We use individual survey data providing detailed information on stress, technology adoption, and work, worker, and employer characteristics, in combination with recent measures of AI and robot exposure, to investigate how new technologies affect worker stress. We find a persistent negative...

The COVID-19 crisis may have widely and permanently altered the labor market through the demand for skills. Crises tend to accelerate technological change. Previous recent crises were characterized by an acceleration of automation, which generally led to a decrease in middle-income jobs with...

A proposal that the notion of specificity--the idea that factors of production are not interchangeable--can provide a unified framework to analyze and understand a wide variety of macroeconomic phenomena stemming from the transactional environment and microeconomic restructuring.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- I Foundations of Innovation -- 1 Invention Is Not Enough -- 2 Generative Innovators in Action -- 3 Frames of Mind -- 4 Observing -- II The Eight Practices -- 5 Practice One -- 6 Practice Two -- 7 Practice Three -- 8...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Mobile Communication and Ritual Interaction: The Plumber's Entrance -- 2 ICT and Tension between Social and Individual Impulses -- 3 Durkheim on Ritual Interaction and Social Cohesion -- 4 Goffman on Ritual Interaction in Everyday Life -- 5...

A new industrial development paradigm, the Fifth Industrial Revolution or 'Industry 5.0' is expected to humanise green technological innovation (GTI), social resilience, and sustainable development of industrial ecosystems. Emphasising the supplier-customer interaction, 'Industry 5.0' is...

This paper investigates the impact of digital transformation on innovation within the agribusiness sector, both theoretically and empirically, through an examination of Chinese A-share agriculture-related listed companies spanning from 2011 to 2021. The findings suggest that digital...

Martin Fransman presents a new approach to understanding how innovation happens, who makes it happen, and the helps and hindrances. Looking at innovation in real-time under uncertainty, he develops the idea of an 'innovation ecosystem', i.e. a system of interrelated players and processes that...