The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing vulnerabilities associated with the social, political and economic dimensions in everyday lives of citizens across the developing world. While the economic crisis induced by the pandemic has impacted lives-livelihoods across all working classes,...

Entrepreneurial competencies needed to improve innovation performance in Industry 4.0 : an artificial neural network approach -- Industry 4.0 and emerging trends in techno-entrepreneurship -- Individual and contextual factors in startups financing choice : insights from Moroccan technological...

A greater participation of women in labour-force assists in increasing the overall household income while reducing overall levels of (income) poverty and increasing the household consumption of goods and services. A higher female-male labor participation rate has also shown to allow a greater...

Karl Polanyi argues that the discipline of economics has emerged from the observations of human beings and their practices existing in a society. Since humans are perceived primarily as social beings rather than economic ones, embeddedness is a necessary and basic condition of the economy. It is...