Chapter INTRODUCTION TO THE INSPIRATIONAL GUIDE -- chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter Australia -- chapter Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States -- chapter Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus, Denmark -- chapter Ashridge Business School, Berkhamsted, England,...

Purpose – The complex challenges of sustainable development and the need to embed these issues effectively into the education of future business leaders has never been more urgent. The purpose of this paper is to discuss different approaches taken by two UK signatories to the UN Principles for...

Purpose: Risk appetite is widely accepted as a guiding metaphor for strategic risk management, yet metaphors for complex practice are hard to critique. This paper aims to apply an analytical framework comprising three categories of flaw – futility, perversity and jeopardy – to critically...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore, using fine-grained exploratory multi-case studies, organisational learning practices – and associated constraints – impacting the performance of four small- and medium-sized project organisations which deliver energy efficiency projects in...

Purpose: This conceptual paper aims to explore how supply chain managers deal with social threats to supply chains, in the process of demonstrating the potency of a largely neglected strand of realist social theory. This theory, as posited, sheds a great deal of light on the behavioural reality...