This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the ‘emerging states’ in global affairs and governance, many problems requiring immediate...

In Europe, the last decade has been shaped by euro crisis, migration crisis and corona crisis. Studies have analyzed how citizens react to crises in their voting behavior. This political economy analysis examines the research gap to what extent repeated crisis exposure within a short period of...

Chapter 1. Primer on Operations, Finance, and Their Interface -- Chapter 2. Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing -- Chapter 3. Blockchain -- Chapter 4. FinTech and OpTech -- Chapter 5. Supply Chain Finance -- Chapter 6. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Robots -- Chapter 7. Analytics, IoT...

1. Digital leadership models, strategies and traits -- 2. Social Media, Challenges and Strategies in 5G and 6G -- 3. Cyber Security defence including Ransomware attacks for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses in the digital economy -- 4. Information Governance, security and e-Governance -- 5. The...

Chapter 1. Private vs. Pooled Transportation: Customer Preference and Congestion Management -- Chapter 2. Optimal Dispatch in Emergency Service System via Reinforcement Learning -- Chapter 3. Towards Understanding the Dynamics of COVID-19: An Approach based on Polynomial Regression with Adaptive...

Part I: Climate Change challenge, CSR, ESG issues: the state of the art -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapater 2: Self-consciousness and awareness as adaptation enablers -- Chapter 3: Climate change challenges and the policy makers initial response -- Chapter 4: SRI, ESG and Value of...

Foreword -- Part I Theoretical Framework of Climate Change Economics -- Chapter 1. Complexity of Climate Change as a Subject in Economics -- Chapter 2. A Critique of Conventional Economic Approaches to Climate Change -- Chapter 3. Climate as a Factor of Productivity -- Chapter 4. A Welfare...