Paris is undergoing a small business revolution
Not content with its ‘City of Light’ moniker, Paris is establishing itself as a start-up superpower. President Macron’s pro-business stance is easing the transition
The hidden costs of unmanaged business travel
With business becoming increasingly global, more employees are travelling for work. However, without proper management, these trips can be time-consuming and expensive
Backpacker tourism: Australia’s wandering workforce
Thousands of Millennials take a backpacking pilgrimage to Australia every year, a trend that is greatly benefiting the country’s agricultural industry
Data roaming charges must get out of the way of international business
Data roaming doesn’t have to ground global business travel, writes Vodafone Global Enterprise CEO, Jan Geldmacher
Piarco AeroPark: the Caribbean’s first aerotropolis
Business opportunities are set to take off at the Piarco AeroPark, as Trinidad and Tobago launches the Caribbean’s first airport city
The gifts and curses of black gold
Home to some of the world’s largest oil reserves, Alberta has seen huge economic benefits from an expanding energy sector. Michal Zuk examines how petroleum has helped shape the western Canadian province for better and for worse
Supply chain reaction
When credit started to dry up in 2008, multinationals were forced to reconsider distribution and funding. Selwyn Parker looks at the companies embracing new technologies to ease supply chain burdens
Discovering uncharted lands
A collection of reefs, atolls, cays and tiny islets peppered around the South China Sea, the Spratly Islands are breathtaking, and scarcely populated. Rita Lobo explores why surrounding countries are fighting to turn the remote location into a tourist destination
The cluster effect
Silicon Valley is known as the technological hub of international business, but finding high-calibre employees can greatly affect where a company remains. Jordan Bintcliffe looks at emerging and established economies using worldwide talent pools to source success
Corporate expenses tightened
In the absence of any realistic possibility of increasing sales, at least in the short term, most companies have been forced to start looking at their expense accounts in an effort to preserve profitability
The threat of the Karoshi
It is a sinister Japanese phenomenon that first surfaced in 1969, but while companies are making more effort to protect employees, karoshi is still reaping victims today. By Emma Holmqvist
The psychological contract of an organisation
An organisation must decide from the outset how it is to deal with employees, before considering how work will be distributed