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Bei seiner Einführung 2008 wurde das weltwärts-Programm als „Einbahnstraße“ kritisiert. Im Jahr 2013 startete schließlich die Süd-Nord-Komponente, die zu einem gleichberechtigten Austausch zwischen den Partnern im Globalen Norden und Süden beitragen soll. Doch lässt sich das Konzept des [...]

Welchen Vorteil gewinnen Unternehmen, wenn sie die ‚Buntheit‘ des eigenen Personals als Erfolgsfaktor verstehen? Wenn sie, vor dem Hintergrund der Debatte um Diversifizierung, den Umgang ihrer Mitarbeiter und Mitarbeiterinnen sowie der Führungskräfte besonders mit ethnischer Vielfalt aktiv [...]

englischThis book conducts a multidimensional study of the phenomenon of innovation transfer using the example of wikis based on Web 2.0 within a large and complex chemical pharmaceutical company. In this context, innovation transfer is understood to be a social and organisational process used for [...]

Das Problem wird die Menschheit eine unvorstellbar lange Zeit beschäftigen. Was nur wenige Generationen an hochradioaktiven Abfällen produziert haben, müssen tausende Generationen nach uns von der Umwelt möglichst sicher abschotten. Weltweit ist noch kein einziges „Endlager“ in Betrieb. Das große [...]

englischIn the traditional philosophy of technology, the two main modus operandi found in conventional technology are categorised and described under the terms ‘control’ and ‘regulation’ as a way of differentiating between them. This occurs for two reasons: on the one hand, in order to specify the [...]

englischWork, employment and their regulation have been facing profound challenges in the digital economy. This book analyzes the resulting dynamics of autonomy and control on crowdworking platforms in an interdisciplinary perspective, which brings together law, sociology and organisation studies. [...]

englischFor about a quarter of a century, social sciences have been a keen observer of the transformations of labor relations within organizations, which can readily subsumed under the term of ‘dissolution of boundaries’. This ongoing decentralization of the organization, spanning from outsourcing [...]

englischThe concern among some during the 1932/1933 elections that ‘Hitler means war’ was confirmed when military spending increased considerably under the National Socialist government. Systematic rearmament helped reduce unemployment, but except for the establishment of the Kraftdurch Freude [...]

englischAn increasing number of people do shift work, including night shifts. These shifts structure their daily and private lives and, in turn, affect their social lives. Companies, on the other hand, are faced with the questions of how they can maintain their shift workers’ ability to work in the [...]

englischNever 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 [...]

englischThe 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 [...]

englischThis 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, [...]

englischNew 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 [...]

englischBy 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 [...]

englischThis 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 [...]

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 [...]

englischThe term ‘education’ refers to the examination of subjects that are relevant to education by an individual and their environment, to the establishment of relationships and limits that occurs during that examination process and, in this respect in particular, to the question of ‘educational [...]

englischFor many years, German municipal offices were regarded as the model of success in terms of modernising local administrative services in order to cater more to ordinary citizens. However, as a result of long waiting times and complaints from staff about deteriorating working conditions, [...]

englischWhere is our consumer society headed? How have the attitudes and behaviour of consumers changed? Are we witnessing a shift from mass industrial consumption towards individual digital consumption? This book documents the third annual conference of the Netzwerk Verbraucherforschung (Consumer [...]

englischCombining theoretical debates in sociocultural anthropology and public administration scholarship, this study advances a novel heuristic framework for understanding state-building processes in fragmented, post-conflict societies and proposes a new, ethnographically informed methodology.

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englischThe second, revised edition of this book, which has now been expanded to include an afterword, reveals that employees’ expectations of fairness and rationality when it comes to gainful employment are diverse and deeply rooted in their experiences with work and companies. Basing their [...]

englischIn the debate on the digitisation of work, a widespread loss of jobs, especially among low-skilled workers, is expected. Although similar developments were feared in previous automation waves, they have only partially occurred. The current diffusion of digital technologies in production and [...]

englischEvidence has become a key resource within our knowledge society. At the same time, during the course of the 20th century, negotiations on the validity of knowledge became a political and controversial phenomenon which has since shaped the multiple fields of science, technology, politics, [...]

englischIn recent years, the influence of European law on national social policy has increased substantially. In this respect, the impact of the European competition and procurement law on healthcare and social policy in Germany is particularly significant, affecting the social economy in a specific [...]

englischOriginally, education was in the hands of churches for centuries but later on became a fundamental feature of the modern state. Therefore, this study interprets the institutionalisation of national school systems as a process of secularisation and reconstructs six typical secularisation [...]

englischRecently, cultural and media theorists have intensively studied the effects of the digital revolution on various spheres of contemporary life. Yet, what is the result of scholars applying this perspective to the inner lives of universities themselves? This anthology, edited by Marianne Egger [...]

englischPoor educational performance is caused by a number of factors. In addition to specific student traits and educational inequality caused by students’ background and migration history, educational systems and schools can also be contributing factors. Educational policy plays a central role in [...]