Sociology: work and labour

The Global Economy: A Concise History traces the history of the global economy over the past thousand years.

Digital transformation is a multidimensional concept and involves many moving parts.

This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape it.

Billions of dollars, Euros, yen, and yuan in public funds are spent annually to promote innovation in metropolitan regions, attempting to transform the economy by attracting technology-based companies and supporting small startups to secure high-paying jobs.

There is a lot of hype, hand-waving, and ink being spilled about artificial intelligence (AI) in business.

This book closely examines how universities and higher educational institutions have come to occupy a very significant position in the Chinese national Iinnovation system (NIS) in the last two decades.

Research on patent valuation has become increasingly important in academic and policy circles in the last few decades.

After the financial collapse of 2008 and the bailing out of banks in the US and the UK, the long-term viability of the neoliberal doctrine has come under new scrutiny.

This book combines the two most important typologies of capitalist diversity; Esping-Andersen's welfare regime typology and Hall and Soskice's 'Varieties of Capitalism' typology, into a unified typology of capitalist diversity.

This collection of essays demonstrates how novels are not only comparable, but often superior to the case histories used in business education.

Since its establishment in 1965, Business Economics has been an essential resource for those who use economics in the workplace.

In a turbulent environment, companies face disruptive events and must build organisational resilience in order to thrive.

Der Sammelband vereinigt Beiträge aus Deutschland, Frankreich und der Schweiz, welche die „Economie des conventions“ in der Bildungsforschung einsetzen und weiterentwickeln.

This book challenges the idea that development is synonymous with ''upgrading'' global value chains through an institutional theory of trade and development.

A masterful history of the queer workforce in AmericaWorkplaces have traditionally been viewed as ';straight spaces' in which queer people passed.

There are vast swathes of people in economic migration across the Gulf states today.

To achieve success in today's ever-changing and unpredictable markets, competitive businesses need to rethink and reframe their strategies across the board.

Since the early 2000s, state-led and innovation-focused strategies have characterized the approach to development pursued in countries around the world, such as China, India, and South Korea.

This book explores new forms of popular organisation that emerged from strikes in India and Brazil between 2011 and 2014.

A far-reaching transformation is taking place in the US in the relationship between employers and employees.

Examining a range of under-explored work-life interface issues as they affect different stages of a worker's life, the authors share new insights into complex issues that affect us all.

Philosophy may not seem to be an obvious source to discover methods for successful product innovation management.

In this introduction for undergraduate students, the author surveys the development of the study of organizations from an historical point of view.

Decision-making on outsourcing new product development (especially innovation projects), such as engaging and managing the supply chain, is far from easy.

In the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, this new book provides thought provoking commentary on the nature of the relationship between society, the prevailing economic system and professionalism in the built environment.

Many families leave their children for years to be looked after by young people about whom they know next to nothing, from places they have barely heard of.

Originally published in 1967 and the result of extensive interviews and case studies, this book examines the implications of technical change.

Globalization, the economic crisis and related policies of austerity have led to a growth in extreme exploitation at work, with migrants particularly vulnerable.

Diversity arising from the mixing of peoples from different cultural backgrounds has long been an issue in nations such as the United States and Australia, and in recent decades, European nations have reached unprecedented levels of cultural diversity due to increased migration.

Das Konzept der Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) hat seit einigen Jahren sowohl in der Praxis als auch in der Wissenschaft Konjunktur.

This volume introduces the notion of Thinking Infrastructures to explore a broad range of phenomena that structure attention, shape decision-making, and guide cognition: Thinking Infrastructures configure entities (via tracing, tagging), organise knowledge (via search engines), sort things out (via rankings and ratings), govern markets (via calculative practices, including algorithms), and configure preferences (via valuations such as recommender systems).

Including contributions by both British and American researchers, this book explores equal value developments in the two countries.

The classical concept of organizations as comprising solitary 'walled-in' actors with clear operational boundaries is increasingly being challenged.

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the workings of financial institutions and financial markets beyond the discipline of economics, which has been accelerated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century.

A must-read in the wake of COVID-19, this book unpacks the nature of resilient organizations and how they prepare for unpredictable, complex, and profound change.

Describes the theories, policies, challenges, and opportunities surrounding managing work and family roles globally, and identifies future research ideas.

Hendrik Lager untersucht, wie Produktionsunternehmen im Kontext der Debatte um Digitalisierung und Industrie 4.

Organizational diversity has become a topic of interest for practitioners and academics alike.

The financial crisis that started in 2007 is a concern for the world.

This book looks back over the last forty years of change and development in Ecuador, showing how macro level changes have impacted families and workplaces on the local level.

With so many social challenges facing our world, trying to effect change feels daunting.

This book presents a unified approach to the problem of inequality, combining results from a variety of research fields - the human life cycle, group dynamics, networks, markets, and economic geography.

In the fight against organizational malpractice and organized crime, both international guidelines and national regulations have become stricter.

Business Networks and Organizational Resilience: Relational Capital of Companies and Times of Crisis is a comprehensive monograph that investigates the interplay between a company's relational capital and its ability to withstand and rebound from crises.