Idea posted: April 2014

Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University    University G.d Annunzio   

How do you combine previously unconnected technologies in an entirely new product ‘architecture’? This is a particularly important question when the development project involves collaboration with other industries and companies…

Idea posted: April 2014

Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University    Amsterdam Business School   

Treat people with respect and you encourage the kinds of behaviours that create value for shareholders and stakeholders. The high-profile scandals that have engulfed both the private and public sectors…

Idea posted: March 2014

Institutions: NUS Business School    Singapore Management University    Virginia Tech University    Pennsylvania State University   

Cyberloafing is a term used to describe behaviour in which employees spend work hours and company internet access to check personal e-mails or visit websites not related to their work.…

Idea posted: March 2014

Institutions: China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)    University of Macau    City University of Hong Kong   

Organizational justice has become a major focus of management research in recent years, due to its connection with numerous employee outcomes; satisfaction, commitment, trust and reduced levels of turnover have…

Idea posted: February 2014

Institutions: London Business School    INSEAD   

Giving people the freedom to work on their own ideas is commonly associated with progressive leadership and company creativity. (Google’s policy of allowing employees to spend 20 per cent of…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: Vlerick Business School    Lucerne Business School   

Once understood as something exceptional, change is increasingly seen as part of everyday working life. (The notion of the organization, somewhat paradoxically, now incorporates both change and stability.) Change management…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: University of Heidelberg    Goethe University Frankfurt    University of Cambridge Judge Business School    Arizona State University   

‘Charismatic leadership’ has received much attention from researchers over the past few decades, lending support to theories that it is capable of fostering higher levels of employee and team performance…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management    University of Buffalo    George Mason University   

Cynicism to change (CTC) is often studied at the individual level — how employees react to change. Indeed, employee CTC will impact whether or not change can be successfully implemented…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: IMD   

In his 2013 book titled The Business of Corporate Learning, Shlomo Ben-Hur writes that over the past 10 years, research has repeatedly shown that the proportion of business leaders who…