Social media is redefining how companies innovate by connecting people and ideas in previously unexplored ways. Organizations now have the ability to utilize knowledge from external audiences around the globe that they could never reach before. It is changing the way organizations do business...

Innovative workplace practices based on multi-tasking and ICT that have been diffusing in most OECD countries since the 1990s have strong consequences on working conditions. Available data show together with the emergence of new organizational forms like multi-tasking, the increase in the...

A competitive advantage in this unpredictable environment depends highly on the management’s ability to use the available internal and external labor-market resources flexibly. It not only aligns with the supply and demand of the market, but with nominal distraction to the production process....