We analyze patterns of flexible employment among the highly qualified workforce in knowledge-intensive firms. Our conceptual starting point is the Flexible Firm that can be traced back to Atkinson. On the basis of a qualitative field study in ten organizations, we show different patterns in...

The firm is the central actor for the effectuation of innovation and technological change. The large industrial laboratories of the previous century have given way to more organizationally and geographically diffuse sources of technology, placing even greater emphasis on the coordination skills...

1. Introduction -- Part I. Companies as agents of change in the development of CSR and the achievement of sustainability goals. A private sector perspective -- 2. The Systemic Contexts and Dynamic Trajectories of Corporate Social Responsibility in Chinese Automobile Industry -- 3. Corporate...