The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a framework for promoting sustainability, following the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which struggled due to limited public awareness and understanding. Introduced in 2015, the SDGs aim to advance global development, with Goal 4 focusing on...

The current discussion on business and human rights (BHR) is dominated by two distinct approaches: the managerial approach to BHR is corporate-centric and based on a managerial paradigm; the compliance or corrective approach, on the other hand, adopts a state-centric outlook and is based on a...

Banking has changed radically. Deregulation and digitalization shape the way services are conceived, produced, and delivered to customers. Incumbents must reinvent themselves and develop resilient business models. The chapter starts by highlighting the lessons learned by undertaking a...

The chapter aims to demonstrate how blockchain technology can benefit different categories of citizen participation and how this can be an integral part of smart cities. The public blockchain is generally better suited to democratic purposes, as the public domain is likely to increase trust....

This case study explores Melissa's journey as a female entrepreneur navigating the socio-normative and institutional barriers of rural Southern Bavaria, Germany, and later expanding her business in Glasgow, Scotland. Initially pushed into entrepreneurship due to patriarchal societal structures,...

This is a teaching case study that describes the differences between a benefit corporation as a legal entity type and B Corp certification through B Lab and explores the concept of the triple bottom line. It also examines how Brattleboro Savings & Loan as a certified B Corp mutual bank impacts...

This chapter examines the relationship between cities and institutions, highlighting their interdependence and impact on each other. Cities are complex systems that exhibit self-organization and non-linear scaling properties, while institutions co-evolve with the built environment, shaping and...

In this chapter, we study the nexus between class privilege and social inequality through management education. To do so, we conducted exercises with management students at an elite private business school in the Global South (i.e., Pakistan) with the specific intent to invoke reflexivity among...

This study conducts a descriptive analysis of contingent contracts for entrepreneurial firms listed on China's New Third Board (NTB) between 2013 and 2017. A contingent contract refers to an agreement between an entrepreneur (or their company) and an outside investor that confers certain...

Lack of stable and remunerative employment opportunities results in socioeconomic precarity. A nation can mitigate socioeconomic precarity when the investment triad of household units, government agencies, and business corporations develops and utilizes its productive capabilities. Within the...