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...

This report is an attempt to gain a better understanding of public attitudes towards European integration by relating general and specific developments in societal values and expectations to underlying socio-economic trends. The analytical point of departure is the thesis that European values...

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit unterschiedlichen Facetten des Wohnens in Bezug auf multilokales Wohnen: Ausgehend von der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Wohnbegriff wird der Wandel des Wohnens im Kontext der Spätmoderne skizziert. Dabei wird multilokales Wohnen als ein Aspekt der...

I focus on the independent role of social innovation in economic progress. Modern theory of economic growth and development emphasizes endowments, power, incentives, and physical technology, paying scant attention to knowledge of social systems as a scarce resource. I reverse these procedures by...