This chapter presents a fictitious case designed to introduce students to the challenges involved in double materiality assessments. The case is targeted at undergraduate and master students, primarily intended for business and accounting students, but may be of interest to others. After...

This chapter examines how the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and marketing strategy can address critical global challenges, often termed ‘grand challenges’. It highlights the urgent need for transforming business models within organisations and business schools...

This entry focuses on negative consequences of organizational innovation (OI). Scholarly debates of OI have for long been almost exclusively occupied with attempts to manage innovation more efficiently. Moreover, the dominant academic understanding of innovation portrays OI as fundamentally...

This chapter explores the outcomes for employment relations from the continuing application of the principles of the marketisation of public services, influenced by the values and practices of New Public Management (NPM). The focus is on the UK where, despite NPM's influence, there is not...

The chapter starts by describing how my interest in issues of diversity stems from a normative framework centred on fairness and equality. It then focuses on three aspects of my experiences as Head of Department on the topic of inclusion and diversity. The first I call structural decoupling,...

The chapter examines the COVID-19 government response from the frameworks of administrative burden and ordeal mechanisms. Responses that will be explored include force majeure rules and how, on the one hand, the ghettoised nature of male migrant workers’ accommodation created both a public...

This chapter discusses the role of public sector entrepreneurship in business support service delivery, using the example of supporting rural businesses in Scotland, UK. The discussions differentiate the role of public sector entrepreneurship into operational activities as civil-political...

This study explores public-based strategic communication in public health crisis response and coping. Focusing on an often-overlooked area of relationship management research, this study examines different antecedents to organization-public relationships (OPRs) from the public perspective and...

This chapter discusses human resources (HR) in business turnaround. The chapter shows the role of Human Resource (HR) practices based on reactive and proactive HR turnaround strategies and actions supporting the turnaround process execution in Africa. It describes some turnaround tasks...

The nature of South African devolution and the intergovernmental fiscal framework places varying constraints on subnational governments’ capability to respond to climate change. Individual provinces and local governments present examples of climate innovation, and the National Treasury has...