Sociology: Recent submissions

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    • Inclusive leadership : negotiating gendered spaces 

      Adapa, Sujana; Sheridan, Alison (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      Examining perceptions of leaders which are dependent on social and cultural contexts, this edited collection argues that in order to thrive and to understand the future business landscape, leaders must be inclusive and ...

    • Citizenship in Organizations : Practicing the Immeasurable 

      Beyers, Fleur; Langenberg, Suzan (Springer , 2018)
      This book brings together a wide variety of meta-reflections on shifts in economy, power relations and organizing in confrontation with practices of citizenship. The focus is directed towards the position of (im)measurability ...

    • Relational planning : tracing artefacts, agency and practices 

      Kurath, Monika Maria (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This volume introduces the notion of ‘relational planning’ through a collection of theoretical and empirical contributions that explore the making of heterogeneous associations in the planning practice. The analytical ...

    • Digital HR : A Critical Management Approach to the Digitilization of Organizations 

      Palma, Pasquale Davide de; Manuti, Amelia (Springer , 2018)
      This book draws on recent debate surrounding the emergence of cognitive intelligence in organizations, exploring the redefinition of the labor market and consequently, employment. With a particular focus on Human Resource ...

    • Hidden inequalities in the workplace : a guide to the current challenges, issues and business solutions 

      Caven, Valerie; Nachmias, Stefanos (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      The book presents a critical framework for assessing whether organisational practice and function reinforces unseen potential differences amongst individuals in the workplace. It offers a comprehensive understanding and ...

    • Economic transformation and business opportunities in Asia 

      Hoontrakul, Pongsak (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book examines the uneven economy in Asia, showing how the pace of economic transformation affects prosperity and the emerging middle class. Using the Lewis turning point and the long run cycle of the rise and fall of ...

    • Progressive business models creating sustainable and pro-social enterprise 

      O'Higgins, Eleanor; Zsolnai, László (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book presents and analyses exemplary cases of progressive business, understood as ecologically sustainable, future-respecting and pro-social enterprise. The authors present a number of companies following progressive ...

    • Selective Reproduction in the 21st Century 

      Gammeltoft, Tine M.; Wahlberg, Ayo (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical technologies. Selective reproductive technologies (SRTs) - technologies that aim to prevent or promote ...

    • Talent management in healthcare : exploring how the world's health service organisations attract, manage and develop talent 

      Turner, Paul (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      Providing a global perspective on the increasingly important concept of talent management in the health sector, this significant new text brings together evidence and research findings to suggest how healthcare organisations ...

    • Business Dynamics in North America : Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Trade Patterns 

      Rajagopal; Zlatev, Vladimir (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book discusses the contemporary trade dynamics necessary for companies to grow competitively in the global marketplace, extending the conceptual and analytical foundations of international trade and economy in North ...

    • Merchants of Labor: Recruiters and International Labor Migration 

      Martin, Philip (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Some 10 million migrant workers cross national borders each year and, if they pay an average $1,000 to recruiters, moving workers over borders is a $10 billion a year business. Merchants of Labor examines the businesses ...

    • Chains of Finance: How Investment Management is Shaped 

      Arjalies, Diane-Laure (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Investment is no longer a matter of individual savers directly choosing which shares or bonds to buy. Rather, most of their money flows through a 'chain': an often extended sequence of intermediaries. What goes on in that ...

    • Ceremony and civility : civic culture in late medieval London 

      Hanawalt, Barbara A. (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Medieval London, like all premodern cities, had a largely immigrant population-only a small proportion of the inhabitants were citizens-and the newly arrived needed to be taught the civic culture of the city in order for ...

    • Brainwashing : the science of thought control 

      Taylor, Kathleen Eleanor (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Throughout history, humans have attempted to influence and control the thoughts of others. Since the word 'brainwashing' was coined in the aftermath of the Korean War, it has become part of the popular culture and been ...

    • Central banks into the breach : from triumph to crisis and the road ahead 

      Siklos, Pierre L. (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Central banks play an important role in the course of national economies and the global economy. Their leaders are regularly feted or vilified, their policy pronouncements highly anticipated and routinely scrutinized. This ...

    • Background practices : essays on the understanding of being 

      Dreyfus, Hubert L.; Wrathall, Mark A. (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      This volume presents a selection of Hubert Dreyfus's pioneering work in bringing phenomenology and existentialism to bear on the philosophical and scientific study of the mind. Each of the thirteen essays interprets, ...

    • The Economics of Crowdfunding: Startups, Portals and Investor Behavior 

      Cumming, Douglas; Hornuf, Lars (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book focuses on various types of crowdfunding and the lessons learned from academic research. Crowdfunding, a new and important source of financing for entrepreneurs, fills a funding gap that was traditionally difficult ...

    • Land and Credit: Mortgages in the Medieval and Early Modern European Countryside 

      Briggs, Chris; Zuijderduijn, Jaco (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This volume investigates the use of mortgages in the European countryside between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. A mortgage allowed a loan to be secured with land or other property, and the practice has been ...

    • Agricultural Development in the World Periphery: A Global Economic History Approach 

      Pinilla, Vicente; Willebald, Henry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book brings together analysis on the conditions of agricultural sectors in countries and regions of the world’s peripheries, from a wide variety of international contributors. The contributors to this volume proffer ...

    • The Palgrave Handbook of Relational Sociology 

      Dépelteau, François (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This handbook on relational sociology covers a rapidly growing approach in the social sciences—one which is connected to the interests of a large, diverse pool of researchers across a range of disciplines. Relational ...