A Country is a predefined territory, where people live along with the nature and other living species (Botanical, Marine, Zoological etc.…). A Nation is the same as a Country, but with registered and identified group of people as the citizens. Each living group in a nation is identified as a...

Traditional governance mechanisms are being strained by modern technological and political realities. Newer technologies, especially digital ones, are developing at an ever-faster rate and building on top of each other, blurring lines between sectors.Congress has failed to keep up with the...

This paper deals with the development of Smart city services, with the focus on IoT services for measuring the noise pollution. Decreasing noise in the human environment can contribute to increasing the satisfaction of life in the big cities and urban areas where traffic jams are almost...

Drawing from institutional isomorphism, gender socialization theory, the ethics of care, and social identity theory, we examine the impact of geographic locality, product market competitions, and owners’ demographic characteristics on a firm’s decision to be a certified B Corporation. Using...

In patent-infringement litigation, if no established royalty for the patent in suit has emerged from multiple market transactions at a readily observable price, then the finder of fact needs to infer a reasonable royalty from the many factors identified in the Georgia-Pacific framework. The...

Intellectual property moral rights must be carefully studied by the business community, which could easily and wrongly believe that the intellectual property business involves only intellectual property economic rights. This paper represent an introduction meant to reveal a contrasting legal and...

We study joint financing between profit-motivated and socially-motivated (impact) investors and derive conditions under which impact investments improve social outcomes. When project owners cannot commit to social objectives, impact investors hold financial claims to counterbalance owners'...

We argue that there is a system of management ideas, that is, set of institutionalized high level heuristics that guide organizational and individual behaviours in managerial reality, involves distinct knowledge and transfers that knowledge across time and space, may change as a result of local...

Social entrepreneurship is an activity that is receiving intense scrutiny from scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers. However, research is only beginning to explore the unique function social entrepreneurs fill in the marketplace. This conceptual paper examines if social entrepreneurs...

Distributed ledger technology, invented for cryptocurrencies, is increasingly understood as a new general-purpose technology for a broad range of economic activities that rely on consensus of a database of transactions or records. However, blockchains are more than just a disruptive new ICT....