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Cover Justice in the Workplace
Justice in the Workplace
Overcoming Ethical Dilemmas
Matthieu de Nanteuil
This timely book explores new social justice challenges in the workplace. Adopting a long-term perspective, it focuses on value conflicts, or ethical dilemmas, in contemporary organisations and ways to overcome them. Matthieu de Nanteuil demonstrates that the existence of value conflicts is not in itself problematic, but problems arise as actors do not have a frame of justice that allows them to overcome these conflicts without renouncing their deeply held values.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
18 May 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800373426
Collections:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2021
Cover Restructuring Welfare Governance
Restructuring Welfare Governance
Marketization, Managerialism and Welfare State Professionalism
Editors:
Tanja Klenk
and
Emmanuele Pavolini
This innovative book explores the introduction and impact of marketization and managerialism in social policy by adopting a dual perspective, considering both governance and human resources. Welfare governance (e.g. welfare mix, regulation, employment conditions, customer involvement) has changed significantly in the past decade. The editors and contributors collectively assesses these processes not only by comparing different policy fields and countries, but also by taking a close look inside organizations, examining the coping strategies of professionals, and how they adapt to new models of governing welfare organizations.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
30 Oct 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783475773
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Social And Political Science 2015
Cover Social Entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurship
Jill Kickul
,
David Gras
,
Sophie Bacq
, and
Mark Griffiths

It is over twenty years since the first research article on social entrepreneurship was published. The literature has reached the critical mass necessary for reflection and singling out of exemplar pieces, and the exponential growth in research interest in the field now merits identification of foundational and model papers to aid and guide future advancements. In this research review, the authors discuss the most important and influential social entrepreneurship articles to date. Topics covered include social entrepreneurship opportunities and creation, developing business models and organizational forms, social impact and contextual influences on social entrepreneurship.
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Research Reviews
Publication Date:
30 Aug 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784714352
Cover The International Handbook on Social Innovation
The International Handbook on Social Innovation
Collective Action, Social Learning and Transdisciplinary Research
Editors:
Frank Moulaert
,
Diana MacCallum
,
Abid Mehmood
, and
Abdelillah Hamdouch
The contributors provide an overview of theoretical perspectives, methodologies and instructive experiences from all continents, as well as implications for collective action and policy. They argue strongly for social innovation as a key to human development. The Handbook defines social innovation as innovation in social relations within both micro and macro spheres, with the purpose of satisfying unmet or new human needs across different layers of society. It connects social innovation to empowerment dynamics, thus giving a political character to social movements and bottom-up governance initiatives. Together these should lay the foundations for a fairer, more democratic society for all.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
31 May 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849809993
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Social And Political Science 2013
Cover Community Co-Production
Community Co-Production
Social Enterprise in Remote and Rural Communities
Editors:
Jane Farmer
,
Carol Hill
, and
Sarah-Anne Muñoz
This book addresses a clutch of contemporary societal challenges including: aging demography and the consequent need for extended care in communities; public service provision in an era of retrenching welfare and global financial crises; service provision to rural communities that are increasingly ‘hollowed out’ through lack of working age people; and, how best to engender the development of community social enterprise organizations capable of providing high quality, accessible services. It is packed with information and evidence garnered from research into the environment for developing community social enterprise and co-producing services; how communities react to being asked to co-produce; what to expect in terms of the social enterprises they can produce; and, how to make them happen.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
29 Jun 2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849808415
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Social And Political Science 2012
Cover Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century
Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century
New Barriers and Continuing Constraints
Editors:
Jacqueline Scott
,
Rosemary Crompton
, and
Clare Lyonette
Both women and men strive to achieve a work and family balance, but does this imply more or less equality? Does the persistence of gender and class inequalities refute the notion that lives are becoming more individualised? Leading international authorities document how gender inequalities are changing and how many inequalities of earlier eras are being eradicated. However, this book shows there are new barriers and constraints that are slowing progress in attaining a more egalitarian society. Taking the new global economy into account, the expert contributors to this book examine the conflicts between different types of feminisms, revise old debates about ‘equality’ and ‘difference’ in the gendered nature of work and care, and propose new and innovative policy solutions.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
31 Mar 2010
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849805568
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Social And Political Science 2010 and before
Cover Handbook of Microcredit in Europe
Handbook of Microcredit in Europe
Social Inclusion through Microenterprise Development
Editors:
Bárbara Jayo Carboni
,
Maricruz Lacalle Calderón
,
Silvia Rico Garrido
,
Karl Dayson
, and
Jill Kickul
This timely Handbook offers a unique opportunity to consider the performance and national context of microcredit initiatives within the European Union.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
31 Mar 2010
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849805308
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Business 2010 and before
Cover Handbook of Employment and Society
Handbook of Employment and Society
Working Space
Editors:
Susan McGrath-Champ
,
Andrew Herod
, and
Al Rainnie
This Handbook deepens and extends the engagement between research concerned with work and employment and labour geography. It links fundamental concepts concerning the politics of place that human geographers have developed in recent years with the world of work.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
26 Feb 2010
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849806305
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Business 2010 and before
Cover An Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship
An Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship
Voices, Preconditions, Contexts
Editor:
Rafeal Ziegler
This timely book sets social entrepreneurship in a historical context, from its philanthropic beginnings in the Victorian era to the present day, against the backdrop of contemporary global capitalism.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
27 Feb 2009
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781848446229
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Business 2010 and before
Cover Moving People and Knowledge
Moving People and Knowledge
Scientific Mobility in an Enlarging European Union
Louise Ackers
and
Bryony Gill
Moving People and Knowledge provides a fresh examination of the processes of highly skilled science migration. Focusing on intra-European mobility and, in particular, on the new dynamics of East–West migration, the authors investigate the movement of Polish and Bulgarian researchers to and from the UK and Germany. Key questions include: who is moving, how long for, and why? In addressing the motivations and experiences of mobile scientists and their families, insights into professional and personal motivations are provided, demonstrating how relationships, networks and infrastructures shape decision-making. This book provides a useful perspective on the implications of increasing researcher mobility – for both sending and receiving regions and the individuals concerned – which is necessary for the construction of future policies on sustainable scientific development.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
28 Nov 2008
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781848444867
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Social And Political Science 2010 and before