Routledge Open Business and Economics
About the Book Series
Routledge Open Business and Economics provides a platform for the open access publication of monographs and edited collections across the full breadth of these disciplines including accounting, finance, management, marketing and political economy. Reflecting our commitment to supporting open access publishing, this series provides a key repository for academic research in business and economics.
Books in the series are published via the Gold Open Access model and are therefore available for free download and re-use according to the terms of Creative Commons licence. They can be accessed via the Routledge and Taylor & Francis website, as well as third party discovery sites such as the Directory of OAPEN Library, Open Access Books, PMC Bookshelf, and Google Books.
Note that the other Business and Economics series at Routledge also all accept open access books for publication.
Digital Platforms in Finance and Supply Chain Management: Governance, Ethics, and Industry 5.0
1st Edition
By Piotr Łasak, Sławomir Wyciślak
July 24, 2025
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of digital platforms as the driving force of the modern economy, exploring their evolution, governance, and integration across financial and supply chain ecosystems. It presents a synthesis of theories, strategic models, and empirical insights to address ...
Digital Internationalisation of Firms: Strategies, Challenges and Legal Aspects
1st Edition
Edited
By Marzanna K. Witek-Hajduk, Magda Górska Grginović, Bartosz Targański
June 15, 2025
Digital Internationalisation of Firms offers a comprehensive examination of the digital outward internationalisation of firms, focusing on both Internet-based and Internet-enabled businesses, including SMEs and large enterprises. This monograph provides in-depth analysis of the processes, modes, ...
Energy Cluster Policies for Sustainable Industrial Transformation: An Institutional Perspective
1st Edition
By Marta Gancarczyk, Joanna Bohatkiewicz-Czaicka, Jacek Gancarczyk, Damian Tomczyk
April 23, 2025
Environmental changes and related public policies require an energy-focused sustainable industrial transformation (SIT) that reconciles economic, environmental, and social objectives. Local energy clusters are conducive to these transformative processes since they represent institutional structures...
Open Innovation and Startups
1st Edition
By Michał Bańka
April 01, 2025
This book comprehensively discusses the cooperation of corporations with startups in the context of accelerator programs. It focuses on recognizing how open innovation can catalyze startups’ development and success, and benefit corporations through access to new business models, innovative products...
Blockchain Technology in Project Finance: A Legal and Practical Model for Financing Mega-Investments
1st Edition
By Witold Srokosz, Paweł Lenio, Grzegorz Sobiecki
February 06, 2025
There is currently no comprehensive scientific study that addresses the problem of financing projects using Distributed Ledger (blockchain) Technology (DLT) that are not themselves embedded in the blockchain ecosystem, particularly in the context of long-term and capital-intensive investments. This...
Organizing Sustainable Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Aneta Kuźniarska, Karolina Mania, Monika Jedynak
December 18, 2024
The role and meaning of sustainable development have been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. However, there has recently been a dynamic increase in interest in the subject, which results in numerous, in-depth scientific research and publications with an interdisciplinary dimension...
Higher Education Institutions and Digital Transformation: Building University-Enterprise Collaborative Relationships
1st Edition
By Marcin Lis
October 04, 2024
The growing complexity, fluidity and instability of the environment as well as changing needs are challenges that both enterprises and higher education institutions must face. Higher education institutions understand that their key product, i.e. knowledge, is a value that can and should be offered ...
Managing the Digital University: Paradigms, Leadership, and Organization
1st Edition
By Łukasz Sułkowski
October 04, 2024
The reflection on university management is based on the question about the shape of universities of the future. Civic, responsible, sustainable, virtual, digital, and many other universities can be mentioned among the concepts present in the literature. All these names describe an important ...
Managing Generation Z: Motivation, Engagement and Loyalty
1st Edition
Edited
By Agnieszka Niemczynowicz, Radosław Antoni Kycia, Joanna Nieżurawska
August 26, 2024
Generation Z (Gen Z) is the young generation born between the mid-1990s and 2010s. They are now entering the market and starting their first jobs. Therefore, managers must shape the company workplace environment to encourage young employees to work efficiently and connect their future with the ...
Effective Financial Communication: Key Concepts, Empirical Insights, and Implications for Practice
1st Edition
By Christian Pieter Hoffmann, Nadine Strauß
July 26, 2024
Financial communication and investor relations are strategic corporate functions, tasked with fostering relationships with financial audiences, such as investors, analysts, and journalists. These financial audiences are of critical importance to the establishment, growth, and sustainable success of...