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This innovative Research Handbook answers crucial questions about how individuals and organisations can make a difference towards sustainability. Offering an integrative perspective on sustainability agency, it reviews individual, active, organisational and relational forms of sustainability agency, demonstrating the capacity of individuals and organisations to act toward sustainable futures.
This reference work offers comprehensive perspectives on servant leadership. Featuring a cadre of leading world-class scholars, practitioners, and contributing authors from diverse fields of inquiry, it aims to collate research on servant leadership with a particular focus on its moral and spiritual dimensions.It is divided into sections that center on topics such as character, philosophical influences, diversity and inclusion, critiques of servant leadership as well as examples of servant leaders Though first introduced in the 1970 by Robert Greenleaf, the field of servant leadership is still lacking consensus on a definition and a theoretical framework. The goal of this reference work is to begin to fill this gap by assembling the scholarship of the top scholars in this field and providing a go-to source for information on the theory and practice of servant leadership. This handbook will serve as an essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students of organizational behavior, human resource management, and business ethics, as well as consultants and business leaders interested in discovering the best leadership models to suit contemporary organizations.
This book proposes a paradigm shift in how human and nonhuman well-being are perceived and approached. In response to years of accelerated decline in the health of ecosystems and their inhabitants, this edited collection presents planetary well-being as a new cross-disciplinary concept to foster global transformation towards a more equal and inclusive framing of well-being. Throughout this edited volume, researchers across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences apply and reflect on the concept of planetary well-being, showcasing its value as an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral changemaker. The book explores the significance of planetary well-being as a theoretical and empiric...
This groundbreaking handbook leads the way in accelerating the transition to a sustainable circular economy by introducing the concept of a catalyst as a positive and enhancing driving force for sustainability. Catalysts create and maintain favourable conditions for complex systemic sustainability transition changes, and a discussion and understanding of catalysts is required to move from a linear economy to a sustainable and circular economy. With contributions from leading experts from around the globe, this volume presents theoretical insights, contextualised case studies, and participatory methodologies, which identify different catalysts, including technology, innovation, business model...
The European Journal of Tourism Research is an academic journal in the field of tourism, published by Varna University of Management, Bulgaria. Its aim is to provide a platform for discussion of theoretical and empirical problems in tourism. Publications from all fields, connected with tourism such as tourism management, tourism marketing, sociology, psychology, tourism geography, political sciences, mathematics, tourism statistics, tourism anthropology, culture, information technologies in tourism and others are invited. The journal is open to all researchers. Young researchers and authors from Central and Eastern Europe are encouraged to submit their contributions. Regular Articles in the ...
Greening Auto Jobs: A Critical Analysis of the Green Job Solution details current and problematic understandings of what constitutes a "green job." Adopting an approach grounded in critical political economy, this book presents a framework to scrutinize the green job solution and the theoretical framework which overwhelmingly informs contemporary green job creation efforts and ecological modernization. The text also explores the tensions that encircle the world of work and environmental action, often referred to as "jobs versus the environment," by detailing the conflicting commitments of political-economic actors to the idea of green job creation. These conflicts are outlined through an exa...
This volume provides a broad overview of rhetoric phenomena in advertising, taking into account historical aspects of advertising and the systematic dimensions of rhetoric, various advertising genres and diverse concepts of ‘rhetoric’. It focuses on commercial and political advertising, but also devotes specific chapters to other advertising domains (e.g., in society, culture, academia, and sport).
Im Rahmen von Unternehmenskrisen wirken zahlreiche unterschiedliche Interessensgruppen auf die betroffenen Unternehmen. Herauszustellen sind vor allem die Kreditinstitute als Fremdkapitalgeber, die im deutschen Mittelstand üblicherweise eine zentrale Rolle bei den Finanzierungsaktivitäten einnehmen. Seitens des Regulators müssen Kreditinstitute zur Betreuung von krisenbehafteten Unternehmen organisatorisch eine spezialisierte Einheit (Intensivbetreuung) vorhalten. Jedoch leiden Kreditinstitute zumeist unter dem Problem, dass krisenbehaftete Unternehmen erst zu spät in diese Spezialeinheiten überführt und entsprechend intensiv betreut werden können. Basierend auf dieser Problemstellung...
Nachhaltigkeit ist ein häufig verwendeter und viel diskutierter Begriff im Kontext der Unternehmensführung. Während große Unternehmen mittels Nachhaltigkeitsberichten und Zertifikaten bereits eine Definition für Nachhaltigkeit gefunden haben, stellt das Kopieren dieser Strategien für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) häufig eine große Herausforderung dar. Dies begründet sich aus der einzigartigen Struktur dieser und den damit verbundenen Unternehmensstrategien. Somit muss davon ausgegangen werden, dass sich das Nachhaltigkeitsverständnis der KMU von Großunternehmen unterscheidet. Die Autorin ermittelte in Interviews mit Geschäftsführern von KMU deren Nachhaltigkeitsverständ...