The European Business Review

By Gregory C Chow
The most important aspect of the Chinese economy today is its rapid changes. The changes are propelled by the Chinese entrepreneurs. This essay is an attempt to understand who the entrepreneurs are, the environment in which they work, whether the dynamic changes will continue and what policies can be proposed to improve the [...]

By Michael Useem
Indian and Western business leaders preside over demanding worlds. Both bring a vision of where they want to take their enterprise, both are called on to make timely decisions, and both use much the same management skill set. Yet at the same time, Indian and Western executives have evolved distinct leadership styles that, in India’s [...]

By Christopher Alden
Spurred on by the global financial crisis, leading emerging states such as China have taken an increasingly commanding role in global economic affairs in response to the trauma experienced by Western industrialised states. Nowhere is this trend more evident than in Africa, a continent traditionally regarded as sitting on the margins of the [...]

By John Mullins
The evidence indicates that the vast majority of business plans raise no money. Of those ventures that are financed, many if not most will fail. What’s wrong with this picture?
Planning is important. But results are what count. And who delivers the results? Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs like you [...]

This is a white paper from the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement conducted at the Medill School at Northwestern University.
In this paper, readers will learn that post-recession economics are paving the way for new approaches to employee engagement and business productivity. The emergence of social media, an increasing need for transparency, and labor [...]

By Roger Sant
Our world is changing and we need to change with it or risk getting left behind. Roger Sant, Vice President at Maritz Research argues that the way we go about measuring and managing customer experiences we need to transform – and suggests ways to do so.
The case for change
Customer experience management is about [...]

By Natalie Slawinski and Tima Bansal
No industry is as visible and active in the climate change debate as the energy industry. Almost every day, managers are addressing the short-term and long-term implications of their policies for dealing with this issue. The authors of this article interviewed over 50 managers in 8 firms in the oil [...]

By Mikkel Kallesoe
All of the Earth’s ecosystems have been changed by human actions in some way in the past 50 years. This was the troubling conclusion in 2005 of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, perhaps the most comprehensive audit ever of the world’s natural resources. All ecosystems, it said, had been severely compromised in their ability [...]

By Simon Groves
The 2010 FIFA World Cup demonstrates that patriatism is alive and well throughout the world, and the images of ecstatic – some would say fanatical – supporters urging their national teams to victory, not to mention the constant deafening barrage of the now world famous (or should that be infamous?) vuvuzelas, still resonate [...]

By Samantha Gorse and Simon Chadwick
The issue of corruption in sport is becoming ever more important and controversial, especially given the global reach sport has and the millions of dollars invested in sport by companies. The aim of this article is to define and conceptualise corruption in sport and begin to discuss the implications [...]