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Journal of Business Research. Vol. 186 Abstract Employees are increasingly vocal about and attentive toward their organizations’ social policies and practices. Scholars have identified two main channels

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Niels Selling

I am a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies, an adjunct associate professor at Linköping University, and an adjunct professor at IESEG School of Management. I am a mixed-methods researcher w

Depending on your perspective, technological development has been saving us from drudgery, or destroying our livelihoods, for centuries. From the very first domestication of animals we’ve been finding