Sociology: work and labour

Written by an international team of respected scholars, Human Resource Management: A Critical Approach, 3rd edition, adopts a critical perspective to examine the core management function of human resource management (HRM) in all its complexity - including its darker sides.

Based on the latest scientific discoveries, this "e;unauthorized biography"e; of the Humans recounts the story of our distant ancestors during the past 6 million years, since the line of our extended family separated from that leading to modern chimpanzees.

Over the last decade workforce diversity has attracted much scientific attention.

This book presents a collection of original research papers focusing on emerging issues regarding the role of information and communication technologies in organizations, inter-organizational systems, and society.

The topic of reputational crisis in the banking sector has receivedincreasing attention from academics and practitioners.

This book presents a systematic overview of cutting-edge research in the field of parametric modeling of personal income and wealth distribution, which allows one to represent how income/wealth is distributed within a given population.

Thisvolume discusses the challenge of dealing with complexity in entrepreneurship,innovation and technology research.

This book tells the story of how a group of far-sighted, academic researchers came to the aid of an overwhelmed local government.

This book introduces and reviews recent advances inthe field in a comprehensive and non-technical way by focusing on the potentialof emerging citizen-science and social-computation frameworks, coupled with thelatest theoretical and modeling tools developed by physicists, mathematicians,computer and social scientists to analyse, interpret and visualize complex datasets.

This book reveals the story of how the first large learning organization was formed.

This book discusses boundaries for organizational humour as well as the jokers and jesters that enliven modern workplaces.

This book offers fresh insights into how companies can engage with, and make use of, the modern metropolis.

This volume examines the role of Chinese businesses and industries in Asian production networks.

This book provides a fundamental and practical introduction to Enterprise Engineering, demonstrating how to employ this approach to map the essence of an organization at the core level of internal cooperation.

This book studies social phenomena in a new way, by making judicious use of computer technology.

This book presents a collection of original research papers focusing on the enabling aspects of Information and Communication Technologies.

This book explores a range of critical issues and emerging topics relevant to the linkages between information technologies and organizational systems.

This book links knowledge management literature and information systems research to explore the process of knowledge preservation within a community of practice.

This book analyzes the individual and contextual determinants of protest politics in Western Europe.

This book introduces a new concept on organizational culture, called 'Neuro-Organizational Culture', or 'Neuroculture'; a concept that is based on the most recent neuroscientific knowledge.

This book presents initiatives that were launched or are currently being pursued in the name of CSR, and showcases how different dimensions of CSR, sustainability, ethics and governance can help to solve global challenges.

This work represents the third entry of the series of works on "e;Chaos, Complexity and Leadership"e;.

Presenting an innovative concept and approach for organization management, this book serves to document an organization's journey towards the ultimate goal of learning organization.

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The aim of this book is to demonstrate how Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) can be used to enhance the study of social agency, organizational behavior and organizational management.

This book provides an overview of the GLOWA-Danube research project from 2001 to 2011, a transdisciplinary initiative which explores the future of water resources in the Upper Danube Basin.

This book explores the diversity of Social Impact Assessment (SIA) models and outlines a self-assessment on models to support social entrepreneurs.

This book focuses on the effect of leadership on organizational outcomes and summarizes the current research findings in the field.

This book introduces readers to the concepts of sustainability and philosophy of slowness for the management of public entities such as cities or regions.

This collection of essays comprises some of Rudolf Richter's important contributions to research on New Institutional Economics (NIE).

This book is a longitudinal story of seven Italian-Australian family business dynasties, spanning over a hundred years across three generations, and starting with the founding generation who migrated to Australia in the first half of the 20th century.

This book presents the theory of integrating implification and it provides a profound evidence based study of Buurtzorg Nederland.

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.

With many OECD countries experiencing a decline in their populations, this book offers a theoretical model of coping with demographic change and examines different strategies that societies have used to come to terms with demographic change.

This book illustrates the impact that a focus on environmental and social issues has on both de-risking assets and fostering innovation.

These proceedings from the 2013 symposium on "e;Chaos, complexity and leadership"e; reflect current research results from all branches of Chaos, Complex Systems and their applications in Management.

This book presents a collection of research papers focusing on issues emerging from the interaction of information technologies and organizational systems.

Thisbook provides the first comprehensive analyses of the challenges all Europeanwelfare systems have been facing since 2007, combining in-depth country-basedstudies and comparative chapters.

Technological innovation is fundamental to firm performance and economic prosperity.

This book explores the diversity of topics, views and perspectives focused on the relationship between information systems, organizations and managerial control.

Change management and organizational development is unthinkable without people.

This book offers a multidisciplinary strategy for finding new and more effective human-computer interaction approaches, in particular from a socio-technical perspective, that facilitate the exploration and exploitation of benefits that information technologies (IT) offer organizations.

This collection of case studies in public management bridges the gap between mainstream CSR - confined to the for-profit corporations -and the vast bodies of workers and organizations that make up government and its public administration.

A persistent problem when finding communities in large complex networks is the so-called resolution limit.

This book is an authentic historical document, supported by extensive analytical information, in which former Fiat top manager Giorgio Garuzzo passionately recounts his experience within Fiat between 1976 and 1996.

This book presents an excellent analysis of how a family business is different from other forms of organization and especially its peculiarities in relation to entrepreneurship.

Organisations face many challenges, which induce them to perform better, and thus to establish mature (or excellent) business processes.

Organizations consider trust as a pillar for successful operations in an increasingly global competitive environment.

In the face of limited progress toward meeting Millennium Development Goals or addressing climate change and resource degradation, increasing attention turns to harnessing the entrepreneurial, innovative, managerial and financial capacities of business for improved social and environmental outcomes.

How is modern civil society created?