Serge Mandiefe Piabuo, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF); Divine Foundjem Tita, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), and Peter A Minang, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
Forest communities have seen little or no change in improving livelihoods and stopping deforestation.
Things are changing quickly in lower management, but at the very top there remains a hard-to-attack barrier.
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Two-thirds of people who report workplace sexual harassment say they lost their jobs or are retaliated against in other ways. Most never receive any money.
Quantum physics can offer astonishing insights into the different modalities of innovation in large companies and startups.
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The study of innovation in large companies and start-ups would benefit from being inspired by physics, which mobilizes different sets of laws for large masses and particles.
Conflict resolution theory suggests we may be less likely to move toward a competing position if we have taken the time to learn about each other in a genuine way.
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How could a company like Volkswagen knowingly violate US air-pollution standards despite the senseless risks to which it was exposing its reputation? The case method can provide an answer.
It takes all sorts: workplaces can harness as strengths the differences that usually disadvantage people with autism.
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Wanting to change a person’s autistic behaviours is like attempting to correct left-handedness or sexual preference. The modern workplace should see strength in difference.
Is a cassette player an “ordinary object” or a “mystery”? It depends on whom you ask, and ethnography can help you ask the right questions.
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Big data is all the rage in management circles and beyond, yet little is said about the understanding needed with such voluminous data. An important lesson can be learned from ethnographic research.
Fraud has organizational consequences.
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A gaming industry expert explains how casinos’ ability to hide the price of a slot spin ensures a reliable stream of revenue from even the savviest of gamblers.
Leadership is replacing concepts of management in universities.
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