Idea posted: August 2024

Institutions: Labovitz School of Business and Economics    University of Minnesota Duluth; Huntsman School of Business    Utah State University   

A study by Ormonde Cragun of the University of Minnesota Duluth and Michael Ulrich of Utah State University applies the principles of “Dynamic Capabilities” to succession planning to create a…

Idea posted: January 2023

Institutions: University of Reading    St. John’s University   

Foreign companies can be at a disadvantage when competing against domestic companies strengthened by informal networks developed over years and even lifetimes. In Korea, for example, two types of informal…

Idea posted: April 2022

Institutions: Bayes Business School    CityUniversity of London   

An ongoing collaborative research project, led by Bayes Business School professor Charles Baden-Fuller and involving scholars from around the world, has developed a fundamental typology of business models based on…

Idea posted: November 2020

Institutions: University of Rijeka    George Washington University   

While businesspeople have a sense of what strategic thinking entails, defining this familiar concept in specific terms is a challenge. We know that strategic thinking and operational thinking are different,…

Idea posted: April 2020

Institutions: Boston Consulting Group   

Terms such as ‘volatility’ and ‘disruption’ are often used to describe a world in which competitive advantage is increasingly difficult to maintain. The extent of such volatility and disruption is…

Idea posted: January 2020

Institutions: IESE Business School   

Corporate venturing, a collaboration between an established firm and an innovative start-up, has been gaining ground as a strategic path to innovation. There is a wide range of mechanisms for…

Idea posted: October 2019

Institutions: Boston University Questrom School of Business   

According to the World Trade Organization, the products and services purchased by the government account for 15-20% of developing countries’ GDP. Putting aside the relative handful of defence contractors with…

Idea posted: October 2019

Institutions: INSEAD    Miami Herbert Business School   

In the language of psychology, individuals who are more afraid of missing opportunities than taking risks are considered promotion-focused. Their counterparts are individuals who are more afraid of taking risks…

Idea posted: August 2019

Institutions: University of Calabria    University of Gloucestershire    Örebro University    Tampere University of Technology   

Business-to-business (B2B) companies differ from business-to-consumer (B2C) companies in many ways. B2B company products are often more complex and require greater lead times to produce, there are fewer customers, and…