Sociology: work and labour

Hier geht es darum, eine Vision wiederzufinden.

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs provide federal research and development funding to small businesses.

The return of the once-dormant economies of China and India to dynamism and growth is one of the most remarkable stories in recent history.

With its implications for health care, the economy, and an assortment of other policy areas, population aging is one of the most pressing issues facing governments and society today, and confronting its complex reality is becoming increasingly urgent, particularly in the age of COVID-19.

The term BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) is gaining global attention both in scholarly and popular discourse.

In this new volume it is argued that network effects are much more common than usually assumed, and that they have a profound impact on many aspects of economic systems, especially technological change and economic growth.

The field of information systems has been evolving since the first application of computers in organizations in the early 1950s.

This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees.

This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation.

Brand New s revolutionary innovation process is a proven road map you can put to work immediately to create successful new products, services, and business models.

This book addresses some of the questions that have been brought to light by the varied experiences of culture industry workers and consumer publics across East Asia over the past decade.

Understanding Industrial Organizations critically reviews the approaches developed by industrial sociologists to analyze industrial organizations.

Strategic thinking has become a core competency for business leaders globally.

This book highlights the multi-faceted nature of corporate social responsibility and the need for greater engagement across academia to help develop the mechanisms needed to encourage socially responsible approaches across the board.

This volume explores the processes of economic migration, the social conditions that follow it and the discourses that underlie research into it.

This book examines the services in and around the public domain.

In Audit Effectiveness, Dr Kamil Omoteso examines how information technology is changing the landscape for the audit profession as IT tools and techniques continue to be developed for auditors in the pursuit of quality, efficiency and effectiveness.

Work-Life Advantage analyses how employer-provision of family-friendly working arrangements - designed to help workers better reconcile work, home and family - can also enhance firms capacities for learning and innovation, in pursuit of long-term competitive advantage and socially inclusive growth.

Gathering contributions by leading social development scholars, this report offers a comprehensive description of the national development of cultural consumption in China.

This book problematises the socioeconomic and institutional construction of prostitution in Thai contexts, identifying the root causes that propel underprivileged, discriminated and deprived women and girls to enter the sex industry.

AI in Hospital Administration: Revolutionizing Healthcare is a groundbreaking book that explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in hospital administration and its impact on revolutionizing healthcare.

Networks and networking are essential concepts that transform organizational, economic, and social practices.

What are the dynamics of the abolition of the Indian indentureship system?

Die Diskussion über die öffentliche Verantwortung und moralische Integrität von Spitzenma-nagern reißt nicht ab.

The world is at the crossroads of social change, in the vortex of forces that are bringing about a different world, a post-neoliberal state.

Innovation offers potential: to cure diseases, to better connect people, and to make the way we live and work more efficient and enjoyable.

The term "e;managerialism"e; is widely used not only in the world of business and government and this book details the theory behind the illusive idea.

'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the global market.

This volume focuses on the hyper-mediatization of Latin America from the citizen's perspective, considering the social impact and how people embrace information technologies to improve their living conditions, engage in political issues and the role of digital journalism in promoting democratic values in Latin America.

Die grassierenden Verschwörungstheorien, ein durch Soziale Medien und das Internet gespeister Postfaktizismus und die politische Radikalisierung, wie sie sich in der Pandemie, aber auch in der Entsolidarisierung mit der Ukraine oder bei der Leugnung des Klimawandels beobachten lassen, können als Symptome einer krisenhaften Modernisierung der Industriegesellschaften verstanden werden.

Entrepreneurship is the result of various contextual factors in the community, which are shaped by social challenges and business needs.

​Brigitte Petendra beschäftigt sich mit der räumlichen Dimension von Arbeit in einer flexibilisierten Arbeitswelt.

With the world in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, associated labor market challenges are bringing changes to how business schools offer executive education to the future workforce.

Theoretische Ausgangspunkte der Studie bilden Einsichten aus den frühen rechtssoziologischen Arbeiten Niklas Luhmanns, nach denen sich sowohl Rechtsbildungsprozesse auf den Systemebenen von Interaktion, Organisation und Gesellschaft als auch Rechtsstrukturen verschiedener, sozialstrukturell korrelierter Rechtstypen unterscheiden lassen.

This book argues for the increasing importance of the arts as a major resource in fuelling growth through the experiential dimension of today's economy.

The last century has seen a wide variety of approaches to motivation, from scientific management through financial incentives, productivity bargaining to job enrichment.

This book reveals the story of how the first large learning organization was formed.

Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox is a two-part volume exploring how paradox theory benefits from interdisciplinary theorizing and how we might go about undertaking such research.

This book is an investigation into the evolving nature and consequences of strategic management in public governance.

Theory is an essential element in the development of any academic discipline and sport management is no exception.

Innovatively linking actual implementation to ratification of International Labour Office (ILO) Core Conventions, the author develops a new method and uses unexploited data from the ILO's supervisory system to rate the achievement of basic human rights in the world of work - freedom of association and freedom from forced labour, child labour and discrimination - for 159 countries during the period 1985-2003.

Studies in many African countries show that charcoal making is among the primary drivers of deforestation and subsequent land degradation.

Originally published in 1955.

The Saudi Arabian Economy (1986) is a comprehensive analysis of the late-twentieth century Saudi Arabian economy.

A strategic requirement is something an organisation sets out to achieve; it could be the long-term vision the organisation sets itself, the key business condition for a specific project to be a success or a business strategy to achieve a goal.

How will work be organised in the future?