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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ingo schulz schaeffer”
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  • Berlin Keys to the Sociology of Technology

    Edited by Cornelius Schubert, Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers a cross-section of a good fifteen years of research in the sociology of technology and innovation at the Department of Sociology of Technology headed by Werner Rammert at the TU Berlin. All contributions in this volume were initiated or discussed there and thus bear in a certain sense a "Berlin signature" - not in the sense of a clearly delimited scientific school, but rather in ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Innovation

    Perspectives from the Social Sciences

    Edited by Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Arnold Windeler, Birgit Blättel-Mink ...
    Series series Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences
    This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of innovation research, focusing on perspectives from the social sciences. Its scope extends beyond the traditional association of innovation with economic change and development, addressing its impact across multiple spheres of society. The handbook examines how innovation impacts various societal spheres. The content is organized around the history ... Read more

    $835.99 CAD

  • Socio-Technical Futures Shaping the Present

    Empirical Examples and Analytical Challenges

    Edited by Andreas Lösch, Armin Grunwald, Martin Meister, Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The exploration of ways to conceptualize the shaping of the present by socio‐technical futures is the aim of this volume. Therefore it brings together contributions from Science and Technology Studies and Technology Assessment, which focus all on the question how socio-technical images of the future shape present processes of innovation and transformation starting from empirical case studies and ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

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    Fabricating a New Type of Subject

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  • Social Acceleration

    A New Theory of Modernity

    by Hartmut Rosa ...
    Translated by Jonathan Trejo-Mathys ...
    Series Book 32 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and ... Read more

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  • The Uncontrollability of the World

    by Hartmut Rosa ...
    Translated by James C. Wagner ...
    The driving cultural force of that form of life we call ‘modern’ is the desire to make the world controllable. Yet it is only in encountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world – only then do we feel touched, moved and alive. A world that is fully known, in which everything has been planned and mastered, would be a dead world.Our lives are played out on the border between what ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • When the Monkeys Run the Zoo

    The Pitfalls of Flat Hierarchies

    by Stefan Kühl ...
    Series Book 1 - Challenges of New Organizational Forms
    Every change takes its toll. Stefan Kühl critically examines the blind enthusiasm that continues to celebrate the leveling of hierarchies and the decentralization of organizations. Relying on studies performed in European and U.S. companies, Kühl describes why these management concepts can carry organizations to the edge of extinction. Organizations are facing the challenge of coming to grips with ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Responsibility of Science

    Edited by Harald A. Mieg ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book provides an overview of issues of scientific responsibility. The volume comprises three types of contributions: first, analyses of the responsibility of science; second, analyses of the structural conditions for science and its responsibility; and third, normative versions of scientific responsibility. The questions and problems dealt with include science as a profession, ... Read more

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  • Humanistic Management

    Protecting Dignity and Promoting Well-Being

    by Michael Pirson ...
    In a world facing multiple crises, our foundational institutions are failing to offer effective solutions. Drawing on the emerging consilience of knowledge, Michael Pirson debunks the fundamental yet outdated assumptions of human nature that guide twentieth-century management theory and practice - as captured in the 'economistic' paradigm - and instead provides an urgently needed conceptual and ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • The Mediated Construction of Reality

    by Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp ...
    Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, revisit the question of how social theory can understand the processes through which an everyday world ... Read more

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  • Digital Transformation of Learning Organizations

    Edited by Dirk Ifenthaler, Sandra Hofhues, Marc Egloffstein, Christian Helbig ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access volume provides insight into how organizations change through the adoption of digital technologies. Opportunities and challenges for individuals as well as the organization are addressed. It features four major themes: 1. Current research exploring the theoretical underpinnings of digital transformation of organizations. 2. Insights into available digital technologies as well as ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Technology

    An Introduction for Technology and Business Students

    by Jan Hoogland, Jan van der Stoep, Maarten Verkerk, Marc de Vries ...
    Philosophy of Technology: An introduction for technology and business students is an accessible guide to technology’s changes , their ubiquitousness, and the many questions these raise. Designed for those with no philosophical background in mind, it is ideal for technology and engineering students or specialists who want to learn to think critically about how their work influences society and our ... Read more

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