Narrow Results

In 2017, Luo Mingxiong, CEO of Jingbei Investment and one of the most popular angel investors in China stated publicly that his company is not investing in companies or start-ups that have a female CEO. Luo’s comment provoked outrage from women, human rights groups, and especially female entrepreneurs. This case discusses gender equality, female entrepreneurship, and venture capital investments in China.

Few approaches to entrepreneurship have inspired as much devoted activity as the Lean Startup orientation to new venture creation. It has, in essence, become a religion. The genesis of the Lean Startup movement can be found in The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank. By approaching Blank’s book through a process of lectio divina, this inquiry identifies the beliefs, rituals, and virtues that animate contemporary entrepreneurial work. Interpretations are situated in the literatures of entrepreneurship and religious studies. The chapter closes with suggestions for entrepreneurial education that could improve matters of diversity and belonging in entrepreneurship.

This chapter answers a key question on how to engage employees globally using gamification. The chapter sets out an agenda of the requirement of global engagement for organizational productivity. The idea is to create a global engagement framework and propose guidelines for executing it. This chapter also provides primary real-world vignettes to give instances of real-life gamification usage for engaging stakeholders. These vignettes may be used as best practices by other organizations. The challenges listed may help organizations take precautionary measures and prevent a potential loss of revenue.