Abstract Fintech has revolutionized personal finance, introducing innovative tools that offer unprecedented access, efficiency, and security in managing finances. This chapter explains fintech's personal finance applications, from intuitive budgeting apps and advanced robo-advisors to...

This case study explores the challenges facing a non-profit small business enterprise called Pikala Bikes, based in Marrakesh, Morocco. It follows the journey of Cantal Bakker, a 24-year-old entrepreneur from the Netherlands, who identified the opportunity to start up a bicycle rental and tour...

This chapter traces poverty in developing Asia since the 1960s. The region became almost free of poverty, as called for by SDG1, before the Covid pandemic. The chapter also discusses the policies and strategies of Asian developing economies and the supporting role the ADB, the World Bank, and...

Abstract When making decisions about their future dream holidays, tourists often spend significant time thinking about future scenarios. This is an example of ‘mental time travel’, a process called prospection. The concept of prospection refers to human ability of ‘pre-experience’ the...

Abstract This chapter aims to highlight practices that ensure a livable climate and support the creation of a greener and more sustainable environment for community-based tourism in the case of Turkey. Green tourism needs to be improved and enhanced integrally from the perspective of tourism...

In this chapter we argue that a Simonian perspective on the origin, emergence and evolution of organizational routines remains underdeveloped and could offer valuable insights. Routines are artifacts, in the Simonian sense, and share properties of other natural and artificial complex artifacts....

Abstract While government is known to provide political guidance and exercising its executive function, it is also has regulatory powers through laws it enacts. In fostering sustainability, it is important to inquire how government's role can be innovated to facilitate sustainability,...

This chapter provides an overview of the trends and progress of research in robotic process automation (RPA). We first describe a summary of key research challenges presented in our seminal work in 2020. Next, we review the emerging research themes and progress of the research to address the 15...

Russian as a language culture is in a state of flux as it responds to, and subsequently embodies, various waves of systemic shocks, particularly in its economic and political systems. As its authors so eloquently state, this chapter reflects on how, along this path, the perception of business...

This chapter provides the country background, regulatory framework, institutional framework, and changing nature of the PPP market in Singapore. It first considers the rationale, structuring, and implementation of a successful desalination project. Singapore has implemented many PPP water...