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Continue reading →: Are We Thinking About Risk and Disruption All Wrong?
By Peter M. Weiske, Stephen Dovers, William J. Durch, and John Handmer In a world of seemingly constant disruption and mounting risks, societies need to understand where these crises come from and how they form, and from that how best to prepare and respond. If we treat each crisis, one…
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Continue reading →: When the Machine Meets the Mind: How AI is Reshaping Postgraduate Research
Over the years I have watched postgraduate students grappling with the demands of postgraduate study. Most of the struggles were in my view, at their core, largely logistical. Students spent long hours hunting for the right sources or found themselves paralysed before a mountain of literature with no clear way…
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Continue reading →: How Are AI, Social Change and Global Uncertainty Reshaping Vocational Behaviour?
By Nadya A. Fouad, Beatrice I.J.M. van der Heijden, and Dora Scholarios The following is adapted from Chapter 1: Introduction – Rethinking vocational behavior: past, present, and future directions from the upcoming Research Handbook on Vocational Behavior, edited by Nadya A. Fouad, Beatrice I.J.M. van der Heijden, and Dora Scholarios.…
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Continue reading →: Breaking News: The Science of Sport Coaching Wins!
In today’s world, sport coaching simply exists under the shadow of sport as a public spectacle. More on this in a couple of paragraphs, but the quality of sport coaching, its development, oversight, and regulation exist without much public awareness or critical consciousness. Critical here means asking penetrating and tough…
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Continue reading →: Women’s Economic Empowerment: Moving Beyond the Work-First Myth
Since the mid-1990s, the concept of women’s economic empowerment has spread like wildfire through international NGOs and governments. Globally, it has been declared the next frontier for social transformation.
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Continue reading →: ASEAN Competition law: Emergent laws in need of recognition
The countries which comprise the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) collectively represent the world’s fourth-largest economy, behind only the United States, China, and Germany. ASEAN sits at the intersection of some of the world’s major trading routes.
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Continue reading →: New book: Compliance by Design in AI Systems
On May 7th the EU legislators reached an agreement on changes to Regulation 2024/1689 (The AI Act). The AI Act omnibus deal marked the end of a six-month negotiation process. This negotiation process is part of a simplification effort in the aftermath of the Draghi Report on European global competitiveness.
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Continue reading →: Formality Requirements for Will-Making: Protecting Testamentary Freedom or Stymying It?
A perennial dilemma for succession law is how to balance two, potentially competing, considerations: the desire to maximise ‘testamentary freedom’ (the ability to determine the destination of one’s property on death) on the one hand, and the need to protect vulnerable will-makers from the effects of incapacity, coercion and fraud.
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Continue reading →: Marketing Analytics: Science Meets Practice
By Natalie Mizik and Dominique M. Hanssens Marketing is both a science (academic discipline) and a managerial practice. Its basic tenet is that marketing decisions and actions—including product, pricing, communication, and distribution decisions—should generate value for the target audiences and for the firm. Because marketing actions are generally costly, value…
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Continue reading →: Rethinking Ecological Economics: Towards a Coherent Discipline for a Sustainable Future
By Arild Vatn Ecological economics has emerged as the most important critical response to mainstream economics and its limited understanding of the role of nature in economic processes. It has opened new research frontiers, inspired innovative teaching programs, and challenged economists and policymakers alike to take biophysical limits, sustainability, and…
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