With the rapidly growing importance of sustainability and corporate responsibility in a globalized world, management schools are increasingly integrating long-term economic, environmental and social issues into their teaching and research. Climate change, poverty, labour standards and human...

Tourism is the main economic activity in some small islands that have became very dependent on this activity. Sun and beach destinations are characterized by high levels of seasonality, with consequences on unemployment, economic activity diversification and GDP per capita. This paper analyzes...

Die Globalisierung verwandelt politische Machtverhältnisse. Die Regulationskraft der Nationalstaaten ist- tendenziell wieder abnehmend, das Gewicht Fakten erschaffender international agierender Firmen und Konzerne und der Stimmen anderer nichtstaatlicher Akteure hat zugenommen. Die...

While multi-stakeholder partnerships are emerging as an increasingly popular approach to address grand challenges, they are not well studied or understood. Such partnerships are rife with difficulties arising from the fact that actors in the partnership have different understandings of the grand...

This article argues that considering crosssector collaborations through the lens of indigenous corporate engagements yields a more comprehensive understanding of the range of cross-sector engagement types, emphasizes the importance of cross-cultural bridge building which has received little...

This study explores whether absorptive capacity, one of the most important concepts in the literature on inter-partner learning and innovation in alliances, can be directly transposed to cross-sector alliances. The results of the analysis suggest that current models of absorptive capacity only...