The Solution Economy: A New Way to Solve Social Problems

By William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan In recent years an entire economy of societal problem solvers have emerged to tackle old problems in new...

Putting Supply Chain Performance at Your Fingertips

By Karin Bursa Leveraging supply chain analytics to boost corporate performance Is your company run on intuition? Or do you have a set of metrics that...

Leading towards Change of Ethics and Caring: Resisting Temptation and Reaping the Benefits

By Riane Eisler, Simon L. Dolan & Mario Raich Businesses stand at a crossroads, and our current systems are not sustainable given the present economic...

Competitive Advantage Through HR Innovation

By Upamali Amarakoon, Jay Weerawardena, & Martie-Louise Verreynne Despite great recognition for human resources (HR) as a source of value addition within firms, HR innovation...

When Relationships at Work, Work (And Don’t Work!)

By Rachel L. Morrison, Helena D. Cooper-Thomas & Susan Geertshuis Like them or loathe them we cannot escape the people we work with. In Relationships...

Changes in Work, Changes in Self? Managing our Work and Non-Work Identities in...

By Lakshmi Ramarajan & Erin M. Reid Diverse workplaces are challenging the boundaries between workers’ personal and professional lives, as workers today navigate employer pressures...

New Business Creation Among BRICS Seven Times Faster Than G7 Since The Financial Crisis

By Jean Stephens, CEO of RSM International RSM International is the seventh largest global network of independent audit, tax and advisory firms. Below, a comparative...

Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Development

By Wim Naudé & Adam Szirmai What is the relationship between technological innovation, entrepreneurship and development? Is it better for developing countries to adapt existing...

ShoreTel: Brilliantly Simple Business Solutions

With ShoreTel, organisations enjoy freedom of choice. ShoreTel’s purpose-built solutions remove the barriers and complexities that other providers throw in the way, and with...

Society in the Clouds

By Peter Lake & Elizabeth Uruchurtu There is no doubt that technology can make enormous changes to human society. Advances in Information and Communication technologies...

Feeling and Affect in the Contemporary Workplace

Rick Iedema & David Grant Ongoing organisational change and rapid product and service turnover are demanding increasing levels of employee commitment to innovating work...

Judgment Calls: Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams that Got Them Right

By Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville In Judgment Calls: 12 Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams that Got Them Right, Thomas Davenport and...

Best of All Worlds: Hybrid Models of Public-Service Delivery

By Tim Cooper & Matthew Robinson Governments around the world are facing increasing pressures on all fronts. From Europe to Japan to the United States,...

Competitive Advantage Rewired

By Adrian T H Kuah, Mark Esposito & Terence Tse Is competitive advantage still an applicable concept so many years after its introduction? Our research...

Talenting: Framework and Metaphors for a New Processual Approach to Talent Management

By Simon L. Dolan & Paulo Hayashi Jr. Although the necessity for attracting, retaining, and motivating talent is an old challenge for all competitive organisations,...

July – August 2013

Technology Overcoming Our Obsession With Technology While Getting The Best It Has To Offer Larry D. Rosen Judgment Calls: Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams...

The 3 C’s of Growth Leadership: Culture, Capabilities, and Configuration

By George S. Day George S. Day’s new book Innovation Prowess: Leadership Strategies for Accelerating Growth is an essential guide to building a framework for...

Turn Time Into Money: Faster Growth Through Digital Reuse

By Stephanie L. Woerner, Peter Weill, & Mark P. McDonald Today’s technologically savvy firms have created an internal digital reuse culture that significantly reduces time-to-market...

Turning Talent Data into Talent Intelligence

By Nik Kinley & Shlomo Ben-Hur Talent management is built upon talent intelligence—the understanding that businesses have of the skills, expertise and qualities of their...

Performance Management Systems in Mexico: The Dual Logics of Evaluating Performance

By Anabella Davila & Marta M. Elvira Understanding Performance Management systems implementation is critical for multinationals operating in countries with contrasting cultures. For firms...

Fast-Expanding Markets: Where New Growth Can Be Found!

By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito & Khaled Soufani This article is dedicated to provide a working definition of these markets, which we call “Fast-Expanding Markets”...

Unlocking Innovation Through Business Experimentation

By Stefan Thomke There is a downside to businesses that focus heavily on standardization, optimization, and driving out variability: Such organizations leave themselves vulnerable to...

Why Should Managers Be Socially Responsible?

By Antonio Argandoña Why should managers put Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into practice? The so-called legal, ethical, social and business cases provide several reasons. In...

Who Innovates Out of the Crisis?

By Daniele Archibugi, Andrea Filippetti and Marion Frenz The recent economic crisis has severely reduced the short-term willingness of firms to invest in innovation. But...

Accelerating Your Worldwide Business with a Hub in Switzerland

By Aargau Services Economic Promotion Switzerland has a stable, prosperous and high-tech economy thanks to its liberal economic system, its political stability, its high quality...

Ethics + Business: Ingredients for Great Leadership

By Claudia Peus and Armin Pircher Verdorfer Imagine you have been asked to support a company with their employee survey. You have done your research,...

Leading The Capability Revolution

By Jonathan Trevor These are revolutionary times, we believe, and our established notions of leadership, many of which are more romantic than functional, must change...

Transformers: Supply Chain 3.0 and How Automation will Transform the Rules of the Global...

By Sean Culey From the 1960’s up until the 1990’s Western manufacturing companies were out-performed by new levels of quality, cost and efficiencies emanating from...

Reimagining Enterprise IT for an Uncertain Future

By Jeanne G. Harris, Allan E. Alter, Stéphane J.G. Girod and Iris A. Junglas The role of the information technology department is under scrutiny in...

The Hedgehog Effect: Building High Performance Teams

By Manfred Kets de Vries You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself. — Galileo Galilee The organizations we...

Transforming Employee Performance One Coaching Conversation at a Time

By Brian Souza Why is it that so many good people are such bad managers? It’s an interesting question, isn’t it? Often when I give...

Revenue Performance Management As A Business Growth Strategy

By Phil Fernandez For more than a decade, I have had a mantra that has guided my personal approach to leadership. It goes like this:...

Simpler Organisation Designs Improve Company Performance and Employee Motivation

By Simon Collinson, Melvin Jay & Mary Pizzey Walmart earns $400 billion each year by serving over 100 million customers every week in 4,500 retail...

Neuroeconomics. An Emerging Field of Theory and Practice

By James Giordano, Roland Benedikter and Nadia Flores This article gives a short, introductory overview of basic aspects of the emerging field of neuroeconomics, as...

Getting More for Less: Revolutionising the Reward “Asset” Empowering Reward to Perform Better. Are...

By James Markham In a period of recession, most major companies look for new ways of selling or streamlining operations. Rarely, however do companies turn...

Sales Growth: Five Proven Strategies from the World’s Sales Leaders

By Thomas Baumgartner and Maria Valdivieso de Uster Achieving growth is enormously challenging in today’s complex and fast-changing business environment. But growth opportunities do exist...

The Employee Owned Business Model During Growth and Adversity: How Well Does it Hold...

By Joseph Lampel, Ajay Bhalla & Pushkar P. Jha Criticism of modern corporate capitalism in the wake of the current economic crisis is reawakening interest...

Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace

By Ari Kaplan The technological landscape has reshaped the way white collar workers cultivate and promote their businesses. This article offers insights on taking advantage...

Bigger is no Longer Better: Complexity and the New Frontier

By Andrei Perumal, Kelly Jones & Ann Bryan The world has changed – and complexity has emerged as one of the defining issues of our...

The Rise of the Functional Manager Changes Afoot in the C-Suite

By Maria Guadalupe, Julie Wulf & Hongyi Li Research shows that the recent transformation in the C-suite, that is, the skyrocketing number of executive team...

Leadership and Culture: Part 1 – The Case for Culture

By Sean Culey Issues of corporate culture have long been of great concern to executives and management theorists alike for a simple reason; culture matters...

Delivering Transformational Change

By David Miller Change is becoming more frequent, radical and complex. Failure rates of change projects are high because organisations fail to implement the change...

Beyond Effectiveness: Attractiveness and Unity as Criteria For Decision-Making in Organizations

By Josep M. Rosanas Management, has to do with people and getting people together as the first priority. Unfortunately, mechanistic models that assume a behavior...

What Leaders Do… Requisite Competency for 21st Century Challenges

By Patrick R. Dailey  From the earliest recorded leadership teachings of Confucius to contemporary theorists and practitioners, leadership has consistently been viewed as the decisive...

Overcoming the Triple Hurdle of Diversity Management

By Winfried Ruigrok Diversity management is a key instrument to position your company as a preferred employer. Fail to recite this mantra and you risk...

Inner Work Life: The Engine of Performance

By Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer Workers around the world are becoming increasingly disengaged from their jobs. AON Hewitt found a global drop of four...

Understanding Cloud Computing Competition, Environment and Finance

By Federico Etro Cloud computing allows firms to rent computing power and storage from cloud computing providers, and to pay on demand; this improves productivity...

Complexity Kills Profits – CEOs need to simplify their businesses

By Simon Collinson and Melvin Jay The competitive environment is becoming more complex and unpredictable, and senior managers have no control over the underlying trends,...

Cloud computing and mobility: Adjusting in a New World – From Threat to Ally

By Christopher Clark One of the most important CIO agenda items for 2012 is addressing and managing employee-owned mobile devices. This is where productivity, cost...

Operationalising Excellence: Making it Happen – Part I

By Sean Culey In the last edition of The European Business Review, my article called ‘The 7 Keys to Unlocking Organisational Greatness’ was published, in...

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