Although migrant entrepreneurship has existed for many decades and has contributed to various economic dimensions, it has not been thoroughly investigated, and the theoretical underpinnings that can explain migrant entrepreneurship lack clear articulation and argument. The overarching aim of...

Abstract This chapter examines mobile payments and digital banking services. The past decade has seen a rapid increase in the use of alternative payment systems, away from cash to electronic payments. The digitalization of payments includes business-to-business (B2B), customer-to-business (C2B),...

Modern Money Theory (MMT) is part of a generations-old dissenting tradition that has challenged conventional, “commodity-exchange” models of finance by documenting money’s origins in credit and its anchor in state power. Defenders of the conventional wisdom have generally responded to...

Abstract This chapter examines possible regulatory updates to address the challenges of monetary sovereignty and singleness of money. These two challenges are particularly pertinent to the new means of payments enabled by the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT). These new means of payment...

I want to show that money in capitalism is radically different from all its previous forms because money becomes a measure that quantifies “pure social relations” (Marx). The measure is essential to constitute the same social objectivity and totality that it mediates and for which it, by...

Coworking spaces provide opportunities for social interactions, which may lead to various forms of collaboration. The objective of this chapter is to study coworkers’ internal (linked to individual motives) and external (driven by the social atmosphere of the place and the relationships with...

This chapter describes a traditionally in-person, one-semester undergraduate econometrics course and covers the modifications made to move the course online for one semester during the COVID-19 pandemic. I detail the pedagogical reasoning for the changes and provide an anecdotal comparison of...

One in six people globally are affected by infertility, and many turn to fertility treatment in a bid to have a child(ren). While many countries offer work-related legislative protections and provisions for those who are successful in conceiving a child, in the form of maternity and...

Abstract Data from international journals show that woman* and other minorities continue to be drastically underrepresented in the music industry worldwide and in the electronic music industry in Europe, Canada, and Quebec. Recent work focusing on the contributions of female electronic music DJs...

Purpose In this chapter, we aim to investigate the emotional and performance consequences of negative feedback in the workplace and provide an explanation for the varying reactions exhibited by employees. Study Design/Methodology/Approach We adopt a theoretical approach to develop propositions...