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englischAlong with only a small handful of European industries, video game development typifies creative knowledge work under high-risk employment conditions. Data on the global video game market indicate that the industry is expanding worldwide and will only continue to gain in relevance for [...]
more informationenglischThis special edition of ‘WSI-Mitteilungen’, the academic journal of the Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI), focuses on the state of labour relations in Germany. The system of German industrial relations aroused lively interest following the corporatist crisis management of [...]
more informationenglischBy analysing the state of affairs in companies and administrative bodies, this book devises the aims and demands of automatising state information requirements. Based on concepts of enterprise application integration and the business rules approach, it defines a software analysis pattern [...]
more informationenglischNew electronic media and addictive behavior are at the center of socio-political debate due to the overall increase in media usage and the decreasing age of media users. The understanding of what constitutes »normal« media usage is controversial, for example between generations, and leads to [...]
more informationenglischNew electronic media and addictive behavior are at the center of socio-political debate due to the overall increase in media usage and the decreasing age of media users. The understanding of what constitutes »normal« media usage is controversial, for example between generations, and leads to [...]
more informationenglischThis study takes an unembellished look at how both young people from South-East Europe perceive their own educational aspirations and how external observers assess those aspirations too. On the one hand, the young people have their say: they tell of their everyday experiences at school, [...]
more informationWie werden Gender, Sexualität(en), Begehren und „race“ im Kontext internationaler Freiwilligendienste und besonders im deutschen Freiwilligendienst weltwärts normiert, verhandelt, begrenzt und eingeschlossen? Diesen bislang vernachlässigten Fragen geht Aljoscha* Sanja Bökle in diesem Band nach. [...]
more informationenglischThis study takes an unembellished look at how both young people from South-East Europe perceive their own educational aspirations and how external observers assess those aspirations too. On the one hand, the young people have their say: they tell of their everyday experiences at school, [...]
more informationenglischNever before has so much critical public attention been focused on credit ratings and credit rating agencies than in recent years. From a sociological perspective, this volume, now available in its second edition, endeavours to explain the crises which credit rating agencies contributed to [...]
more informationenglischThe concept of ‘Industry 4.0’ denotes a radical technological upheaval and structural changes in employment, qualification requirements, the blurring of the boundaries between one’s work and private life, personnel checks or the organisation of work. Therefore, the term relates to the core [...]
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