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  • Organizations, Institutions, and Intellectual Norms

    An Analytical Philosophy View of Institutional Change

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
    Organizations, Institutions, and Intellectual Norms: An Analytical Philosophy View of Institutional Change provides a new perspective on institutional theory by incorporating an analytical philosophy framework. This volume critiques the traditional assumptions that institutional logics or work inherently shape societal structures, arguing instead that intellectual norms and everyday language play ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • A Pragmatist Theory of Economic Reason

    Justifying Theories Being Taught in Business Schools

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    This book critically examines the concept of rationality, a central theme in economics and management theory, through the lens of an analytical philosophy framework. Alexander Styhre advocates for rationality to be grounded in practical reason, emphasizing the shared capacity to use language as a means of expressing ideas, beliefs and propositional attitudes.Styhre explores the key theories used ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Innovation Management and the Law

    An Institutional Approach

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
    In economic theory and in management studies, innovation is widely regarded as the motor of economic activities and as being the primary source of renewal in the economic system. This view emphasizes how innovation work is organized in specialized teams inside the firm, or, alternatively, located to start-ups and similar small ventures that are strongly incentivized to innovate to survive. Rather ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Business of Affordable Housing

    Case Studies of the Commercial Supply of Affordable Homes

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    Despite the conventional wisdom that affordable housing, either in the form of homeownership or through access to rental units, has beneficial effects for households, society, and the economy more broadly, there is a noteworthy lack of empirical studies of housing development and construction companies or building societies that actively work to supply this asset class in the economy. There are ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Business School Curriculum Debate

    Scientific Legitimacy versus Practical Relevance

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Management Learning and Education
    With more than 14,000 business schools worldwide, what is included in their curricula matters for how the economy and the corporate system are managed. Business schools should be subject to scholarly inquiries and critical reflection. While many studies of business schools examine its general role in the tertiary education system and in society more broadly, this volume examines how one specific ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Status and Organizations

    Theories and Cases

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book examines social status as a social mechanism and a social fact that strongly shapes how markets and organizations are regulated, managed, and preserved over time.The first part of this book identifies a number of organizational issues and managerial concerns that can be framed as being a matter of the cognitive perspectives of social actors, and better explained on the basis of such ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Economics of Affordable Housing

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    The economic system of competitive capitalism has proven to be both resilient and flexible over time and has contributed to the economic welfare of citizens in liberal and coordinated market economies in diverse regions and countries. At the same time, over the entire post-World War II period, there has been a notable endemic shortage of affordable housing in many advanced economies.This book ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Financialized Economy

    Theoretical Views and Empirical Cases

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
    Social science theorists from various scholarly disciplines have contributed to a recent literature that examines how the finance industry has expanded and now wields increasing influence across a variety of economic fields and industries. In some cases, this tendency towards a more sizeable and influential finance industry has been referred to as "the financialization" of the economy. This book ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Indie Video Game Development Work

    Innovation in the Creative Economy

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book presents a study of so-called indie video game developers that are widely regarded as the creative and innovative fringe of the video game industry. The video game industry is an exemplary entrepreneurial high growth industry that combines digital media, cinematographic representations and interactive gaming technologies, and uses global digital distribution channels to reach local ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • The Unfinished Business of Governance

    Monitoring and Regulating Industries and Organizations

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series New Perspectives on the Modern Corporation series
    The legal, regulatory and ethical frameworks guiding governance decisions are highly politicised and subject to intense debate. This book discusses governance theory in relation to corporations, universities and markets. Confronting the challenges of governing these three core areas, Alexander Styhre explores the connections between governance and the production of economic value, shareholder ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Institutional Theory of the Firm

    Embedded Autonomy

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
    The Institutional Theory of the Firm examines recent and previous organization theory literature to advocate what Evans (1995) refers to as the "embedded autonomy" of the firm, as well as its role in being simultaneously anchored in, for example, corporate legislation and regulatory practices on the national, regional (i.e., within the European Union) and transnational levels, while at the same ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Biomaterials Innovation

    Bundling Technologies and Life

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Rapid advances in the life sciences means that there is now a far more detailed understanding of biological systems on the cellular, molecular and genetic levels. Sited at the intersection between the life sciences, the engineering sciences and the design sciences, innovations in the biomaterials industry are expected to garner increasing attention and play a key role in future development. This ... Read more

    $35.09 USD