Abstract In the name of combating COVID-19, many countries have enacted laws that restrict citizens’ freedom of movement and freedom to operate businesses. These laws attempt to use the expressive effects of law and legal sanctions to make people conform to legal norms different from...

Purpose Previous studies on non-standard employment relations have analyzed how firms’ use of non-standard work arrangements are explained by variables related to numerical flexibility. Here, the purpose of this paper is to explore how firms respond to changes in the external environment...

Abstract Die leitende Fragestellung dieses Beitrags ist, inwieweit die materielle und institutionell-rechtliche Teilhabe, die ideell mit dem Leitbild des Normalarbeitsverhältnisses verknüpft wird, auch für atypische Beschäftigungsformen gilt. Dies wird anhand der zentralen Dimensionen...

Purpose – This study seeks to examine aspects of social class associated with British public accountancy immigrants to the USA prior to the First World War. The study's specific purpose is to investigate the social mobility and fluidity associated with these élite immigrants in the early...

Purpose – The paper aims to explore the social origins of Scottish chartered accountants and the accounting stereotype as portrayed in popular fiction. Design/methodology/approach – The detective novels of the Scottish chartered accountant Alexander Clark Smith are used as a lens through...

Purpose – Taking entrepreneurial opportunity identification activity as a starting point, the purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the differences within the social background of the Chinese nascent entrepreneurs and to illuminate differences in the success of their economic...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Internet's paradoxical nature from the perspective of consumers. Design/methodology/approach – First, it is discussed that negotiations between companies and consumers about their respective shares of power lead to different models of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how ethnicity remains relevant to the workplace experience of minority ethnic graduate employees in contemporary British organizations. Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative interviews were conducted with 30 British Black Caribbean...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to highlight inequalities created and sustained through gendered, raced, and classed organizational processes and practices using Joan Acker's work as a lens for perceiving the mechanisms that support such practices. It aims to use home health aide work...

Points out that identifying appropriate market segmentation bases has been a recurrent problem in marketing. Compares the predictive power of income and attitude towards cultural change in the context of luxury goods. The results show that those two indicators are rather independent from each...