- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2. Conceptualising professional identity -- Chapter 3. Methodology -- Chapter 4. Emerging professional identity -- Chapter 5. Mode, access, and agency in participatory learning -- Chapter 6. Discursive construction of professional identity -- Chapter 7. Reception of students' professional identity construction -- Chapter 8. Towards a model of learning Busine…
Introduction -- Developing the curriculum: Issues and challenges for educators -- Teaching Practice: Solution Focused Teaching -- Teaching Practice: Mentor Assisted Learning -- Exploring the issues and identifying the challenge for educators -- Collaborative Working in the Statutory and Voluntary Sectors -- Community Methodologies -- A model for change: sharing ideas and strategies -- Establish…
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Capitalist development and the growth paradigm -- Chapter 3 Growth and the welfare state as we know it -- Chapter 4 Critiques of growth -- Chapter 5 Postgrowth and human wellbeing -- Chapter 6: The generation of human wellbeing – social practices theory -- Chapter 7: Welfare in a global steady-state economy -- Chapter 8: Conclusions.This book presents a d…
Part I: The Socio-Economic Dimension -- 1. Beyond the Consumerist-Financial Exchange: The Sustainable-Contributory Exchange; M. Magatti and L. Gherardi -- 2. On Income Inequality: The 2008 Great Recession and Long-Term Growth; J. McCombie and M. Spreafico -- 3. European Recession and The Emerging Two-Speed Europe; L. Campiglio -- 4. From One Precariousness to Another. The Ideological Role of Fi…
By analyzing the interactions between China’s central government and its local governments and enterprises, this book constructs an analytical framework of government-enterprise collusion, analyzing the impact of collusion within the China model on Chinese society. Against the background of decentralization and under information asymmetry, this text argues that Chinese local governments conni…
This book looks at the UEFA European Championship (Euro 2012) as both a crowning achievement of, and a way to sustain, the urban entrepreneurial strategy of Poznań, Poland. As the host city of the tournament almost 25 years after Poland’s transformation from a centrally planned to a market economy in 1989, the author focuses on how the local myths and traditions of resourcefulness were invok…
1. Individuals and Industries: Large-Scale Professional Gatherings as Ethnographic Fields -- 2. Scheduled Schmoozing: Notes on Interludal Practices at Responsible Investors’ Conferences -- 3. White Corporate Feminine Spirituality: The Rise of Global Professional Women’s Conferences in the New Millennium -- 4. The Therapeutic Square: The Psychotherapy Fair from an Anthropological Perspective…
Introduction -- Rise of the Red Capitalists: PRC Influence and the New Challenge of the Royalist-Chinese Business Alliance in Thailand -- Transnational Social Underpinnings of New Chinese Capitalism: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Singapore -- The Development of Chinese Capitalism in Malaysia: the cases of H.S. Lee and Robert Kuok -- Politics, Policy, Culture and China: The Growth of the Top Eth…
Introduction (Gilson) -- Part I: From Official to Unofficial Categorizations: Which Structure Between Similarities and Differences? -- Chapter 1. Language Issues in Standard Questionnaires for Assessing Psychosocial Working Conditions: The Case of the JCQ and the ERIQ (Choi) -- Chapter 2. The Linguistics Of Work Values: Comparative Analysis (Yusupova). Chapter 3. Psychosocial Risks at Work: A P…
1. Introduction: Situating the Study -- 2. Conceptualizing Career Security -- 3. Entangled Work Motivations -- 4. How Routines Shape Career Stories -- 5. Organizations as Places of Learning and Self-Development -- 6. Narrative Crises -- 7. Developing an Entrepreneurial Story -- 8. Creating your own Structures: Implications for the Self -- 9. Personalizing Social Problems -- 10. The Audience as …