[EN]Edition Sigma

englischHow and why do the formal structures of ministerial departments change? This study presents the findings of the first comprehensive formal analysis of the organisational structure of Germany’s federal bureaucracy between 1980 and 2015. It describes its internal structural dynamics over time, [...]

englischThis study examines the impact of the financial crisis on public sector labour relations in four countries, as a result of which marked differences become apparent. After the crisis, the public sectors in the UK and Spain were subject to pronounced austerity measures, which had a massive [...]

englisch‘Augmented Ergonomics’ is a synthesis of social sciences and engineering approaches. It enriches the field of human factors and ergonomics in both theory and practice. Human work is characterised by continuous changes in organisation and technology. The increasing pace of change in the [...]

englischGermans evaluate participation in decision-making processes in general as well as employee participation very positively. However, they know little about workplace and company level co-determination. Most attitude surveys presume that respondents know about the subject of the survey and that [...]

englischBased on extensive public administration and administrative law analyses, this book deals with the administration of migration and integration at federal, state and municipal level. It examines the individual levels of the federal state in terms of the essential administrative tasks relating [...]

englischTransnational industrial relations are becoming increasingly significant due to the internationalisation of companies. Corporate management, as a key player in industrial relations, is therefore being faced with new cross-border challenges. This book fills a gap in research and provides an [...]

englischThis is a meticulous sociopolitical analysis of the problems of social inequality and poverty in Latin America (especially in the most advanced countries) by a former senior research associate of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik). [...]

englischJudging from both political and academic discussions and general practices among the employed, we can conceive the organisation of working times as being scattered into heterogeneous ‘landscapes’ of working hours. Empirical evidence on employment in bigger enterprises is much more [...]

englischIn this study, the author demonstrates that a variety of uncertainties pervade markets, including those found in market economies, such as detrimental price competition, and uncertainty in market economy cooperation, such as that relating to the quality of products the market trades in. [...]

englischParty democracy is in a good state of health, at least that is what research into political parties would have us believe. According to such research, there is neither discontent nor crisis among political parties. However, using new studies and statistics, this book proves that these [...]

englischUrban streets function as a mass medium that enables people, groups and (their) issues to become visible in society even in the digital present. This study traces the history of this media dimension of traffic, interaction and communication on the streets by looking at the migrant and media [...]

englischThis book, now in its second edition, centres on the question of how the working population’s opportunities for participation develop under the conditions of flexible work, project work or remote work. Its authors adopt a comparative perspective in their approach to addressing this question, [...]

englischThe UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has existed for over ten years. What is the state of play with regard to disabled individuals’ human right to work as stipulated by the CRPD? How open, inclusive and accessible are the job market and working environments for [...]

englischThe UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has existed for over ten years. What is the state of play with regard to disabled individuals’ human right to work as stipulated by the CRPD? How open, inclusive and accessible are the job market and working environments for [...]

englischHow can an age of transnationalism and internationalism simultaneously be an age of nationalism and nation states? Using the historical sociology of migration, this book attempts to find a way of understanding this question. One answer can be found in institutional structures and [...]

englischThis study focuses on corporate negotiation of business travel. Although business travel goes beyond the regulations of employed work, which indicates corporate agreement processes, these necessary agreement procedures have undergone little empirical investigation until now. This qualitative [...]

englischOf late, media coverage of anxiety and insecurity proliferating among the German population has been considerable. However, the social sciences have only recently explored these tendencies more profoundly, e.g. with respect to fears about social decline among the middle classes or [...]

englischThis dissertation presents a cross-context analysis of the conditions for success and the organisational structures of higher education from the perspective of the provider. At its core are the notions of master’s programmes as the interface between vocational and academic education and [...]

englischWhat are the effects of territorial mergers in local government? What is the impact of such reforms on administrative capacity? Do they increase efficiency and result in economies of scale and scope? Do they worsen local democracy, participation and legitimacy? These questions are crucial [...]

englischWith contributions by

Jan Müller, Michael Nerurkar, Philipp Richter, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, Andreas Kaminski, Hans Poser, Jörg Zimmer, Alfred Nordmann, Jens Kertscher, Petra Gehring, Gerhard Gamm, Nicole C. Karafyllis, Armin Grunwald, Klaus Wiegerling, Peter Fischer, Andreas Luckner, [...]

englischIf companies want to attract prospective managers, they need to consider how young academics’ priorities in life have changed. What do the young elite focus on when they embark on a career after finishing their training or education? Do they want to combine advancing their careers with [...]

englischThe digital revolution connects people, organisations, machines or simple objects from daily life and affects all areas of life to a varying degree. Artificial intelligence and autonomous technological systems have a direct impact on an individual’s autonomy, which raises new questions in [...]

englischThe so-called fourth industrial revolution, which has been dubbed “Industry 4.0”, is predicted to effect almost spectacular changes in industrial production caused by the comprehensive digitalisation and computerisation of manufacturing. On the one hand, the debate on whether this will [...]

englischHow can I get ahead in politics? What does political leadership mean? How do I avoid mistakes? How do I deal with my political opponents? There are only tentative references to these questions in many political science books, but political science should not avoid them. This ‘Guide to [...]

englischThe term ‘public participation online’ includes services which offer citizens the chance to exert an influence on political decisions via the Internet and is intended to strengthen relations between citizens and the political system. This volume evaluates the recent experiences of the German [...]

Der schillernde Begriff der Grand Challenges ist in aller Munde und Grund für eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit diesem forschungsleitenden Konzept. Die Buchbeiträge widmen sich dem Thema sowohl in theoretischer Hinsicht, als auch mit Blick auf die Domänen Gesundheit, Digitalisierung und Umwelt.

englischWork and play are often regarded as opposites: play as people’s freedom and ability to spend their time as they choose, and work as being subordinate to it as a means to an end. As play can be repeated without any serious repercussions, this has earned it the reputation of lacking [...]

englischThis book covers the essence of sports training, new concepts and technologies, the prerequisites and scope of an individualised approach to training as well as how to integrate the main methodological paradigms of sports training systems using the theory of adaptation. Modernisation and [...]

englischSince 2001 the Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) and the German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD) have provided support for German universities in order for them to establish transnational education abroad. Recently, bilateral universities came into being, among them the [...]

englischThis study presents a systematic comparison between the inter-administrative structures and processes in ten international multilevel systems. Thus, the study provides insights into the relationships between administrators at different levels of governance. For this purpose, a top-down [...]

englischThis book provides information on fundamental developments in crises and uncertainties in modern societies, and highlights the importance of those involved in the field of security, such as the police, civil society groups, and those who offer assistance in disaster situations and in [...]

englischHungary and Poland have been heavily criticised for some time now because they pursue an ‘illiberal’ form of democracy and, in doing so, violate the principles at the heart of the EU. The combination of the right-wing populism prevalent in these countries and their tendency towards illiberal [...]

englischA lack of drugs with which to combat poverty-related diseases is a global health problem. This book presents various initiatives by public, non-profit or private actors which aim at strengthening product development regarding such diseases and discusses the political options for promoting [...]

englischThis book covers one of the first studies on the interdependency of biographical experiences and processes and teaching the subject of Judaism. Religious education gives teachers a platform to incorporate interpretative patterns based on the current syllabus, without having the option to [...]

englischExperimental practices are present in virtually all fields of society and appear in a broad variety of forms. This volume examines the assumption that experimentation provides – according to Foucault – a societal mechanism which penetrates the contemporary shaping of our knowledge-based [...]

englischIn this study, evidence maps are tested on the health effects of engineered nanoparticles for the first time. The study demonstrates that this method is highly suitable for assessing and graphically illustrating uncertain nanotoxicological evidence in relation to scientific standards and can [...]

englischBased on the examination of two vocational training schemes in the field of industry-related services, this study shows that vocationalism as an institutional category is still relevant under circumstances of network-based value creation. Nevertheless, there is no network-specific regulation [...]

englischThere is now ample evidence of a rise in ‘non-standard work arrangements’ in many industrialised economies, yet only rarely does theoretical and empirical work probe the question of why the risk of temporary employment varies. Focusing on temporary employment, the author extends the scope of [...]

englischThe new form of welfare state, which encourages people to actively seek work, and its organisations, which are run according to economic criteria, are the results of far-reaching reforms. What effect have those reforms had on the day-to-day running of advisory and employment organisations? [...]

englischThis book investigates the mechanisms employed in authoritarian countries to generate consent at the workplace level, using the examples of automobile plants in China and Russia.

It focuses on three main mechanisms used to create consent: socialisation mechanisms responsible for the [...]

englischThe articles collected in this special issue of the SEER Journal deal with all the major channels of migration corresponding to different waves, from refugees and asylum seekers fleeing war, including civil war, and ethnic conflicts on the peripheries of the former Soviet Union, to the [...]

englischOver recent decades, local governments in Europe have come increasingly under pressure facing a multitude of old and new challenges. Consequently, a wave of political and administrative reforms aimed at coping with these pressures has changed local governance in many nations. Local [...]

englischClassical economics has failed to adequately describe how markets function because equilibrium curves have never truly reflected the complex reality of economic activity. ”Competition and Society” therefore describes the process of competition as a sequence of ever-changing competitive [...]

englischCurrently, day-care for young children is undergoing a fundamental reform resulting from the implementation of a new educational mandate and the expansion of day-care coverage in Germany. This book focuses on the experience of as well as the implementations of this reform by staff in [...]

englischIn the German-speaking world, Heinrich Reinermann is one of the most influential scholars in the domains of public information systems and public management. His scientific work in these fields, which he covered in an uncompromisingly practical spirit for almost half a century, testifies to [...]

englischIgnorance is a topical issue. People are widely discussing the existence of ignorant civilisations in the periods of second or reflexive modernity, agnotology as a new avenue of research, and wicked problems and their clumsy solutions. At the point where ignorance becomes inextricably lodged [...]

englischThere is no doubt that time – time scarcity, time spent together, leisure time – forms an increasingly important part of everyday life, that of both families and individuals. Therefore, it is important to know how the temporal conditions of everyday life can be reshaped with a view to [...]

englischHow is it possible that there is still no final storage facility in the entire world for highly radioactive waste from nuclear power stations? How is it possible that electricity has been generated by industrial-scale nuclear installations for decades without the issue of the disposal of [...]

englischThis company case study analyses the implementation of one of the largest wage policy projects in recent years in unusual empirical depth and with great sensitivity. With the existing social order being called into question, conflict has arisen between companies, employees and their [...]

englischThe German broadcast system has grown historically – in ist beginning after World War II as a service produced by public-law and its institutions following the British Boradcasting Company as a blueprint. In the late 1980s, the system was opened by media politics for private broadcast [...]