Idea posted: April 2016

Institutions: Dartmouth College   

The idea of a new invention may seem to suddenly appear in the imagination of the inventor. In truth, the inventor has carefully constructed the idea by combining different ‘elements…

Idea posted: April 2016

Institutions: Ivey Business School at Western University   

More and more business leaders and top managers understand that employee wellness programs help the organization succeed, through less absenteeism and greater engagement and productivity, as much as it helps…

Idea posted: April 2016

Institutions: University of Dundee    Pennsylvania State University    Tilburg University    University of Cambridge Judge Business School   

Corporate governance systems are the systems through which a company is controlled and directed. Public corporations will have boards of directors responsible for ensuring that management is acting in the…

Idea posted: April 2016

Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University    Queensland University of Technology Business School    Cranfield University School of Management   

The best companies are expected to model, if not to develop themselves, innovative new management practices. This expectation is known as the ‘institutional norm of progress’, and companies that use…

Idea posted: April 2016

Institutions: WHU–Otto Beisheim School of Management    York University Schulich School of Business    Concordia University John Molson School of Business   

Entrepreneurs need money to fund their ideas. Many legendary start-ups received their early funding from venture capitalists. However, VC’s are now more interested in contributing to later stage companies rather…

Idea posted: March 2016

Institutions: LUISS Guido Carli    Nova School of Business and Economics    University of Technology Sydney   

Despite its best intentions, a company may have structures and processes in place that allows it to construct its own misfortune. This is organizational ‘zemblanity’, a term coined by writer…

Idea posted: March 2016

Institutions: ESMT European School of Management and Technology    Ruhr-University of Bochum   

The business literature almost unanimously presents a simple, positive picture of the beneficent effects of corporate social responsibility on customer attitudes toward the corporation. Through a series of four quantitative…

Idea posted: March 2016

Institutions: Mälardalen University    KTH Royal Institute of Technology   

For three Scandinavian researchers, the traditional approach to leadership almost renders the term a misnomer: the study of ‘leadership’ is actually the study of ‘leaders’ — the study of the…

Idea posted: February 2016

Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)   

To foster innovation, the first step is to recognize the difference between business thinking and innovative thinking. Business thinking is logical, builds on past precedents and pursues certainty. Innovation thinking…