Globalization of trade and organizational change increase the impact of markets in peoples' lives. But in what ways do markets matter? This book is about how financial analysts, marketing people, corporate leaders and other actors in Western market economies perceive, model, and use markets. It provides an ethnographic window into the cultural processes of contemporary markets; how people employ the market to solve problems, create capital, gain political ends, challenge economic processes, and delineate moral values and responsibilities.
Globalization of trade and organizational change increase the impact of markets in peoples' lives. But in what ways do markets matter? This book is ab...
What does 'being flexible' mean in practice? What can the move towards flexible work contracts tell us about organizational change in general and about changing forms of workplace governance and control in particular? This book engages with transforming notions of career and community at a transnational temporary agency.
What does 'being flexible' mean in practice? What can the move towards flexible work contracts tell us about organizational change in general and abou...
Information and communication technologies have completely revolutionized our working practices. This book investigates both the impact of information technology on working practices and, more complexly, how I.T. is bound up in social, political, and economic issues. How are power relations established and maintained through transnational networking? Can the Internet be used as a political tool to manipulate the 'masses'? In what ways has digital technology changed the aesthetics and practices of the Euro-American dance world? What initiatives have been undertaken to ensure people aren't...
Information and communication technologies have completely revolutionized our working practices. This book investigates both the impact of informat...
Information and communication technologies have completely revolutionized our working practices. This book investigates both the impact of information technology on working practices and, more complexly, how I.T. is bound up in social, political, and economic issues. How are power relations established and maintained through transnational networking? Can the Internet be used as a political tool to manipulate the 'masses'? In what ways has digital technology changed the aesthetics and practices of the Euro-American dance world? What initiatives have been undertaken to ensure people aren't...
Information and communication technologies have completely revolutionized our working practices. This book investigates both the impact of informat...
Over the past two decades the use of flexible employment relations has increased in most developed countries. The growth of temporary agency work constitutes a significant component of this development. Organizations are now facing the challenges of managing a 'blended workforce', i.e. a workforce consisting of both direct hires and contractors. At a time when Europe, as well as the rest of the world, is facing enhanced global competition and a severe labor market crisis, an understanding of temporary employment practices becomes all the more acute. With the evolution of the use of agency...
Over the past two decades the use of flexible employment relations has increased in most developed countries. The growth of temporary agency work cons...
"Organisational Anthropology," newly published in paperback, is a pioneering analysis of doing ethnographic fieldwork in different types of complex organisations. The book focuses on the process of initiating contact, establishing rapport and gaining the trust of the organisation's members. The contributors work from the premise that doing fieldwork in an organisation shares essential characteristics with fieldwork in more classical anthropological environments, but that it also poses some particular challenges to the ethnographer. These include the ideological or financial interests...
"Organisational Anthropology," newly published in paperback, is a pioneering analysis of doing ethnographic fieldwork in different types of complex...
Globalization of trade and organizational change increase the impact of markets in peoples' lives. This book is about how financial analysts, marketing people, corporate leaders and other actors in Western market economies perceive, model, and use markets.
Globalization of trade and organizational change increase the impact of markets in peoples' lives. This book is about how financial analysts, marketin...
This book explores the powerful global discourse of employability in labour markets and how it is expressed in local worklife practice. This is key to understanding contemporary changes in the workings of labour markets and highlights changes in ideas regarding responsibility and learning.
This book explores the powerful global discourse of employability in labour markets and how it is expressed in local worklife practice. This is key to...
