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Karma Matters: Business Sustainability is Beyond Just Lasting!
By Jayantee Mukherjee Saha & Chris Rowley How can businesses remain sustainable? What is business sustainability all about? What are some of the impacts of globalisation on the sustainability of businesses? Can businesses draw lessons from epics of ancient civilizations? This article explores the idea of sustainability from an ancient Asian, karmic point of view [...]
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Confronting the New Reality: Globalisation, the Global Financial Crisis and the State
By John Farrar & David Mayes Globalisation and the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) have presented major challenges to orthodoxy. John Farrar and David Mayes discuss the implications of these challenges for the role of the state across the globe and argue that it is high time to confront our theory with reality. The Portuguese lawyer [...]
Fair Lending Compliance for Mortgage Lenders – An International Concern
By Anna DeSimone Both the U.S. and the European Union are addressing the problems believed to have created the financial crisis by heightening consumer protection in the mortgage lending sector. Regulations such as the Dodd-Frank Act (U.S.) and the European Standardised Information Sheet focus on the consumer’s ability to repay and hope to strengthen the [...]
The Impact of Hedge Fund Regulation: An International Perspective
By Douglas Cumming, Na Dai & Sofia Johan The success of a hedge fund relies on more than just internal structure and governance. The jurisdiction in which a hedge fund operates will also have a considerable influence on its performance. This article, based on the book Hedge Fund Governance, Regulation and Performance around the World, [...]
Implementing Smarter Cities Through Better Governance
By Joan Enric Ricart, Pascual Berrone, Juan Manuel Barrionuevo & Asun Cano Escoriaza Urban areas are facing great challenges as their socio-economic environments constantly change, their population increases and the competition with other urban areas strengthens. In order to respond to these challenges, cities need better governance and thus better implementation strategies if they want [...]
Regional Innovation: How To Be Smart, Sustainable and Robust
By Michele Mastroeni, Joyce Tait & Alessandro Rosiello The encouragement of innovation has been pursued by many different governments and levels of government, as innovation is seen as a source of economic growth. While there have been some successes, many policy initiatives have been disappointing. The latest approach to innovation policy being developed in Europe [...]
Smaller Cities Embrace Smart Specialisation – The Exeter Success Story
By Richard Ball Governments have recognised that cities are engines of growth critical to economic performance and national recovery in the current climate. The large conurbations naturally make the headlines as the “core” cities receiving support towards economic development, but there are smaller cities, which are comparatively and proportionately for their size, punching “well above [...]
Canadian Foreign Aid Enters the Twenty-First Century
By Stephen Brown For over 60 years, Western countries have continuously adjusted their foreign aid programs, often responding to changes in the international context (such as the end of the Cold War) or to new understandings of how best to achieve lasting results. At other times, though, donor countries’ new aid policies follow changes in [...]
Putting Research into Use (RIU): Technology Development for the Poor Farmer in Low Income Countries
By Norman Clark The Research Into Use programme aims to help agricultural research projects put its existing stock of knowledge into practical use rather than investing in new scientific research. In doing this, it hopes to increase the reach of the scientific projects in low-income countries and set up productive, sustainable and high impact technologic [...]
The Eco-Business Market Advantage
By Peter Dauvergne & Jane Lister “When sustainability burst onto the scene it was in the responsibility category, something that a company should do because it was the right thing to do. But now it is equally about saving money.”1 Worldwide, firms are looking for new ways to lower costs so as to stay competitive [...]
Karma Matters: Business Sustainability is Beyond Just Lasting!
By Jayantee Mukherjee Saha & Chris Rowley How can businesses remain sustainable? What is business sustainability all about? What are some of the impacts of globalisation on the sustainability of businesses? Can businesses draw lessons from epics of ancient civilizations? This article explores the idea of sustainability from an ancient Asian, karmic point of view [...]
Luxury and Sustainability: Trade-offs and Synergies in the Hotel Industry
By Annie R. Pearce, Yong Han Ahn, & Young Oh Choi The idea of luxury isn’t often associated with going ‘back to basics’. However, in response to environmental pressures and innovative design, the luxury industry is increasingly looking for a ways to offer its clients high-quality luxury with a low environmental impact. This study of [...]
A ‘Sigh of Relief’ at Davos: Confidence and Caution Shared Center Stage
By Michael Useem “Wharton management professor Michael Useem, returning from his 11th trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, reports that confidence in the global economy is back “in the world’s inner circles of business and policy.” But he also suggests that the challenge ahead lies in efforts to avoid the arrogance and excesses [...]
Law and the Technologies of the Twenty-First Century
By Roger Brownsword & Morag Goodwin The authors of Law and the Technologies of the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2012) examine both the challenges and opportunities that are arising regarding regulatory frameworks and emerging technologies, looking specifically at: prudence, legitimacy, effectiveness and connection. The twenty-first century, we can be sure, will be a time [...]
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