Including the category of proximity in theoretical considerations and empirical analyzes in cluster organizations is an attempt to integrate existing approaches to understand and explain the specificity of inter-organizational cooperation developed in geographical proximity.
What all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace, politics, and beyondIt is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family.
As qualitative researchers incorporate computer assistance into their analytic approaches, important questions arise about the adoption of new technology.
This book bridges the disciplines of legal studies and sociology in its engaging introduction to the history, purpose, function, and influence of the Supreme Court, demonstrating through ten landmark decisions the Court's impact on the five key sociological institutions in the United States: family, education, religion, government, and economy.
This book explores the thought of Olive Schreiner, the internationally famous writer, feminist theorist, social critic, opponent of imperialism and nationalism, and analyst of violence and war, best known for her novels and short stories, articles and critical commentaries, and her feminist treatise, Women and Labour.
In an era marked by increasing globalization, international competition, digitalization, and social and cultural changes, higher education institutions (HEIs) play a pivotal role in establishing the knowledge-based economy of each country, which is perceived as its soft power.
Research on the international transfer of technology in economics and management literature has primarily focused on the role of countries and that of companies, in particular multinational enterprises (MNEs).
Am Beispiel des Beschäftigungszuschusses untersucht Philipp Ramos Lobato, ob öffentlich geförderte Beschäftigung dazu beitragen kann, die soziale Integration von Langzeitarbeitslosen zu verbessern.
This volume offers new, convincing empirical evidence on topical risk- and risk management-related issues in diverse settings, using an interdisciplinary approach.
Emotionen, Gefühle und Affekte bezeichnen einen Bereich in der modernen Soziologie, der in einem gewissen Sinne als übersehen oder vielleicht gar als vergessen zu bezeichnen ist.
Concise yet comprehensive, Product Planning Essentials, Second Edition, addresses the complex, interdisciplinary nature of product development and product management.
Based on two unique survey studies of elites in Norway, this book examines whether elite attitudes towards central national issues have changed in the wake of international and national events and developments since 2000.
Marco Jöstingmeier analysiert die aktuellen Innovationen in der Finanzmarkt- und Bankenregulierung und zeigt, wie systemisches Risiko als neuartiges Problem in den Fokus der Bankenaufsicht rückt.
Confronting State, Capital and Patriarchy brings together documentation of women's struggles in the process of industrialisation, within and outside traditional workers' organizations.
Originally published in 1982, Work, Women and the Labour Market presents through original articles a coherent overall picture of women's employment in contemporary British capitalism.
In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing systemic discrimination in the workplace.
Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen, die das Wagnis strategischer Innovationspartnerschaften mit der Wirtschaft eingehen, agieren in einem dauerhaften Spannungsverhältnis zwischen ihrem öffentlich-rechtlichen Auftrag zu Forschung, Wissens- und Technologietransfer und ihren eingeschränkten Möglichkeiten, tatsächlich zur Verwertung neuer Lösungen wirtschaftlich am Markt tätig zu werden.
This book compiles empirical evidence on both the challenges raised by neo-liberal policies and the internet to trade unions, and the development of more flexible forms of worker organisation and collective representation.
Due to the increasing transformation and changes in the economy, society, technology, ecology or even human health, organisations and companies are or should be continuously changing in order to survive as they are open systems.
Organisations today are being challenged to make sense of changes in environments that, now more than ever, are described as VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous).
Bringing together an international range of expertise, this comprehensive Companion to Technology Management is designed to facilitate the development of management frameworks adaptable for a wide range of organizations, as well as an overview of the development and integration of technology in advanced and emerging economies.
