Business & Management

Anyone who has ever had a bad or incompetent boss understands the importance of good management. Anyone who has ever faced the prospect of unemployment or funding cuts knows the impact that business decisions have on real lives.

Business and Management matter. This Business and Management subject area features scholarly and professional books, ranging from authoritative, definitive works routed in the traditional core of the disciple to cutting edge reports from the hottest new areas of research. With worldwide authorship and editorial teams specialized in different fields, we help our authors and librarians accelerate research by connecting ideas and thinkers, research and readers, theory and practice.

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Subdisciplines

  • Business Strategy and Leadership 
  • Innovation and Technology Management 
  • Enterpreneurship 
  • Information Systems 
  • Operations Research 
  • Human Resources Management and Organizational Behaviour 
  • Sustainable Management
  • Marketing

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About the editor

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Stephen Partridge is Editorial Director for Business, Economics and Finance at Palgrave Macmillan, heading up a team of seven experienced and talented editors in London and New York. Prior to joining Palgrave Macmillan in 2014, Stephen worked in a variety of roles all centred around the practical application of academically rigorous research, including as an editor on the UK’s most prestigious legal encyclopaedia, and six years as the editor of the Financial Times Management list of business books.