This handbook maps and analyzes cross-sector (public–corporate–social–community–faith) governance theories, models, and practices as they are evolving in a digital world. It studies human, cultural, societal, institutional interactions and challenges in a digitally enabled world, especially in the context of post-crisis resilience and agility. Every global crisis forces societies and nations to realign while addressing deeper structural and cultural issues in governance. The Covid-19 pandemic has necessitated swift local-to-global governance responses for timely digital innovations for health crisis interventions, economic recovery, and societal equity. While every nation-state is developing global pandemic responses in a digitally enabled world, the deeper crisis of human, institutional, and societal governance deficit is also evident. This handbook documents digital governance innovations that enhance stakeholder engagement and inclusion for resilient, accountable, and effective governance across sectors. This volume reflects on a range of theoretical frameworks adapted for understanding global and digital governance. It looks at international governance collaborations; corporate governance reform; education governance innovations; public sector and urban governance; health system governance, sustainability, and environmental governance; community and faith-based governance; and digital, cultural, and creativity governance. This book is unique, as it presents important work on post Covid-19 digital and democratic governance and brings together holistic―interdisciplinary and intersectoral― perspectives from the Global North and Global South, engaging the leading scholars, practitioners, businesses, and civil society. It will be of interest to multi-sector institutions and global audiences: governments, corporates, social sector institutions, digital entrepreneurs, students and researchers, academic professionals, policy-makers, public and private sector institutional leaders, and organizational and entrepreneurial innovators interested in the field of governance.
Preeti Shroff-Mehta currently serves as the Professor and Director of Executive Education Program at The Northwestern University―Medill School, USA. She is the Associate Editor for the Journal of Sustainable Marketing (JSM). Her teaching and research focus on Circular Economy and Sustainability, Integrated Marketing Communications, Change Management Leadership, Digital Media Business and Strategy, Luxury Branding, Place Branding, and Women’s Leadership Paths. She is the Senior Advisor for Institute for Development Impact (I4DI), Washington DC―GATES Foundation and MARS INC. supported initiative on Sustainable and Inclusive Global Supply Chains. She has served as Dean of MICA―The School of Ideas (Management, Marketing, Creative Communications) India; and Dean― School for International Training (SIT), World Learning in Washington DC and Vermont, USA. She worked as Director for Democratic Governance and Civil Society Capacity Development with World Learning in Washington, DC, and led international development programs in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America in collaboration with the World Bank, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the United Nations (UN), the Ford Foundation, and many other international agencies. Her academic teaching also includes SAIS―Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland, USA.
Jagdish N. Sheth is Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Business, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, USA. He is globally known for his scholarly contributions in consumer behavior, relationship marketing, competitive strategy, and geopolitical analysis. He has over fifty years of experience in teaching and research at the University of Southern California, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Columbia University, MIT― Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Emory. He is the recipient of all four top awards given by the American Marketing Association (AMA). Additionally, he received the Global Innovation Award and the Marion Creekmore Award, both from Emory University. Dr.Sheth has been an advisor to numerous corporations all over the world. He has authored or coauthored more than 350 papers and numerous books.
John Garrison is an accomplished international development professional with extensive experience in program management, participatory approaches, and strategic communications. He retired from the World Bank in December 2015 after working for twenty years as a civil society specialist, and he continues to work there as a senior consultant. He spent the first five years coordinating outreach to civil society in the Bank’s office in Brasilia, Brazil, was the head of the Bank’s Global Civil Society Team, and worked with the Inspection Panel in Washington, DC.
Shailendra Raj Mehta has just completed a seven-year term as President and Director and Distinguished Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at MICA, in Ahmedabad, India. He is currently the O.P. Jindal Distinguished University Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University and Vice Chairman at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. Earlier, he headed Auro University and Ahmedabad University. Before that, he had stints at Duke CE and the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (joint appointment), and Purdue University, where he taught Economics and Strategic Management. He has done extensive research in Entrepreneurship, Industrial Organization, Information Economics, and Experimental Economics. His research has been the subject of a full-length review by The Economist. His work on creating world-class universities has been discussed around the world and profiled in multiple languages. He is rated as one of the top researchers in the field of strategy in India. His BA and MA are from Delhi University (St. Stephen’s College and Delhi School of Economics respectively), his MPhil is from Balliol College, Oxford, and his Ph.D. is from Harvard.
