Equal Opportunities International: Volume 26 Issue 8
Table of contents - Special Issue: Global knowledge workers
Guest Editors: Katerina Nicolopoulou, Mine KaratasOzkan, Ahu Tatli
Diversity learning, knowledge diversity and inclusion: Theory and practice as exemplified by corporate universities
Maike AndresenThe purpose of this paper is to present knowledge as an important diversity dimension in globally operating companies and to illustrate how companies with corporate universities…
Political support for women entrepreneurs: The EQUAL Community Initiative in Spain and Portugal
Manuela Pardo‐del‐Val, Domingo Ribeiro‐SorianoThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the application of EU programmes that seek to help women to set up their own businesses and discuss how public measures can help full…
Social positioning of equal opportunity actors in Austria
Manfred Auer, Heike WelteThe purpose of this paper is to explore the capacities of different groups of actors, who initiate, support, and control (known as equal opportunity actors) equal opportunities…
Is Indian software workforce a case of uneven and combined development?
Vigneswara IlavarasanThe purpose of this paper is to test the existing theoretical argument that the Indian software industry is a case of uneven and combined development by examining the workforce.
Cultural differences in motivating global knowledge workers
Ingo Forstenlechner, Fiona LetticeThe purpose of this paper is to present and discuss the findings of research into the different means of motivating knowledge workers to participate in and contribute to knowledge…
Exploring highly educated refugees’ potential as knowledge workers in contemporary Britain
Maria PsoinosThe purpose of this paper is to explore whether highly educated refugees have the potential to become active members of the UK knowledge economy and to identify what…
Disconnecting knowledge from the knower: The knowledge worker as Icarus
Jennifer AdelsteinThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how the knowledge work discourse has been transformed from a celebration of those who create knowledge to one of leaden prescription to…
Practising knowledge workers: perspectives of an artist and economist: PROFESSIONAL INSIGHTS
Katerina Nicolopoulou, Mine Karatas‐OzkanThe paper aims to generate insights into practitioners’ understanding of global knowledge work/workers by exploring the perspectives of an artist and economist.