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The third decade of the 21st century brings new and expansive
global sustainability challenges. Managers, policymakers,
academics, citizens, and consumers will have to make seemingly
contradictory decisions to accelerate demand, and at the same time
promote savings. For this reason, it is necessary to clarify that
it is not a process of recovery but of regeneration, adaptation and
reprioritization. Regenerative and Sustainable Futures for Latin
America and the Caribbean: Collective action for a region with a
better tomorrow offers a systematic review of past efforts to
recover from global crises providing an analysis of the sustainable
development challenges faced by Latin America and the Caribbean.
Featuring contributions from researchers in seven different Latin
American and Caribbean countries, this volume reflects primary data
perspectives from government, business, academe and civil society
leaders in each specific country. Regenerative and Sustainable
Futures for Latin America and the Caribbean explores how to build
sustainable futures for Latin America and the Caribbean, presents
recommendations for policy and decision-makers to thrive
sustainable futures for Latin America and the Caribbean and
reflects on the value of collective action for a region that
deserves a better tomorrow.
Why do firms die? This volume seeks to explore international and
cross-disciplinary perspectives, if you like a forensic
examination, autopsy or post mortem of 'how and why' companies die.
This alternate perspectives flips the focus on survival, as all
existing firms are in truth survivors, to consider through the
metaphors of death, (with forensic analysis, autopsy, post mortems
and crime scene investigations) the lessons 'dead firms' might
offer. This book will contribute to the understanding of the
development, antecedents, processes and consequences of corporate
insolvency around the world. In general lines, insolvency is a
state in which the debtor is proven unable to pay corporate
debtors. We aim to explore the contemporary causes and effects of
corporate cross-border insolvency (CCBI). In the realms of
international business, CCBI could be mediated by events
experienced during the internationalization of the firm, which may
encompass a loss of capital, loss of revenue and loss of credit.
Managing diversity plays a crucial part in enabling every member of
the workforce to perform up to their full potential. Managers
demand satisfactory performance from every member of their
workforce and expect the best of their employees. But often,
diversity and its management are not viewed as clear contributors
to the organization's performance and bottom-line. Managing and
leveraging diversity are set aside from the rest of the
organization and hence, they are often undervalued amid all the
other barriers that companies face. Whilst there is no single
tried-and-tested "solution" to diversity and no easy way to manage
implementation barriers, this edited collection of case studies
from around the globe provides new insights for practitioners,
managers, students and researchers. The book seeks to shed light on
existing practices disseminating the value of diversity, whilst
opening the road toward a wider perspective on its definitions. The
contributors provide critical reflections of the current discourse
on different types of diversity in heterogenous organizations
around the world.
Nowadays, managing and promoting diversity is of paramount
importance to the future of sustainability and the political and
business agenda. Despite a tremendous growth in diversity
management scholarship in recent years, a strong tendency has
emerged whereby existing theories focus on a single level of
analysis, using a limited range of mostly Western research
settings, and on a narrow range of diversity types. Diversity
research has insofar focused on prioritizing visible forms of
diversity, such as gender or disability, with less emphasis placed
on diversity in culture and values internationally. This edited
book provides new practical and strategic insights for
practitioners, managers, students and policy makers; it delves into
the strategic nature of policy intervention with thought-provoking
contributions written by experts from around the world.
Contributors aim to provide critical reflection of current debate
areas on workplace equality and diversity in under-researched
countries to inform and support evidence-based decision making for
a wide variety of academic and practice-oriented stakeholders.
This handbook addresses the intersection between corporate
sustainability and digital transformation. It analyzes the
challenges and transformations required to be able to have
sustainable businesses with a future orientation. Topics include
current and potential social, demographic, technological, and
managerial trends; the implications of the digital revolution in
society and business; as well as the challenges of being
sustainable, and profitable. Providing an understanding of the
business reasons to incorporate a future orientation into the
business strategy, this handbook facilitates an understanding of
the need for profound changes in individual behavior,
organizational culture, public policy, and business environments to
adapt to the accelerated changes and manage business with
orientation to the future.
This volume explores the meaning of the Paris Climate Agreement
2015 for business; it analyses its challenges and implications, and
establishes required actions by the private sector in order to
reduce global warming and mitigating climate change effects. We
bring together evidence-based, conceptual and theoretical
contributions from a diverse set of geographical locations, and
disciplinary backgrounds on the meanings, implications,
opportunities and challenges for business around the planet in
relation to climate change.
This handbook addresses the intersection between corporate
sustainability and digital transformation. It analyzes the
challenges and transformations required to be able to have
sustainable businesses with a future orientation. Topics include
current and potential social, demographic, technological, and
managerial trends; the implications of the digital revolution in
society and business; as well as the challenges of being
sustainable, and profitable. Providing an understanding of the
business reasons to incorporate a future orientation into the
business strategy, this handbook facilitates an understanding of
the need for profound changes in individual behavior,
organizational culture, public policy, and business environments to
adapt to the accelerated changes and manage business with
orientation to the future.
Lessons from the Great Recession: At the Crossroads of
Sustainability and Recovery examines global cases of environmental
sustainability and economics in the context of nations from
multi-disciplinary perspectives. The book discusses the high costs
of decisions taken in response to the recent economic crises, which
as a result have created a lack of investment in environmental and
developmental considerations. This volume analyses the problems
faced globally as economies try to build a sustainable future in
the aftermath of the 'Great Recession'. The book observes concepts
of sustainability in the post-recession and post-bailout world
around aspects such as Fiscal / economic / social sustainability;
Financial sustainability (sector risks etc.); Environmental
sustainability. Chapters scrutinise the relationships between
nations and supra state agencies such as the UN, EU, IMF etc. in
the context of economic crises.
This book offers African, Asian, Latin American, European, and
North American perspectives on institutions and regulations
promoting sustainable economic growth in the post-2015 development
agenda in areas such as environment, labour, risk management,
corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, and
innovation. The chapters address sustainability issues at the firm,
national, regional and international levels from a
multidisciplinary perspective. The chapters of this volume address
the challenge of enhancing economic competitiveness of the supply
side economies while pushing a sustainable development agenda. This
work addresses the existing inequalities, environmental
degradation, and economic/financial instability under current
dynamics of international and domestic power relations in order to
meet the set objectives for the post-2015 era. This volume advances
the perspectives on the non-compulsory alternative to markets
regulations, the United Nations Global Compact, explored in the
previous volume 'The UN Global Compact: Fair Competition and
Environmental and Labour Justice in International Markets' vol. 16.
Since UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan launched the Global Compact
in 1999, over 12,000 organisations around the world have
voluntarily adopted and promoted its values and Ten Principles in
the areas of human rights, labour, environment and corruption. This
corporate citizenship initiative has been seen as a non-compulsory
alternative to international market regulations. Around the globe,
the UN Global Compact has promoted the creation of local and
regional networks for businesses to act together to mainstream the
Ten Principles. This edited volume brings together international
contributions on the specific implications for business when
embracing the Global Compact. Managerial, internationalisation,
legal, behavioural and sociological perspectives are explored in
this volume in which both evidences and theoretical developments
are reflected.
Advances in Sustainability & Environmental Justice Volume 12:
Principles and Strategies to Balance Ethical Social and
Environmental Concerns with Corporate Requirements brings together
a range of practitioners and academics from the world of business
who examine corporate social responsibility in policy and practice
in a series of case studies from across the globe. This volume,
co-edited by Dr. Liam Leonard and Dr. Maria Alejandra
Gonzalez-Perez, is the second in the series (formerly Advances in
Ecopolitics) dedicated to Corporate Social Responsibility within
the scope of international business. Both books in this pair of
studies bring together contributions from authors located in 13
countries in the 5 continents, and this second volume on the topic
specifically incorporates academic works from 21 researchers
representing institutions from Australia, Canada, Colombia,
England, Ireland, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Romania, and the United
States. As such, these studies represent one of the most
comprehensive collections on contemporary business practices in the
significant area of Corporate Social Responsibility.
This is the first in a two volume study of Corporate Social
Responsibility and corporate behaviour from around the world,
taking in viewpoints from five continents and over ten countries.
These case studies present a detailed analysis of best practice in
the corporate world in the areas of social ethics and community
engagement.
This PIBR volume examines a number of idiosyncratic elements in the
internationalization strategies of BRIC MNEs and, in particular, in
their relationship with home country policies: 1. The theoretical
challenge: do we need different or more specific theories of EMNEs
to assess the phenomenon of BRIC multinationals? 2. The empirical
challenge: what marks the changing position of BRIC countries in
the world economy? 3. The managerial challenge: with the coming of
age of a new breed of multinationals, what distinguishes BRIC
multinationals from other (emerging market) multinationals? 4. The
policy making challenge: what impact have MNEs from BRIC countries
had on their domestic economy?
This book seeks to revise and challenge the roles and traditional
realms of influence that national and local governments, and
businesses at a critical juncture in terms of achieving sustainable
development, faces when tackling the dual challenges of climate
change and post-COVID recovery. Using the broader lens of the 2030
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to assess the roles and
responsibilities of each of these stakeholders and their
relationships, the book offers policy, economic arguments, case
studies and examples to argue that neither national or local
governments, nor companies, could afford to deviate from the SDGs
in the recovery from the current crisis, nor that the imperative of
bold climate action should detract from the broader focus on
sustainability. The analysis frames the debate of how a balance
between people, planet, and profits can be achieved and how
nations, regions and cities, and businesses, with their
representative organizations, can achieve a sustainable recovery
from the current global crisis, and contribute to climate smart,
resilient and inclusive development.
This handbook, which serves as a follow-up text to The Palgrave
Handbook of Experiential Learning In International Business,
reviews theoretical and empirical approaches of experiential
learning pedagogy, and its role in increasing the effectiveness in
teaching and learning of international business, and also, in the
incorporation of international business-related concepts and
competences in business and non-business programs. This edition
offers a broader and updated perspective on experiential learning
pedagogy for international business and management, and beyond. The
first part provides an updated overview of the theories of
experiential learning and effectiveness of teaching and learning in
international business through the use of experiential learning
projects. Part two provides a collection of specific applications
of experiential learning in International Business and related
fields. This handbook is a one-stop source for international
managers, business educators, and trainers seeking to either select
and use an existing experiential learning project or develop new
projects and exercises of this kind.
This handbook, which serves as a follow-up text to The Palgrave
Handbook of Experiential Learning In International Business,
reviews theoretical and empirical approaches of experiential
learning pedagogy, and its role in increasing the effectiveness in
teaching and learning of international business, and also, in the
incorporation of international business-related concepts and
competences in business and non-business programs. This edition
offers a broader and updated perspective on experiential learning
pedagogy for international business and management, and beyond. The
first part provides an updated overview of the theories of
experiential learning and effectiveness of teaching and learning in
international business through the use of experiential learning
projects. Part two provides a collection of specific applications
of experiential learning in International Business and related
fields. This handbook is a one-stop source for international
managers, business educators, and trainers seeking to either select
and use an existing experiential learning project or develop new
projects and exercises of this kind.
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