Sociology: work and labour

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.

Consumer research has traditionally focused on issues of epistemology in the collection and analysis of data.

Buying decision making is a complicated process, in which a consumer's decision is under the influence of others.

Originally published in 1996, Workers' Dilemmas analyses the management skills of those with least resources, the women of the urban poor, and finds that there is an abundance of evidence on the high levels of managerial competence within this group.

This book explores the process of grassroots innovation in the context of the Global South.

First published in 1989, Guards Imprisoned provides an in-depth look into the work and working life of prison guards as they perceive and experience it.

The promotion of an enterprise culture and entrepreneurship in India in recent decades has had far-reaching implications beyond the economy, and transformed social and cultural attitudes and conduct.

This unique collection of papers, from authors whose experience and nationalities are themselves diverse, captures intellectual and personal reflections on diversity.

This book provides an analysis of the process and outcomes of the tax reform, with a focus on progressivity, redistribution, and inequality.

This book analyses media conglomerates owning multiple media holdings under centralized ownership within and across media markets.

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Over the past ten years, the study of mobility has demonstrated groundbreaking approaches and new research patterns.

Technology has attracted an increasing level of attention within studies of disability and disability rights.

The use of comparisons to explain, analyze and understand social and economic phenomena is recognized as a valuable social science tool.

This book describes the early career outcomes for female creative graduates in Australia and the UK.

This book provides a broad survey of Chinese rural households, examining ongoing changes in Chinese society and economy through the lens of the situation of rural families in China.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the world of work, but how does it impact diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)?

This book, first published in 1982, summarises the history and organisation of the group of co-operatives centred in Mondragon.

Involving customers in the development and production of new services becomes a powerful force across many creative industries.

The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organizations synthesizes and extends existing research on ethics in organizations by explicitly focusing on 'ethico-politics' - where ethics informs political action.

Policy makers often call for increased spending on infrastructure, which can encompass a broad range of investments, from roads and bridges to digital networks that will expand access to high-speed broadband.

Global systems integrators, outsourcers and consulting firms are responsible for directly leveraging or influencing most IT investment in large corporations.

This edited volume seeks to explore established as well as emergent forms of governance by combining social network analysis and governance research.

Die Ereignisse der letzten vier Jahre auf den globalen Finanzmärkten sind aus der Perspektive der Internationalen Politischen Ökonomie einzigartig: Innerhalb weniger Monate hat sich das Platzen der spekulativen Blase auf dem amerikanischen Immobilienfinanzierungsmarkt zur wohl größten Finanzkrise seit Ende des zweiten Weltkriegs entwickelt.

Written with pace and clarity, this book is a comprehensive and compact overview and introduction to the research landscape of complexity in organizations.

Originally published in 1973, Paupers looks at poverty through the lens of class and the Welfare State.

Exploring pressing questions around Canadian citizenship, Canada in Question delves into contemporary issues that come into play in identifying what it means to be Canadian.

Trotz des großen Einflusses der Betreuungsbehörden auf die Bestellung rechtlicher Betreuer ist bislang nur wenig darüber bekannt, wie die hierfür zentralen Sozialberichte im behördlichen Betrieb hergestellt werden.

This is the era of flexibility.

The importance of social relationships at work has long been recognized in the social sciences.

The Decline of Trade Union Organisation (1987) considers the reasons behind the decline in trade union membership and discusses the prospects for recovery.

This book contends that the Chinese economic reform inaugurated since 1978 has been a top-down passive revolution, in Gramsci's term, and that after three decades of reform the role of the Chinese state has been changing from steering the passive revolution through coercive tactics to establishing capitalist hegemony.

Drawing on sociology and social policy, this intriguing volume considers various aspects of gender and professional identity.

Die Akademisierung der Pflege erfordert den Brückenschlag zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis.

The Future 500, first published in 1987, shows how business leaders can immediately begin to apply the lessons for aspiring enterprises in eight crucial spheres: the global marketplace, private-public sector relationships, collaboration v.

This volume collects key influential papers that have animated the debate about information computer ethics over the past three decades, covering issues such as privacy, online trust, anonymity, values sensitive design, machine ethics, professional conduct and moral responsibility of software developers.

This book makes a strong and coherent contribution to the discussion of the knowledge economy and of innovation, offering a range of theoretical insights from different disciplinary perspectives.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the business world at an unprecedented pace.

This work focuses on the creation of new knowledge, and how this has happened throughout all ages, as far back as the time of ancient philosophy to today.

Everyone talks innovation and we can all point to random examples of innovation inside of healthcare information technology, but few repeatable processes exist that make innovation more routine than happenstance.

This volume presents a collection of different views and perspectives, featuring both theoretical and empirical contributions, to provide deep insight into the role of innovation and of non-technological innovation (NTI) in contemporary business.

Originally published in 1887, Edward Carpenter's England's Ideal and other Papers on Social Subjects is a collection of his essays in the field of Social Science with a focus on English society at the time of writing.

This book offers an accurate and updated approach to the main contributions of cosmopolitan biolaw in relation to sustainability, global governance, organizational health care economics and COVID-19.

We are at a momentous inflection point in our evolutionary history: generative AI is becoming mainstream, transforming the world of work, and specifically that of knowledge workers.