Dr Sandra Williams, managing strategy director of the Governmental Public Infrastructure Society (GPIS), faces the daunting task of overhauling the organization's construction processes amid industry-wide challenges including labor shortages and declining productivity. Overseeing operations...

With increasing frequency, patent holders have made voluntary public commitments (pledges) to limit the enforcement of their patents without direct compensation. After introducing the background and market impact of patent pledges, this chapter focuses on the effect on patent pledges on the...

Underlying management theories are philosophical systems that are often assumed uncritically. Among these systems, some belong to Philosophical Modernity, such as rationalism and empiricism – the latter extended into positivism and logical positivism. American philosophical pragmatism has also...

This chapter demonstrates how Post-Keynesian Institutional economics enables an understanding of our climate emergency and can contribute to moving toward sustainability. After providing an overview of the climate crisis, the chapter introduces several core concepts of PKI to account for the...

This chapter highlights examples of support for female entrepreneurs in China and India, focusing on three types of programs: funding, training, and incubators or accelerators. Multiple examples illustrate the differences in programs catering to formal sector vs. informal sector entrepreneurs....

This chapter sets out and evaluates a summary of key debates in public sector entrepreneurship in collaborative delivery. Beginning by charting extant scholarship focused on public sector entrepreneurship and collaboration, the chapter examines distinctions between these debates and ideas of...

This chapter highlights a distinctive cohort of expatriates – religious expatriates and humanitarian expatriates. Anchored to the theoretical framework of calling, this chapter puts into the spotlight ‘calling’ as the unique feature for these expatriates. Specifically, this chapter...

The Internet era is significantly impacting the survival and development of China's enterprises, particularly in manufacturing. Customization has become essential for meeting the personalized needs of a new generation of users. The global digital industrial revolution, driven by advanced...

This chapter draws on the organisational significance of ‘gossip’ and a case study on gossip to illustrate the nature and practices of organisational ethnography. I illustrate seven different methods adopted by existing studies on gossip to indicate the possibilities of different research...

The study investigates how automated Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools affect science, technology, engineering, and medicine (STEM) education. Enhancing the standard of STEM education has extensively increased the need for STEM skills in the workforce. AI-based tools offer students the best...