A focused and successful organization is one where all decisions are made in adherence to a clear and effective strategy. Since projects are increasingly being used as the primary means through which organizations enact change and implement strategy, ensuring a clear link between the strategic...

Urban transport plays a key role in reducing climate gas emissions. However, public policies are developed and implemented in an increasingly complex, fragmented, and multilevelled society. This chapter focuses on how interactive political leadership can address challenges related to spatial...

Group lending is an innovation associated with the microcredit movement that many have pointed to as responsible for microcredit’s success in reaching millions of poor borrowers. We outline a number of theories about how group lending can make lending more feasible when collateral cannot be...

The aim of this chapter is to review and illustrate a step-by-step guideline in conducting fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) in tourism and hospitality studies. As an emerging method, fsQCA is simultaneously quantitative and qualitative in nature which makes it an appropriate...

As IT use continues to become more emergent, diverse, and complex we suggest there is often a need to understand its situated use. Getting close to technology enables scholars to problematise its use, better understand its contextual embeddedness and the diverse perceptions of actors, and...

With massive returns of predictive analytics in the 21st century, it has indeed become a need of each sector and industries are now heavily relying on predictive analytics to improve their decision making. This can further boost companies' profits along with offering ways to sustain their...

Global migration has become a major economic, political, social and cultural issue in recent years. Although many refugees are pushed into entrepreneurship due to blocked mobility, lack of financial capital and missing intercultural resources, asylum seekers and refugees have not been in the...

One can always blame that the pandemic has again revealed the weaknesses of our international governance. One can also blame governments for not being able to more quickly draw lessons from the Covid-19 crisis. Nevertheless, despite very different and uncoordinated agendas from various...

As professionals, tax experts hold a public interest mandate, although their understanding of how this plays out in their daily work is not always clear. Ethics are a core element of professionalisation, and yet tax work is often framed as a technical skill, rather than as a practice with...