The chapter explicates how career reinvention is leveraged for saving jobs and ensuring business continuity in readiness for the post-pandemic era. The employees exploited entrepreneurial mindset (EM) as a resilience strategy to save current jobs and create new jobs, while employers adopted the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) to keep their businesses afloat and meet their bottom-line. In the 20 multiple cases reviewed, some of the EM characteristics that employees manifested include determination, drive to achieve, opportunity orientation, persistent problem-solving, internal locus of control, tolerance for ambiguity, calculated risk-taking, high energy level, innovativeness, vision, passion, and team building. Comparatively, the EO dimensions that employees utilised include innovativeness, proactiveness, risk-taking, competitive aggressiveness, and autonomy. The chapter enriches the EM and EO concepts by explicating both as career re-invention strategies for saving existing jobs, creating new jobs, and ensuring business continuity in the post-pandemic era.

In the fast-changing workplace, there are growing concerns among stakeholders on accommodating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The absence of DEI in labour markets in different parts of the world has denied segments of the workforce basic rights, social justice, respect, and dignity as human beings. This chapter discusses the tripod of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as inevitable future workplace ethics in the changing world. After an extensive discourse on DEI, the chapter provides valuable insights for research and policy. First, it explicates that DEI practices cover the primary and secondary dimensions. Second, social identity theory, embedded intergroup relations theory, and structural integration (SI) provide the theoretical foundation for DEI discourses in the extant literature. Third, the chapter proposes three approaches to embed DEI practices and structures in future workplaces: liberal, radical, and transformational. Finally, the chapter concludes with research, managerial, and policy implications.

This chapter discusses the definitions, measurements, and theories of the blue economy for strengthening academic research and industry practice. A critical literature review provided four insights. First, the definition of the blue economy connotes a responsible utilisation, management, conservation, and preservation of the ocean in a manner that aligns with triple themes of sustainable development. Second, the best measurement of the blue economy is the coastal governance index (CGI) that has 24 indicators and 43 subindicators. Third, the prospects of the blue economy include the creation of sustainable ocean industrialization, boosts for traditional industries, new employment opportunities, food and nutritional security through aquaculture, a boost for SDGs, and improved economic growth, among others. The challenges of a blue economy include lack of national legislation and protocols on ocean economic activities, threats of overuse of ocean and its resources, sea pollution, ocean security, and international conflicts on maritime delineations. The chapter concludes with implications.

This chapter explores ICT interventions, the role of universities in socio-economic development, knowledge creation and dissemination literature before taking a look at a university intervention in ICT for development in a small rural community in Yola, Northeastern Nigeria. The African Center for ICT Innovation and Training 1 , an American University of Nigeria community engagement initiative is used as a case study to gauge its importance as an ICT resource center for the community and for small businesses and whether applied skills in information technology for university faculty and staff taught at the Center is leading to more productivity. The Yola and Jimeta Communities are also surveyed to find out whether the activities of the Centre and its interventions on developing ICT competencies and capacity building is helping to bridge the digital divide and empowering the community, especially women.