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  1. Organization and Management of Health and Healthcare

    Management—the professional administration of business concerns, public undertakings and organizations in general—is a topical subject, particularly...
    Vicki Taylor, Hilary Scott, Martin Walter in Health Studies
    Chapter 2022
  2. Juridification of Workplace Mistreatment: a Document Study of SALAR – The Governing Organization for Public Administration in Sweden

    SALAR, Sweden’s largest employer association, advises the public sector on how to build management rules and processes. How SALAR relates to work...

    Article Open access 01 April 2024
  3. Local Territorial Organization

    The territory is the most obvious physical embodiment of social relations. Territorial interactions determine neighborhood relations. And these...
    Juri Plusnin in Russian Provincial Society
    Chapter 2022
  4. Family Organization and the Domestic Group

    While Chaps. 2 , 3 , and 4...
    Steven Webster in Returning to Q'ero
    Chapter 2023
  5. Psychometric properties of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-AGE Scale in Singapore

    WHOQOL-AGE is a promising quality of life (QOL) tool that has not been fully validated in Asia. The present study aimed to verify its factor...

    Rachael Zhi Yi Lee, Winson Fu Zun Yang, ... Lidia Suárez in European Journal of Ageing
    Article Open access 20 March 2024
  6. Dating in captivity: creativity, digital affordance, and the organization of interaction in online dating during quarantine

    Unprecedented times compel new ways to explore relationships. Using interviews with dating app users quarantined in American cities at the height of...

    Kaiting Zhou in Theory and Society
    Article Open access 04 January 2024
  7. Bronze casting clay moulds and production sequences: understanding knowledge and Organization of the Artisans in Late Shang (14th – 11th century BC), China

    This research extrapolates the knowledge and choices made by the artisans through the bronze vessel casting mould production. Our discussion on the...

    Wen Yin (Elaine) Cheng, Chen Shen in Asian Archaeology
    Article 24 November 2022
  8. Human Rights–Based Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Asylum Seekers in a Legal Service Organization

    The human rights of immigrants and asylum seekers are threatened by the erosion of asylum and a system of crimmigration that combines immigration and...

    David Androff, Cherra Mathis in Journal of Human Rights and Social Work
    Article 26 October 2021
  9. The Self-Organization of Social Movements

    The chapter opens with the case of ‘XR’ or Extinction Rebellion, a social movement with the symbol of an hourglass X within a globe O. It cohered out...
    Chapter 2022
  10. Political Organization and Mobilization

    This chapter studies three dimensions of organized Muslim women’s politics: the organizational forms they take, the issues areas they address, and...
    Chapter 2022
  11. Variants of Academic Organization: Professional Core Strategies of German Engineers (1918–1930)

    In May 1919, 28 spokesmen of already existing shop committees met in Halle, Saxony, for the founding meeting of the Bund der angestellten Chemiker...
    Tobias Sander in Engineers in Germany
    Chapter 2023
  12. Public Issues: The Impact on the Organization and the Public

    Applying the sociological imagination to whistleblowing requires understanding the paradox that an action meant to resolve an organizational problem...
    Chapter 2022
  13. Non-compassionate care: a view from an Islamic charity organization

    Drawing on fieldwork at a large charity organization in Cairo, this article describes a bureaucratized Islamic ethics of care. Founded in 1975, the...

    Amira Mittermaier in Contemporary Islam
    Article 15 February 2021
  14. Bureaucratic control across enterprise boundaries: labor organization and the control of the online car-hailing platforms

    This article shows that the online car-hailing platforms, supported by the digital technology of information matching, are more than some “flat”...

    Lei Zhao, Yue Han in The Journal of Chinese Sociology
    Article Open access 02 November 2022
  15. Transformation of Civil Society Organization Functions in Modern Russia

    This chapter investigates the transformational processes in Russian civil society through the lens of the functional approach proceeding from the...
    Lev Jakobson, Irina Mersianova in Civil Society: Concepts, Challenges, Contexts
    Chapter 2022
  16. State Arts Organization Grants and Regional Equality: Community Engagement and Grants Decisions

    The literature acknowledges disparities in funding distribution between nonprofits in urban and rural areas. In rural regions, public access to the...
    Chapter 2024
  17. International Organization for Standards ISO 26000

    Sustainability is a precondition of the survival current humankind, and a behavior supported by the social responsibility of humans, organizations,...
    Matjaž Mulej, Anita Hrast in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability
    Living reference work entry 2022
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