While the field of football studies has produced an abundance of literature on professional, top-league football, there is little research output to do with the non-top level football.
Bei dem vorliegenden Band handelt es sich um eine qualitative Evaluationsstudie des Studienganges Gesundheits- und Krankenpflege an österreichischen Fachhochschulen.
Since the end of bipolarism, the concept of asymmetric warfare, and of asymmetric conflict in general, has been increasingly applied with regard to armed forces activities and tasks.
Die Evolution von Gesellschaft führt zu unterschiedlichen Differenzierungsformen, die immer auch als Neu-Arrangierung des Verhältnisses gelesen werden kann, welches die Gesellschaft zum Individuum einrichtet.
In thirteen chapters, the contributors to this volume analyse the different dimensions of a new form of collaboration, termed collective co-production, in the Scandinavian countries.
This book includes a selection of the best research papers presented at the annual conference of the Italian chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), which took place in Verona, Italy in October 2016.
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.
Beratung in jugendpädagogischen Handlungsfeldern spielt in der Disziplin Erwachsenenbildung/ Außerschulische Jugendbildung (EB/AJB) eine weitestgehend vernachlässigte Rolle.
Das vorliegende Buch erklärt mithilfe des Konzepts der emotionalen Qualität einer Politikidee, weshalb die deutsche Bevölkerung die Rente mit 67 stärker ablehnte als andere, ebenso einschneidende Rentenreformen.
The proceedings of the 2017 Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership illuminate current research results and academic work from the fields of physics, mathematics, education, economics, as well as management and social sciences.
Das Buch untersucht die sozialen Proteste gegen die Neoliberalisierung der Wohnraumversorgung, die sich angesichts steigender Mieten und Wohnungspreise in den letzten Jahren vielerorts formiert haben.
Die Willkommenskultur des Jahres 2015 in Deutschland ist umgeschlagen in eine Abschiebepolitik der Bundesregierung mit Hilfe der (Um-)Definition sicherer Herkunftsländer.
This book provides a rare integrative interpretation of government-enterprise relations in China, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of the topic.
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the world of consumption, covering different topics and including sociological, economic and marketing aspects.
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.
This original analysis of modern Greece's political culture attempts to present a "e;total social fact"e;-a coherent and complex representation of Greek socio-political culture-to identify the cultural causes of Greece's recent disastrous economic crisis.
While abundant research has investigated time use, much less attention has been given to the cultural meanings attached to free time and what these may express with regard to conceptions of freedom and the self.
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.
This comparative study examines the processes of development and the configurations of export industries in northern Morocco and on the northern border of Mexico.
This book explores how the labour and leisure lives of people in contemporary rural China have been structured and transformed, discussing the changing dynamics of power relations both between and within genders, and in local (village and family/household) and remote (the state and market) contexts.
This book showcases issues of work and employment in contemporary India through a critical lens, serving as a systematic, scholarly and rigorous resource which provides an alternate view to the glowing metanarrative of the subcontinent's ongoing economic growth in today's globalized world.
This edited collection explores building construction as an inspiring, yet often overlooked, place to develop new knowledge about the development of human societies.
This book explores three major changes in the circumstances of the migrant working class in south China over the past three decades, from historical and comparative perspectives.
This book inquires into the global wave of student mobilizations that have arisen in the aftermath of the economic crisis of 2008, accounting for their historical and sociological significance.
This edited volume discusses how deeply entrenched gender norms in work environments, even in welfare economies, can affect women's health in an adverse way.
Approaches to leadership and management are still dominated by prescriptions - usually claimed as scientific - for top executives to choose the future direction of their organization.
This book provides a fine-grained ethnographic examination of the everyday negotiations and conflicts taking place in greenhouses and packinghouses in an agricultural district in south-eastern Italy (Sicily).
This book discusses organizational values and their implications for perceived attractiveness and effectiveness of the workplace through cross-cultural research in India and Sweden.
Concepts of emotion and emotional labour have largely been defined in European and American terms and according to Euro-American sensibilities with little attention given to the question of whether emotional work or emotional labour is different globally.
This short, accessible book seeks to explore the future of work through the views and opinions of a range of expertise, encompassing economic, historical, technological, ethical and anthropological aspects of the debate.
This edited volume analyses and discusses the systematisation of Polish socio-economic transformations of the last three decades using selected examples of the most important changes.
This book uses a variety of empirical cases on topics including drug development, egg donation, and governance of healthcare facilities, to investigate how actors navigate the uncertainties that permeate the interfaces of health, technologies, and politics in post-Soviet settings and what the implications of their chosen navigation routes are.
This volume presents studies from experts in twelve industries, providing insights into the future role of innovation and entrepreneurship in driving economic growth across sectors.
