Sustainable finance has been explained to be a long-term approach to finance and investing, emphasizing long-term thinking, decision-making and value creation, and has also been described as the interrelationships that exist between environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) issues on the...

Corporate sustainability initiatives are most effective when sustainability principles have been integrated into the company’s governance and management processes and proactively and publicly embraced by the board of directors, which is responsible for oversight of the environmental and social...

Sustainability is about the long-term wellbeing of society, an issue that encompasses a wide range of aspirational targets including the sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders that went into effect on January 1, 2016. The...

Organizations have committed to investing more money and resources than ever before to increasing diversity and inclusion (“D&I”). According to the Winter 2022 Fortune/Deloitte CEO Survey, 94% of the CEOs listed D&I as a personal strategic priority, 90% of those surveyed confirmed that their...

In his “Brief History and Overview of Ageism in America”, Butler began by stating that “[a]geism existed long before it was given its name” and noting that “[f]ear of and distaste for growing old are inherent in the human experience”. Butler first used the term “ageism” in the...

Entrepreneurship has become a popular career path all over the world and there has been intense interest in the subject shown by researchers and policymakers in both developed and developing countries. Research relating to entrepreneurship has been expanding rapidly and has touched upon a...

Motivational traits of prospective entrepreneurs is a vigorously researched topic and this chapter examines some of the most commonly suggested traits for entrepreneurs including risk-taking propensity; educational background of the entrepreneur and his/her parents; number of previous jobs and...

According to estimates based on data compiled and analyzed by the World Bank, the global population of women aged 65 and over as of 2020 was 397 million (an increase of 106 million from a decade earlier), representing 55% of the total global population of persons aged 65 and over (722 million)...

In order to study the role of entrepreneurs in creating new organizations it is necessary to understand how organizations come into existence and then identify the roles that the entrepreneur plays in that process, the activities that the entrepreneur might be engaged in during the process and...

According to a global report on ageism issued in 2021 by the World Health Organization and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, every second person in the world is believed to hold ageist attitudes, which has led to poorer physical and mental health and reduced quality of life for...