Idea posted: January 2022

Institutions: Swansea University    Lancaster University   

Unlike other careers, retirement from a military career typically occurs when people are still of working age. As a result, many veterans transition to a civilian workplace. In an average…

Idea posted: July 2014

Institutions: Vlerick Business School   

“Strategy is often like desert rain. Before the raindrops leave the desert floor, they evaporate, creating little or no effect below” — George Labovitz and Victor Rosansky, The Power of…

Idea posted: October 2018

Institutions: Cornell University S.C. Johnson College of Business    City University London Cass Business School   

The appearance of a new competitor with a new business model can disrupt an industry and knock down a once dominant incumbent. A classic example of this type of disruptive…

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: November 2024

Institutions: University at Buffalo School of Management; University of Iowa    Tippie College of Business; Florida State University   

The benefits of empowering employees by creating policies, practices, and structures to give frontline and lower-level employees and managers greater decision-making authority concerning their jobs and responsibilities were first introduced…

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…