The chapter aims to describe the main topics involving longitudinal research designs. The parameter is the answer to the question about the best way to collect and analyze data in organizations over time. The entire chapter will be anchored in theory, research design, and analysis of change. In...

This chapter describes the workforce trends in developed and developing countries, depicts the changes, and provides a road map for countries seeking to become a hub for professional workers. The roadmap outlined the factors that countries should consider in their strategic planning to succeed...

This chapter focuses on mapping the support initiatives available to ethnic minority women entrepreneurs in the UK. It compares the support provided by targeted initiatives to mainstream programmes in order to identify possible gaps. The study draws on evidence from previous research focused on...

This teaching case study examines how, in the mid-twentieth century, theater director Margo Jones made theatrical history by bridging divides between the NY-based commercial theater and the largely amateur theater across the rest of the US to craft a new hybrid logic for American regional...

Attempts to understand diversity in leadership scholarship, specifically aspects of gender and leadership have focused on gender as a variable rather than as a multifaceted construct. Traditional methods of research have placed quantitative methodologies on a pedestal for some time. While...

Research shows that, among other financial measures, nonprofits intentionally manipulate efficiency ratios, earnings, and revenues to appease funders, influence executive pay, avoid paying taxes or getting audits, and protect exempt status. They do this by manipulating cost allocations and...

Across the Western world (and gradually in Asia), people are ageing and reaching retirement, younger birth cohorts are smaller, and access to workforce is waning. Extending older workers’ careers may partially counteract these challenges, as advocated by OECD, EU, and UN, and national...

Are ‘new ways of working’ really new? Ongoing debates on new ways of working highlight the difficulty of reaching a consensus as to where novelty might lie in the so-called new world of work. While some ways of working appear as a radical change to some scholars and practitioners,...