In this chapter, we assess Nomination Committees (NCs), building on the results of a study conducted in Iceland, a country where board gender quota and NCs have relatively recently been established. The study aims to explore NCs role in the selection process of corporate board members and...

Algorithms have long been touted as a cognitive cure for the limitations of human judgement and decision making and recently, we have witnessed an increasing proportion of both high_stakes and mundane decisions being augmented by algorithmic aids. Yet, in spite of the growing ubiquity of...

Women's bodies are abject and ‘out of place’ in organisations where (self and other) disciplining of women's bodies serve to regulate and silence women. Yet we know little about how expectations of body and appearance play out in the career decisions and everyday practices of women academic...

We review academic research on dual-sourcing (or dual-mode) dynamic stochastic inventory models, which study the replenishment of inventory from two sources (or two transportation modes) in the presence of demand uncertainty. The classic assumption, also adopted here, is that the two sources...

The increasing threat of global warming and climate change has been a major worldwide concern for more than two decades. As the achievement of sustainable economic growth has gradually become a major global concern both policy makers and researchers have given considerable attention over the...

Frequently, public sector reforms are justified with the use of consultant reports invoking economic theories and concepts. Such reports often have an impact on the use of spatially determined aspects of the promulgated reforms. Using a case method with the aid of Actor-Network-Theory and...

Research Background Fiscal and monetary policies are essential to the development of a capital market. In this chapter, authors present how fiscal and monetary policy in Poland evolved and adjusted to economic challenges in 1998–2022. It is worth noticing that the Polish economy and financial...

Despite various efforts to encourage knowledge sharing among talented employees in organizations, hiding knowledge from peers still occurs. Knowledge hiding happens when workers intentionally refrain from sharing knowledge requested by a colleague. Organizations need to understand why and when...

Embedding employers into the curriculum has been a hot topic in the Higher Education (HE) and graduate recruitment sector for many years. At the University of Liverpool we have curated a range of opportunities for embedding employers in the curriculum, which are centred around students’ active...

This study examines the importance of financial inclusion and financial literacy in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG 01) of reducing poverty within Asia. It highlights the significance of fostering financial inclusion and spreading financial literacy for economic prosperity in the...