This chapter explores the combination of Machine Learning (ML) techniques with discrete choice modeling. We adopt Box's loop, a framework derived from George Box and collaborators' work, to facilitate iterative experimental design, data collection, model formulation, and model criticism. This...

The aim of this study is to sensitize central banking, particularly monetary policy, to its social dimensions by generating a debate on the social implications of various monetary policy interventions. This study develops a conceptual framework for analyzing the social footprint of monetary...

Tourism and leisure experiences bring people together to socialize and form communities. This chapter conceptualizes member experiences within a particular interest or recreational community based on the neo-tribe theory. The neo-tribe theory is a sociological approach applied to analyzing...

This Chapter investigates the relationship between technological changes, labour market frictions, and firms’ labour market power. We provide guidance through the main trends that characterised labour markets during the last decades as well as through the literature on technology adoption,...

Circular economy (CE) allows for a new approach to economic growth (EG). The study focuses on the linkage between EG and CE in European Union member states. Several alternative model specifications were formulated and verified using the econometric panel model methodology. It creates an...

Buying online has become a widespread and common activity for consumers, and, for many organizations, e-commerce has become a very profitable alternative to sell their products and services, also allowing them to leverage their strategy in new geographical markets immediately. Although the...

This chapter explores the implications for HRM of changing business models for health and social care delivery. It addresses macro considerations for HRM research and practice. Using recent empirical studies in the US and UK, it addresses why and how new business models within health systems...

Abstract This chapter explores street art as a form of creative and cultural entrepreneurship from two perspectives. Firstly, in relation to placemaking during a pandemic (COVID-19) and secondly, from the experiences of the artist-entrepreneur, in terms of taking opportunities. Drawing on a...

Abstract This chapter explores how perceived product innovation influences brand loyalty among UK Apple users, extending the technology acceptance model. Using a quantitative approach, data were collected from 101 respondents via an online survey and analysed using SPSS. Objectives included...

Abstract In Canada today, Francophone minority communities (FMCs) outside Québec exist in every province and territory and cross all sectors of Canadian Francophonie (French-Canadians, Francophone immigrants, Francophone Métis as well as Francophile anglophones). Besides their linguistic...