Die COVID-19-Krise verändert die Arbeitswelt. Der Lockdown zur Eindämmung der Pandemie ging in den Betrieben mit der weitgehenden Umstellung auf die Arbeit im "Homeoffice" einher: die Nutzung der betrieblichen Räume wurde stark eingeschränkt, Besprechungen wurden größtenteils auf...

Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression-based methodology to predict the countryspecific routine task...

In this era of knowledge explosion and advancement in technology, nearly all organizations are beginning to employ and deploy one or more technologically enhanced processes to get things efficiently done. This may be due to the reality that not applying the same in line with the trends and...

This article lays out a research agenda in the sociology of work for a type of data and organizational intermediary: work platforms. As an example, we employ a case study of the adoption of Automated Hiring Platforms (AHPs) in which we distinguish between promises and existing practices. We draw...

The paper lays out a hypothesis about the effect global oversupply of labor had on induced technological change, clarifying how it might have contributed to the demand reversal for high skill workers and other recent observed trends in technological change in the US. The argument considers the...

Using nationally representative linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the private sector is largely positively correlated with employee job attitudes pre-recession. However, high intensity HPWS has...

Using nationally representative surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the public sector are positively correlated with workplace financial performance and the implementation of workplace organizational change. The...

The organizational behavior literature refers to persistent interaction patterns among members of an organization with distributed knowledge as organizational routines. To formalize this concept, as well as intuitions about organizational routines, we investigate dynamic coordination within a...