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Exploring transparency: a new framework for responsible business management
(2016-02-08)
The purpose of this paper is to critically review the relevant literature on transparency, provide a comprehensive definition of transparency, and present a new framework for facilitating the adoption of transparency as ...
A Systematic Literature Review of Servant Leadership Theory in Organizational Contexts
(2012-04-22)
A new research area linked to ethics, virtues, and morality is servant leadership. Scholars are currently seeking publication outlets as critics debate whether this new leadership theory is significantly distinct, viable, ...
Business Not as Usual: Developing Socially Conscious Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs
(2017-07-14)
Our objective was to design an introductory business course to shape the mind-sets and skill sets of the next generation of socially conscious practitioners—to help students develop a sense of self-efficacy built on the ...
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Exploring the relationship between entrepreneurship and resilience among the Boruca Indians of Costa Rica
(2017-03-13)
This paper aims to explore the relationship between entrepreneurship and resilience in an indigenous context. The overarching research questions are: What are the mechanisms that link entrepreneurial thought and action to ...
Conceptually meeting expectations of Generation Y by building personalised-customised hybrid bundles to target action sports consumers
(2014-04-03)
This paper conceptually explores how bundling could lead to greater revenue and brand loyalty in the action sports industry by meeting the expectations of Generation Y. The author defines personalised-customised hybrid ...
Social Entrepreneurship Questioning the Status Quo: Waste as a Resource
(2014-12-07)
There has been an increasing interest in social entrepreneurs' roles in creating social value, fostering economic development, and advancing environmental sustainability. In institutional economics, there is extensive ...
Action sports athletes as entrepreneurs: Female professional wakeboarders, sponsorship, and branding
(2014-11)
This teaching case explores the sport of wakeboarding to examine how its female practitioners need to become entrepreneurial in order to make a living from the sport. Students ponder the financial pressures of becoming a ...
Building a legacy of volunteers through servant leadership: A cause‐related sporting event
(2012-06-05)
This study explores the leadership style of the founder of a cause‐related sporting event and investigates the effects of this style on motivating volunteers. The National Kidney Foundation Surf Festival, established more ...
Start with What You Have: A Leader’s Path to Innovation
(2018-10)
On his thirty-first day as the new CEO of Central Florida’s largest food bank, Dave Krepcho faced unprecedented challenges as a wave of devastating hurricanes pummeled the state. Floridians in 2004 were hit by Hurricanes ...
Change is hard: overcoming barriers to service innovation
(2016-09-12)
Creating value through service innovation requires new processes and ways of communicating to multiple stakeholders. Institutions and stakeholders within the service ecosystem, however, often resist change. Adopting a new ...