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This volume is unique in being the first edited book on gender issues in transnational business corporations concerning knowledge work. The globalization of technical work, and collaborations between business partners in the global IT industry, has so far been researched mainly by organizational theorists, with their background in business studies, finance, communication, or sociology, and gender has seldom been taken into account in these studies. There is thus still a void when it comes to studies of gender relations in the globalization of qualified technical work and of how gender relations are changed and reproduced in the context of professional interaction, virtual or face-to-face, between women and men from the East and West, respectively.
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Peterson, H., Salminen-Karlsson, M. (2017). Introduction. In: Peterson, H. (eds) Gender in Transnational Knowledge Work. Crossroads of Knowledge. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43307-3_1
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