Rethinking education for sustainability in management education : going beyond metrics toward human virtues

Acevedo, B; Malevicius, R

doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-4909-4.ch012

Electric energy storage systems integration in energy markets and balancing services (2021)
Book Chapter

There is a global endeavor for decarbonization where the energy sector has a critical role toward this goal. Decarbonization strategy in energy systems asks for a rapid increase in uptaking the low carbon renewable resources that will cause some oper... Read More about Electric energy storage systems integration in energy markets and balancing services.

Cyber-Physical Smart Homes/Buildings (2021)
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Smart Charging and Operation of Electric Fleet Vehicles in a Smart City (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses a number of important areas relating to the electric vehicles (EVs), EV smart charging, and interaction of smart charging with the smart grid. It explores the technologies currently available for charging EVs and the rules and... Read More about Smart Charging and Operation of Electric Fleet Vehicles in a Smart City.

Digital innovation in sport – barriers and opportunities for branded fitness apps for fans (2021)
Book Chapter
Fenton, A., Parry, K., Chadwick, S., Guimarães, G., & Aeron, V. (2022). Digital innovation in sport – barriers and opportunities for branded fitness apps for fans. In V. Ratten (Ed.), Entrepreneurial innovation : strategy and competition aspects (25-42). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4795-6_3

The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging the growth and future of businesses globally and technological innovation, via digital means, has been identified as a key factor for brands to survive the pandemic. However, whilst the majority of decision-makers... Read More about Digital innovation in sport – barriers and opportunities for branded fitness apps for fans.

Peer-to-Peer Local Energy Markets: A Low-Cost Flexible Solution for Energizing Sustainable Smart Cities (2021)
Book Chapter

The proliferation of the distributed energy resources (DERs) into the demand side of the grid has led to the creation of a new agent, called prosumer at the distribution level. Prosumers are active agents that are able to produce, consume, and store... Read More about Peer-to-Peer Local Energy Markets: A Low-Cost Flexible Solution for Energizing Sustainable Smart Cities.

The single silo university (2021)
Book Chapter
Fletcher, G., Dron, R., & Gimeno, M. (2021). The single silo university. In D. Remenyi (Ed.), Excellence in university leadership and management : case histories. Academic Conferences International

In 2015, the University of Salford committed to a new five-year institutional strategy. A hallmark of this strategy was the focus on the undeviating single priority of industrial collaboration. The clarity and simplicity of this approach was challeng... Read More about The single silo university.

Decent Work: Gender and Equal Opportunity Policies and Outcomes (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter reviews work that examines the potential causes of inequality for women in employment in the UK. Amongst developed economies and based on mean hourly earnings, the UK has one of the highest gender pay gaps (ILO, 2018). The UK, therefore,... Read More about Decent Work: Gender and Equal Opportunity Policies and Outcomes.

The impact of Human Choice and Computers and Technical Committee 9 on ICTs and society : a critical sociotechnical tale (2021)
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In this chapter we briefly recount the history of the Human Choice and Computers conference series, and of Technical Committee 9, and show that not only has there been a marked focus, over more than four decades, on a critical and sociotechnical appr... Read More about The impact of Human Choice and Computers and Technical Committee 9 on ICTs and society : a critical sociotechnical tale.

Participation of Active Buildings in Peer-to-Peer and Local Transactive Energy Markets (2021)
Book Chapter

In recent years, great environmental concerns have led to the transition of the energy sector by integrating distributed energy resources (DER) into the power system. Hence, the former passive buildings of the network are turning into active building... Read More about Participation of Active Buildings in Peer-to-Peer and Local Transactive Energy Markets.

Control and Management of Active Buildings (2021)
Book Chapter

The power network is becoming increasingly intermittent as the contribution from renewable energy generation rises. To maintain stability and functionality of the power network, storage of renewable energies and demand-side control techniques are req... Read More about Control and Management of Active Buildings.

Operation and Control of a Population of Active Buildings at Network Level (2021)
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Smart grid control and management is a growing research area that affects the global goals of net-zero emissions, increased renewable energy generation, and efficient energy management. Active buildings are the building blocks of the smart grid of th... Read More about Operation and Control of a Population of Active Buildings at Network Level.

Big data HE communities : could Twitter support UK universities amid the COVID-19 transition? (2021)
Book Chapter
Edghiem, F., & Abualqumboz, M. (2021). Big data HE communities : could Twitter support UK universities amid the COVID-19 transition?. In M. Ali (Ed.), Remote Work and Sustainable Changes for the Future of Global Business (33-44). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7513-0.ch003

This chapter intends to explore the use of the Twitter social media platform as a microblog to share COVID-19 prescribed knowledge through observing the Twitter accounts of the five most student-populated UK universities. The chapter provides valuabl... Read More about Big data HE communities : could Twitter support UK universities amid the COVID-19 transition?.

Understanding the impact of FinTechs on service innovation on the future sustainability of global business (2021)
Book Chapter
Ali, M. (2021). Understanding the impact of FinTechs on service innovation on the future sustainability of global business. In Remote Work and Sustainable Changes for the Future of Global Business (45-59). Business Science Reference. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7513-0.ch004

The availability of FinTechs has greatly proliferated in recent years, and this has caused an uptick in FinTech research in the finance field. Despite the recent surge in popularity of FinTech, there is still a severe lack of research on FinTech comp... Read More about Understanding the impact of FinTechs on service innovation on the future sustainability of global business.

A System-of-Systems Planning Platform for Enabling Flexibility Provision at Distribution Level (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter aims to study the distribution expansion planning (DEP) problem considering flexibility providers. In this study, demand response providers (DRPs) are introduced as the flexibility service providers, which will play an important role bes... Read More about A System-of-Systems Planning Platform for Enabling Flexibility Provision at Distribution Level.

Benefits and challenges of cloud computing adoption and usage in Higher Education: a systematic literature review (2021)
Book Chapter
Ali, M., Wood-Harper, T., & Mohamad, M. (2021). Benefits and challenges of cloud computing adoption and usage in Higher Education: a systematic literature review. In Research Anthology on Architectures, Frameworks, and Integration Strategies for Distributed and Cloud Computing. Engineering Science Reference. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5339-8.ch103

The aim of this article was to provide evidence pertaining to cloud computing (CC) adoption in education, namely higher education institutions (HEIs) or Universities. A systematic literature review (SLR) of empirical studies exploring the current CC... Read More about Benefits and challenges of cloud computing adoption and usage in Higher Education: a systematic literature review.

Energy Management Systems for Microgrids (2021)
Book Chapter

Energy management system (EMS) has a vital role in the operation of a microgrid (MG) in the hourly or minute-by-minute time-scales. EMS coordinates with the other systems such as advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), maintenance scheduling, outage... Read More about Energy Management Systems for Microgrids.

Knowledge Transfer Openness Matrix facilitating accessibility in UK management education teaching (2021)
Book Chapter
Owens, J., & Talat, U. (2021). Knowledge Transfer Openness Matrix facilitating accessibility in UK management education teaching. In H. Alphin Jr., R. Chan, & J. Lavine (Eds.), Research Anthology on Digital Transformation, Organizational Change, and the Impact of Remote Work (1496-1518). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7297-9.ch074

This is an empirical investigation considering how the Knowledge Transfer Openness Matrix (KTOM) could facilitate accessibility and Knowledge Transfer (KT) for the UK Higher Education (HE) Management Education Teaching when utilising learning technol... Read More about Knowledge Transfer Openness Matrix facilitating accessibility in UK management education teaching.

Enhancing employee engagement for small and medium enterprises in Taiwan (2021)
Book Chapter

The aim of the research is to study the employee engagement strategies utilised in Taiwan's SMEs from the perspective of the employees. In doing so, a qualitative research method was employed using semi-structured interviews. Nine participants from f... Read More about Enhancing employee engagement for small and medium enterprises in Taiwan.

Rethinking education for sustainability in management education : going beyond metrics toward human virtues (2021)
Book Chapter
Acevedo, B., & Malevicius, R. (2021). Rethinking education for sustainability in management education : going beyond metrics toward human virtues. In R. Perez-Uribe, C. Largacha-Martinez, & D. Ocampo-Guzman (Eds.), Handbook of Research on International Business and Models for Global Purpose-Driven Companies (219-234). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4909-4.ch012

Education for sustainable development (ESD) initially emerged around the 1990s, and it has opened the possibility to re-think areas such as management education. Although the original purpose of inclusiveness and creativity has been gradually replace... Read More about Rethinking education for sustainability in management education : going beyond metrics toward human virtues.

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