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.
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.
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.
Wenn Sie nach einer selbstbestimmten Berufsperspektive suchen, die Ihren Kompetenzen entspricht und zu Ihrer Persönlichkeit und Ihrem Lebensplan passt, dann ist dieses Buch für Sie geschrieben.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.