This contributed volume explores and reveals the dynamics, strengths and weaknesses, trends and implications of entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Presenting papers by respected experts in the field, it shares essential insights on the status quo of...

This volume presents current research on gender and culture from business, management and accounting perspectives with a multidisciplinary approach. Featuring selected contributions presented at the 4th IPAZIA Workshop on Gender Studies held at Niccolò Cusano University in Rome, Italy, this...

This volume addresses the current challenges for and future prospects of women’s entrepreneurship research, bringing together a wealth of diverse insights with implications for research, education and practice alike. Presenting theoretical and empirical research papers and case studies, the...

Bringing together research from critical diversity studies and organization theory, this edited collection challenges unspoken norms and patterns of discrimination in organizational bodies. The authors problematize the management of diversity by focusing on the differentiations between...

This volume presents current research on gender studies in the specific context of the knowledge economy. Featuring contributions from the 2017 Annual Ipazia, the Scientific Observatory for Gender Studies Workshop on Gender, this book investigates gender issues and female entrepreneurship from...

In recent years the perspective on entrepreneurship research moved from the question "what is an entrepreneur" to the question "what influences people to develop entrepreneurial behaviour" respectively "what are the antecedents of entrepreneurial behaviour". Christian Willi Scheiner examines...

Introduction -- Research Flyover -- Design Science - The Science of the Artificial -- Design Science Research -- Class of Problems and Artifacts -- Proposal for Conducting Researches by using a Design.

This open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science domain. The opening chapters take the reader on a tour through the development of simulation methodologies in the fields of artificial life and population biology, then...

1. Hosting a Successful Metamodern Party: Mixed Methods Management Research on the Web 2.0+; Anna K. Zarada, George G. Panigyrakis and Eugenia Tzoumaka -- 2. Why Consumer Psychology Needs Neurophilosophy; Paul M. W. Hackett and Gordon R. Foxall -- 3. Emotivity and Ephemera Research; Kip Jones --...

This fully revised 3rd edition offers an introduction to optimal control theory and its diverse applications in management and economics. It brings to students the concept of the maximum principle in continuous and discrete time by using dynamic programming and Kuhn-Tucker theory. While some...