This chapter aims to offer insights into critical issues facing business schools for RME, by analyzing mission statements and websites in 15 US business schools accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and located in universities that have participated in...

This chapters discusses the power structures affecting access to healthcare and the quality of received care including factors like gender, ethnicity, social and economic status among others from an intersectional perspective. Structural changes are necessary to decrease the health inequalities...

The concept and analysis of the labour process lies in the heart of Marx's 'Capital: A Critique of the Political Economy'. In this perspective, analysing the labour process starts with understanding both labour and capital as historically specific social relations. The focus is on understanding...

The Waorani are an Amazonian indigenous nationality with a population of 4,000. They inhabit three provinces of Ecuador: Pastaza, Napo and Orellana, and their ancestral lands contain a wealth of natural resources, which attracts the onslaught of the processes of extractivism. Significant social...

This chapter explores the ethical education of economists. English philosopher and scientist Alfred North Whitehead’s influence on John Maynard Keynes’s economics is well established. What has received less attention is Whitehead’s metaphysically based philosophy of education and how it...

Purpose: To analyse the acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI) operations and robotic process automation (RPA) by comparing its market size and revenue worldwide during the pandemic and, measuring the impact of AI investment levels on jobs human resource functions, and analysing the role...

This chapter aims to advance the dialogues between academia and economics on gender gaps in organizations, identifying the progress that has been made in this area in Latin America and the challenges that remain,in accordance with the provisions of the Sustainable Development Agenda. The...

A growing number of multinational enterprises (MNEs) are engaging with the United Nation’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) and trying to link the SDGs to their foreign direct investments (FDI). They are searching for ways in which they can contribute to the economic, social, and...

The environmental performance of organizations has come under public policy limelight since the phenomenal increase of natural resource degradation and industrial waste. Thus, green concepts have been put forward, but the implementation of green practices faces many barriers and challenges....

This teaching case study examines how Beau Bledsoe, a guitarist in Kansas City, Missouri used the features of a portfolio career to create an enduring artistic practice that changed and adapted along with changes in the industry and his personal circumstances over the period of three decades....