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This book explores the existing and diverse institutional bottlenecks of land acquisition, ranging from legal and social to political and even environmental within the Asian context.

This book provides a rare integrative interpretation of government-enterprise relations in China, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of the topic.

The book presents the latest studies on the work-life balance of millennial (also known as Generation Y) building professionals in Singapore and South Korea.

This book explains in simple language the change of perspective and the transition of the systems for poverty alleviation, based on the fifteen-year development of China's poverty alleviation policy.

This book, recognizing that workplace bullying is a significant employment relations and occupational health and safety problem in India which warrants urgent and holistic intervention, presents empirical studies examining contextual factors, antecedents, mediators, moderators, processes, outcomes and solutions, thereby deepening our understanding of the phenomenon.

Workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment unfolds as a process, usually recursive and escalating, that involves multiple actors and stakeholders.

This book addresses growing tensions in Northeast Asia, notably between North Korea and China.

The agenda of respectful workplaces is no more urgent than in the context of workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment.

This volume captures themes and debates around elucidating and studying workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment.

Set within the context of ASEAN integration, this book considers how Capitalism from China interacts with the ASEAN Economic Community, considering the issue from a variety of sociological, cultural and economic perspectives.

'The book is very simplistically written and, I consider that undergraduate students would find maximum chapters easy to comprehend and apply.

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.

This book focuses on the experience of social dialogue in Turkey, which is a European Union candidate country.

This book uncovers the mysterious social and political structures of China's "e;Third Front,"e; the large state-sponsored development of inland China during the late Maoist period.

This book is the first in a series on Chinese management based on the Global Chinese Management Conferences (from 2015 to 2017), an annual conference organized by the Sun Tzu Art of War Institute.

The book aims at perfecting the national governance system and improving national governance ability.

By assessing the transition in enterprise-employee relations in China over the six decades since the founding of the nation and the three decades since the implementation of a reform and opening up policy, this book investigates these changes from three key perspectives: occupation, operation and governance.

This book explores professional women's experiences of gender in the Taiwanese workplace in the wake of the rapid transformation of the country's economy, identifying attitudes to gender in a heterosexist and heteronormative social culture.

This book examines partnerships between commercial banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs).

This book examines partnerships between commercial banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs).

This book discusses organizational values and their implications for perceived attractiveness and effectiveness of the workplace through cross-cultural research in India and Sweden.

The book explores the debates surrounding sustainable livelihood in the neoliberal era effected through transformation of the nature of work and the role of institutions, particularly in the Global South.

This volume embodies the twin purpose of highlighting topics beyond the purview of themes commonly associated with workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment and of presenting insights into those occupations, professions  and sectors which either have received extensive research attention or hold a pronounced propensity to trigger workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment.

By analyzing the interactions between China's central government and its local governments and enterprises, this book constructs an analytical framework of government-enterprise collusion, analyzing the impact of collusion within the China model on Chinese society.

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.

This book offers a critical perspective on the issues related to women's empowerment, microfinance, and entrepreneurship in India.

This book studies the variety of organizational strategies selected to cope with critical uncertainties during crises.

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 book expands the foundations of general systems theory to enable progress beyond the rich heuristic practices available today.

Gathering contributions by leading social development scholars, this report offers a comprehensive description of the national development of cultural consumption in China.

This guide is designed for systems researchers - emerging and seasoned - searching for holistic approaches of inquiry into complexity, which the Systems Sciences provide.

En un rincón del dormitorio, en la mesa del comedor, incluso en la cocina; la inmediatez con la que tuvimos que trasladar la oficina a casa nos obligó a instalarnos donde podíamos.

Desde siempre los temas relacionados con el Gobierno y la Gestión de las Tecnologías y Sistemas de Información (TSI) han preocupado no sólo a los responsables de informática (CIOs) sino también a los directores generales (CEOs).

Esta obra, primera en su género que se publica en español sobre el tema de la Intervención Apreciativa, está dirigida a una variedad de públicos pero especialmente a directores y gerentes de empresas y organizaciones, directores de comunicación interna y de recursos humanos, profesores y estudiantes de comunicación empresarial u organizacional y de sociología de las organizaciones, y lectores en general.

Santo Tomas de Aquino es uno de los mas grandes filosofos de la historia universal.

Esta obra describe los avances y las falencias del desarrollo normativo, jurisprudencial y práctico del acoso laboral, el todo acompañado de la doctrina más ilustre que existe por el momento.

Consumo, prácticas y mercados emergentes indaga y reflexiona sobre las prácticas de consumo de los compradores latinoamericanos.

Despúes de la segunda guerra mundial circuló en América Latina el ideario de que los paises podían "desarrollarse" si seguían ciertos pasos entre los que se incluía un cambio de actitudes y de mentalidad en su población.

En el desarrollo de la actividad laboral que se lleva a cabo en los centros de trabajo (sector formal e informal) se presentan eventos de salud ocupacional (enfermedad laboral, accidente de trabajo, enfermedad general) que afectan a la población trabajadora.

El Sector Solidario en Colombia es un medio legítimo para contribuir al desarrollo económico del país, para la distribución equitativa del ingreso e igualmente es eficaz para combatir el desempleo generando puestos de trabajo, promueve la vinculación de los trabajadores, garantiza el apoyo del estado a estas organizaciones, y desarrolla obras de servicios comunitarios.

A pesar de los múltiples esfuerzos realizados al interior de las organizaciones, las estadísticas de accidentes graves, enfermedades laborales y pérdidas humanas siguen en aumento.

"Se parte de la aplicación de conceptos, técnicas y metodologías de creatividad e innovación en el proceso de creación y fortalecimiento de empresas en diversos sectores de la economía.

El marketing está conexo a un entorno cambiante que va ofreciendo permanentemente nuevos desafíos a las empresas influyendo en la competitividad.

En el emprendimiento se conjugan diversas variables que van desde lo personal (actitud emprendedora) hasta lo estructural (ecosistema emprendedor).

En la actualidad el entorno de las empresas es cada vez más complicado y volátil.

"Este trabajo explora las formas en que la desigualdad social se proyecta en las intimidades del servicio doméstico, y analiza las experiencias y trayectorias de vida de tres mujeres que trabajan como empleadas domésticas en Bogotá, en torno a las tensiones que implican las diferencias sociales entre patrones y empleadas.

Este texto explora las estrategias y características de dos unidades de trabajo vinculadas a uno de los fenómenos comerciales informales más importantes en Bogotá, conocido popularmente como "El madrugón", mercado en el que se venden artículos de la confección.

Los artículos que se reúnen en este libro examinan algunos de los elementos centrales del mapa conceptual y práctico donde están situados el derecho de interés público y la educación jurídica experiencial.

A partir de la sociología de Pierre Bourdieu, este libro analiza las particularidades del discurso jurídico en Colombia para delimitar sus características como campo social.

Hoy vivimos inmersos en una auténtica revolución digital y tecnológica que pone en jaque la idea de lo que significa trabajar.