominence of the service sector - heralded over half a century ago as the great hope for the twenty-first century - has…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-28322-9 (Routledge)

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Industrial and Labour Market Policy and Performance

Issues and Perspectives

Edited by Daniel Coffey, Carole Thornley

Industrial issues are often inextricably linked with labour market concerns and policy approaches that attempt to consider production and employment separately are inherently flawed."
This…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-26786-1 (Routledge)

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Economic Geography of Higher Education

Knowledge, Infrastructure and Learning Regions

By Frans Boekema, Roel Rutten

This exhaustive study from an experienced and respected set of editors and authors looks at the impact that universities have on their surroundings, with particular…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-26772-4 (Routledge)

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The Corporation

Growth, Diversification and Mergers, 2nd Edition

By Dennis C. Mueller

This book reviews the theory of the firm and the large modern corporation. Examining the process of entrepreneurial capitalism in which firms come into existence,…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27135-6 (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