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The law and policies need to adjust to the rapid pace of AI development, because the formal responsibility for appropriate learning outcomes will in future be divided between a teacher and a machine. Above all, we should ensure that AI respect human and civil rights.

Provides a diverse set of perspectives on how management education can be transformed to be a significant part of the solution to the sustainability problem that business and other sectors of our world must grapple with. This work offers approaches from around the world including China. It also covers specific examples of notable programs.

Provides a collection of ideas, examples and solutions on Humanistic Values in Academia. The contributors assume the crucial role of values in managing contemporary organisations emphasizing the fact that the oldest organisations managed by core values are not business corporations but the institutions like churches, armies and the universities.

Provides a collection of ideas, examples and solutions on Humanistic Values in Academia. The contributors assume the crucial role of values in managing contemporary organisations emphasizing the fact that the oldest organisations managed by core values are not business corporations but the institutions like churches, armies and the universities.

This work examines the education of managers with tomorrow's technologies. Topics covered include: electronic student portfolios in management education; managing in the Web - developing competencies for virtual work; and supporting collaborating learning among mobile people.

The law and policies need to adjust to the rapid pace of AI development, because the formal responsibility for appropriate learning outcomes will in future be divided between a teacher and a machine. Above all, we should ensure that AI respect human and civil rights.

This work examines the education of managers with tomorrow's technologies. Topics covered include: electronic student portfolios in management education; managing in the Web - developing competencies for virtual work; and supporting collaborating learning among mobile people.

Social Entrepreneurship as a Catalyst for Social Change contains twenty chapters on the impact of socialentrepreneurial ventures within a variety of cultural and national contexts. From Brazil to Croatia, fromThailand to Greenland, this book is rare in that it provides a rich landscape in which to imagine additionalefforts to bring about positive social change. The case studies cover a broad range of topics with onecommon theme-how can we learn from what others are doing in the emerging field of socialentrepreneurship? The various cases will inspire budding entrepreneurs to new heights of awareness tosupport the alleviation of poverty in many contexts.Part Two, Lessons from the Field: How Social Entrepreneurial Companies are Succeeding, discusses thesimilarities and differences that social entrepreneurial ventures and other businesses must face to besuccessful. Other topics covered include Entrepreneur Bootcamp for Veterans, microfinance, social entrepreneurship education, and development of aculture of social entrepreneurship.Part Three, Going from Local to Global, explores the challenges of a social enterprise as it transitions from a national venture to an international one.The relationship between social entrepreneurship and local business development in places such as Sicily is discussed through case studies. A stagetheory of social venture internationalization is put forth. Research connecting social media and social entrepreneurship is used to illustrate theimportance of social networks in creating positive social change.Part four, Challenges in Social Entrepreneurship, explores the challenges that social entrepreneurial ventures face. Ethics of intellectual property rightsin social enterprises is a focal topic in this section. Social franchising as an approach to social entrepreneurship is illustrated.

Social Entrepreneurship as a Catalyst for Social Change contains twenty chapters on the impact of socialentrepreneurial ventures within a variety of cultural and national contexts. From Brazil to Croatia, fromThailand to Greenland, this book is rare in that it provides a rich landscape in which to imagine additionalefforts to bring about positive social change. The case studies cover a broad range of topics with onecommon theme-how can we learn from what others are doing in the emerging field of socialentrepreneurship? The various cases will inspire budding entrepreneurs to new heights of awareness tosupport the alleviation of poverty in many contexts.Part Two, Lessons from the Field: How Social Entrepreneurial Companies are Succeeding, discusses thesimilarities and differences that social entrepreneurial ventures and other businesses must face to besuccessful. Other topics covered include Entrepreneur Bootcamp for Veterans, microfinance, social entrepreneurship education, and development of aculture of social entrepreneurship.Part Three, Going from Local to Global, explores the challenges of a social enterprise as it transitions from a national venture to an international one.The relationship between social entrepreneurship and local business development in places such as Sicily is discussed through case studies. A stagetheory of social venture internationalization is put forth. Research connecting social media and social entrepreneurship is used to illustrate theimportance of social networks in creating positive social change.Part four, Challenges in Social Entrepreneurship, explores the challenges that social entrepreneurial ventures face. Ethics of intellectual property rightsin social enterprises is a focal topic in this section. Social franchising as an approach to social entrepreneurship is illustrated.

A volume in Research in Management Education and DevelopmentSeries Editors: Charles Wankel, St. John's UniversityManagement makes the world go round. This is a strong belief of the authors of this volume. The current tumultuouseconomic and financial crisis and the intensifying threats caused by climate change are symptoms of a global system thatis out of balance. It is increasingly assumed that managers share the responsibility for these developments. After all,management as a major force in the shaping of global economic conditions and social relations make the world goround. At present an alliance of business schools, publishers and certification agencies is rapidly organizing the learningof executives and leaders into a global industry developed by professional managers.But under these circumstances do MBA courses and executive education programs in business schools offer theappropriate learning for current challenges? And can managers learn the lessons of the crisis in these learningenvironments? Or does the transformation of learning into a global business rather tend to discourage critical thinkingand reflective patterns of learning?"Management makes the world go round". This was also the title of an international conference on management learning , where the authors of this volume presentedtheir ideas, shared their experiences, increased their knowledge and contributed to a fascinating debate in a context with a great professional and cultural diversity. Thisinspired the group to hold on to this debate and develop the ideas further on. So this book was created and brought into the IAP division of Management Education.

A volume in Research in Management Education and DevelopmentSeries Editors: Charles Wankel, St. John's UniversityManagement makes the world go round. This is a strong belief of the authors of this volume. The current tumultuouseconomic and financial crisis and the intensifying threats caused by climate change are symptoms of a global system thatis out of balance. It is increasingly assumed that managers share the responsibility for these developments. After all,management as a major force in the shaping of global economic conditions and social relations make the world goround. At present an alliance of business schools, publishers and certification agencies is rapidly organizing the learningof executives and leaders into a global industry developed by professional managers.But under these circumstances do MBA courses and executive education programs in business schools offer theappropriate learning for current challenges? And can managers learn the lessons of the crisis in these learningenvironments? Or does the transformation of learning into a global business rather tend to discourage critical thinkingand reflective patterns of learning?"Management makes the world go round". This was also the title of an international conference on management learning , where the authors of this volume presentedtheir ideas, shared their experiences, increased their knowledge and contributed to a fascinating debate in a context with a great professional and cultural diversity. Thisinspired the group to hold on to this debate and develop the ideas further on. So this book was created and brought into the IAP division of Management Education.

Shares visions and partial realizations of the impact of the semantic Web and associated Web 3.0 features on higher education. This volume provides accounts of cutting-edge pedagogic applications of the semantic Web with its extremely extensive use of interconnecting information technologies.

Shares visions and partial realizations of the impact of the semantic Web and associated Web 3.0 features on higher education. This volume provides accounts of cutting-edge pedagogic applications of the semantic Web with its extremely extensive use of interconnecting information technologies.

Authored by a range of international experts, this book brings us closer to the responses for the questions like how may AI be used /or is a threat for PRME implementation, how will AI impact the business education world or what we should teach in business school in the time of AI (what the'right' set of future skills is)?