Sociology: work and labour

This book marks a critical contribution to the intercultural dialogue about immigration.

This book employs an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral lens to explore the collaborative dynamics that are currently disrupting, re-creating and transforming the production and consumption of tourism.

This book, part of the new wave of political sociology in EU studies, examines the dialectics of construction/deconstruction of the European civil service through a succession of empirically grounded case studies.

This book discusses the foundations of social and environmental accounting and highlights local differences in countries like Italy and Bulgaria.

This book relates Wikipedians' conceptions of their activities in terms of play, game, work and labour, to their views on Wikipedia and capitalism.

This book presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art portrait of entrepreneurship and small business management issues in Iran, and among the Iranian Diaspora.

This edited volume seeks to explore established as well as emergent forms of governance by combining social network analysis and governance research.

This book explores the gender dimension in technology commercialization through a collection of papers by internationally renowned scholars in the USA, Mexico and Europe.

In a fragile and conflict-ridden context such as the Gaza Strip, where the de facto Hamas government faces isolation and lacks international recognition, the provision of aid and development schemes challenges donors and CSOs delivering services to Palestinians.

This contributed volume presents a state-of-the-art compendium for startups and corporations, focusing on corporate ventures.

This book argues for a moral consideration of animal work relations.

This volume examines why the 2008 financial crisis with the subsequent Great Recession did not foster a major institutional transformation of the capitalist market economy.

This provocative volume takes an international, multidisciplinary approach to understanding globalization and assessing its economic, social, and environmental effects.

This collection addresses the path to a new prosperity after the Great Recession.

This book offers insights into facilitating sustainable careers through the study of a wide interdisciplinary range of policy investigations and assessment of ongoing practices in the field.

This interdisciplinary volume brings together leading scholars from several disciplines to uncover the key to young people's socialization within institutional settings, from school to the workplace.

This book explores various forms of highly skilled mobility in the European Union, assessing the potential for this movement to contribute to individual and societal development.

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The book explores various aspects of cognitive and motivational psychology as they impact entrepreneurial behavior.

This book is a cultural critique of labor and globalization that considers whether one can represent the other.

This book examines the long-term development of the Irish welfare state since the late nineteenth century.

The book analyzes the rise and evolution of the Temporary Work Agencies' (TWAs) field in Italy.

This book presents research and best practice examples from the Asia Pacific region to address the gap in global expertise on psychosocial factors at work.

Through a series of conversations with prominent theorists and leading political activists in different parts of the world, this book explores the causes of the setbacks of both the reformist and revolutionary strategies of the socialist Left.

This book presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted view of the state of corporate social responsibility (CSR) development in organizations in different industries around the world.

The purpose of the book is to devise an alternative conceptual vocabulary for studying innovation by stressing the role of social, contextual and cultural perspectives.

This book examines the nature and regulation of the informal economy by means of a collective case study in a highly regulated Western country.

This book compares the unique features of workplace mediation to other contexts of mediation, as well as the specific competences each situation requires of the mediator.

This book describes how the violent dimension of intergroup relations can be better understood if the interplay between psychological and social-developmental factors is taken into account.

This volume is focused on the emerging concept of Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs).

This book examines the problems that a "e;laissez faire"e; attitude from managers can create in the workplace, as well as the ensuing illness such problems may cause among employees.

This book explores the different ways in which human-factors engineering influences organizations' and enterprises' well-being and competitiveness.

This thought-provoking monograph analyzes long- medium- and short-term global cycles of prosperity, recession, and depression, plotting them against centuries of important world events.

This book reports on cutting-edge research related to social and occupational factors.

This book examines the concept and practice of mentoring, as well as the wider scope and diversity of the mentoring that people can experience in their own life time.

This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum screening, an area of immigration that is often overlooked and remains under-researched.

This book presents an institutional ethnography of budgeting processes of commissioning contracts within welfare, education, and health ministries as case studies.

This work proposes that Carl Menger's Subjective Theory of Value (STV), and its subsequent elaboration by Ludwig von Mises as Praxeology, provides a useful alternative to more common methods in the study of action and social phenomena, and more specifically, to leadership in complex social systems.

This volume explores the role of territory in the creation, maintenance and extension of a new type of frontier, the electronic frontier, from a social and economic point of view.

This book provides a broad overview of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-supported innovation both on an evidence-based level, a theoretical and a methodological level.

This book looks at the history of work and the meanings that are attached to it over time.

This book examines the impact of digital innovation on organizations.

This book highlights the multi-faceted nature of corporate social responsibility and the need for greater engagement across academia to help develop the mechanisms needed to encourage socially responsible approaches across the board.

The book outlines how cooperatives can be used as a tool for development and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts.

This far-sighted volume describes emerging trends and challenges in university-level social sciences education in an era marked by globalization, austerity, and inequity.

This book addresses the question of how to achieve social coordination in Socio-Cognitive Technical Systems (SCTS).

This book draws on a wide range ofpractical examples to describe how conflicts within organisations aretraditionally managed and the complementary conflict management methods that canbe employed.

This book deals with slums as a specific question and a central focus in urban planning.

This book examines the challenges andsocial, economic and corporate trends that future leaders will need to deal with,as well as the technical, social and communication skills they will require in order to succeed.

This book presents the most recent theoretical insights and practical intervention methods to (re)build trust between management and organized employees in organizations.