In general, emerging economies' central banks generally respond to financial or external crisis by stemming massive capital outflows. The resulting sharp currency depreciation forced central banks in emerging economies to tighten monetary policy abruptly. However, during the COVID-19 crisis the...

Adult learning has been significantly impacted by the massive open online courses (MOOCs). All the preceding literature have mentioned about MOOCs. The current study, however, aims to look into how the MOOC has affected higher education. This study looks into how MOOCs have affected higher...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic recession are the most recent major shocks to reveal deep inequalities present in cities and towns around the world, including in New York City. In this context, we seek to understand vulnerability across the city through a neighborhood lens, by...

The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to review net neutrality and the notion that bright light rules are necessary to hold broadband providers from exercising market power. The 2015 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Open Internet Order asserted that broadband providers have the...

Organisations are increasingly under pressure to deliver on their promises of corporate sustainability. One approach is to enhance sustainable choices in the workplace. This chapter compiles knowledge from 51 articles (70 empirical studies) on behaviourally informed interventions (nudges)...

The Volkswagen (VW) emissions scandal was one of the largest examples of organizational wrongdoing in corporate history, costing the firm immense damage to its reputation and over $33 billion in fines, penalties, financial settlements, and buyback costs. In this paper, we draw on the concept of...

The organization of complex projects relies more than that of simpler ones on institutions. Neo-institutional theory, not only the most popular branch of institutional theory, but also of organization theory more generally, has for decades emphasized the role of institutions, internal as well as...

This chapter explores how department stores came at the end of the 19th century to be at the origin of what is now called “fashion tourism.” Contributing to a new “geography of commerce,” it highlights the role of the space of the department store both as a place of conspicuous fashion...

This chapter traces the history of the oral history genre; discusses definitions; reconstructs the major debates on the process and nature of interviews; and addresses its evolution through modern technologies. It also presents the advantages and challenges of using this source and method for...