This chapter reviews the literature on consumer cash-flow management and budgeting behavior to comprehend how these concepts are conceptualized and operationalized. This chapter also discusses the antecedents and outcomes of consumer cash-flow management and budgeting behavior. It is found that...

Parties that sign the Paris Agreement register formal declarations known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), expressing intentions to implement policies to reduce emissions and reach the goals of the agreement. The chapter explores the results of an exploration of multi-level climate...

The idea of relating health, education and other social sector variables with growth and development, or trying to find any convergence among similar countries with respect to such macroeconomic indicators is the basic idea of this chapter, which explores the concept of enhancing welfare through...

The chapter describes how cooperatives access capital using credit and equity. The discussion is presented in a review of cooperative principles and how the law helped inform cooperative stakeholders about actual business practices. A broad historical framework of capital and the evolution of...

We define corporate culture as an informal institution typified by patterns of behavior and reinforced by people, systems, and events. Advanced measurement techniques involving computational linguistics and granular data on companies have allowed researchers to study the dynamics of corporate...

In continuation to Chapter 3, the present chapter tries to quantify the impact of credit upon GDP and HDI as the first attempt and the linkages of NPA and security investments with credit, GDP and HDI of the countries as the second attempt. For these purposes, this chapter starts with the...

This chapter aims to consider workplace spirituality from a cross-cultural perspective. The terms workplace spirituality and culture are so intangible, and both start with the attitude and behavior of humans but are meaningful in a community. Because of the constraint of understanding these...

Both cultural intelligence and culture agility are individual-level responses to being in a novel cultural context, such that people with these attributes are more effective in different cultures. There are differences in CQ and cultural agility, especially with respect to: (1) the role of...

Chapter Summary The rapid evolution of curation practices today is a response to expanded access to information and knowledge and the dynamic development of intelligent technologies well suited to curatorial practices. This chapter provides an overview of traditional curation theory and...

In this chapter, we construct dynamic currency networks using exchange rate correlations for 66 currencies for the period 1995-2018 to study currency centrality. First, we contrast the results from the minimum spanning tree (MST) and planar maximally filtered graph (PMFG) filtering techniques...