This essay is an ethical reflection on the idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR) focusing on emphasizing its strategic position as the symbolic potential of business. As such, CSR is the reflection of business moral commitment to providing meaningful social activities, on the one hand,...

What do we miss about the daily operations of platform power, and about power dynamics in the gig economy more broadly, when focusing on algorithmic management as the primary source of subordination and precarity in the workplace? Drawing on a five-year research project investigating...

Wolfsburg, Hauptsitz der Volkswagen AG, ist eine Stadt mit hoher Berufsmobilität und Nebenwohnsitzrate. Anhand von Beschäftigten- und Einwohnerstatistiken wird ein Personenkreis abgesteckt, der berufsbedingt multilokal in Wolfsburg dauerhaft wohnt. Diese Multilokalen werden sowohl bezogen auf...

Aufgrund von Globalisierungsprozessen in Zusammenhang mit zunehmender Individualisierung und Pluralisierung von Lebensstilen sowie flexibilisierten Arbeitswelten nimmt räumliche Mobilität zu. Dabei werden multilokale Lebensweisen, also Lebensführungen an mehreren Orten und über mehrere Orte...

Algorithmic governance affects individuals' reality construction and consequently social order in societies. Vague concepts of algorithmic governance and the lack of comprehensive empirical insights into this kind of institutional steering by software from a user perspective may, however, lead...

We study the relation between people's personal values and environmentally friendly consumption behavior. We first assessed subjects' personal values using the Aspiration Index. Then subjects participated in a laboratory supermarket offering organic and conventional food products and different...

This paper studies the long-term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40-year long division into a capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately chose...

This paper studies the long-term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40-year long division into a capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately chose...

The behaviour of urban populations is compared with the systems directing behaviour in individuals. This is both a metaphor and a mechanistic parallel. The biological model draws upon recent developments in brain research and psychological and cultural anthropology. The development and operation...

The main goal of this paper is to identify relationships between value orientations, beliefs and economic behavior of agents, on one side, and differences between levels of economic development, on the other. Empirical analysis is based on a sample of Portuguese municipalities and correspondent...