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Work-life advantage : sustaining regional learning and innovation / Al James.
Lippincott Library HD5109 .J36 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, Al, author.
- Series:
- RGS-IBG book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Flextime.
- Women--Employment--Psychological aspects.
- Women.
- Work and family.
- Organizational learning.
- Organizational change.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 232 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018.
- Summary:
- "This book analyses how employer-provision of 'family-friendly' working arrangements - designed to help workers better reconcile work, home and family - can also enhance firms' capacities for learning and innovation, in pursuit of long-term competitive advantage and socially inclusive growth"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 Inclusive Regional Learning? 1
- 2 Recentering Regional Learning: Beyond Masculinist Geographies of Regional Advantage 16
- 3 Work-Life Balance and its Uncertain 'Business Case' 38
- 4 Researching Labour Geographies of Work-Life and Learning in Ireland and the UK 67
- 5 Juggling Work, Home and Family in the Knowledge Economy 86
- 6 Overcoming Work-Life Conflict and the Gendered Limits to Learning and Innovation? 117
- 7 Work-Life Balance, Cross-Firm Worker Mobility and Gendered Knowledge Spillovers 145
- 8 Conclusions: Gendered Regional Learning and Work-Life Advantage 176.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: James, Al. Work-life advantage.
- ISBN:
- 9781118944844
- 1118944844
- 9781118944837
- 1118944836
- OCLC:
- 986236934
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