"Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life. Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and...

Chapter 1: The Entrenchment of Traditional Industries and the Winner-Takes-All Phenomenon -- Chapter 2: The Dark Horse of New Tracks and the Life-Death Cycle -- Chapter 3: Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket vs. Going All-In on a Single Venture -- Chapter 4: Top-Down Management vs. Bottom-Up...

In the era of a turbulent and less-predictable business environment, as confirmed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ability to efficiently use human resources has become particularly important. There is a need to reduce employees' competency niche, and competency mismatches have become noticeable in...