1,185 search results
Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?

...businesses to be more resilient and even find new and more profitable business opportunities?...[Closeup on the football goal posts and white field lines] Goal posts One approach to being able to withstand external, or even internal, shocks to a business is to remain flexible about what the business is trying to achieve and how it will get there. While many popular...
View article Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?
Article 5 mins
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Renewable Energy
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Renewable Energy

...business'. ...[Some solar panels and a personal wind turbine] In the 21st century climate change is an increasingly important global concern. Its human and economic consequences could be dramatic and demand a decisive as well as co-ordinated response. However, the issue is far from controversial. A number of politicians, notably in the US, have challenged its very...
View article The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Renewable Energy
Article 5 mins
30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’
Money & Business

30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’

...Business in Britain highlights the changes affecting SMEs in the past 30 years...Founded in 1984, the Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain is the longest continuing report focused entirely on small- and medium-sized businesses in Britain The 30th Anniversary Special Issue examines the history of the survey and highlights key changes affecting SMEs over the last...
View article 30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’
Article 10 mins
Buddhist Economics
Society, Politics & Law

Buddhist Economics

...business is to supply goods and services for need and true well-being. Schumacher argued that Buddhist Economics could serve as a vehicle for human development to overcome self centeredness and augment human creativity and knowledge. Presented by Dr Mike Lucas from The Open University Business School and Alan Shipman from the Department of Economics at The Open...
View audio Buddhist Economics
Audio 44 mins
The planet as the stakeholder
Money & Business

The planet as the stakeholder

...businesses, but how does this translate to the strategies of large corporations?...In this article, I discuss different perspectives, which could help us to incorporate sustainability more fully into business practice. [Fashionable modern businessman with smartphone on landfill, consumerism versus pollution concept. ] Stakeholder analysis Edward Freeman’s concept of...
View article The planet as the stakeholder
Article 10 mins
Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created

...businesses and organisations were faced with making significant changes to the way they worked, not only to location, but also to the very nature of how work would be carried out in the future. The Applying Psychology at Work hub was designed to provide access to insights needed by individuals and their organisations. [Books of a pile of wood] Our research In August 2020,...
View article Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created
Article 10 mins
Management in Chinese cultures
Money & Business

Management in Chinese cultures

...business is done in Asian cultures? The dominant management philosophy in the Asia-Pacific region is a Chinese one, emphasising Confucian values, the family and respect for authority. Does the enduring success of this approach have important lessons for us in the West, or is this management style increasingly redundant, as economies and companies internationalise and...
View audio Management in Chinese cultures
Audio 29 mins
Ethics in real life
History & The Arts

Ethics in real life

...businesses and copyright infringement. This material is taken from The Open University course A181 Ethics in real life... Ethics in real life An introduction to the album. Codes of ethics Professor Onora O’Neil is one of Britain’s most distinguished Philosophers. Here she discusses the pros and cons of codes of ethics with The Open University's Derek Matravers....
View audio Ethics in real life
Audio 48 mins