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COVID-19: A Catalyst for E-Commerce in the Food and Beverage Service Industry in Barbados?
Many countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by implementing stay-at-home orders, curfews, and lockdowns which severely stifled economic...
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Regulating Borrower Hardship in Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong: Payment Holidays During COVID-19 and Beyond
Borrower hardship, while a critical issue, is not often addressed by consumer protection frameworks across the Asia–Pacific. The widespread use of...
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Vulnerability to Multidimensional Poverty: An Application to Colombian Households
This paper analyzes Colombian households’ vulnerability to multidimensional poverty. For this purpose, we apply the vulnerability as expected poverty...
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No Pain No Gain: On Organization
To make innovative organizational structures be “just right,” a balance between structure and creativity should be reached. The role of the leader is...
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Who is Victimized by Fraud? Evidence from Consumer Protection Cases
This paper examines how fraud victimization varies across communities using data on victims from 23 consumer protection law enforcement actions....
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Guerrico
My Dad, Guerrico Mark Zuzarte, was known as Gerry. His parents, like many Indian families from Goa, immigrated to Karachi, Pakistan, to give their...
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Do Financial Barrier Beliefs About Marriage Predict Building Wealth? Latent Growth Curves of Emerging Adults’ Financial Barrier Beliefs, Assets, and Debt
Scholars have found that among emerging adults, financial barrier beliefs about marriage—like believing financial independence should be achieved...
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Anti-cheating protection measures in chess: current state of play
This article examines recent anti-cheating practices in the sport of chess with a focus on situational crime prevention. On the one hand,...
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Green Investing and Financial Services: ESG Investing for a Sustainable World
This chapter aims to explore the range of green investing and financial services developed largely over the past decades across the 2008/2009 global...
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The role of mobile characteristics on mobile money innovations
This study focuses on linkages between bank accounts and supply-side mobile money drivers for mobile money innovations. It seeks to understand how...
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The Foundation and Evolution of Powerful Geography in K-12 Education: An Introduction
This introductory chapter recounts the genesis of Powerful Geography through a historical perspective beginning in the 1980s with the development of...
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How Executive Functioning and Financial Self-efficacy Predict Subjective Financial Well-Being via Positive Financial Behaviors
Financial well-being is a desirable state as it benefits individuals, families, organizations, and society, and these benefits reach beyond the...
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Is Financial Capability a Determinant of Health? Theory and Evidence
Financial capability, the combination of financial literacy (ability to act) and financial access (opportunity to act), improves people’s access to...
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Participatory Irrigation Management: Barind Model – A New Sustainable Initiative
During the past 20 years, substantial efforts were made to improve irrigation Management-Operation & Maintenance (MOM) through introduction of...
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Stadiums as the Sites of the Political: The Case of Passolig in Turkey
Football stadiums regularly bring together tens of thousands of citizens in a very particular space and context, thus making political expression...
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Time, ties, transactions: temporality and relational work in economic exchange
This paper explores the intersection of time and relational economic sociology. Building on Viviana Zelizer’s relational framework, I argue that...
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Exploring the Married-Cohabiting Income Pooling Gap Among Young Adults
Recent studies have highlighted persistent differentials in income pooling (whether couples combine their earnings or keep their money separate)...
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Ritualized into adulthood: the scarcity of youth-focused rites of passage in America
This paper compares the physical, social, psychological, and legal developmental milestones experienced by youth that demonstrate their gradual...
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Is Sundarban coming out of abject poverty as the government pursues Sustainable Development Goals?
The abject poverty and low level of social welfare of nearly 5 million inhabitants of the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India, the westernmost part of...
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On the Need to Understand Human Behavior to Do Analytics of Behavior
Artificial Intelligence and data science are rapidly gaining importance as parts of decision support systems. As these systems improve, it becomes...