Society and Business Review: Volume 10 Issue 1

An empirical investigation of the role of rural development policies in stimulating rural entrepreneurship in the Lazio Region of Italy

Marcello De Rosa, Gerard McElwee

The purpose of the paper is to provide an analysis of the adoption of Rural Development Policies (Rdp) as the result of entrepreneurial behaviours carried out by family farms with…

More than three’s a crowd . . . in the best interest of companies!: Crowdfunding as Zeitgeist or ideology?

Karima Bouaiss, Isabelle Maque, Jérôme Meric

The purpose of this paper was to decipher the contradictions and the ambiguities of crowdfunding as a term and as a practice to reveal the deeper significance of its underlying…

Left to their fate: rights of minority equity holders in Ghanaian firms

Otuo Serebour Agyemang, Emmanuel Aboagye, Joyce Frimpong

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the rights of shareholders, particularly those of minority shareholders in the management of firms in Ghana.

The role of spirituality in business education

Katalin Illes, Laszlo Zsolnai

This paper aims to argue that there is a strong imbalance in business education between providing abstract, rational concepts and opportunities for personal growth. Introducing…

Demateriality: A key factor in the embedding of society within commodification and financialization

Eric Fimbel, Anne-Sophie Binninger, Catherine Karyotis

The purpose of this article is to analyze the symbolic and practical impacts of demateriality in two areas that are emblematic of the way the modern world operates. Firstly…

On the issue of stability of Wall Street CEOs, while hoping for cultural changes in the financial sector

Yoann Bazin

This paper aims to open up dialogue between several popular non-fiction books written on Lehman Brothers – and its chief executive officer (CEO) Dick Fuld in particular – and the…

Editorial

Yvon Pesqueux