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...

This chapter provides a historical account of the use of mixed methods research (MMR) by examining publishing trends across the last three decades. An overview of the historic development of MMR is presented with an emphasis on key business MMR publications to provide the evolutionary context of...

Historical organization studies denote organizational research that draws on historical sources, methods and knowledge to promote historically informed theoretical narratives attentive to both theory and history. It thus aspires to dual integrity, whereby organization theory and history inform...

This chapter adopts a historical perspective to explore how governance intimately interconnects with both accounting and accountability. While governance issues have recently gained increasing attention, governance is a concept that has permeated various disciplines beyond economics and finance....

Executive Summary In this chapter, we introduce the history of critical thinking briefly, starting from Socrates to contemporary contributions. Based on this history, we derive several modules for training in critical thinking via practical exercises in critical thinking. Three classic critical...

The Circular Economy (CE) has emerged as an approach which promises to make compatible economic and environmental goals. However, the required changes towards a CE will not happen unless policies are adopted in order to spur them on. Different policy elements, including instruments, will need to...

The impacts of COVID and the response of policy-makers were studied for seven cities and regions in New York and Pennsylvania: one legacy city - Pittsburgh; two free-standing cities - Binghamton and Ithaca; and four multi-city regions - the Capital Region (Harrisburg, York, and Lancaster), the West...

This research work demonstrates the method of examining the influence of digitalization in social entrepreneurial perspectives. For this purpose, three major digital transformation domains, namely, blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services were considered. For all three...

"Imperialism" refers to the arrangement through which capitalism subjugates its pre-capitalist setting for obtaining commodities not otherwise available to it. Colonialism was such an arrangement; in today's world it is replaced by neo-liberal globalization. Globalization keeps down working...

The study of power is essential to any study of leadership, as power is fundamental to human organization and is understood to be a driving force of leadership. Power is typically thought of in terms of having dominance over others from a hierarchically higher position. In this chapter, we...