This chapter reviews the existing literature on the relationships between executive compensation, CEO turnover, and corporate performance in publicly traded Chinese companies. It also discusses promotion tournaments as an incentive mechanism and the role of ownership structure in shaping...

This chapter investigates how gender diversity affects firm performance in Europe, considering the role of national culture in shaping the nature of the relationship. We particularly focus on gender diversity at all levels of management and board. We analyse a cross-sectional sample of 54,472...

This chapter challenges the mainstream economic approach to climate change, which focuses on mobilizing privately managed money for climate finance. It shows that under money manager capitalism, market-based, financialized private capital has neither the incentives nor the right tools to provide...

A flipped classroom (FC) with experiential learning (EL) (FC–EL) is a topic of increasing interest in business education. However, there is a lack of FC–EL literature in marketing. This chapter aims to showcase the author's pedagogical experiences with an FC–EL and show its effectiveness...

This chapter provides an overview of the findings from this book. It summarizes the six key questions posed in the introduction, focusing on the main actors driving climate change mitigation and adaptation in the garment and textile industries, as well as the economic, social, and legal factors...

Perspectives on health as individualized and privatized capital can shed light on the construction of individual health and the inequalities in the interaction of users with health information systems. Capital denotes the resources available to an agent to produce a desired outcome, be it a...

This chapter explores the link between migration and innovation during the Age of Mass Migration, when over 30 million Europeans moved to the United States. Recent literature has linked the massive immigration flows of this period to the long-term technological and scientific development of the...

This chapter investigates how musicians utilise content creation-based social media platforms to become independent. Although the digitalisation of the music industry has seemingly eliminated the need for gatekeepers like record labels, musicians face challenges in being independent in reality....

Identity involves an individual's explicit or implicit response to the question ‘who am I?’ and involves all the components that they use to form a sense of self, including personality traits, appearance, individual characteristics, affiliations, beliefs, values and social roles. These...

The quality and quantity of academic work is increasingly becoming a managerial concern in universities. As a consequence, department heads are expected to engage in intensified individual performance management and conduct systematic performance appraisals. In this chapter we review research on...