Purpose Despite the growing amount of research on the social and organizational role of legitimacy, very little is known about the subtle discursive processes through which organizational changes are legitimated in contemporary society. The purpose of this paper is to explore the subtle...

Purpose This paper reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the...

This paper argues that impact and benefit agreements (IBAs) between Indigenous groups and resource companies are properly understood as a form of private governance. Viewing IBAs through a private governance lens generates important insights for both governance scholars and for scholars...

Experts advise governments as to common traits in human behavior that need to be taken into account when designing rules for situations of decision-making by individuals – for instance in the fields of health, retirement provisions, or education. »Choice architects« shape situations of...

Purpose – This paper aims to explain why Fairtrade International (FI), an organization committed to empowering the producers of Fairtrade certified products, at times (paradoxically), excluded them from its highest bodies of governance. A within-case study of Fairtrade's inclusive and...

This paper focuses on some new thinking and initiatives on public private partnership processes in tourism promotion and development, with reference to India. While tracing the nature of collaboration of the PPT type in general and that of tourism sector in particular, we analyze the nature and...

Islam from the very beginning has encouraged all those who claimed to have acquired new forms of knowledge and at the same time has stressed its dissemination in a fair system. Islam does not allow any violation against people's rights, whether material or intellectual. Therefore, it does not...