MINE - Mapping the Interplay between Nature and Economy is a digital archive and visual map showing the intersection between nature and economy. By focusing on the interconnections between fundamental concepts e.g. of time, thermodynamics, evolution, responsibility and justice, a new concept of...

Empirical data as well as scientific reports confirm that startups require diverse, in-house competencies in order to achieve market success. However, while technology-related competencies are usually brought to new tech ventures by their founders, there is a significant deficiency of market-...

"The Routledge Companion to Career Studies is an in-depth reference for researchers, students and practitioners looking for a comprehensive overview of the state of the art of career studies. Split into five parts, with each part opening with a contextualising introduction, the volume looks at...

This book discusses a core question in many fields of the social sciences, namely how to create, share and adopt new knowledge. It creates an original space for conversation between two lines of research that have developed largely in parallel for a long time: social network theory and the...

Word of mouth (WOM) information have become an integral part of consumer decision-making and have revitalized investigations of a social phenomenon to serve marketing objectives. This study addresses the fast-growing yet diverse WOM literature with its heterogeneous background. An objectified...

The historiographical and socio-economic topic of the 1918-1921 agrarian reform, marked by a considerable degree of difficulty due to a multitude of objective, quantitative as well as qualitative factors, represents a point of reference in the research endeavours focused on the social and...

Making scarcity -- Jean-Laurent Rosenthal: scarcity, language and politics -- Lyla Metha and Amber Huff: untangling scarcity -- Rick Wilk: rethinking the relationships between scarcity, poverty and hunger: an anthropological perspective -- Neil Fromer: renewable energy: a story of abundance and...

The volume provides a collection of research papers elucidating the concept of crisis from a multidisciplinary standpoint. The authors, all academicians of Hakkâri University's (HU) Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, discuss the concept of crisis in the context of different case...

Vor dem Hintergrund des aktuellen Fachkräftemangels in der Pflege rückt das Thema eines "Multiprofessionellen Personalmix" insbesondere in der stationären Langzeitpflege in den Fokus. Erkenntnisse über den Zusammenhang zwischen Personal (Anzahl, Qualifikation, Zusammensetzung) und der...

This book outlines a number of different perspectives on the relationship between science, technology, and innovation in emerging economies. In it, the authors explore the aforementioned relationship as a pillar of economic development, driving growth in emerging economies. Employing a...

Tourism is truly an international/global industry. Tourism is vital to the economy of a country and sustainable tourism development requires an understanding of the complex interrelationships and interactions among a multitude of environmental factors and interdisciplinary forces that play a...

Preface -- The sumer before the war -- Industrializing capitalism : classic works of the twentieth century -- Corresponding thoughts of Benjamin, Kafka, Bakhtin and the Prague School -- On the fringe -- Archaic money -- Life-needs and money sequences, outside or inside a sealed vessel -- Life as...

Blue sky thinking in water governance: understanding the role of the imagination in Australian water policy / Louise Noble, Stephen Harris and Graham Marshall -- Aboriginal rainmakers: a twentieth century phenomenon / Lorina L. Barker -- "Like manna from heaven?": just water, history and the...

Introduction / Adam Biela) -- Theoretical base and methodology for job analysis -- Multidimensional analysis and the assumed theories in the European questionnaire for job analysis (EQJA) -- Towards synthesis of multidimensional job analysis -- Conclusions / Adam Biela) -- Biographical notes