Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“nikko bilitza”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “nikko bilitza”
Skip side bar filters

  • Unpacking Global Amazon

    Labor, Work, and Community in E-Commerce Warehousing and Distribution

    Edited by Scott B. Martin, João Paulo Candia Veiga, Katiuscia Moreno Galhera, Nikko Bilitza ...
    Positioning Amazon as a key actor reshaping business and labor paradigms in the digitized global economy, this book examines its relationship with labor markets and institutions worldwide. Tracing the company’s expansion over three-plus decades and controversies, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic, based on fresh fieldwork, expert contributors demonstrate how Amazon shapes, and is re-shaped ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The Big Con

    How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies

    by Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington ...
    A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry—and what to do about itThere is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today that must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies’ reliance on companies such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Platform Socialism

    How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech

    by James Muldoon ...
    'Ground-breaking and ambitious' - Nick Srnicek, author of Platform CapitalismWhoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom.Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first century social life. Masquerading as global community builders, these ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Regulating Big Tech

    Policy Responses to Digital Dominance

    Edited by Martin Moore, Damian Tambini ...
    Selected chapters from this book are published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Scholarship Online, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/. Since Digital Dominance was published in 2018, a global consensus has emerged that technology platforms should be regulated. Governments from the United States to Australia have sought to reduce the power of these platforms and ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • The Promise and Limits of Private Power

    Promoting Labor Standards in a Global Economy

    by Richard M. Locke ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This book examines and evaluates various private initiatives to enforce fair labor standards within global supply chains. Using unique data (internal audit reports and access to more than 120 supply chain factories and 700 interviews in 14 countries) from several major global brands, including NIKE, HP and the International Labor Organization's Factory Improvement Programme in Vietnam, this book ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Capitalism, Power and Innovation

    Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered

    by Cecilia Rikap ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Economics of Innovation
    In contemporary global capitalism, the most powerful corporations are innovation or intellectual monopolies. The book’s unique perspective focuses on how private ownership and control of knowledge and data have become a major source of rent and power. The author explains how at the one pole, these corporations concentrate income, property and power in the United States, China, and in a handful of ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Digital Dominance

    The Power of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple

    Edited by Martin Moore, Damian Tambini ...
    Across the globe, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft have accumulated power in ways that existing regulatory and intellectual frameworks struggle to comprehend. A consensus is emerging that the power of these new digital monopolies is unprecedented, and that it has important implications for journalism, politics, and society. It is increasingly clear that democratic societies require ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • From Government to E-Governance: Public Administration in the Digital Age

    by Muhammad Muinul Islam, Mohammad Ehsan ...
    In simple terms, e-governance revolves around the idea of performing the policy, service and development functions of the government with the help of the ICTs so as to manage and steer the multi-sectoral stakeholder relations on a non-hierarchical way. Keeping this simple notion in mind, From Government to E-Governance: Public Administration in the Digital Age attempts to introduce innovative ... Read more

    $189.59 CAD

    PRE-ORDER

  • Better Data, Better Decisions: Towards Impactful Forest Monitoring

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Decisions based on data and analysis are often deemed to produce a better outcome and providing decision-makers with information is seen as an important development strategy. The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals reinforces the importance of science-policy linkages. In the forestry sector, efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) have created ... Read more

    Free

  • The Ecosystem of an Open Democracy

    by Mara Balestrini, Matías Bianchi, Pablo Collada, Sabrina Díaz Rato, Tomas Diez, Ricard Espelt, Mònica Garriga, Bernardo Gutiérrez, Cristian León, Eduard Martín Borregón, Antonella Perini, Thamy Pogrebinschi, Valeria Righi, Edgar Rovira, Francesc Badia Dalmases, Antoni Gutiérez Rubí ...
    Within the framework of “political experimentation”, a perspective from which to observe the vibrant development of political innovation in Latin America – and also in Spain -, we have published the serie of The ecosystem of an open democracy article. This is a Democracia Abierta initiative in collaboration with apps4citizens, a Barcelona-based platform that promotes the development of technology ... Read more

    Free

  • The Routledge Handbook on Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement

    Edited by Karin Buhmann, Alberto Fonseca, Nathan Andrews, Giuseppe Amatulli ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement (MSE) is both a concept and a management approach, drawing on a combination of theoretical and applied knowledge areas (e.g., impact assessment, business and human rights, and stakeholder theory). MSE has become a key element of corporate sustainability risk-based due diligence as a process that responsible business enterprises are expected to apply to identify ... Read more

    Free

  • Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle

    Strategies, Tactics, Objectives

    Edited by Robert Ovetz ...
    Series series Wildcat
    Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated. Rising from the ashes of the old trade union movement, workers' struggle is being reborn from below.By engaging in what Karl Marx called a workers' inquiry, workers and militant co-researchers are studying their working conditions, the technical composition of capital, and how to recompose their own power in order to ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus