The main overarching rationale for the existence, function and role of corporate governance bodies can be briefly summarised as ensuring that enterprises are managed in such a way that their operation does not infringe or inhibit the rights of the wider community or of particular groups of their...

In this chapter we provide a brief overview of tacit and explicit attitudes and practices relating to economic, environmental, and social components of CSR and sustainability in organizations of various types and sizes. Organizations can simply do the minimum to meet minimum compliance with...

It was previously a given in many business strategies that people arrive at decisions using an objective economic rationalist perspective and methodology. That orientation to rational economic decision-making can be seen even in the writing and thinking of those acknowledged as more radical...

Despite the fact that there have been research reports by others such as Development agencies, the research topic on collaboration between Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the private sector has received relatively little attention from academic researchers until quite recently. Often...

Any team is at bottom really a metaphor for the synergies resulting from a bunch of conversations and related actions of a set of individuals who, because they share some core values, are able to cooperate to achieve a common task. Team development then is about the extent of cooperative...

This paper examines the means undertaken by teams of MBA students - engaged in consultancy projects with local companies - to generate and apply tacit knowledge. Such knowledge was needed as a means of providing the necessary stages to ensure successful completion of the projects. How this...

Action Learning and action research are forms of learning by doing. The method of action research was originally credited to Kurt Lewin (1948: 202-3) but action learning was a development associated most commonly today with the pioneering work of Reg Revans (1982, 1998). Some forms of action...

The historical and current context locally, nationally and internationally is outlined to locate the research within the wider framework of adult and ‘second chance' education. The national and local ‘market' are examined and contrasted to assess effectiveness of access targetting. The...

In their 2014 report, Deloitte asserted that the global business landscape has fundamentally changed and that ‘business-as–usual' and the previous ideas of what is Normal are a thing of the past. They imply that everyone is now working in the world of VUCA - an acronym for the volatility,...

This paper describes a number of research projects carried out in the United Kingdom and elsewhere as part of a three-phase university research project on Master of Business Administration (MBA) teams. Building upon the earlier work, the aim of the later phase was to extend the offline into the...