Successive agrarian crises and stunted employment in industries have combined to create a crisis of work in India. The growth of the services sector has seen a rise primarily in informal employment. Informal work is often seen as the domain of the self-employed, of petty trade and small...

This case discusses the journey of SELCO Foundation, a Bengaluru based not-for-profit organization. It provides key learning and insights for social transformation and poverty alleviation. With the vision of “creating inclusive development pathways that were socially and environmentally...

The status of historical narratives in management studies is a key issue for the historic turn. While literary and management scholars are concerned with narrative analysis, historians focus on narrative composition. But the degree of narrativity differs in historical research, and recent...

The historical origins of (financial) accounting are strongly linked to accountability. However, in recent decades standard-setters have turned away from accountability and have instead highlighted the usefulness for valuation decisions of capital providers as the official objective of corporate...

In this chapter it is argued that there are notable parallels between the different strands within ethics on the one hand, and the discipline of accounting on the other hand that, in teaching, can be drawn upon to enhance students’ understanding of the latter. Accounting, part of economics,...

This chapter will focus on renewable energy investments in sustainable business projects from a strategic management and entrepreneurial perspective. It will be questioned what the concept of energy is/should be from the perspective of managers and entrepreneurs. For this purpose, it will start...

Need of the Study: Digitalisation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) is changing at a swift pace, significantly uplifting the role of information technology. The present human resource (HR) aspect transpires AI-based resolution, are gradually more effective with HR process,...

Ageism refers to the systematic, cultural devaluation of agedness and concomitant discrimination against older adults that is endemic to Western industrialised societies. Age-based discrimination is expressed through the numerous, taken-for-granted, negative stereotypes that equate oldness with...