Sociology: work and labour

This book introduces the research agenda of relational economics as a political economy for the governance of local and global economic transactions in modern societies.

This proceedings volume provides a multifaceted perspective on current challenges and opportunities that organizations face in their efforts to develop and grow in an ever more complex environment.

Record contracts have been the goal of aspiring musicians, but are they still important in the era of SoundCloud?

Sitting at the nexus of labor migration and health care work, this book examines the dynamic relationship between nurses' cross-border movement and efforts to regulate their migration.

This book offers strategic leaders with essential information for their most important role:  the change management function of positioning the organization for success into the future.

This book explores how best practice for acute stroke care was developed, translated and taken up in medical practice across various sites in the province of Ontario using institutional ethnographic research.

This book addresses timely concerns of rising African nationalism and the 2nd decolonisation in Africa.

This book is a novel exploration of the complex interplay between modern work structures, artificial intelligence (AI), and economic sustainability.

This edited book presents contemporary empirical research investigating the use of language in professional settings, drawing on the contributions of a set of internationally-renowned authors.

The book investigates the various aspects characterizing Megaprojects from numerous perspectives and by integrating different disciplines: engineering, economics, business organization, human resource management, law, etc.

This book offers a comparative exploration of the various disadvantages experienced by a category of atypical workers compared to standard employees, in the UK and Italy, and considers whether and how the differences can be attributed to contrasting institutional settings and political economies.

The key developments and advancements in organizational change over the last century are the result of the research, theories, and practices of seminal scholars in the field.

This book presents research on pathways into creative work.

This book provides the results of nine case studies of the course of social events in mineral exploration projects (mostly in Latin America).

This pivot provides a conceptual statement of an approach to understanding the interrelationships of work, leisure, and "e;chore"e; activities in daily life, and how they are managed in practice.

Change is a part of any organization, but in order to compete in the globally connected business environment, organizations also need to incorporate an entrepreneurial focus.

This book describes how international negotiations can be conducted in a structured, professional and effective manner.

This book explores the complexities of the recreational summer camp experience and its reliance on the expertise and emotion work of young people.

This book discusses the crucial place that assumptions hold in conceptualizing, implementing, and evaluating development programs.

An ethnographic study on Design Thinking, this book offers profound insights into the popular innovation method, centrally exploring how design thinking's practice relates to the vast promises surrounding it.

In this book John Connolly and Paddy Dolan illustrate and explain developments in Gaelic games, the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), and Irish society over the course of the last 150 years.

This book brings together research and theory about integrated care ecosystems with modern Socio-Technical Systems Design.

This book examines the possibilities, practices and consequences of digital disruption and networked economies in education policy.

"e;Matching the rigour of the analysis with an extraordinary pedagogical capacity, the authors unveil all the arcana of the 'openness' capitalism model and digital labour.

Nobody has to tell you that when things go bad, they go bad quickly and seemingly in bunches.

This handbook focuses on the contribution of management and employment practices to the health and wellbeing of workers.

This book offers readers a deeper understanding of the Cyberspace, of how institutions and industries are reinventing themselves, helping them excel in the transition to a fully digitally connected global economy.

This book synthesises several decades of research to extend beyond the limitations of a traditional functionalist model, offering a twenty-first century theory of professions and professionalism for a new generation engaging in theorising and research.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership (ICCLS).

This book discusses the socio-legal tax state and its relationship to development, inequality and the transnational.

Contributing to the debate on work performance evaluation in a time of technological transformation, this book explores the impact of digitisation on production and organisation models, as well as on the rights and interests of the stakeholders involved.

Innovation in money is just as important as innovation in any other sphere of activity; money is always a "e;work in progress.

The design process for organizational structures sometimes resembles a random walk, especially when it is embedded in an arena of competing personal interests and power games.

This book offers strategic leaders with essential information for their most important role:  the change management function of positioning the organization for success into the future.

In this book, author Claire Oueslati-Porter describes her field research  in Binzart, Tunisia's sprawling factory zone and in the surrounding city.

The recent surge of interest in digital ecosystems is not only transforming the business landscape, but also poses several human and organizational challenges.

Entrepreneurship is the result of various contextual factors in the community, which are shaped by social challenges and business needs.

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.

This volume offers a comprehensive evaluation of the concept of global order, with a particular emphasis on the role of regional organisations within global governance institutions such as the United Nations.

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 book examines the intellectual and institutional transformations of four British think tanks in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis.

This monograph offers a unique conceptual bridge between economic geography and Middle Eastern political economy.

This book presents the first published account in English of Sverre Lysgaard's theory of the 'worker collectivity' - a theory of an informal protective organisation among subordinate employees, which so far has been unknown outside Scandinavia.

Why do ordinary people who used to engage in domestic and leisure activities for free now try to make a profit from them?

This ethnography analyses labour relations within the export-oriented cut flower industry at Lake Naivasha in Kenya.

This monograph offers a unique conceptual bridge between economic geography and Middle Eastern political economy.

European countries have faced profound changes in family structures and family forms over the last few decades.

This proceedings volume examines the impact of ethics on business and entrepreneurship predominantly from the Romanian perspective.

Organizations are complex social systems, and dysfunctionalities can settle in very quickly and almost unnoticed, costing valuable time and resources.

This book attempts to advance critical knowledge and practices for fostering a variety of entrepreneurship at a city level.