Introduction: The application of artificial intelligence (AI) can substantially enhance both short- and long-term decision-making in human resource management (HRM) practices. However, academic research fails to address the dark side of AI in confluence with HRM and primarily paints a bright...

A multilateral climate action approach enables national efforts to progress concurrently with, mutually agreed, global climate goals, and is a first step toward a global transition to a green economy. Climate change is a very complex socioeconomic challenge that cannot be resolved solely with...

The world is in a cold peace which is peace without being secure. At the heart of the cold peace is the competition between China and the USA. The cold war will not return because the old and new great powers simply are not as powerful as the old duellers at the start of the cold war. Other...

Social innovation aims to address social problems and needs that must be attended to regardless of economic odds. Portugal has developed a pioneering public policy to encourage entrepreneurship, social innovation, and boost the social investment market. The Portugal Social Innovation Programme...

Branding has long been recognized as one of the most powerful marketing processes that allow a firm to effectively set its offerings apart from those of competitors as well as to gain a competitive edge in the global marketplace. Scholars have made noteworthy contributions to this knowledge base;...

This chapter reviews the principal contributions of contingency theory to project management. The chapter begins with the review of different schools of thought in organization theory. Next, the contributions of contingency theory to project management are discussed. In particular, the chapter...

Industry 5.0 is referred to the subsequent industrialization. The ultimate goal of this transformation is to enable manufacturing solutions through collaboration with man and machine which are more user-friendly and increase work quality in comparison to Industry 4.0. This will be accomplished...

With the growth of income at the global level, the World Bank data show that there are rising levels of income disparity across countries, groups, regions and within the countries. This fact otherwise hints at the inter-country divergence in incomes, particularly between the developed and...