Political and commercial discourses on the environment

New insights and research to support regional governments, municipalities and cluster organisations to support cluster innovation processes to tap into key enabling technologies and global value chains through better policy instruments and learning from good practices. Presentations and panel discussions …

As universities focus on differentiation in an intensely competitive global marketplace, brand and reputation are increasingly important. But how can institutions effectively track the impact of their own brand? How can they set meaningful objectives and then measure and demonstrate success to their …

Based on a recent AACSB survey of 200 marketing and communication departments, this session will highlight how business schools perceive, organise and operate their marketing operations. It will offer insight into marketing staffing and budgetary obligations, emerging opportunities and challenges, and …

This chapter presents a conversation with Henk Ovink, first Dutch special envoy for international water affairs. Ovink works with governments, knowledge institutions, organizations such as the World Bank and the UN, the global business community as well as the civil society representatives. 'Building' …

In large organisations, innovation activities are often located in separate departments, centres or studios. These departments aim to produce prototypes of solutions to the problems of operational business owners. However, too often these concepts remain in the prototype stage: they never cross the valley …

Proper decision making represent one of an organization’s most important capabilities. To manage decisions and underlying business rules, an increasing number of organizations have begun to use business rules management (BRM). However, given BRM research’s and practice’s nascence, we need to more deeply …

This chapter will introduce the circular economy (CE) and Cradle to Cradle (C2C) models of sustainable production. It will reflect on the key blockages to a meaningful sustainable production and how these could be overcome, particularly in the context of business education. The case study of the course …

Despite the growing interest in and literature regarding practitioner research in human resources (HR), not much is known about the factors that play a role in the actual practice by HR practitioners. This article describes an explorative study to gain empirical insight into the use and quality of practitioner …