This chapter reviews selected research studies related to consumers’ retirement planning behavior. We examine the current status of consumer retirement planning behavior and discuss determinants of retirement planning behavior as well as studies on the outcome of retirement planning. Then, we...

In this chapter, to explore the past and understand the present scenario in financial market, a comprehensive literature review (LR) is performed, in which 809 articles from the database of Scopus for the last 10 years are extracted and analyzed using VOSviewer software for bibliometric...

This chapter uses investment data to visualize how entrepreneurial companies are growing in local economies, transforming Africa through technology leapfrogging in four countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. We adopt a broad definition of entrepreneurship that includes individuals...

Creating a mindset for research, including the development of professional research skills and critical thinking, is of the utmost importance in preparing students for the business world. To help faculty with this mindset, we discuss novel approaches for incorporating professional research and...

This chapter focuses on geography as an important context in which economic development - or the lack of it - takes place. After World War II geography departments were, generally without objections, abolished as academic subjects from the leading US universities. As with mathematics in chapter...

To manage workers in the gig economy, we must understand the various types of gig workers and how they perform. This chapter focuses on the many types of gig workers and how professional gig workers overlap with knowledge workers in the knowledge economy. The chapter will next go through the...

Despite growing interest in misconduct spillovers – where unimplicated bystanders’ stock prices, reputations, resources, and opportunities are positively or negatively affected by others’ misconduct – theory about spillovers’ antecedents has largely focused on industry or product...

This chapter considers the recognition of health and healthcare as a constitutional right from a formal and substantial point of view. It includes methodological reviews and empirical findings of the economics and social effects of including health as a constitutional right. First, we explore...