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Skills, Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Platform Era:
Analyzing the New Reality of Professions and Entrepreneurship
brings together two important areas: the separate research topics
of professions, platforms, and entrepreneurship, and the various
dimensions of what platformization means to work and to professions
in contemporary societies. One of the most noteworthy global
aspects in current societies is the intensifying presence of
technology, to the extent that we can talk about the omnipotence of
technologies, a kind of technological imperative that prevails in
societies. This new type of technological imperative emerges in the
working lives of practicing professionals from medical doctors to
lawyers and from teachers to preachers. Platforms have become a
powerful actor as enablers and reorganizers of work, creating new
types of inequalities but also expanding the market relations for
new professions such as social influencers. How do platforms govern
and shape work and lead to new questions concerning organizing of
work and professions? These are few of the key questions Poutanen
and Kovalainen explore in this profound and insightful book.
"Uberization," "digitalization," "platform economy," "gig economy,"
and "sharing economy" are some of the buzzwords that characterize
the current intense discussions about the development of the
economy and work around the world, among both experts and
laypersons. Immense changes in the ways goods are manufactured,
business is done, work tasks are performed, education is
accomplished, and so on, are clearly underway. This also means that
demand for careful, first-rate social scientific analyses of the
phenomena in question is rapidly growing. This edited volume
gathers distinguished researchers from economics, business studies,
organization studies, medicine, social psychology, occupational
health, pedagogics, and sociology to put particular work in both
public and private sectors and education in both academic and
vocational settings at the focus of the emerging digitalized
platform economy. The authors anchor their analyses and conceptual
and theoretical work in distinctive empirical developments that are
taking place in one of the leading countries of digitalization
processes: Finland. Finnish case studies reflect general global
developments and show their particular, context-related
actualization in multiple ways. This double exposure enables the
authors of this multi- and interdisciplinary volume to advance
conceptualization and theorization of the key phenomena in
digitalizing platform societies in novel, creative, and
groundbreaking directions. This book will without doubt be of great
value to academic researchers and students in the fields of
economics, business studies, work studies, social sciences,
education, technology, digitalization, platforms, occupational
health, entrepreneurship, and professions.
Published in 1999, Working Europe: Reshaping European employment
systems offers a fresh analysis of recent changes in labour markets
and the restructuring of welfare states. The analyzes presented in
the articles not only focus on labour market changes, but take up
the important issues of: * How labour markets have been regulated
and directed * How the various social security systems offered by
the welfare state are related to the questions of labour markets
and employment systems * How efficient labour market policies are
in reducing unemployment * How employment is locally created and
initiated * How the gender system is related to employment systems.
This book is the first to offer a full picture of the restructuring
of the employment systems and the complex relationship between
employment, the welfare state and concepts of work.
This volume presents the most recent studies of work and labor in
the digital age as it unfolds in both Europe and the United States.
One of the critical questions facing modernity concerns the
reconfiguration of paid employment, which has been subject to
wholesale changes that have widespread consequences for workers,
their families, and the institutional structure that characterizes
capitalist societies. A key driver of these changes has been the
digital revolution and the rapid proliferation of the gig economy.
Together with social network sites for hiring, the spread of
robotics, and the rise of artificial intelligence and machine
learning, they leave virtually no occupation untouched.
This book provides a thorough and novel examination of the gendered
nature of innovations in the new economy. It tracks the
contemporary shift from heavy industry to game industry and how
this has altered relationships between gender, identity, corporate
culture, creative work, and the future of business. Through
empirical research and theoretical analysis, the authors present
their own carefully contextualized cases and conceptual frameworks
relating themes of innovation and gender to recent theories
concerning globalization and transnationalism. This wide-ranging
and interdisciplinary text provides readers with insightful entries
on what innovations are and the ways innovation processes become
gendered. It explores the business landscape based on creative work
and offers a wealth of information for scholars of
entrepreneurship, management, sociology, cultural studies, and
communication.
Published in 1999, Working Europe: Reshaping European employment
systems offers a fresh analysis of recent changes in labour markets
and the restructuring of welfare states. The analyzes presented in
the articles not only focus on labour market changes, but take up
the important issues of: * How labour markets have been regulated
and directed * How the various social security systems offered by
the welfare state are related to the questions of labour markets
and employment systems * How efficient labour market policies are
in reducing unemployment * How employment is locally created and
initiated * How the gender system is related to employment systems.
This book is the first to offer a full picture of the restructuring
of the employment systems and the complex relationship between
employment, the welfare state and concepts of work.
"Uberization," "digitalization," "platform economy," "gig economy,"
and "sharing economy" are some of the buzzwords that characterize
the current intense discussions about the development of the
economy and work around the world, among both experts and
laypersons. Immense changes in the ways goods are manufactured,
business is done, work tasks are performed, education is
accomplished, and so on, are clearly underway. This also means that
demand for careful, first-rate social scientific analyses of the
phenomena in question is rapidly growing. This edited volume
gathers distinguished researchers from economics, business studies,
organization studies, medicine, social psychology, occupational
health, pedagogics, and sociology to put particular work in both
public and private sectors and education in both academic and
vocational settings at the focus of the emerging digitalized
platform economy. The authors anchor their analyses and conceptual
and theoretical work in distinctive empirical developments that are
taking place in one of the leading countries of digitalization
processes: Finland. Finnish case studies reflect general global
developments and show their particular, context-related
actualization in multiple ways. This double exposure enables the
authors of this multi- and interdisciplinary volume to advance
conceptualization and theorization of the key phenomena in
digitalizing platform societies in novel, creative, and
groundbreaking directions. This book will without doubt be of great
value to academic researchers and students in the fields of
economics, business studies, work studies, social sciences,
education, technology, digitalization, platforms, occupational
health, entrepreneurship, and professions.
This pragmatic, applied textbook showcases the potential and impact
of qualitative research in business and management. Using case
studies and a global approach it provides you with an overview of
the philosophies, methodologies and methods you will need to
research in this field. Demystifying the whole process, it walks
you through every aspect of conducting and using research in
business, including generating questions, collecting useful data,
evaluating the research and disseminating your findings. It also:
Explores the challenges of working with qualitative data Introduces
qualitative methods including interviews, focus groups &
ethnography New to the 2nd edition: The role of digital tools and
social media, and how you can use them for data collection 3 new
chapters on qualitative content analysis, visual research and
publishing research. Praise for the 1st edition: `Comprehensive,
current and compelling, a winning combination for any research
student or practitioner interested in increasing his/her knowledge
about qualitative methods as they apply to business research' - The
Qualitative Report
This pragmatic, applied textbook showcases the potential and impact
of qualitative research in business and management. Using case
studies and a global approach it provides you with an overview of
the philosophies, methodologies and methods you will need to
research in this field. Demystifying the whole process, it walks
you through every aspect of conducting and using research in
business, including generating questions, collecting useful data,
evaluating the research and disseminating your findings. It also:
Explores the challenges of working with qualitative data Introduces
qualitative methods including interviews, focus groups &
ethnography New to the 2nd edition: The role of digital tools and
social media, and how you can use them for data collection 3 new
chapters on qualitative content analysis, visual research and
publishing research. Praise for the 1st edition: `Comprehensive,
current and compelling, a winning combination for any research
student or practitioner interested in increasing his/her knowledge
about qualitative methods as they apply to business research' - The
Qualitative Report
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