Global knowledge work
Subtitle: diversity and relational perspectives
By: edited by Katerina Nicolopoulou ... [et al.].
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781848445437
Subjects: Knowledge workers; Knowledge management; Intellectual capital
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What Makes a Knowledge Society? Privileging Discourses / Jennifer Adelstein; title: Global Knowledge Workers: An Eye on the Senior Executives of the Middle East by Stanton Chase International / Panos Manolopoulos and Konstantina Sakellariou; title: Immigration and Emigration Decisions Among Highly Skilled British Expatriates in Vancouver / William S. Harvey; title: Transnationality in Small-scale Cities? Integration of, and Cooperation between, Creative and Knowledge-intensive Workers in the Stagnating Socio-economic Landscape of Leipzig (East Germany) / Bastian Lange and Juliane Schröder -Entrepreneurship, Culture and Mobility of Knowledge Workers in European ICT SMEs: A Theoretical Framework / Kanellos-Panagiotis Nikolopoulos; title: The Important Role of Refugee and Migrant Community Organizations in Bringing Out Highly Educated Refugees' Potential as Knowledge Workers / Maria Psoinos; title: Social Exclusion in Information Capitalism: A Study of Online Recruitment Advertisements in the Indian Software Industry / C.M. Malish and P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan; title: How the Emergent Properties of Social Networks Support Knowledge Sharing in Dynamic Labour Environments: Lessons from the Hospitality Sector in Australia's Northern Territory / Kalotina Chalkiti; title: Relationality in Global Knowledge Work Teams / Olivia Kyriakidou; title: Women in Public Relations and Profit Organizations in the UAE: How Gender Influences Practice / Badreya Al-Jenaibi; title: The Role of Technology-enhanced Learning in the Development of Global Knowledge Workers / Lisa Harris, Paul Harrigan and Jean Leah; title: Digital Skills for Digital Disruption and Value Creation / Lorraine Warren; title: Autonomy as a Stressor in Knowledge Work / Peter Holdt Christensen; title: Multiple Understandings of Time: Academics' Experiences of the Work-Family Relationship / Gina Gaio Santos.