Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues such as global climate change, environmental damage, rising inequality and enduring poverty....

Part I Accounting/Audit -- The Impact of Free Cash Flow on Firm’s Performance: Evidence from Malaysia -- The Analysis of the Appliance of Fair Value Concept in Croatian Companies from Real Sector -- The Link Between Accounting Measures of Biological Assets and Financial Standing of the...

Part 1: Editorial -- Towards Service Automation in Public Organizations -- Part 2: Conceptualization of Public Sector Service Automation -- The Subject Matter of Process Automation Practices: Through the Lenses of Research Questions -- Understanding Automated Decision-making in the Public...

1. Crisis management – From a theoretical point of view -- 2. Crisis management Practices in Small and Medium-sized Firms -- 3. Crisis: A Philosophical Insight -- 4. Managing crisis in SMEs -- 5. Crisis management and leadership: A search for competencies in SMEs -- 6. Crisis management from...

Chapter 1. Introduction: Governance, Rent-seeking and Upgrading in Global Value Chains -- Part I: Interdisciplinary Theoretical Contributions – Framing The Debate -- Chapter 2. Contemporary Globalization and Value Systems: What Gains for Developing Countries? -- Chapter 3. Global Value Chains...

1. Introduction to “Business in Africa in the Era of Digital Technology” -- 2. Digitalization in Africa: The case of public programs in Ghana -- 3. Maximizing Human Resource Development in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Digital Era -- 4. Digitizing Recruitment and Selection of Employees in Ghana:...

Open Government – Grundlagen und Ursprünge eines offenen Regierungs- und Verwaltungshandelns auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene -- Transparenz 2.0 -- Offene Daten und offene Verwaltungsdaten – Öffnung von Datenbeständen -- Open Budget – Öffnung des Haushaltswesens --...

Part 1: Ethics and Ethical Compliance -- Chapter 1:1 Ethics and Accountable Governance in Africa: An Introduction (Kemi Ogunyemi, Isaiah Adisa, and Robert E. Hinson) -- Chapter 2:Ethical Dilemmas and the Changing Reality in Africa’s Public Sector (Nkemdilim Iheanachor and Emmanuel Etim) --...

Finanzwissenschaft – Wirtschaftstheoretische und gesellschaftspolitische Grundlagen -- Umfang und Entwicklung des öffentlichen Sektors -- Funktionen des öffentlichen Sektors - Analytische Grundlagen -- Entscheidungstheoretische Grundlagen - Wohlfahrtsökonomie und Public Choice Theorie --...

Introduction -- Theoretical Background -- Research Design and Methodology -- Case Descriptions of the studied Communities of Practice -- CoPs as Enabler of Organizational Knowledge Creation -- CoPs as Loci of Collective Lead Userness -- CoPs as an Enhancement of Organizations’ Innovative...