Book Series in Business, Management, Finance & Accounting
Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
New & Published Titles:
Privatization and Supply Chain Management
On the Effective Alignment of Purchasing and Supply after Privatization
This book brings together two of the 'hottest issues' in current management thinking: the impact of privatization on the performance and behaviour of the companies… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-17300-1 (Routledge)
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The Governance of Large Technical Systems
This work examines the governance of large technical systems (LTS) at firm, imdustry and state levels and the interactions between the systems and society. In… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-19603-1 (Routledge)
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The Changing Boundaries of the Firm
Explaining Evolving Inter-firm Relations
This book offers a distinctive analysis of the relations and interplay between the internal activities of firms, their changing boundaries, and increasing reliance on networks… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-415-15470-3 (Routledge)
Economic Organization, Capabilities and Coordination
The work of G.B. Richardson has given insights into key issues and debates such as markets versus hierarchies, price stability, the economics of information and… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-415-18390-1 (Routledge)
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Organizing Industrial Activities Across Firm Boundaries
The way in which industrial activities are organised among firms is a fundamental theoretical concern. In practice, firms have found these matters, referred to as… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-415-14707-1 (Routledge)
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The Organisation of the Firm
International Business Perspectives
In recent years there has been a growth in work on the organization of the firm. The same period has also seen a corresponding… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-415-14298-4 (Routledge)
Shopfloor Matters
Labor - Management Relations in 20th Century American Manufacturing
Building on the work of labor historians, industrial relations scholars, and institutional labor economists, this book offers not only a comprehensive analysis of the changing… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-415-12123-1 (Routledge)
Uncertainty and Economic Evolution
Essays in Honour of Armen Alchian
The theory of the firm has recently undergone a dramatic transformation, drawing heavily on the pathbreaking work of Armen Alchian. This volume explores his contribution… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-415-15166-5 (Routledge)
The End of the Professions?
The Restructuring of Professional Work
What has been the impact of deregulation and a rapidly changing socio-economic environment on the professions? The cross-disciplinary contributions to this volume examine the changing… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-415-14300-4 (Routledge)
Democracy and Efficiency in the Economic Enterprise
The collapse of central planning was hailed as evidence of the economic and moral superiority of capitalism over any possible alternative. The essays in this… read more1996 | Hardback: 978-0-415-12586-4 (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