Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a comprehensive framework for understanding developmental processes and outcomes. Goal 12 focuses on “ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns.” Policies focused on formalizing and “modernizing” agricultural value chains seek to...

This chapter examines the global inflation surge that accompanied the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing the role of international factors. It attributes the inflation primarily to a global scarcity of tradable goods, driven by supply chain disruptions and increased demand for...

This chapter applies the comparative method to accounting for the public sector. It outlines a five-step framework that can assist researchers in designing comparative studies. Such studies compare and contrast research objects in two or more different settings characterised by their respective...

Subnational governments (SNGs) are important actors in climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as in managing responses to climate-change induced natural disasters. Given the climate change targets enshrined in the Paris Agreement, this chapter argues for place-based decarbonization...

Employment relations scholarship highlights the importance of collective bargaining as a mode of regulation which has the potential to influence gender equality outcomes. However, it can also entrench gender inequality. This chapter shows that traditional pay bargaining reproduces gender...

In this closing chapter of this handbook, we sketch out some possible extensions and themes for future research based on the contributions made by scholars represented in it. We discuss three elements of situatedness – individual, context, and business – and how they might inform future...

The increasing role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) for strategic stakeholder management and marketing is a key theme in the literature. Drawing on organizational, stakeholder, and institutional perspectives, this chapter develops an umbrella metaphor to explain how CSR activity meets...

Abstract: Control mobility and confinement measures were the main mechanisms used to contain the pandemic in Ecuador. The impact varied due to income level, access to services, resources, job stability, the possibility of working from home, location of housing, and migratory status. They had a...

This chapter addresses new scientific pathways following the quantitative revolutions in geography and regional science. We observe the rising popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) – specifically machine learning (ML) techniques – in geography and regional science. This chapter sets out...

The role of management in universities has become more complex over the last decades because of changes in legislation, economy, student intake, introduction of new performance indicators for research quality/relevance and output, etc. The Bologna process of making the policies of higher...