"An eye-opening examination of how treating land as a source of profit has a massive impact on racial inequality and the housing, gentrification, and environmental crises. Climate change, gentrification, racial discrimination, and corporate greed are some of the most urgent problems facing our...

Purpose – Observes a number of human-resource management problems in the Indian hand-loom industry. Design/methodology/approach – Considers what gave rise to the problems and considers how they may be solved. Findings – Highlights the need to: attract talented designers with the right...

Purpose – Via philosophy of science, the paper seeks to identify the role of trial and error in business and other managed activities, including economic development. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing first on Karl Popper's view of trial and error as essential to the evolution of all...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the concept of smart globalization and identify links with the Rockefeller Foundation's philanthropic activities in a number of areas, including health, climate change, urbanization, economic insecurities, and basic survival needs....

Purpose – In the absence of new policies, global trends in energy supply and consumption are unsustainable all around. Today, roughly 2.6 billion people use fuelwood, charcoal, agricultural waste and animal dung to meet most of their daily energy needs for cooking and heating. There are 1.6...