https://hdl.handle.net/10419/182378 2026-09-23T01:20:01Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/336653 Title: Elgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management Editors: Eriksson, Päivi; Montonen, Tero; Laine, Pikka-Maaria; Hannula, Anna Abstract: This Encyclopedia presents an authoritative overview of innovation management. Contributions from over 100 expert authors address contemporary and emerging challenges through a holistic, inclusive, and ethical lens, redefining dominant paradigms and pushing the boundaries of the field. Comprehensive and forward-looking, the Encyclopedia explores how diverse elements such as age, gender, creativity, and power shape processes of innovation in a range of local and global contexts. Entries are accessible and consistently structured, critically engaging with core concepts including business models and ecosystems, while also delving into new areas of impact investing, radical creativity, and 'dark innovation'. Key Features: Combines detailed theoretical discussions with real-life case studies and practical applications Includes a list of further scholarly readings in each entry, featuring up-to-date references alongside essential classic works Provides insights into a wide variety of topics, methods, and perspectives that expand the concept and practice of innovation management Interdisciplinary in scope, the Encyclopedia is a vital reference work for students, researchers and educators in innovation management, knowledge management, organizational innovation, and business. Its focus on collaboration, responsible innovation, and sustainability issues will also benefit practitioners looking to enhance their organization's innovation processes. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/336658 Title: A Comprehensive Guide to Greenwashing Phenomena, Contexts, and Trends: The Mean, Lean Washing Machine Authors: Gatti, Lucia; Conti, Ludovico Giacomo; Seele, Peter Abstract: Green communication can improve a firm's reputation and performance, regardless of their genuine green conduct. This book investigates the greenwashing phenomenon and maps how firms mislead consumers by not delivering on their environmental promises. The book provides a comprehensive list of 39 different aspects of 'washing', covering significant topics such as bluewashing, ethicswashing, poorwashing, pinkwashing, wokewashing and blockchainwashing. Chapters uniquely combine a business perspective with a more philosophical outlook, considering the wider implications of organisations not fulfilling important ethical promises, like societal polarisation and change of corporate scope. New concepts like greenlash, greenwashing truthers and greenhushing provide a bigger-picture perspective on this divisive corporate practice. Academics focusing on management and marketing, particularly green marketing and corporate social responsibility, will find this book to be an insightful read. It is also invaluable to practitioners in corporate communications, and will help policymakers in understanding current washing practices. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/336663 Title: Governing Differences: Social Diversity, Polycentric Political Economy and Modus Vivendi Editors: Aligica, Paul Dragos; Brick Murtazashvili, Jennifer Abstract: This book addresses the crisis in modern governance as a result of increasing value diversity and argues that the ensuing societal and political tensions are most effectively managed using a polycentric political economy and a modus vivendi social philosophy. Expert authors discuss the social fragmentation of modern society, rooted in the expanding diversity of values, beliefs and lifestyles generated by globalization and the technological revolution. Chapters present detailed analysis of a wide range of case studies, including a reassessment of contemporary views, a polycentric political economy through a modus vivendi framework, or the use of blockchain contractualism to reconfigure the building of post-colonial states. They also advocate for a convergence of the institutional theory of polycentricity and the political philosophy of modus vivendi - live and let live - as a basic conceptual framework to uphold a peaceful and tolerant society. This book is a critical resource for students and scholars of political science and public policy in addition to those studying political philosophy, sociology, moral theory or institutional systems. Policymakers and practitioners involved in governance will also find this invaluable due to its timely focus on the tensions generated by pluralism and how they can be alleviated. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/336659 Title: Money and Inflation at the Time of Covid Authors: Congdon, Tim Abstract: How is the inflation flare-up of the early 2020s to be explained? In this book Tim Congdon, one of the world's leading monetary analysts, argues that a money growth explosion in spring and summer 2020 was the main cause. The book is scholarly, but also lively and readable. Congdon restates the quantity theory of money, advocating the usefulness of a broadly-defined measure of money which includes all, or nearly all, bank deposits. He applies this theory to the macroeconomic events of the early 2020s, and debunks the widespread view that inflation was caused by unforeseeable supply-side shocks. In spring 2020 Congdon was almost unique in forecasting the inflation flare-up. His position contrasted sharply with the overwhelming majority of economists who instead believed that Covid-19 would lead to several years of disinflation. Congdon was right and nearly all of his profession was wrong. Congdon is very critical of leading central banks, particularly the USA's Federal Reserve. Money and Inflation at the Time of Covid is a brilliant challenge to conventional macroeconomic thinking. It provides vital insights into recent events for students and academics in economics and finance, as well as economists, policymakers and other practitioners working in financial institutions, companies and consultancies. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z