Fruitfulnes of contemporary companies rests on new business model development, elimination of communication obstacles, simplification of industrial processes, possibilities of responding in real-time and above all meeting the floating custom needs. Quite a number of company activities and...

A propose for this article is to present information on the emergence of the knowledge field of sociology of work and labor studies in Portugal. The period of 1974-1984 produced an interesting bibliography in the fields of social stratification, labor conflicts and social history. However, and...

The risk-fear paradox, whereby people who experience the least criminal victimisation report the greatest fear of crime, has been established in the extant literature. That this paradox is gendered, notably that women report greater fear yet are less likely to experience crime, has also been...

La riflessione di Bruno Trentin costituisce un terreno di discussione importante, per il contributo che ha lasciato, costituito da materiali piuttosto eterogeni, e in quanto territorio sul quale è possibile far convergere il confronto fra diverse discipline. Il saggio, partendo da alcuni suoi...

One of the key steps in the process of labour force recruitment is drafting and advertising vacancies. Although today most of the recruitment process is conducted on the Internet, the supplements and pages devoted to economic information of the mainstream newspapers contain ads especially for...

Soz konusu arastirma, orgutleri gelistirmenin ya da baska bir ifadeyle gelismis orgutler kurmanin bir yontemi olarak lanse edilen orgut degistirme kavramlarindan yola cikarak, kalkinma ajanslarini incelemeyi hedeflemektedir. Bu kapsamda orgut gelistirmenin nitelikleri ortaya konulmaya calisilmis...

Ethnicity has been constructively attacked from the perspective of conflict management and constitutional engineering within several countries in Africa. African leaders have recognized the problem of ethnicity and have sought to address it through many and varied schemes. This paper analyses...

This paper presents a case study of<i> </i>a youth organisation working with families in extreme poverty and lack of adequate housing in Chile and Mexico. It initially describes the considerable structural changes that relate to the emergence of the organisation, and then discusses how across context...