Concerns over the causes of climate change are at historical high and all types of organizations are undergoing a deep scrutiny over their wider economic, environmental and social impacts - project organising arrangements are no different in this regard. Embedding sustainable objectives in...

NEOLAiA is a close-knit alliance of nine young universities based in European regions. The alliance develops the principles of European University Initiative within the Erasmus+ programme. The chapter aims to offer an insight into the strategies and activities the alliance has been implementing...

At first glance, platforms are but a small cog in the gig economy, pairing consumers looking for a particular service with a suitable entrepreneur willing to complete the task. Algorithms take into account a wide range of relevant factors, from the quality of previous work and current...

This chapter examines various definitions and perceptions of Research Management and Administration (RMA) from individuals both from within and outside the profession to gain a wider understanding of this field. These definitions and perceptions are expected to trigger reflections on where the...

Every poverty measure should take into account three poverty components; the incidence of poverty, the intensity of poverty and the inequality among the poor. It would be very interesting if all poverty measures could be decomposed as a function of these three poverty terms. If this is the case,...

The global pandemic and the economic downturn have raised scholarly and practical concerns about project resilience. The growing literature on resilience management in projects calls for research on improving project resilience through governance measures. In this chapter, we theorize resilience...

While the rest of the world focused on girls' issues around education, girls' victimization in the family, girls' problems with sexual assault and harassment, and girls forced into early marriage, the US seems curiously mired in a series of media-driven moral panics about girlhood. The last few...

The chapter examines the economics literature on worker cooperatives, with discrepancies between the theory and empirical evidence, as well as practice. The economic theory of worker cooperatives has been built on the assumptions of neoclassical economics and new institutional economics, which...

The chapter aims to provide an overview of organisational structures in Research Management and Administration (RMA); in doing so, the chapter moves from explaining main sources of knowledge – broadly on HE Management (HEM) and specifically on RMA – to assessing institutionalisation and...