This research was conducted by Coaches and Mentors of South Africa's (COMENSA) Research Portfolio Committee (RPC) on behalf of the COMENSA board and the COMENSA Supervision Portfolio Committee (SPC). The purpose was to investigate how international and relevant literature defines supervision and...

Blockchain was introduced in 2008, yet it remains poorly defined over a decade later. Despite the lack of a universally accepted definition, its utility continues to be widely advocated. However, a function or feature can only be classified as a technology if it addresses a specific human...

In den letzten Jahrzehnten ging die Schere zwischen den Reichen und der übrigen Gesellschaft immer weiter auseinander. Vor diesem Hintergrund wurden Ungleichheit und Reichtum nicht nur von den Sozialwissenschaften und anderen Disziplinen als Forschungsthemen wiederentdeckt, sondern zuletzt auch...

Blockchain was introduced in 2008, yet it remains poorly defined over a decade later. Despite the lack of a universally accepted definition, its utility continues to be widely advocated. However, a function or feature can only be classified as a technology if it addresses a specific human...

Workplace cyberbullying has garnered significant attention, although the most focus has centred on its effects on work, related stressors, and consequences. Workplace cyberbullying has a detrimental impact on employees and undermines the effectiveness of information systems. It is crucial to...

The objective of Directive 2011/92/EU on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment (the 'Environmental Impact Assessment Directive', or 'EIA Directive') is to ensure that projects that are likely to have a significant effect on the environment are...

This paper aims to describe a highly pervasive and under-reported context-specific phenomenon of entrepreneurship, specifically in light of the rise in different types of entrepreneurial activities in Africa. Explicably, this paper accepts that entrepreneurship typologies are different across...

In the race for international leadership in the field of artificial intelligence, China has been in first place for years - both in terms of the number of AI research contributions and of citations. Since the publication of ChatGPT at the end of 2022 at the latest, this contradicts the general...

Die heutige Cyberversicherung markiert das Ende einer Entwicklung, die zu Beginn der 1970er Jahre ihren Anfang genommen hat. Der Umfang der Deckung hat sich seit der Einführung der Cyberversicherung zu Beginn der 2010er Jahre kontinuierlich erweitert. Neu und insoweit innovativ ist die Aufnahme...

We report on our test of the Large Language Model (LLM) ChatGPT (GPT) as a tool for generating evidence of the ordinary meaning of statutory terms, We explain why the most useful evidence for interpretation involves a distribution of replies rather than only what GPT regards as the single "best"...

Purpose - The aim of this paper is to clearly mark the clusters in the related literature using bibliometric analysis and draw useful implications for the academic research purposes especially in the stream of Supply Chain Management (SCM). Design/methodology/approach - By employing rigorous...

Purpose Human resource development (HRD) poses complex challenges for scholars and practitioners due to its elusive nature in definition, scope, and boundaries. Driven by lived experiences, this integrative literature review aims to explore the complexities of HRD, focusing on its...

Geld ist mehr als ein bedruckter Papierschein oder ein Eintrag auf einem Bankkonto: Es ist eine komplexe soziale Infrastruktur, die das Zusammenleben in modernen Gesellschaften in vielerlei Hinsicht ermöglicht und prägt. Woraus besteht diese Infrastruktur, und was an ihr ist politisch? Die im...

Despite the fact that family firms represent a large percentage of all firms worldwide, methodological contributions regarding their estimation are very scarce. This paper offers a methodology for identifying family versus non-family firms using the SABI Informa database (Spanish version of...

In der Betriebswirtschaftslehre werden Dienstleistungen gemeinhin als immaterielle Güter definiert. Der Beitrag verdeutlicht, dass es sich hierbei um ein grundlegendes, ontologisches Missverständnis handelt, bei dem Prozesse mittels Objektmerkmalen beschrieben werden. Der Trugschluss, bei...

This research was conducted by Coaches and Mentors of South Africa's (COMENSA) Research Portfolio Committee (RPC) on behalf of the COMENSA board and the COMENSA Supervision Portfolio Committee (SPC). The purpose was to investigate how international and relevant literature defines supervision and...

Dieses Dialogpapier adressiert die Rolle und Aufgaben von Hochschulen und öffentlich geförderten Forschungseinrichtungen im gesellschaftlichen Wissenstransfer. Das Papier richtet sich an Entscheidungsträger*innen und Fachleute in Politik und Verwaltung sowie in Hochschulen und in weiteren...

In the past years we have observed enormous adoption and use of digital technologies in almost all domains of human life. In this context, researchers and practitioners have been using the term “digital transformation” (DT) to characterize phenomena related to the changes caused by increased...

"Business Process Standardization" (BPS) is a practice intended to achieve consistency across underlying organizational processes, in support of service-delivery excellence and optimization of costs and benefits. Given the growing importance of BPS, there is need in both research and practice...

This entry in the online Global Dictionary of Competition Law defines the term trade secret: information that has commercial value to an organization due to its secrecy, is not known outside of the organization, and the continuing secrecy of which the organization has taken reasonable measures...

Affordable health care, insurance, and prescription drugs are priorities for the public and for policymakers. Yet the lack of a consensus definition of health affordability is increasingly recognized as a roadblock to health reform efforts. This Article explains how and why American health law...

With more than 4,000 research articles in 2022 the Circular Economy is clearly a topic that meets academic interest. With resource use at an all-time, unsustainable peak it is also a topic that raises great expectations: We need the circular economy.The great hopes that we all have are further...

ESG measurement, analysis, management, and communication is a process that the financial industry has turned into a product, resulting in many investment funds using the ESG label. This has caused confusion, generating demand for a framework that defines the objectives and characteristics of ESG...

This article aims to incorporate the essential features of capitalism in an operational definition that identifies capitalism per se (pure laissez‐faire capitalism), and clearly excludes variations such as welfare capitalism and crony capitalism. By concisely highlighting the fundamental...