Sociology: work and labour

This book deals with the prime movers of socio-economic development, innovations and technical change, their origins, forms and effects.

Exploring the diversity of small firms, this contributed volume focuses on the crucial topic of work and the ways in which it is regulated, and offers reflections on the future of labour more generally.

The science is clear: climate change is a fact and the probability is extremely high that it has been caused by humans.

The second edition of Consumer Behaviour and Analytics provides a consumer behaviour textbook for the new marketing reality.

This book looks at the future role of local economic development.

This shortform book presents an overview of theoretical and empirical work in the field of organization theory.

From hospitals and prisons to schools and corporations: no matter how large or seemingly abstract, all institutions are ultimately the result of the actions and interactions of people.

New Drugs, Fair Prices addresses the important question of how we might get the innovative new medicines we need at prices we can afford.

A Practical Introduction to Enterprise Network and Security Management, Second Edition, provides a balanced understanding of introductory and advanced subjects in both computer networking and cybersecurity.

This book contributes new insights into the organization of free/open source (F/OS) software communities by examining the links between learning, division of labour and commercialization, demonstrating the need for a synthesis of work on both community organization and cooperation to understand F/OS community dynamics.

In Organizational Learning and Performance: The Science and Practice of Building a Learning Culture, Ryan Smerek combines organizational examples with insights from research, to provide readers with a unique and distinctive lens to improve personal and organizational performance.

In the twenty-first century, as traditional divides are redefined, bargaining over corporate responsibilities has increasingly centred around corporate reputation and the question of whether businesses are part of society's problems or part of their solution.

In Building an Innovation Powerhouse you will learn how to maximise the potential of people to grow your business.

Why and how did South Korea become the world's top digital government leader?

European Social Problems is the first book to examine social issues in Europe from the perspective of the social sciences.

A fresh theory of political judgement, using analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis to provide new implications for political science.

This book provides a critical, ethnographically grounded examination of the hype surrounding the idea of impact by investigating the work of those attempting to create innovative social ventures.

This edited volume examines the contemporary practice of human trafficking on the African continent.

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.

As a stand-alone text, a self-study manual, or a supplement to a lab manual or comprehensive text, The Joy of Stats is a unique and versatile resource.

The offsite and modular market is continuing to grow.

Enterprises located in rural regions face various challenges in the globalised and digitised world.

While organisations become more and more global, they also become more and more dispersed and virtual.

The most important theme of the discourse on sustainable development and sustainability challenges concerns the relationship between innovation and sustainability.

In a global competitive economic environment, resources that are scarce or irreplicable are a source of sustained competitive advantage for companies and organizations.

This book reviews China's industrialization from the perspective of inclusiveness, and discusses the challenges arising from its industrialization process and how the Chinese people view and seek to overcome these challenges.

Capital mobility is a double-edged sword for emerging economies, as governments must weigh the benefits of investment against the potential economic costs and political consequences of currency crises, devaluations, and instability.

The knowledge economy conjures a world of smart people, in smart jobs, doing smart things, in smart ways, for smart money, a world increasingly open to all rather than a few.

Business model innovation occurs when an organization discovers a new way of creating revenues or profits via its products or services.

Is the EU enlargement the success EU institutions proclaim?

This revised edition of Misbehavior in Organizations updates and expands upon the integrative OMB (organizational misbehavior) framework pioneered by the authors.

This book considers the concept of resilience in a global society where coping with the consequence and long term impact of crisis and disaster challenges the capacity of communities to bounce back in the event of severe disruption.

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes sind in der einen oder anderen Weise von zwei Begriffen aus dem Arsenal der soziologischen Systemtheorie Niklas Luhmanns und speziell seiner Organisationssoziologie inspiriert: dem Begriff der Grenzstelle und dem Begriff des Grenzsystems.

The definitive collection of speeches and writings by the labor leader, civil rights activist and founder of The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

The aim of this book is to explain the post-war growth of the public sector in a number of developed economies.

This book provides a strategic blueprint for understanding how pioneering emerging markets are leveraging the digital economy to challenge global economic hierarchies.

The book examines how globalised urban labour and property markets are produced by agrarian actors, institutions, spaces and territories.

Now fully revised and updated the classic book on effective R&D management "e;This thoughtful and detailed work outlines what is required in order to achieve the desired end results in a networked world where teamwork and collaboration are increasingly important to globally dispersed workforces.

Der Band betrachtet am Beispiel des Lebensmittelmarkts die drei Teilkontexte Produktion, Marktentnahme und Konsum in ihren wechselseitigen Handlungsbezügen sowie die Rolle von Macht und Wissen für die Koordination von Warenketten.

This book reorients the lens of global creative economies in order to focus on ecological articulations of cultural production ecosystems.

Originally published in 1924, Professor Hobhouse's theories and commentaries upon social development are an important milestone in the history of sociological thought.