Skills, Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Platform Era - Analyzing the New Reality of Professions and Entrepreneurship

This book brings together two important areas: the separate research topics of professions, platforms and entrepreneurship, and the various dimensions of what platformization means to work and to professions in contemporary societies.

List of contents

1. The Changing Relationship between Technology and Professions 2. Algorithms Changing the World 3. Introducing Platforms as New Economic Mode 4. Reconfigurations of Professions and Professionalism 5. Platformized Work, Entrepreneurship, and Professions 6. Social Media Influencer as a New Platform Profession 7. Platformization of Professions and Expertise 8. Towards Platformization as a New Social Order

About the author

Seppo Poutanen is Senior Research Fellow and Docent of sociology at the University of Turku’s School of Economics, Finland. He is trained both in philosophy and sociology, and his areas of expertise include metaethics, social epistemology, social theory, sociology of science and technology, gender studies, methodology of social sciences, and economic sociology. He has also worked as faculty fellow at Harvard University, Stanford University, and London School of Economics and Political Science.
Anne Kovalainen is an economic sociologist by training and Professor at the University of Turku’s School of Economics, Finland. She is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters. She has also worked as faculty fellow at Harvard University, Stanford University, and London School of Economics and Political Science.

Summary

This book brings together two important areas: the separate research topics of professions, platforms and entrepreneurship, and the various dimensions of what platformization means to work and to professions in contemporary societies.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Kovalainen, Kovalainen Anne, SEPPO POUTANEN
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032491981
• ISBN: 978-1-032-49198-1
• No. of pages: 188
• Weight: 272 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Business & Economics / General, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, Entrepreneurship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / General, Research & development management, Business mathematics & systems, Research and development management, Business mathematics and systems, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups