Designing A Customer Value-Centric Growth Strategy
By Thales Teixeira
It has been five years since I published the first article on Decoupling theory here in the European Business Review, explaining how,...
The Four Ways of Organizing Innovation
By Christoph Burger, Christoph Räthke, Bianca Schmitz and Jens Weinmann
How have innovation practices changed in the last years? We conducted around 20 semi-structured interviews...
The Psychology of Start-Ups
By Adrian Furnham
Every generation likes to believe that they are different from those that came before them – “new and improved” as advertisers like...
The Issues That Shape Strategy
By Leonardo Meeus
Companies do not only compete in markets; they also compete on social and political issues. Depending on the business opportunities or threats...
Getting the AI edge: An exclusive interview with MobiDev CEO Oleg Lola
How can businesses leverage artificial intelligence effectively? Oleg Lola, CEO of MobiDev, outlines his company’s approach to harnessing the power of AI in the...
Top Female Leaders Special Feature for International Women’s Day Celebration
In celebration of International Women’s Day, The European Business Review wants to honour all the powerful women who have taken the world by storm...
Is PayPal’s Welcoming of Bitcoin the Best Ever Development For The Cryptocurrency?
It was recently announced that PayPal has decided to begin accepting cryptocurrency payments, and this could be the best news for bitcoin and other...
Freedom of Speech in the Corporate World
By Anne OUIMET
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” Toni...
Top Executive Education in 2021: Fully Online and Blended Programmes
By Pamela Martinez
It is without a doubt 2021 brings with it a newfound sense of purpose, a breath of fresh air from the lonesome...
No Firm is an Island: Succeeding with Alliances
High levels of uncertainty often lead businesses into predictable directions, many of them negative. Extreme risk aversion, pre-emptive layoffs, and a laser focus on...
How enterprises can create meaningful purpose together with their stakeholders
By Nicholas Ind and Venkat Ramaswamy
Before the onset of COVID, there was a seeming shift in the idea of why business organizations exist....
Bitcoin Unchained Growth and Potential Tendencies For 2021
Is investing in Bitcoin a wise idea? If you check the trends in the last decade, investing in Bitcoins seems like a risky business....
Using the Triaxial Model of Values to Build Resilience in a COVID-19 VUCA World
By Anat Garti and Simon L. Dolan
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic began at the end of 2019 in China and quickly spread globally. Millions of...
Artificial Intelligence: Just Who Is In Charge Around Here?
An Exclusive Interview with Professor David De Cremer, Founder and Director, Centre on AI Technology for Humankind, NUS
The employment of artificial intelligence is proceeding...
Why Is Digital Transformation So Hard? Leaders Must Manage Multifaceted Change, Not Technology Adoption
By Joerg Niessing and Fred Geyer
Leaders understand that digital transformation is an imperative. Shareholders demand it. Customers expect it. The commercial impacts of COVID-19...
Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises through the Synergy of AI and Blockchain
By Yan Pang
The ability to make effective use of AI technology has hitherto remained in the province of large enterprises, with their access to...
Human-Algorithm Collaboration in Managerial Decision Making
By Tessa Haesevoets, David De Cremer, Kim Dierckx and Alain Van Hiel
Most would accept that there is a role for both humans and AI...
The Service Revolution, Intelligent Automation and Service Robots
By Jochen Wirtz, Werner H. Kunz and Stefanie Paluch
Are there parallels between the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century and the changes now being wrought on twenty-first-century society...
Watched Over by Machines: AI and Surveillance at Work
By Andreas Deppeler
The recent transitions towards having company personnel working at home while remaining digitally connected have sometimes been portrayed as furthering the ideal...
A Focus on the Relationship between AI and Humans
An Introduction to the Special Report on AI and Humans by AiTH, NUS Business School
By David De Cremer
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) promises...
Humanising Robots Increases Consumer Satisfaction and Forgiveness of their Failures
By Kai Chi (Sam) Yam and David De Cremer
Want your customers to have a positive, forgiving attitude towards your robot employees? Then make your...
Synergy or Conflict? Lessons for managers on how to successfully adopt AI to augment...
By Jakob Stollberger and David De Cremer
Artificial intelligence undeniably offers the potential to improve decision-making, at least in certain contexts. In this article, AI experts Jakob Stollberger...
Promise and Challenge: AI in the Trade Finance Industry
Interview with Graham Bright, Head of Compliance and Operations, Euro Exim Bank
Technology is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, it’s moving fast –...
Business Analytics: A Key for Decision Making
Today, we hear many buzzwords around technology in businesses, such as analytics, data mining, aggregation, descriptive analysis, etc. As people spend more time online,...
Raising The Ethical Bar: Ethical Audits and Positive Culture Transformation
By Simon Dolan, Steven Hawkins, Chad Albrecht and Bonnie Richley
While most organizations have a code of conduct (or a code of ethics), many...
From Adam Smith to Karl Marx: How would digitalisation ‘age’?
By Mandeep K. Mahendru and Anirudh Agrawal
The world is increasingly becoming digital, where our life-long earnings, relationships, secrets, property and personal rights are stored...
The New Responsibilities Of Companies In A Time Of Increasing Inequality and Climate Change
By Enrico Sassoon
Time was, when it was generally accepted that companies were only there to generate wealth for their shareholders. Now, in a more...
Advantages, Limits And Strategies For Online And Offline Collaboration
By Fernanda Arreola and Pierre Daems
During the period of confinement, organizations around the world were forced to develop new tactics and strategies for orchestrating...
The Funny Thing About Robot Leadership
By Jamie L. Gloor, Lauren C. Howe, David De Cremer and Kai Chi (Sam) Yam
Are today’s employees getting “soft”? All signs suggest that employees should:...
New Thinking at Migrolino Stemming from the COVID-19 Challenge
By Peter Lorange and Markus A. Laenzlinger
The present crisis imposed on us by the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have a lasting impact on...
TableTop and Covid19 – It’s No Longer An Easy Game!
By Uwe Eickert and Boris Liedtke
The raging pandemic has swiftly shaken up many business models around the globe thereby creating a number of instant...
Managing By Traction (MbT) Reinventing Management in the Cyber-Age
By Mario Raich, Tomasz Krzemiński, Claudio Cisullo, Simon L. Dolan and Bonnie A. Richley
Abstract
“We are at a critical turning point in human history! We...
B2B eCommerce and COVID-19: 6 Challenges and Solutions for 2021
As 2021 approaches, and as the economy adjusts to new realities, the outlook for B2Bs looks promising.
B2B buyers have radically changed their opinion about...
Why are some firms becoming more successful during the COVID-19 pandemic?
By Peter Lorange
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a worldwide recession of immense proportions. Many companies are closing down, either for good or temporarily. ...
Effective Due Diligence – Often Harder Than You Think!
By Peter Lorange
To undertake due diligence (“DD”) when considering investing in a new project is paramount. However, in reality, to do this well can...
What South Africa can teach leaders about resilience
By John Luiz
The COVID-19 pandemic has overturned the idea of ‘business as usual,’ exposing many vulnerabilities within social, business, and economic systems.
A recent global...
What Children can teach us about Leadership: Seeing both the Trees and The Forest
By David De Cremer and Hannah De Cremer
Leadership and management are two different things. Managing a work force today implies taking up the role...
Going Up! Giving a lift to mobility in India
Interview with Gilco Global's Aman Moudgil and Sh. Deepak Moudgil
Some six years ago Indian mobility solutions company Gilco Global was born out of an...
What Investment Criteria Are Appropriate Today, in Light of the Coronavirus Threat?
By Dr. Peter Lorange
Introduction
In this article, I discuss how the relative importance of various investment criteria seems to have shifted as a consequence of...
Where Does Resilience Come From? It’s Your Progress in Digital Transformation, Especially in Times...
By Howard Yu and Shan Jialu
The coronavirus crisis has shown us that ‘future-ready’ companies bounce back first
Warren Buffet wrote in his 2001 letter to shareholders...
Corporate Foresight In An Ever-Turbulent Era
By Alex Fergnani, Andy Hines, Alessandro Lanteri and Mark Esposito
Nobody knows what the future holds in store. How, then, should businesses prepare for the...
The Coronavirus Threat – The issue of reopening our economies or continuing the lockdown,...
By Dr. Peter Lorange
Over the last few months, almost all countries in the world have been faced with the challenge of how to handle...
IT as the Whipping Boy: Mistakenly Confusing ‘Enterprise IT’ with ‘Consumer IT’
By Joe Peppard
As users of digital technologies in their personal lives, many executives pine for their internal IT systems to give them a similar...
Building the Future on a Century of Heritage: A family business on the move–for...
Interview with Max Viessmann, CEO of Viessmann Group
If knowledge is power, then shared knowledge must surely be the way for a company to maximise...
Robots Are Cleaning Up – And Much More Besides!
Interview with Claus Risager, CEO at Blue Ocean Robotics
The potential of robots to assist and even replace humans in a variety of work areas...
Coronawashing: How Can Firms Establish Moral Authenticity?
By Glyn Atwal and Maya Kaiser
The Covid-19 pandemic represents both challenges and opportunities for brand marketing. Spreading rapidly around the globe, the novel coronavirus...
Free Flow of Data: What the Corporate World Can Learn from Science
By Andreas Deppeler
It is often said that the digital economy runs on data. Digital technologies have transformed the economy and society – and data...
Sustainability is A Mindset, A Never Ending Journey
Interview with Franziska Gsell, Chief Marketing Officer of IWC Schaffhausen, chairwoman of the company’s Sustainability Committee
Franziska Gsell has been the Chief Marketing Officer of...
Mind How You Grow: A Partnership to Improve Your Processes
Interview with Mr Giuseppe Zagami, the president of Mind The Value
Fast-growing Italy-based company Mind The Value has made a name for itself with its...
Disruption Strikes, You’re in Charge, Now What: When Companies Tackle Great Challenges
By Luis Ballesteros, Michael Useem, and Tyler Wry
Summary
Natural disasters have been growing in their social impact in recent years, but humanitarian assistance has...
