Empowering women entrepreneurs in developing economies: a model for building an equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in Egypt

This study introduces the WEMPOWERMENT Model, conceptualizing empowerment as a three-stage journey. The first stage outlines key preconditions at the personal, social and ecosystem levels. The second stage captures empowerment processes through material, cognitive, relational and perceptual transformative changes, expressed as empowerment “within,” “over,” “to”…

Mastering the Literature Review: A Roadmap for Doctoral Success

This article provides doctoral candidates with a strategic roadmap for preparing the literature review section of their dissertation. It explores the core purpose of the literature review, highlights organizational structures such as chronological, thematic, and hybrid approaches, and emphasizes the importance of synthesis and gap…

Artificial Intelligence, Education, and Digital Economy in India

The chapter aims to conceptualize and study policies pertaining to artificial intelligence (AI), digital economy (DE), and education in India. AI is growing technological advancement and is applicable to all the domains of economic, political, and social life. AI is an innovative technology capable of…

Is the Devil Dressed in Greed? Toward a Peaceful, Just, and Sustainable World Order

Greed stimulates corruption, which promotes self-alienation, facilitates systemic failure, worsens inequality, and generates false pledges and divide-and-conquer policies. Despite the United Nations’ (UN) existence for much of a century, most countries continue to exploit and compete for cheap labor, causing poverty rates to climb. Most…

Leadership as a Process in Dispersed Organizations

The concept of leadership continues to evolve as it undergoes shifts to meet the mounting pressure of a highly competitive, global marketplace. Scholars have recognized this change, arguing that leadership is a fluid process in modern organizational life, moving away from traditional characteristics and role-based…

The Monarch Standard Research Method: Perfecting Business Research From Methodology to Praxis

Business research scientists strive to conduct studies that not only provide comprehensive multidimensional perspectives of thephenomenon being studied (Boyd, 2000), but also deliver a wealth of unbiased data that can be interpreted with an acceptable degree of confidence (Breitmayer, Ayres, & Knafl, 1993; Jick, 1979).…

A Definitional Review of Economics Through the Application of the Leading Theories and Methodology of The Austrian School

The article examines the shortfalls of traditional definitions of economics from the viewpoint of the Austrian School of Economics as being too narrow and overly mathematical. Important concepts of human action and volition are considered. The discussion centers around the notion that the nature of…

Corporate Social Responsibility Into The Future

Reflecting on the Cone (2010) Corporate Citizenship Spectrum as a Framework for Research Relating to Corporate Partnerships in Higher Education

Participation by corporations in supporting higher education remains highly visible and controversial for academicians and practitioners. While best practices can be found, many gray areas exist in the actions and motivations for corporate citizenship behavior in relation to higher education. This paper reflects on the…

Reflection Points On Supply Chain Management Practices During COVID-19

COVID-19 has created many economic disruptions in the way supply chains (SCs) are being managed. The coronaviruses are not new to the world of medicine and these types of viruses have been around for decades. This is an indication that we have not truly eradicated…

The Importance of Qualitative and Phenomenological Research Methods in Business Studies

An ongoing conflict exists between theory and practice where scholars attempt to maintain practical relevance to their academic studies and business practitioners strive to apply appropriate theory to their businesses (Brower, Abolafia, & Carr, 2000). Most current business research is based on predictive Quantitative rather…

The International Business Landscape: a look at paradigms, research gaps and new realities.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse international business (IB) scholarship and present current gaps and new realities to enhance scholarly discourse. Design/methodology/approach – The paper divides the scholarship into three distinct sections. First, it interrogates the changing definitions of the field…

An empirical analysis of African trade blocs effects on the global economy: new evidence from the gravity model

This study employs the gravity model to estimate the extent of the contribution of six African trade blocs to the global economy using the gravity model spanning from 1980 to 2018. The gravity equation that models the export contributions of the six selected African RECs…

Corporate philanthropy and beyond

Corporate philanthropy still endures, yet businesses have expanded the nature of their partnerships with higher education over the past 50 years. Companies have responsibilities and demands they are expected to perform to be perceived as ‘good’ and contributing to society in beneficial ways. With public…

Socio-economic Scenario of South Asia: An Overview of Impacts of COVID-19

The present study explores the socio-economic scenario of the South Asian region before and after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyses the long run and short-run association between human development, unemployment and the economic growth of the region using the Pooled Mean Group…

Stakeholder Theory: A Case Study Of Virgin Atlantic And The Covid-19 Bailout

The context of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic and the economic and reputation crises at Virgin Atlantic Airways accounts for the need to consider multilateral stakeholder relationships in crisis management for long-term sustainability. It is argued that a better comprehension of the dynamics of stakeholder relationships…

Taking Philosophical Grounds Of CSR Debate Seriously

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an important sphere in applied ethics. Different CSR theories have been presented during decades. Some of them are compatible with each other while some others are not. By focusing merely on the contents, it seems impossible to evaluate the different…

Customer-Oriented Competitive Advantage in the Airline Industry

The competitive environment in the service industry requires firms to constantly improve business practices to be profitable and competitive. The airline industry, characterized by human interaction and delivery of services, is most in need of research in competitive advantage.

Determining if there is a relationship between how much time a faculty member spends assessing student assignments and final grades at a rural university: A one-year analysis.

This research paper was an extension of a previous study that evaluated if there were statistically significant relationships between the amount of time students spent on course assignments and final course grades. The focus of this exploratory investigation was to ascertain if there were statistically…

Ecosystems and entrepreneurial empowerment: Emerging research in cultural and leadership boundaries