Purpose – This case study of a fashion-design company aims to show how a co-creation initiative produces competitive advantage by nurturing creativity, expanding the company’s innovation capabilities and enabling it to engage with both taste-making customers and designers from anywhere in...

Crowdwork ist eine neuartige Form der Arbeitsorganisation, bei der Unternehmen, Organisationen oder Einzelpersonen Arbeitsaufträge verschiedener Art über spezielle digitale Plattformen an unbekannte Auftragnehmer*innen vegeben, welche diese selbstselektiv annehmen und gegen Entgelt die...

Digitalization has created new forms of work and work arrangements. While online work offers economic opportunities, it also raises issues in ensuring decent work. As such, the government is increasingly paying attention to the welfare of online workers and the challenges they face. To...

Only ten years ago, there were more internet users in countries like France or Germany than in all of Africa put together. But much has changed in a decade. The year 2018 marks the first year in human history in which a majority of the world's population are now connected to the internet. This...

This paper documents the emergence and growth of digital labour markets in Eastern Europe. It shows that the development of two types of digital work - online work through online labour platforms and offline work mediated by mobile apps - have a different history, root causes and dynamics. While...

In any one organization, in Business, Service, Industry or State, Human Resource Management (HRM) is perceived as a set of activities that creates value to both the organization itself in terms of bottom line results and to employees, in terms of well - being and employment/contract terms....

Dieses Fachbuch untersucht anhand einer eigenen Studie sowie Gastbeiträgen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis den Arbeitsraum als dynamisches Bezugssystem zwischen Menschen, Objekten, Orten, Aufgaben und Funktionen. Ausgehend von einem Raumverständnis als soziale Konstruktion wird im Buch ein neues...

Only ten years ago, there were more internet users in countries like France or Germany than in all of Africa put together. But much has changed in a decade. The year 2018 marks the first year in human history in which a majority of the world's population are now connected to the internet. This...