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"The social dynamics of innovation networks captures the important role of trust, social capital, institutions and norms and values in the creation of knowledge in innovation networks. In doing so, this book connects to a long-standing debate on the socio-spatial context of innovation in economic geography, which is usually referred to as the Territorial Models of Innovation (TIMs) literature.This present volume breaks with the TIM literature in several important ways. In the first place, this book emphasizes the role of individual agency because individuals and their networks are increasingly recognized as the principal agents of knowledge creation. Secondly, this volume looks at space as a continuous field of opportunity rather than as bounded territory with a set of endowments, such as knowledge base and social capital. Although individually these elements are not new to the TIM literature, it has thus far failed to grasp their critical implication for studying the social dynamics of innovation networks.The approach to the socio-spatial context of innovation in this volume is summarized as Knowledge Economy 2.0. It emphasizes that human creativity is now the main source of economic value and that human creativity and knowledge creation is not an organized process within organizations, but happens bottom up in formal and informal professional and social networks of individuals that cut across multiple organizations. "--

"This book draws together both primary and secondary empirical research and existing literature to examine transgressive subcultural activities and engagement in digital social spaces (DSS). The book addresses four objectives: 1. To understand how young peoples' subcultures arise online and they are constructed and experienced in DSS; 2. To understand how and why DSS matter to young people; 3. To understand if any DSS controls exist in these online spaces; and 4. To understand how identity locations such as (social class, gender and ethnicity and/or their intersections) shape young peoples' engagement and behaviour(s) in DSS. In addressing these objectives with a focus on European contributions, the text provides a holistic understanding of the purpose of digital social spaces in shaping young peoples' identities and self-perceptions. It will be of interest to postgraduate students, secondary school teachers, lecturers and scholars in education, sociology, youth studies and technology"--

"One of the long-lasting impacts of neoliberal globalization is to subjugate our entire society to serve the market economy, resulting in a 'critical nexus' comprised of flexible and exploitative labor conditions, the reincarnation and reinforcement of gendered ideologies in the workplace, and a treadmill of environmental destruction. Fundamental obstacles to the global and local response to this unholy nexus include objective inequality between and within nations, subjective consequences of uneven development, and 'economism', in which solutions are framed in economic language and rules that ignore or marginalize social justice. Drawing on the social justice framework propounded by, among others, Amartya Sen, Md Saidul Islam and Md Ismail Hossain unpack this critical nexus, investigating how neoliberal flexible accumulation generates unique conditions, contradictions, and confrontations in labor, gender and environmental relations. They also examine whether and how a broader social justice can mitigate tensions and improve conditions"--Back cover

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Corporate social irresponsibility / Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch -- Corporate social performance as a global concept -- Cultural perspective on sustainable socioeconomic development / Mehdi Majidi -- Failures to act responsibly : the role of firm's competitiveness in the post-scandal phase / Arabella Mocciaro Li Destri, Anna Minà, and Pasquale Massimo Picone -- Corporate social performance : an endurance pathway forfamily firms in emerging markets? (a conceptual model) / Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodriguez -- Corporate social performance as a cross national phenomenon -- Corporate social responsibility, income distribution and the environment : an empirical study for the European Union / Oscar Alfranca Burriel -- Transparency and compliance policies of multinationalcompanies in Latin America / Nikos Passas and Matthias Kleinhempel -- Corporate social responsibility in Africa : context, paradoxes, stakeholder orientations, contestations and reflections / Thomas Kimeli Cheruiyot and Patrick Onsando -- Perspectives on evolution of corporate social responsibility practices in Chinese organizations / Ruth Alas -- Csr perforce : implementing CRS in the Indian scenario / Soma Kamal Tandon -- Development of CSR index in Croatia : the history of wishful thinking-come true? / Mislav Ante Omazić and Mirjana Mateic -- Corporate social performance: cases from practice -- Csr and sustainability practices of the hotel industry / Anupriya Desore, Sapna A. Narula, and Ambika Zutshi -- Attitudes towards corporate social responsibility in family -- Businesses in Italy / Alessandra Murru and Lucia Rocchigiani -- Project Conga : an unresolved social license / Pedro P. Franco -- Corporate social responsibility in tourism: past and presentscholar's contributions / Claudia Melis and Ernestina Giudici -- About the authors

Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and producers multiply. Yet the implications of social theory for understanding media and of media for rethinking social theory have been neglected; never before has it been more important to understand those implications. This book takes on this challenge. Drawing on Couldry's fifteen years of work on media and social theory, this book explores how questions of power and ritual, capital and social order, and the conduct of political struggle, professional competition, and everyday life, are all transformed by today's complex combinations of traditional and 'new' media. In the concluding chapters Couldry develops a framework for global comparative research into media and for thinking collectively about the ethics and justice of our lives with media. The result is a book that is both a major intervention in the field and required reading for all students of media and sociology.