This book examines the new conditions under which professional work, often referred to as “knowledge-intensive work,” is organised and how professional groups who have traditionally been granted jurisdictional discretion now have their work routines renegotiated. In the new economic regime...

Exploring the new professional scenes in digital and freelance knowledge, this innovative book provides an account of the subjects and cultures that pertain to knowledge work in the aftermath of the creative class frenzy. Including a broad spectrum of empirical projects, The Reputation Economy...

Introduction -- Ethical Premises and Values -- Technical Progress in Economics, Market and Democracy and Informational Revolution -- The End of Communism and the Beginning of an End of Capitalism -- A Vision of Informed Society and a Sustainable Redistribution System -- Who will be Adverse? --...

Standortbestimmung: Unser Wettlauf mit der Digitalisierung (Ein Gespräch) -- Wem vertraut man noch? Klassische Werbung versus Influencer-Marketing -- Augenblicke teilen. Snapchat und die Unendlichkeit des Internets -- Von Planking zum Njan-njan-Cat. Die Relevanz einer Nachricht -- Der Wunsch,...

Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Deutschland als führende Industrienation auch in der Digitalen Wirtschaft ein starker Player werden kann. Deutschland verfügt über unzählige Weltmarktführer in den klassischen Wirtschaftsbranchen, bisher aber über keinen digitalen Champion. Die großen Player aus dem...

What is the appropriate criterion to use for distributive justice? Is it efficiency, need, contribution, entitlement, equality, effort, or ability? This book maintains that far from being rival principles of distributive justice, efficiency and need satisfaction are, in fact, complementary norms...