Global poverty is a fundamental indicator in monitoring the world’s social progress. This chapter reviews the main issues arising in such measurement since its origin in the World Bank’s publications. Comparison with the parallel process of measuring poverty in the European Union provides...

In a world ruled by financial disclosure, the traditional overview of accountability and governance has neglected the extremely important role of management accounting and control. Enron, WorldCom and other major financial scandals redirected that focus. Management accounting and control...

This chapter explores the evolution of the media framings of a corporate corruption scandal over time. Our analysis focuses on the evolution of media frames used by the English and French Press in the coverage of the corruption scandal involving SNC-Lavalin, a Quebec-based multinational...

In discussing a future research agenda for research on men, masculinities, and leaderships, this chapter updates an earlier discussion by Collinson and Hearn (1994) by exploring some of the important new emerging research questions, informed by recent developments in critical studies on men and...

Since Barack Obama’s successful campaign in the 2008 US presidential election campaign, the term “microtargeting” has been a much-discussed topic in political science and communication studies. While this targeted use of collected citizen data is considered a best-practice example of...

Existing governance theories for projects struggle to explain inter-organizational settings. They either address hierarchical or networked structures, but not both simultaneously. This chapter presents the multilevel governance (MLG) theory as a framework for theorizing project governance in...

There is a need to take into account environmental factors such as national culture and policy when seeking to progress women’s workforce participation and advancement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). This chapter describes why this environmental scaffolding must be...

The application of network theory and social network analysis (SNA) to tourism and hospitality is recent. Nonetheless, several authors have been applying the method contributing to regional planning, local-level tourism networks, tourism policy and governance, innovation, entrepreneurship,...

Whistleblowing plays a crucial role in revealing organizational misconduct and systemic corruption in industry and government. This paper investigates changing practices of whistleblower activism, with particular reference to the role of solidarity and the increased role of support networks....