Sociology: work and labour

The forces of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) in today's world are shaping businesses and calling into question the wisdom of existing business models.

Professions have long provided a dependable body of expertise that organisations have relied upon to fulfil goals.

The emerging present is a fast-changing context for incumbent organizations, especially in market segments where online behavior is replacing physical proximity, and users engage with digital platforms for the acquisition of products and services.

It is increasingly apparent that capitalism cannot stave off the truly frightening ecological disasters that threaten the future of life on earth.

​Wie lässt sich die Entstehung eines Wirtschaftsclusters in einer Stadt verstehen?

In this book, originally published in 1918, the Leonard S.

This book examines the large-scale return migration of South and Southeast Asian workers triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring its causes, consequences, challenges, and policy responses.

This book offers a critical analysis of consumer credit markets and the growth of outstanding debt, presenting in-depth interview material to explore the phenomenon of mass indebtedness through the life trajectories of self-identified debtors struggling with the pressures of owing money.

This is an academic inquiry into how labor power has been dehumanized and commodified around the world through the ages for capital accumulation and industrialization, and colonial and post-colonial economic transformation.

This collection examines the historically and geographically specific form of economic organization of the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and how it has adapted to the different historical and socio-political contexts of Southeast Asian countries.

The global economy is characterized by increasing locational competition to attract the resources necessary to develop leading-edge technologies as drivers of regional and national growth.

People's work orientations and attitudes to paid work are highly important for the welfare of any country.

What motivates a lifelong scholarly pursuit, and how do one's studies inform life outside the academy?

Droughts have formed an inseparable part of South Asian history and culture, with tragic consequences for a region that houses the greatest number of the world's poor.

Measuring innovation is a challenging task, both for researchers and for national statisticians, and it is increasingly important in light of the ongoing digital revolution.

This edited book emerges from the observation that the current literatures on migration in China are constrained by a series of shortfalls, including a relative topical homogeneity centred on domestic labour migration; relatively narrowly conceived and institutionalist conceptions of migration and migrants, without adequate attention paid to the identities, agencies and everyday experiences of migrants; and finally a lack of engagement with theoretical models and paradigms in the broad discipline of migration studies.

There is a growing body of work examining the 'consequences', or more accurately the inter-relationships between information and communications technologies (ICTs) and society at the microsocial (individual, household) level.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the world of consumption, covering different topics and including sociological, economic and marketing aspects.

This book examines change processes and the challenge of ambidexterity in military organizations.

The Home in the Digital Age is a set of multidisciplinary studies exploring the impact of digital technologies in the home, with a shift of emphasis from technology to the people living and using this in their homes.

The institutional ethnographies collected in Under New Public Management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public sectors such as health, education, social services, and international development, and people management in the private sector.

Innovation in technology and services was once the result of specialist knowledge developed within a single corporation; now, a single focus on the development of new products and services is no longer enough.

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.

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.

Safety at Work and the Unions (1983) surveys the whole field of safety at work.

This book focuses on equality, inclusion, and discrimination within the English-speaking Caribbean region, specifically as it relates to employment, education, society, and the law.

This book provides in-depth information about the technical, legal, and policy issues that are raised when humans and artificially intelligent machines are enhanced by technology.

Using contemporary examples of business and management research, predominantly within the context of India, this book offers numerous tools and techniques which can be applied to a diverse range of needs in social science research.

The call center industry is booming in the Philippines.

A fundamental problem of public sector governance relates to the very way of thinking it reflects; where organization is thought of as a 'thing', a system designed to deliver what its designers choose.

Forty years ago Amartya Sen introduced to the world a novel approach to the idea of equality: the notion of 'basic capability' as 'a morally relevant dimension' and the claim that we should focus upon equality of basic capabilities ('a person being able to do certain basic things').

The Nordic countries have the world's best working life.

Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale is about the production and effects of stigma in sex work or prostitution with contributions from four continents and different disciplines that taken together explore how such stigma is conditioned by differences in time, place, citizenship, gender, sexuality, class and race.

In response to changes in internal needs, external organizational environments, and the expectations of shareholders - most notably, citizens and politicians - innovation is now an important common-place aspect of governance and the running of public service organizations.

Peer review is an essential component of engineering practice and other scientific and technical undertakings.

This book critically examines the concept of "e;embeddedness"e;: the core concept of an economic sociology of law (ESL).

Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated.

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.

How do you break through to impossible-to-reach executive buyers who are intent on blocking out the noise that confronts them every day?

This book attempts to advance critical knowledge and practices for fostering a variety of entrepreneurship at a city level.

This book explores the premise that organizations are significantly influenced by their inter-organizational relationships; moreover, these relationships may generate important externalities, both positive and negative, impacting the environment at several levels.

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion in supply chain complexity.

This book explores the economic coping practices of rural widows in the aftermath of the Cambodian civil war.

Global Health involves, among many things the intensified travelling of people, resources, technologies, knowledge, standards, and ideas.

While simulation has a vast area of application, this textbook focuses on the use of simulation to analyse business processes.

This book introduces readers to emerging issues of sport innovation.