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Business and Cimate Change: Key Challenges in the Face of Policy Uncertainty and Economic Recession

Climate change is seen as the most pressing environmental problem of our time by many companies, policymakers and other stakeholders. It is currently also at the forefront of attention in view of attempts to conclude a successor to the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012.

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Female Directors on Corporate Boards Provide Legitimacy to a Company - A Resource Dependency Perspective

This study addresses the research question why some companies do and others do not have women on their boards. This study provides evidence on the organizational characteristics that affect the likelihood of women being appointed

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Creativity and the Practical Innovation Process, a Driver of Competitive Advantage

This article reviews the relationship between creativity and innovation. It includes practical behaviours and techniques which can support creativity in the workplace

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Network Effects - Managerial Implications and Recent Trends in the Empirical Literature

Network effects, the increase in value of consuming a product if many other consumers use the same product, are a feature of many markets and in particular of many markets of high-technology products. This paper discusses managerial implications of network effects

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The Development of India's Small Car Path

This paper explores the emergence, consolidation and challenges to India’s small car path in the passenger car industry. The paper shows that this path can only be properly understood if we consider the interplay of a wider range of context conditions, including political, social, economic and infrastructural conditions

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Entrepreneurs in Organised Crime

Organised crime by criminal entrepreneurs is not a new phenomenon. Felsen and Kalaitzidis (2005) describe historical cases such as piracy, slavery and opium smuggling

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Sustainable Finance, Corporate Social Responsibility and Socially Responsible Investing

This paper focuses on the development of terminology, concepts and instruments to introduce the concept of sustainable development into both financial practice and the financial academic literature. Current developments on financial markets show growing interest for both socially responsible investments (SRI) and sustainable corporate responsibility (CSR)

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The Long Work Hours Culture and the Female Manager

The dearth of women in senior management positions internationally has been the subject of much debate and research in recent years. Previous studies have highlighted that female managers encounter more obstacles to career progression than their male counterparts

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Virgin Galactic: Crafting a Blue Ocean Strategy in Space

Space tourism refers to the concept of paying customers traveling into space, it is also labeled as “personal spaceflight” or public space travel. Inaccessible to the common man for decades, space tourism finally became a reality in April 2001 when American businessman Dennis Tito paid US $20M to fly to space

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Divestiture Remedy for Preventing Madoff-style Ponzi

The worldwide reach, size ($50B) and durability (since 1960) of Madoff’s alleged Ponzi is attributed to the high reputation and international links among Jewish moneymen, serious regulatory lapses including incompetence and possible conflicts of interest by FCC, SEC and other regulators and auditors. Madoff seems to have been an equal opportunity thief, who shamelessly “made off” with funds from close relatives and charities in his scheme

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An Analysis of Sovereign Wealth Funds' Recent Venture in Developed Capital Markets

In 2007 and 2008, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs), mostly from Asia and the Middle East, invested billions of dollars in the stocks of major US financial institutions, but prior to these investments, SWFs were relatively unknown in the US. Following major investments by SWFs in the US stock market, both investors and regulators are taking a closer look at them

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Crisis, Finance, and Private Equity: An Update

Since mid-2007 private equity finance activity has undergone significant changes. The nature of these changes is intimately related to the current banking crisis and the underlying causes of the ‘credit crunch’ based on the development of an ‘originate and distribute’ model of lending and based on securitisation

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