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Revitalizing collegiality
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Revealing the globalization, homogenization and variation that have come to characterize the collegiate system, this volume critically considers the future of the higher education system, and how we can shape it m...
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Routine dynamics
Exploring the power of routines in navigating our increasingly complex world, this volume argues that routines are as much engines of change as they are of stability, and that organizations are in a position to benefit from both.
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Sdg12 - sustainable consumption and production
This book takes a wide-ranging and non-dogmatic view of SDG12, tackling various approaches as to how production and consumption can provide for human well-being while minimizing destructive effects on the biophysical environment.
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Serving the wealthy
The invisible relationship between the ultra-rich and their domestic workersBehind the facades of luxurious Parisian buildings, the immense gates of châteaux, and the bay windows of vast villas on the Côte d'Azur, live the invisible workers who serve the ultra-wealthy of France. Housekeepers, but...
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Sociological thinking in contemporary organizational scholarship
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Breathing fresh life into a once lively dialogue, this is a valuable resource for navigating of the varied sociological scholarship we witness amongst today’s organization scholars.
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Spaces for creativity and innovation within and across organizational boundaries
This volume contains an Open Access chapter. Delving into how creativity and innovation with new knowledge, products or processes takes place, while crossing organizational boundaries into "in-between spaces", chapters showcase new organizational theoretical approaches that emerge from social in...
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Symbolic management
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Symbolic Management brings together eminent scholars from strategy, management, organizational sociology, and business economics to develop interdisciplinary and cross-contextual insights on symbolic management.
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Tattooing and the gender turn
Drawing on interviews with women and queer tattoo artists from across the US, UK and Australia, this book explores their experiences in what has historically been a male-dominated industry to reveal how tattooing has undergone a ‘gender turn’ and a subsequent shift in gender relations.
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The class ceiling
Politicians continually tell us that anyone can get ahead. But is that really true? This important, best-selling book takes readers behind the closed doors of elite employers to reveal how class affects who gets to the top. Friedman and Laurison show that a powerful 'class pay gap’ exists in Brit...
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The corporation
The Corporation engages with current issues of the corporation as an institutionalized organizational form, approaching the concept from the backgrounds of organization theory, law, and economics, combining different theoretical views and empirical approaches.
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The corporation, corporate governance and the sustainable transition
The Corporation, Corporate Governance and the Sustainable Transition is a compelling resource for understanding the pitfalls and potential of corporate power.
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The digital shift in organizations
As digital technology is changing every part of our lives, The Digital Shift in Organizations explores the big effects of this technological change on businesses, employees, consumers, and society as a whole. Fragnière and Dubosson look at the good and bad points of the digital age and give usefu...
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The ethnically diverse workplace
The Ethnically Diverse Workplace: Experience of Immigrant Indian Professionals in Australia documents the perceptions and experiences of exclusion after inclusion by Indian immigrants, working to encourage and promote greater understanding so that immigrant Indian professionals maybe better under...
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The generation, recognition and legitimation of novelty
Setting an agenda for a more holistic theory on the emergence, evaluation, and legitimation of novelty, this volume showcases how novelty emergence and novelty recognition correspond to two distinct phases of the journey of novelty, from the moment it is generated to the moment it takes root and ...
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The gilded cage
How China’s economic development combines a veneer of unprecedented progress with the increasingly despotic rule of surveillance over all aspects of lifeSince the mid-2000s, the Chinese state has increasingly shifted away from labor-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing to a process of socioec...
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The growth paths of state-society relations
Combining case studies with empirical and theoretical game analysis, Mohamed Ismail Sabry presents four State-Business-Labor Relations (SBLR) modes for considering the power relationships at play in the interactions between government, business, and society.
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The intersections of a working-class academic identity
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Acknowledging the institutional challenges that hinder the work and careers of working-class academics, Teresa Crew calls for a more inclusive and equitable higher education...
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The last human job
A timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation"A compelling case for valuing care as a societal good and as skilled labor."—The NationWith the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automat...
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The last human job
A timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation"A compelling case for valuing care as a societal good and as skilled labor."—The NationWith the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automat...
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The power of organizations
How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has evolvedOrganizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations, social-movement organizations, religious congregations, scientific bodies, sports teams, and more. Immensely powerful, th...
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The reformation of welfare
Western culture has ‘faith’ in the labour market as a test of the worth of each individual. For those who are out of work, welfare is now less of a support than a means of purification and redemption. Continuously reformed by the left and right in politics, the contemporary welfare state attempts...
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The role of linguistic profiling within career development
The Role of Linguistic Profiling within Career Development applies the world of linguistic profiling to the context of career development, covering an array of multidisciplinary perspectives to examine, develop, and implement linguistic profiling initiatives to demonstrate in real time to employe...
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The social life of busyness
The Social Life of Busyness engages with the assumption that busyness is taking over everyday life by exploring busyness at work, at home and during leisure time. In a world where the notion of being busy is commonly experienced, and even expected, how should we understand the reasons for busyness?
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The tolls of uncertainty
An indispensable investigation into the American unemployment system and the ways gender and class affect the lives of those looking for workThrough the intimate stories of those seeking work, The Tolls of Uncertainty offers a startling look at the nation’s unemployment system—who it helps, who i...
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The ultimate guide to teacher well-being
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Have you ever wanted to prioritize teacher well-being in your district, school, or own professional life, but weren’t sure where to begin? Dreer-Göthe provides a roadmap grounded in solid research, enriched with r...
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The urban brain
Bridging the social and life sciences to unlock the mystery of how cities shape mental health and illnessMost of the world’s people now live in cities and millions have moved from the countryside to the rapidly growing megacities of the global south. How does the urban experience shape the mental...
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The value of industrial relations
Published in collaboration with BUIRA, this book provides a critical review of the field of industrial relations (IR) and evaluates its future in the rapidly evolving world of work. Written by key names in IR, the book captures the significant transformations that have taken place within the fie...
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Trading at the speed of light
A remarkable look at how the growth, technology, and politics of high-frequency trading have altered global financial marketsIn today’s financial markets, trading floors on which brokers buy and sell shares face-to-face have increasingly been replaced by lightning-fast electronic systems that use...
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Transnational migration and the new subjects of work
In an increasingly globalized world, mobility is a new defining feature of our lives, livelihoods and work experiences. This book is a first in utilising transnational migration studies as a new theoretical framework in management and organization studies. Ozkazanc-Pan presents a much-needed new ...
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Understanding the vehicles of capitalist hegemony in latin america
In recent decades, Latin America has grappled with crises, conflicts, and inherent contradictions deeply rooted in the capitalist fabric of social relations. In his groundbreaking research, author Daniel Felipe López Pérez delves into the historical foundations of enduring capitalist hegemonies a...
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University collegiality and the erosion of faculty authority
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Revealing the globalization, homogenization and variation that have come to characterize the collegiate system, this volume considers the future of the higher education system, and how we can consciously shape it ...
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Western capitalism in transition
Since its birth, industrial capitalism has been punctuated by the need to find new ways to develop institutions that make the capitalist production process socially sustainable. These transitions are examined in the contemporary climate by a collection of world renowned thinkers.
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What’s on her mind
The mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of itMothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on family labor as men. But what about the gendered differences in the ways women and men think? What’s on Her Mind provides an il...
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Work and alienation in the platform economy
Once hidden behind the veils of entrepreneurship, it is now clear that platforms are reshaping the world of work, and Amazon has been a forerunner in setting the trend. This book examines two key and contrasting Amazon platforms that differ in how they organize workers: its e-commerce platform an...
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Work pray code
How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivitySilicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditiona...
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Workaway
This agenda-setting book shows how freedom of movement has made the integration of Europe’s labour markets a contentious issue, for example in the aftermath of the eurocrisis, where workers had to make great sacrifices to enable the currency area to function. It argues that the process of market ...
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Working women in the sandwich generation
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Working Women in the Sandwich Generation helps present a clearer view of how supervisors and policy makers can support Sandwich Generation women who care for both children and the elderly, with lessons for both no...
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Worlds of rankings
This volume contains an Open Access Chapter. This volume explores the distinct allure of rankings in diverse empirical settings such as healthcare, the IT sector, the arts, professional sports, anti-slavery advocacy, the pharma industry, and educational governance.
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Youth development in south africa
Youth Development in South Africa: Harnessing the Demographic Dividend is a compelling snapshot of thirty years of South Africa’s democratic dispensation and what it has meant for the youth of the country, as well as how its demographic dividend can be harnessed for a fairer society in the future.
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