Idea posted: May 2014

Institutions: University of Leuven    Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University    University of Michigan Ross School of Business    China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)   

High levels of ethical leadership can have unintended consequences, demotivating employees and making pro-social and co-operative behaviours less likely, according to recent research in Europe and the US. The research,…

Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: Vlerick Business School   

  Troubled manufacturing company the KSV is at crisis point. Its Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) program has failed to deliver the expected benefits, and two of its biggest customers, Avobus…

Idea posted: August 2015

Institutions: Washington University Olin Business School    The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania    University of Toronto Rotman School of Management   

While material purchases are purchases of tangible products that one intends to keep, experiential purchases are purchases of products that must be experienced. Restaurant meals, movies, or vacations are examples…

Idea posted: November 2014

Institutions: NUS Business School   

Founder and director of the China Supplier 1000 Project, Neale O’Connor, a former visiting associate professor at the National University of Singapore Business School, conducted face-to-face interviews with 1,000 suppliers in…

Idea posted: June 2017

Institutions: Aalto University School of Business    ESADE   

More than a billion people live in poverty around the world, earning less than $2 a day. A billion people may be a huge market in terms of numbers but…

Idea posted: March 2013

Institutions: Columbia Business School    Rutgers University   

There are two basic types of exchanges employed by people when forming new relationships: incremental exchanges and constant exchanges. In the former, we ‘test the water’ and build relationships gradually…

Idea posted: October 2023

Institutions: Ivey Business School at Western University    Florida State University    University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

Business model innovation (BMI), which introduces significantly new ways of doing or structuring business activities, can disrupt an industry and threaten incumbents whose success is built on the currently dominant…

Idea posted: February 2015

Institutions: Ohio State University Fisher College of Business    University of Georgia Terry College of Business    Missouri State University    Shanghai University of Finance and Economics   

Abusive behaviour from bosses, what researchers call ‘downward hostility’, has a negative psychological effect on employees, undermining job satisfaction and the commitment to the employee. Such hostility also causes psychological…

Idea posted: November 2013

Institutions: Fordham University Graduate School of Business    George Washington University School of Business    University of Virginia Darden Business School   

The declining level of trust in businesses and corporations, from both customers and employees, is well documented. As companies seek to maintain or rebuild the trust of their stakeholders, they…