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1 – 10 of 114Leon C. Prieto, Simone T.A. Phipps, Stacey D. Reynolds and Anthony Lenard Hannah
The purpose of this paper is to provide advice on how organizations can facilitate a culture of sustainable innovation from a cooperative advantage perspective.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to provide advice on how organizations can facilitate a culture of sustainable innovation from a cooperative advantage perspective.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper is written for practitioners and academics focused on sustainable innovation. It includes specific advice for production & operations and accounting & finance functions and how they can contribute to sustainable innovation from a cooperative advantage perspective.
Findings
By emphasizing the importance of stakeholder wellbeing, creating opportunities for collaboration and empowering employees, human resources (HR) departments can help organizations cultivate a culture of sustainable innovation and navigate the complex challenges of addressing environmental concerns to build a more sustainable future.
Originality/value
This paper offers HR practitioners a unique approach to encourage a culture that promotes care and community, intentional dialogue and action-oriented consensus-building among employees in different departments to facilitate sustainable innovation from a cooperative advantage perspective within their respective organizations.
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Leon C. Prieto, Simone T.A. Phipps, John K. Osiri and John F. LeCounte
This paper, via the use of management and entrepreneurial philosophies from Charles Clinton Spaulding, aims to advocate the integration of African-American Entrepreneurship and…
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Purpose
This paper, via the use of management and entrepreneurial philosophies from Charles Clinton Spaulding, aims to advocate the integration of African-American Entrepreneurship and Management History into the business curriculum at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as well as predominantly white institutions (PWIs). Along with this curriculum update, the use of critical pedagogy as a form of critical thinking is also recommended to complement the learning process.
Design/methodology/approach
Articles from early and recent newspapers, magazines, journals and books were examined and synthesised to clarify how curriculum modification and critical pedagogy could aid in increased entrepreneurial success.
Findings
The paper concludes with a framework that demonstrates the curriculum interface, including Spaulding’s insights and critical pedagogy, to connect black students to entrepreneurial success.
Originality/value
Although African-Americans surpass Caucasian-Americans in entrepreneurial attempts, blacks lag behind whites in entrepreneurial success. A reason for their higher failure rate is a lack of exposure to positive images who are also black. Integrating African-American Entrepreneurship and Management History into the business curriculum will help ensure that these positive images are sufficiently introduced and explored as a source of learning. Critical pedagogy is also endorsed as a complementary strategy to aid learning, as it is associated with processes that deviate from traditional instruction that often ignores student diversity, to facilitate the expansion of the mind as well as social transformation.
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Leon C. Prieto, Babita Mathur-Helm and Kasey N. Dawson
This paper aims to highlight an ethic of care approach human resource (HR) departments can use to address obesity in the workplace.
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Purpose
This paper aims to highlight an ethic of care approach human resource (HR) departments can use to address obesity in the workplace.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper is prepared by experts who add their unbiased views to a very pertinent topic.
Findings
This paper focused on an ethic of care approach to addressing obesity in the workplace and provides advice that HR departments can adopt to address this issue.
Originality/value
This paper addresses a pertinent topic in a succinct manner that saves time for practitioners and scholars alike. This paper addresses the topic of obesity in the workplace which is of a growing concern worldwide.
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