Sociology: work and labour

In The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace, Dr Jemielniak has collected research-based chapters providing deep, interdisciplinary insight into knowledge professions, addressing issues of professional identity, emotion, power and authority, trust and indoctrination, and management behaviour.

Germany's economic miracle is a widely-known phenomenon, and the world-leading, innovative products and services associated with German companies are something that others seek to imitate.

Germany's economic miracle is a widely-known phenomenon, and the world-leading, innovative products and services associated with German companies are something that others seek to imitate.

Increasingly in the public discourse there are references to the knowledge economy, knowledge society, knowledge workers and knowledge organisations.

Increasingly in the public discourse there are references to the knowledge economy, knowledge society, knowledge workers and knowledge organisations.

This book offers a general theoretical framework for approaching innovation and entrepreneurship, using practical and up-to-date examples to demonstrate three different levels of innovation and entrepreneurship: the macro-level, which concerns the impact of innovation activity on economic growth and production systems; the meso-level, which concerns the relations between firms, research institutes and governmental bodies and their role in innovation activity; and the micro-level, which concerns the dynamics of innovations within firms and organisations.

This book offers a general theoretical framework for approaching innovation and entrepreneurship, using practical and up-to-date examples to demonstrate three different levels of innovation and entrepreneurship: the macro-level, which concerns the impact of innovation activity on economic growth and production systems; the meso-level, which concerns the relations between firms, research institutes and governmental bodies and their role in innovation activity; and the micro-level, which concerns the dynamics of innovations within firms and organisations.

The most damning charge frequently levelled at strategic planning is that of irrelevance.

The most damning charge frequently levelled at strategic planning is that of irrelevance.

What shapes the role of Information and Communication Technologies in our everyday life?

What shapes the role of Information and Communication Technologies in our everyday life?

Transculturalism and Business in the BRIC States, edited by Yvette SA!

Transculturalism and Business in the BRIC States, edited by Yvette SA!

'This book distills the learning from practical experience and academic research.

'This book distills the learning from practical experience and academic research.

As projects become more complex and the project teams are more geographically and culturally dispersed, so strong, trusting relationships come to the fore.

As projects become more complex and the project teams are more geographically and culturally dispersed, so strong, trusting relationships come to the fore.

A myriad of security vulnerabilities in the software and hardware we use today can be exploited by an attacker, any attacker.

A myriad of security vulnerabilities in the software and hardware we use today can be exploited by an attacker, any attacker.

The World Wide Web is truly astounding.

The World Wide Web is truly astounding.

We live in a behavior economy, an environment in which people no longer engage with companies just by purchasing things, but they seek engagement with services that allow them to behave, to leave a mark, and to participate in the community of others.

We live in a behavior economy, an environment in which people no longer engage with companies just by purchasing things, but they seek engagement with services that allow them to behave, to leave a mark, and to participate in the community of others.

Value-creation in Middle Market Private Equity by John A.

Value-creation in Middle Market Private Equity by John A.

This collection examines the work of the Italian economist and social theorist Vilfredo Pareto, highlighting the extraordinary scope of his thought, which covers a vast range of academic disciplines.

This collection examines the work of the Italian economist and social theorist Vilfredo Pareto, highlighting the extraordinary scope of his thought, which covers a vast range of academic disciplines.

Provides detailed analyses of CSR in the cement industry and in regulatory policies adopted by the central government in India.

Community Development in an Uncertain World is an essential resource for students and professionals in the human services.

Community Development in an Uncertain World is an essential resource for students and professionals in the human services.

This book explains why leaders chose social democracy, revolution, or moderate syndicalism to mobilize workers, and why it matters.

This edited volume explores how youth and informal sector workers in the Global South are pioneering learning and livelihoods that exist at the intersections of, and beyond, the boundaries of the state, market, and other formal institutions.

This monograph examines the role of women workers who are joining the workforce in urban India.

Ania Zbyszewska''s feminist, socio-legal approach to the European working time regime examines its gender dynamics and influence in the Polish working time reform.

Ania Zbyszewska''s feminist, socio-legal approach to the European working time regime examines its gender dynamics and influence in the Polish working time reform.

Amengual investigates how labor and environmental regulations can be enforced by drawing on a study of politics in Argentina.

Using a game-theoretic framework, this unified, comprehensive treatment of contest design in economics and computer science focuses on online applications.

Using a game-theoretic framework, this unified, comprehensive treatment of contest design in economics and computer science focuses on online applications.

This book evaluates new programs that aim to reduce minority youth unemployment by improving high school students'' marketable job skills.

This book evaluates new programs that aim to reduce minority youth unemployment by improving high school students'' marketable job skills.

This is the first book to center labor unions as actors in American environmental policy.

This is the first book to center labor unions as actors in American environmental policy.

This book addresses the complex labour and life conditions faced by workers in the agricultural borderlands of northern South Africa.

This book provides an overview of the opportunities and risks of digitalisation and the platforms that embody it and constitute society's new infrastructure.

This book addresses the complex labour and life conditions faced by workers in the agricultural borderlands of northern South Africa.

Written for researchers, professionals and students, this book examines the dynamics and dilemmas of internal management consultancy.

Written for researchers, professionals and students, this book examines the dynamics and dilemmas of internal management consultancy.

Emerging technologies are having a profound impact upon individuals and organisations.

Lu Zhang explains how labor relations in the auto industry and broader social economy can be expected to develop in China in the coming decades.

Lu Zhang explains how labor relations in the auto industry and broader social economy can be expected to develop in China in the coming decades.