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Leadership-as-Practice
This book develops a new paradigm in the field of leadership studies, referred to as the "leadership-as-practice" (L-A-P) movement. Its essence is its conception of leadership as occurring as a practice rather than residing in the traits or behaviours of particular individuals. A practice is a coordinative effort among participants who choose through their own rules to achieve a distinctive outcome. It also tends to encompass routines as well as problem-solving or coping skills, often tacit, that are shared by a community. Accordingly, leadership-as-practice is less about what one person thinks or does and more about what people may accomplish together. It is thus concerned with how leadersh...
How Matter Matters
The third volume in the Perspectives on Process Organization Studies Series focuses on the entanglement of social and material aspects of organizations, and in particular the role of objects and material artifacts in the process of organizing.
New Ways of Working
This volume focuses on new ways of working, and explores implications of these new practices with a particular emphasis on the place occupied by technology, materiality and bodies within contemporary working configurations. It draws together an international range of scholars to examine diverse subjects such as: the gig economy, social media as a work space, the role of materiality in living labs, managerial techniques and organizational legitimacy. Drawing on global perspectives, from France to Nigeria, this book presents a fascinating examination of the many new ways people are working, and relating to their work. Part of the esteemed Technology, Work and Globalization series, this book is valuable reading for scholars working on organizational studies, ethnography, technology management, and management more generally.
Creative Work
How do creative workers work? This book brings together insights from a range of relevant disciplines to help answer this significant research question. Featuring case studies from the European context, contributors tap into the experiences and practices from creative workers, demonstrating their attempts to navigate a changing environment which affects spaces, identities, and professional roles. As cross-disciplinary re-thinking of work, labour processes and management practices in the creative and cultural industries, the book offers perspectives on the importance of highlighting creative work as a phenomenon and practice beyond a particular industry, market, or public sector. Providing an...
Societal Impacts on Information Systems Development and Applications
"This book has collected research from experts from around the world in a variety of sectors, in the form of case studies, frameworks, architectures, methodologies, and best practices to show the latest societal impacts on information systems development in its various applications"--Provided by publisher.
Work-Life Balance
Das Buch Work-Life Balance ist eine praxisnahe und gleichzeitig fundierte Bestandsaufnahme zum Thema Work-Life Balance. Der Fokus liegt auf dem Bereich der Extremjobber, die sich vor allem in wissensintensiven Dienstleistungsunternehmen, auf der Managementebene von Industrieunternehmen, aber auch in freiberuflichen Tätigkeiten wiederfinden. Das Buch zeigt auf, welche Maßnahmen gerade für Extremjobber als erfolgversprechend gelten, und warum es auf lange Sicht sinnvoll ist, Work-Life Balance Maßnahmen im Unternehmen zu etablieren. Es richtet sich vor allem an Praktiker, die sich täglich mit Personal- und Führungsthemen auseinandersetzen, sowie an betroffene Extremjobber. Ihnen soll das Buch die Möglichkeit geben, das Thema Work-Life Balance kritisch zu reflektieren und neuartig zu managen.
The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits
Creativity loosely refers to activities in the visual arts, music, design, film and performance that are primarily intended to produce forms of affect and social meaning. Yet, over the last few decades, creativity has also been explicitly mobilized by governments around the world as a ‘resource’ for achieving economic growth. The creative economy discourse emphasizes individuality, innovation, self-fulfillment, career advancement and the idea of leading exciting lives as remedies to social alienation. This book critically assesses that discourse, and explores how political shifts and new theoretical frameworks are affecting the creative economy in various parts of the world at a time whe...
Curation in the Age of Platform Capitalism
This book employs the figure of curation—the selection, arrangement, and display of objects, concepts, and things—to explore the cultures of platform capitalism. Considering its rise in the global art world as an authorial, meaning-making activity and an organizational-entrepreneurial endeavour, it looks at curation as the interweaving of innovative concepts, elaborate storytelling, and trusted experts leaking out from galleries to hashtags. Its logic encompasses diverse spheres ranging from high-brow art and the fashion world to low-brow experience economies and economies of authenticity, from confidence cultures and relationship gurus to algorithmic spectacles. More than an economy, â€...
Creative (and Cultural) Industry Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century
Both volumes of Creative (and Cultural) Industry Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century map and elucidate the adaptations and challenges faced by the creative professionals and the entrepreneurial solutions they have co-developed.
Art Scents
In the last twenty years there has been a marked increase in artists using smells in their works at the same time that scents are being used to accompany plays, films, and music. There is also an increase in ambient scenting in stores and hotels and leading chefs are adding unusual scents to cuisine. The book explores these olfactory activities and the aesthetic and ethical issues they raise as well as answering the traditional disparagement of the sense of smell by leading intellectuals such as Kant, Darwin, and Freud, drawing on current science, social science, and humanities as well as literature.
