Screen LibraryGender in Transnational Knowledge Work /
This is he first edited book on gender issues in transnational business cooperation concerning knowledge work. This area has so far been researched mainly by organizational theorists, with their background in business studies, finance, communication or sociology, and gender has seldom been taken int...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Crossroads of Knowledge,
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43307-3 |
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This is he first edited book on gender issues in transnational business cooperation concerning knowledge work. This area has so far been researched mainly by organizational theorists, with their background in business studies, finance, communication or sociology, and gender has seldom been taken into account in these studies. This book shows how fruitful a gendered take on issues within this area is, both for a deepened understanding of these organizational issues and for a widened understanding of gender issues. The chapters in the book cover a range of themes from a gender perspective; cul |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(X,103pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783319433073 |
| Index Number: | LC212 |
| CLC: | G40-05 |
| Contents: | Introduction,Helen Peterson and Minna Salminen-Karlsson -- A Gendered Analysis of IT Enabled Service Work in the Global Economy, Debra Howcroft and Helen Richardson -- Paradox of Empowerment and Marginalization, Roli Varma -- A Perfect Match? Helen Peterson, Minna Salminen-Karlsson and Sunrita Dhar-Bhattacharjee -- Culturalism as Resistance, Smitha Radhakrishnan -- Top Men in Transnational Companies, Jeff Hearn, Marjut Jyrkinen, Mira Karjalainen, Charlotta Niemist and Rebecca Piekkari -- Shifting Masculinities in the South Asian Outsourcing Industry, Yasmin Zaidi and Winifred R. Poster -- Co |