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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
The politics of land are vital. They stretch from fights over fracking, gentrification, and taxation to land grabs, dispossession, and border conflicts. And they raise crucial questions about power, authority, violence, populism, and neoliberalism. This volume of Research in Political Sociology seeks...
Transitions through the Labor Market
Work, Occupation, Earnings and Retirement
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Understanding the factors that affect how one transitions from school to the labor market and finally to retirement is important both to the individual and to the policy maker. This volume contains seven original and innovative articles that analyze aspects of such labor market transitions. Questions...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2019
This volume presents the most recent studies of work and labor in the digital age as it unfolds in both Europe and the United States.
One of the critical questions facing modernity concerns the reconfiguration of paid employment, which has been subject to wholesale changes that have widespread...
Multinational Corporations and Organization Theory
Post Millennium Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
The study of multinational companies (MNCs) has been split for many decades into two camps which hardly ‘talked’ to each other: a) predominantly economic and functionalist oriented International Business Researchers, and b) largely social constructivist and critical management oriented Organization...
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Release Date: July 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
A country's economic productivity is directly related to the health of its workforce. Thus, how a nation allocates resources to the physical health of its population is of vital importance in establishing the economic well-being of its citizens.
This volume contains nine original and innovative...
From Categories to Categorization
Studies in Sociology, Organizations and Strategy at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Categorization pervades economic life; products, services, firms and industries are continuously being classified by rivals, clients, experts and critics. A stream of research highlighting the importance of market and product categories for organizations and individuals has grown in importance during...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Higher education research is a developing field internationally, which is attracting more and more researchers from a great variety of disciplinary backgrounds within and beyond higher education institutions. As such, it is an arena within which a wide range of theories, methods and methodologies...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This book, set within a social gerontology and transport behaviour studies paradigm, examines current debates and issues around transport for older people and its relationship to health and wellbeing for individuals and society as a whole.
This timely title explores transport and travel needs...
Exploring the Culture of Open Innovation
Towards an Altruistic Model of Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Acclaimed entrepreneurship and innovation scholar Piero Formica, along with a strong and diverse cast of international contributors, explore the world of Open Innovation in this volume. Tackling new developments in the field, the authors examine altruism and the role of openness to unorthodox and...
by Tanya Bondarouk, Anna Bos-Nehles, Maarten Renkema
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
This volume explores and presents challenges that "traditional" organisations experience once they take off towards self-managing organisations (or Teal Organisations). The concept of Teal Organisations is not surprising nowadays, but strangely enough it remains a dream concept: the majority...
Engaging Dissonance
Developing Mindful Global Citizenship in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
This volume explores the internationalization of higher education in the context of global citizenry and intercultural competencies. It focuses on presenting dissonance as a means to facilitating students’ openness to complexity and development of intercultural skills or their experiences in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
The relationship between the Austrian tradition and Bloomington institutionalism has been part of a larger intellectual evolution of a family of schools of thought that coevolved in multiple streams over the last 100 years or so. The Bloomington scholars, once they delineated the broader parameters...
Strategic Business Models
Idealism and Realism in Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Strategy needs to be partly idealistic and partly realistic. On the one hand, it exists to help managers and executives envision the most beneficial future possible-one that is optimally competitive and profitable. But such visualizing needs to go hand-in-hand with concrete planning. In order to formulate...
The Perspective of Historical Sociology
The Individual as Homo-Sociologicus Through Society and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the range of themes which make up the field of Historical Sociology. Jiří Šubrt systematically discusses the main problems of societal development, long term process and changes in the key areas of social life. These include not only temporalized sociology,...