Idea posted: June 2014

Institutions: McMaster University DeGroote School of Business    Memorial University    California State University Fullerton College of Business and Economics    Queens University School of Business    University of Toronto Rotman School of Management   

In today’s information age, a key source of effectiveness in organizations is knowledge management, and more specifically knowledge sharing among employees. At the same time, one of the growing challenges…

Idea posted: November 2017

Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University   

One of the key success factors of an organization is that its executives, managers and employees or staff are able to share with each other best practices and processes, new…

Idea posted: October 2014

Institutions: Tuck School of Business    Boston University Questrom School of Business   

How are organizational routines — routines in an organization that involve more than one individual — related to the effectiveness of an organizational design or redesign? Answering this question begins…

Idea posted: July 2017

Institutions: George Washington University School of Business    FHWien University of Applied Sciences    INSEAD   

In a seminal 2011 Harvard Business Review article, Michael Porter and Mark Kramer urged companies to abandon the ‘old narrow view of capitalism’ in which the sole purpose of companies…

Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: IE Business School    IULM    New York University Stern School of Business   

The way companies inform and report on their CSR programs has evolved in recent years, with online channels either complementing or supplanting more traditional offline methods of communication. Blogs, social…

Idea posted: March 2018

Institutions: ESC Rennes School of Business    ESADE   

Reflecting the growing trend of companies searching beyond the boundaries of the firm for innovative ideas, British Petroleum hired innovation intermediary InnoCentive to broadcast an appeal for new ways to…

Idea posted: August 2014

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business   

The factors that bring people together into a collaborative venture are varied. One is proximity and shared goals: people within a department, for example, have more opportunities to work together…

Idea posted: December 2014

Institutions: University of Houston Bauer College of Business    Vlerick Business School   

Employees can impact a company’s brand equity. A friendly clerk in a store or an effective IT project team that delivers to the satisfaction of the customer are two positive…

Idea posted: July 2014

Institutions: Vlerick Business School   

Around 20 years ago, academics and consultants Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema identified three ‘value disciplines’ or models followed by top-performing companies: operational excellence, customer-intimacy and product leadership. The second,…