Given recent corporate governance, strategy, and information systems literature, we propose that the digitalization of our economy can have consequences for the tasks for non-executive directors. Hence, firms now need digital expertise within boardrooms. This might influence overall board...

Creativity is a strongly context related, collective and collaborative task across multiple boundaries that are of immaterial and material nature. Numerous factors play a role in the emergence of creativity. Leadership styles and diversity have undoubtedly an impact on team creativity. Creative...

The chapter confronts two broad concepts of regional resilience and path dependence. The latter usually applies to technological development trajectories and institutional durability. It leads to the question of to what extent institutional ‘lock-in’ is a curse for regions and a constraint...

Project management and business case failures are common. Thus, the quest for critical success factors remains of interest to practitioners and researchers. Concomitantly, our perceptions and definitions of project success have been in flux for decades. Yet, a scan of much of the project...

Anyone who has recently watched television or movies can tell you that transgender, gender nonbinary or gender expansive people are becoming more visible in these media. This trend reflects the reality that younger generations are increasingly identifying with more fluid and nonbinary gender and...

The chapter starts with a review of the literature comparing first and second-generation models of fiscal federalism. The chapter then moves to explore the main trade-off between welfare and asymmetric information between first- and second-generation models of fiscal federalism. Next the chapter...

There is a growing interest in the use of HR-based Industry 4.0 technologies for equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) issues yet the emerging trends of Industry 4.0 in EDI implementations and interventions are not fully covered. This chapter investigates the emerging themes regarding EDI and...

Today, the need for renewable energy is rising steadily. Various steps are being taken by nations to address the rising need. The developments occurring in proportion to the industrial structures and economic levels of the countries, these efforts, the political structure of the country, some...

Evidence-based practice is a growing paradigm for improving practical results by informing professional recommendations and decision-making with the best available evidence. In social sciences, such as information systems, qualitative research results provide a valuable source of evidence to...