Metro Vancouver is a diverse city where half the residents identify as people of colour, but only one percent of the population is racialized as Black.
Comprising the study, documentation, and comparison of plant-level workers' participation around the world, this volume meets the challenge of offering a global perspective on workers' participation, representation, and models of social partnership.
Leopold Ringel entwickelt die These, dass Organisationen beständig versuchen, ihr Inneres vor äußerer Einsicht zu verstecken, um eine idealisierte Selbstdarstellung aufrechtzuerhalten - auch dann, wenn sie sich dazu bekennen, mehr Transparenz herzustellen.
This volume, first published in 1988, examines the challenge to management which is posed by ever more sophisticated applications of information technology.
When it comes to digital innovation, much research has been done with regard to the optimization of teams, but little attention has been given to leadership structures.
The economic process of financialization is defined by many as the development of the dependence and subordination of the productive sector to the financial sector.
The BRICS countries are heralded for their double digit economic growth rates and while this has indeed been impressive, particularly in India and China, it is clear that significant social and environmental fault-lines have developed in these regions.
While science and technology research, sources of funding, performance, incentives, and motivations for technology innovation activities are reasonably well understood by academics and policy makers, the complex process by which scientific results are exploited and transformed into new technologies through an innovation process is poorly documented and studied little.
The Lost Leaders presents the personal stories of women who achieved success in corporate leadership, but have chosen to abandon their careers, providing a fascinating glimpse of the culture that exists in the contemporary corporation.
This volume is a theoretically informed comparative analysis of the telecommunications and information policy-making process in two major developing economies, China and India.
Policy informatics is addressing governance challenges and their consequences, which span the seeming inability of governments to solve complex problems and the disaffection of people from their governments.
Die Studie von Michael Knapp befasst sich mit den sozialen Netzwerkbeziehungen von Freelancer*innen im Kontext von Coworking Spaces als flexibel nutzbare Büro- und Arbeitsräumlichkeiten.
Keine andere Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftstheorie beherrscht die Tagespolitik, aber auch die Medienöffentlichkeit und das Alltagsbewusstsein von Millionen Menschen fast auf der ganzen Welt so stark wie die neoliberale.
Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor.
This book introduces students to business process management, an approach that aims to align the organization's business processes with the demands of the marketplace.
This examination of the history, development, activities, successes, and limitations of the largest membership organization in the country will be of interest to anyone who belongs to or is curious about this sometimes-controversial group.
This book examines the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on local economies, and presents selected case studies of MNEs operating in low income countries.
After almost twenty years of internationalization, Chinese firms have shown their growing innovation capability through benefiting from global networks and domestic efforts.
In an analysis of political, economic, and social development in Peru in the years between 1980 and 2016, this book explores the failure of the socialist Left to realize its project of revolutionary social transformation.
Skills, Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Platform Era: Analyzing the New Reality of Professions and Entrepreneurship brings together two important areas: the separate research topics of professions, platforms, and entrepreneurship, and the various dimensions of what platformization means to work and to professions in contemporary societies.
This edited collection addresses a paradox at the heart of the European Union: if it is a constantly enlarging empire of governance, how can almost thirty member states design policies as an administrative whole, whilst narrowly approaching all political issues from one economic point of view?
Fully updated to reflect the 2022 ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) Body of Knowledge (BoK), The ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook, Fourth Edition is ideal for candidates studying for the CSSBB examination.
In this fourth and final volume of the CARE-ing for Integral Development series, Ronnie Lessem integrates all that has come before in terms of: Community activation; Awakening integral consciousness; and institutionalized Research.
This book reframes tourism, as well as leisure, within mobilities studies to challenge the limitations that dichotomous understandings of home/away, work/leisure, and host/guest bring.
This book links knowledge management literature and information systems research to explore the process of knowledge preservation within a community of practice.
Through 'live' material from consulting practice and an historical review of advice-giving to pre-modern leaders, this book uncovers a distinctive 'feminine' discourse of management consulting.
Das Buch zielt darauf ab, die Entwicklungsbedingungen von Dienstleistungsproduktivität in Unternehmen systemtheoretisch, verbunden mit einer neuen Methodenanwendung für eine empirische Systemtheorie, kritisch zu beobachten und zu beschreiben.
