This study investigates the efficient market hypothesis and its implications for securities trading and markets. The emphasis is on active and passive management of funds in securities trading (stocks, bonds, mutual funds, forex trading, commodities, and cryptocurrency). It also looks at how to...

Occupations involving death work, such as funeral directors, police officers, and hospice nurses, engage in various supportive, therapeutic, or remedial tasks in response to death, interacting with the dying, the deceased, and the bereaved. These characteristics lead death workers to experience...

Employee-driven innovation (EDI) shifts the focus from traditional top-down approaches to innovation by actively involving employees at all levels in the generation and implementation of new ideas. Unlike conventional models that centralize innovation within upper management, EDI leverages the...

The concept of self-help groups (SHGs) in India can be traced back to 1972. They appeared for the first time in 1975 as part of the Gramin Bank program in Bangladesh, which Dr. Mohammed Yunus, a Nobel laureate, launched. These groups are voluntarily organized assemblies of people who work...

The chapter explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven conversational agents (CAs) can help address service exclusion and improve access for marginalized populations, including the elderly, people with disabilities, and migrants. Focusing on specific Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),...

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...

One of the most widely used frameworks for leadership development on college campuses is the five practices of exemplary leadership. This behavioral approach to leadership focuses on individual actions that can be developed with intentional practice. Empirically based, the five practices include...

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...