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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.
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.
"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.
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