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. The study of outsourcing and offshoring continues rapidly to develop but, in the last decade especially, several areas have emerged as crucial to the comprehension of offshoring and outsourcing. First, researchers have attempted to understand the strategic intent behind outsourcing and offshoring...

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, but the subject has evolved rapidly, often drawing on scholarship, research, and practice from a number of other disciplines and cognate areas--primarily, Sports Studies, Leisure Studies, and Hospitality Studies, but also Business Studies, Organization Studies, Management Studies, Political...

The last few decades have seen a growing body of literature and research on business models which draws upon a multitude of subject areas including entrepreneurship, strategy, organization, finance, sales and marketing, and operations management. This new four-volume collection from Routledge brings together the area's major works to address the nature, development, and evolution of business models.

This new four-volume collection brings together the vast body of literature on Management Information Systems, focusing, in particular, on seminal works in the field and notable new developments. As such, the collection will be welcomed as a useful guide for MIS researchers, including PhD students and academics trying to obtain a better grasp of the field.

This new 4-volume collection will include the seminal literature in corporate reputation, both foundational articles and state of the art research. The collection will bring together the distinctive perspectives of prominent scholars from a variety of disciplines including organizational behaviour, organizational theory, strategic management, marketing, finance, economics, political science, and sociology in an effort to bring some order to this broad topic, as well as focus and guide future research and debates."

Including seminal conflict management research alongside cutting edge advances in each area of study, this new 4 volume collection will provide a comprehensive portrait of the state of conflict management research. Showcasing the complexities and interdependencies associated with the management of conflict in organizations, the collection will be a valuable contribution to the study of organizational conflict management by advancing the integration of the disciplinary insights, theories, and empirical evidence.

Innovation is the means by which organizations survive and thrive in uncertain and turbulent conditions. Technological change, globalization, and changing patterns of consumption are compounding the complex and rapidly changing circumstances in which organizations operate. The average tenure of a Fortune 500 company has dropped from 40 to 15 years. One half of all USA start-ups go out of business before their fourth year. Innovation the successful application of new ideas allows organizations to understand, respond to, and lead the changes needed to endure and succeed in such environments....