Centre for Human Settlements, University of British Columbia, Canada (Associate Partner)

EMERGENCE Canada

 Canadian policy responses to global sourcing. EMERGENCE Workshop April 15, 2005 (8:30 - 12:30), Ottawa.

EMERGENCE Canada is a Canadian Government SSHRC-funded project through the Ministry of Industry’s Initiative on the New Economy program that investigates the impact that information and communications technologies have on the changing nature of work in the new economy. In particular it investigates outsourcing of telemediated employment or ‘e-work’ between firms within Canada and between Canada and the rest of the world.

The project investigates the forces propelling outsourcing trends internationally, and directs its research results to Canadian policy makers, industry bodies and other organizations interested in the economic and social implications of the new global economy.

The primary goal of the project is to capture and document developments in e-work practices through qualitative case studies in every region in Canada as they reshape employment and industrial patterns domestically and internationally.

website: EMERGENCE Canada
 

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