This chapter focuses on the unique nature of cryptoassets and blockchains to examine how their characteristics influence crime, crime prevention and crime investigation. It further examines policymaking, legislation and enforcement around these topics and studies past cases of criminal activity...

This case study follows Sam and Andy, two former fast-food managers who transitioned into the startup world by creating an employee shift-scheduling app. Initially fueled by enthusiasm and misconceptions from TV shows like Shark Tank , they faced early struggles due to a lack of customer focus....

Information systems play a crucial role in the field of education, facilitating the management, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information. This chapter explores the intersection of information systems and education, examining the various ways in which technology has transformed the...

Our leaders in government face a permanent churn of issues, events, and circumstances that they need to negotiate and address with examples including a global pandemic, economic uncertainty, rising violence at home and abroad, the impacts of climate change, and the shift toward a more polarized...

With the market reforms of the 1990s, business studies in India came to be viewed as a very aspirational program of study from the 2000s onwards. However, contemporary business (B) school pedagogy and culture remain very disconnected from the social realities of the region. It has, in fact,...

The chapters in this volume cover a wide range of issues related to climate change and the proven and prospective roles of decentralized actors in intergovernmental systems to respond to its causes and effects. Many authors underscore that developing a comprehensive and synthetic analytical...

This chapter presents a methodological exploration into an innovative scenario-building approach, emphasising the development of a non-traditional reference scenario that actively incorporates uncertainty. This exploration is key in addressing the critical gap between the theoretical robustness...

External funding is playing a more and more crucial role for departments and universities and is increasingly shaping the organizational discourses and research practices at departments. Looking at departments as ‘the shop floors’ of universities, I present an alternative approach to...

This chapter provides an overview of the main points made in the debates about values in economic research, and it highlights five philosophical perspectives on non-epistemic values in economics that can be identified in these debates. Distinguishing between these perspectives is a scholarly...