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Purpose orientation: An emerging theory transforming business for a better world
Why are leaders rethinking their fundamental profit orientation and charting paths to broader strategies with societal goals based on “purpose”? More...
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TBM in Organizational Development: Case Study Financial Service Industry
I have already given you a general overview of the insurance industry and the driving forces it is subjected to. Now, however, it is time to take a...
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Mediation Analysis in Experimental Research
This chapter introduces the conceptual and statistical basics of mediation analysis in the context of experimental research. Adopting the respective...
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Burnes, Bernard: Choices, Contexts, and Changes
This chapter sets out the contribution of Bernard Burnes, currently of Stirling University Scotland, as a “great” in the theory of change management....
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Job Disruption
Presentation of the threats to work by type (full automation, skills downgrading or enhancement) as well as potential substitutes to employment...
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Contingency and Choice in Organization Theory
The organization can be considered as a system to be built to provide responses in relation to all internal and external factors by which it is...
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Change Dynamics
The intention to change is never enough. There are limits to one’s willpower and desire to do something that we claim is important. There are so many...
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Investigating the relationship between top management commitment, supply chain collaboration, and sustainable firm performance in the agro-processing supply chain
This study aims to assess the relationships between top management commitment (TMC), supply chain collaboration (SCC), and sustainable firm...
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The Discerning Capacity of Generative Leaders: Achieving Success Flowing with Synchronicity Moments
Five people in leadership positions in two Midwest higher education institutions were selected because of their familiarity with synchronicity...
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The Hero and the Sherpa: Your Guide Through Life’s Challenges
Joseph Campbell got it right. There is one universal path that leads through all of life’s challenges. In The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Campbell,...
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In Command of Guardians
This chapter introduces the philosophy of servant leadership to those responsible for a community of emergency responders. This introduction...
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Transparency Is (Full) Disclosure in Corporate Governance
Corporate disclosure and reporting of information has become synonymous with transparency which in discourses idealising its value is part of the...
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China’s Economic Transformation
The biggest impact of economic globalization on China is that it has been pushing the economic and social transition in China for over 30 years.
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Workplace pro-environmental behaviors in small and medium-sized enterprises: an employee level analysis
Employees spend much time in the workplace; however, most research have not examined employee’s workplace pro-environmental behavior in small and...
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The Korean Wave Before and After a More Digital Post-pandemic Era
Part II begins with this first overview chapter. It has five sections. The first section is an introduction to the Korean Wave and how it has been...
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Impulsivity Makes More Susceptible to Overeating After Contextual Appetitive Conditioning
The prevalence of overweight and obesity has been rapidly increasing, adversely affecting quality of life and leading to increased health care costs...
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Financial Applications
In this chapter, we shall study some applications of linear programming to problems in quantitative finance.
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Theory—Theoretical Approaches to Complexity
These attractors exist in an abstract world, referred to as phase space. To navigate in such a phase space, one needs ‘maps’. Maps allow the mind to...
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Financial and social sustainability in the European microfinance sector
This paper investigates the balance between social and financial sustainability goals in the European microfinance sector using an original dataset...
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When Bigger Is Not Better: Moses the Shepherd
Leading a herd of sheep is one thing; driving a million people across a desert is another or is it? Moses is arguably the most critical leader in the...