This chapter examines research in the context of the relationships that are established with the consumer, creditor, and courts in personal bankruptcy. A conceptual framework is used to discuss the consumer’s relationship with the creditor and how each of these players’ use of the court...

Since female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) entered the wider Western consciousness in the 1970s, feminist debates surrounding these practices have wrestled with the tensions between recognising the specificity of women's experiences of oppression and challenging gender-based violence (GBV)...

This chapter introduces a new technology life-cycle indicator that measures the stage of maturity of green technologies. The life-cycle heuristic is used to investigate the geographic dimension of green inventive activities and to map them across European regions according to the maturity of the...

This study explores international development partnerships that focus on promoting learning, innovation and skills development in the Global South by addressing the spatial performative effects of such organizing processes. The field of international development aid work usually tries to...

School-level leaders should not be expected to be mired in emotional turmoil and sacrifice their own health, happiness and well-being to do their jobs effectively. While the emotional aspects of school-level leadership have continued to evolve and become increasingly complex since the turn of...

This chapter develops an integrated model that encompasses four aspects: (1) face-to-face (F2F), (2) online teaching, (3) massive open online courses (MOOCs), and (4) the combination of Western, localized , and indigenous knowledge to provide blended entrepreneurship education. The model...

Firms in emerging economies vary greatly in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagement. To extend research in this field, we draw on resource dependence theory to hypothesize the association between board of director international experience and CSR engagement in 238 firms in three...

The infamous gap existing between academia and industry has its root causes in the different approaches, methods, goals, and funding modes that these two worlds follow. Researchers are striving to increase the impact of their work in the ‘real-world’, while industry partners are looking to...

Business models for sustainability is an emerging research field that has been gaining attention among scholars and practitioners in recent years. Business models for sustainability are fruitful tools that organisations can use to create and deliver value for a wide range of stakeholders...

Insecure work has become increasingly frequent in recent decades. It includes insecure employment contracts (contractual arrangements that deviate from permanent, open-ended contracts) as well as perceived job insecurity (an individual perception that one’s job is at risk). While research on...