Social entrepreneurship plays a key role in making tourism an inclusive activity. Literature on the topic is increasing but needs to pay more attention to collaboration, which is crucial for social enterprises. To overcome this gap, the research focuses on the impact that social entrepreneurs’ drivers and barriers towards collaboration might have on providing decent work in rural tourism. The research ...

Creative thinking is crucial to address the sustainability challenge of academic conferences. Adopting a creativity lens, we explored the low-carbon initiatives and actions associated with an organizational studies conference in Italy. We relied on an action research approach that involved implementing one of the initiatives included in the study, interviews with key informants, and secondary data. ...

Entreprenørskap er viktig for utviklingen i rurale regioner fordi det er et stort behov for å skape nye arbeidsplasser. Vår problemstilling er: Hvordan bidrar et akseleratorprogram til å møte behovene til oppstartsbedrifter i rurale regioner? I studien ønsker vi å frembringe et bilde av hvordan bedriftsdeltakere, eiere, prosjektledere og styringsgruppe opplever programmet. Vi konsentrerer oss om ...

Sustainable development counteracts climate change and strives for a good quality of life. It is a development based on economic, social and environmental goals which should be evaluated. Environmental taxes have to ensure enterprises’ development follows sustainability principles. The basis of environmental taxes is a physical unit of harmful substance emissions with a proven negative impact on the ...

Hensikten med denne studien er å undersøke hvordan vellykkede gründere faktisk styrer virksomhetene sine. Søkelyset er satt på økonomistyringspraksisen. Studien er gjennomført blant gründere som ikke hadde økonomisk utdanning eller praksis da de startet virksomhetene. Denne målgruppen er interessant fordi den er representativ for svært mange gründere. Samtidig er det gjort lite forskning på dette ...

This current research contributes to the concept of consumer-based food label equity (CBFLE) by testing the predictive validity of a scale developed by Coderre et al. (2022) in the sustainability and health domains of seafood products. In Study 1 (N = 301; between-within subjects), we found that scores on all subscales, except the (Dis)honesty subscale, were significantly related to willingness to ...

Thousands of prospectuses offered shares to British investors at the turn of the twentieth century. We find evidence that there were informed investors who participated in the market at this time. Firms that attracted additional investor demand were more likely to be listed on the London Stock Exchange, survive longer, and achieve better long-run equity returns. We find that the exchange screened ...

Value at risk is a statistic used to anticipate the largest possible losses over a specific time frame and within some level of confidence, usually 95% or 99%. For risk management and regulators, it offers a solution for trustworthy quantitative risk management tools. VaR has become the most widely used and accepted indicator of downside risk. Today, commercial banks and financial institutions ...

Shopping carts, in general, should be suitable for carrying smart technology in the retail store environment. Also, a smart shopping cart can present verbal motivating stimuli to increase healthier food purchases. A conjoint experiment was used to test with a hypothetical purchasing task for young consumers (n=91) the potential of motivating stimulus on smart shopping carts to influence healthier ...

I dagens globale arbeidsmarked er det en betydelig mismatch mellom tilbud og etterspørsel, samtidig som stadig flere frivillig forlater jobbene sine. Dette skaper alvorlige utfordringer for organisasjoner som sliter med å beholde sine talent. For å opprettholde konkurransekraften må organisasjoner tenke innovativt og annerledes. Dette åpner opp for nye utviklingsområder innen talentledelse. ...