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Entrepreneurial Management
Embracing Solutions-Driven Innovation to Address Institutional Voids: The Case of Uber and the Middle of the Pyramid
This article explores solutions-driven innovation within an emerging market c...
Entrepreneurial Management
How Social Entrepreneurs Zig-Zag Their Way to Achieve Scale
This article provides guidance to social entrepreneurs and their funders as t...
Innovation
Why Do Experts Solve Complex Problems Using Open Innovation? Evidence from the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
This article investigates how project expertise and complexity jointly impact...
Corporate Governance
Why Giants Stumble
Why do large, successful public companies and their CEOs suddenly weaken? To ...
Innovation
Designing Governance Mechanisms in Platform Ecosystems: Addressing the Paradox of Openness through Blockchain Technolog
The paradox of openness is inherent to all platform ecosystems—the tension in...
Innovation
Managing Knowledge Sharing-Protecting Tensions in Coupled Innovation Projects among Several Competitors
While collaborating with several competitors on coupled innovation projects r...
Innovation
Strategic Management of Open Innovation: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective
Open innovation has become well established as a new imperative for organizin...
IT
Letting the Computers Take Over: Using AI to Solve Marketing Problems
Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven to be useful in many applications fro...
Technology
Understanding the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Personalized Engagement Marketing
This article explores the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in aiding pers...
IT
Demystifying AI: What Digital Transformation Leaders Can Teach You about Realistic Artificial Intelligence
Recent years have seen a reemergence of interest in artificial intelligence (...
Technology
Organizational Decision-Making Structures in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
How does organizational decision-making change with the advent of artificial ...
Technology
The Feeling Economy: Managing in the Next Generation of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The capability of AI is currently expanding beyond mechanical and repetitive ...
Technology
Artificial Intelligence in Human Resources Management: Challenges and a Path Forward
There is a substantial gap between the promise and reality of artificial inte...
Technology
A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: On the Past, Present, and Future of Artificial Intelligence
This introduction to this special issue discusses artificial intelligence (AI...
IT
Keeping Humans in the Loop: Pooling Knowledge through Artificial Swarm Intelligence to Improve Business Decision Making
This article explores how a collaboration technology called Artificial Swarm ...
Leadership
Governing Multilateral Alliances
The governance of multilateral alliances is an increasingly important strateg...
Leadership
The Prospects for Enlightened Corporate Leadership
In his recent book, The Enlightened Capitalists, James O’Toole explores the c...
Innovation
The Three Stages of Disruptive Innovation: Idea Generation, Incubation, and Scaling
Facing imminent disruption, many large, established firms have embraced innov...
Risk Management
Fretting about Modest Risks Is a Mistake
Managers often engage in risk-averse behavior, and economists, decision analy...
Hiring
Affirmative Action and Its Persistent Effects: A New Perspective
This article examines how firms respond to federal affirmative action regulat...
Human Resource Management
Are You Ready for Gen Z in the Workplace
Gen Z (1997-2013) is just now entering the labor market and employers need to...
Supply Chain
Configuring the Last-Mile in Business-to-Consumer E-Retailing
Fulfillment strategies that offer consumers a consistent shopping experience ...
Business Models
Sharing Economy Services: Business Model Generation
The emerging growth of the sharing economy demonstrates the need to understan...
Business Models
Artificial Intelligence as a Growth Engine for Health Care Startups: Emerging Business Models
The future of health care may change dramatically as entrepreneurs offer solu...
Business Models
Business Model Responses to Digital Piracy
Digital piracy challenges firms by reducing revenues and shifting consumption...
Business Models
Circular Business Model Transformation: A Roadmap for Incumbent Firms
To achieve positive economic, environmental, and social benefits, many incumb...
Business Models
Simple Rules for a Network Efficiency Business Model: The Case of vizio
Business models that unlock efficiency across entire networks are becoming in...
Time Management
How Managers Perceive Real-Time Management: Thinking Fast & Flow
A new era of disruptive technologies and changing business practices is movin...
Innovation
Innovation, Dynamic Capabilities, and Leadership
The world in which today’s businesses operate has become not only riskier but...
Business Models
A Compass for Navigating Sharing Economy Business Models
The sharing economy has emerged in recent years as a disruptive approach to t...
Leadership
Building and Maintaining Strategic Agility: An Agenda and Framework for Executive IT leaders
While much literature on strategic agility has focused on strategic flexibili...
Innovation
Management Innovation in a VUCA World: Challenges and Recommendations
Our Call for Papers focused on breaking established patterns and models and s...
Innovation
Management Innovation Made in China: Haier’s Rendanheyi
Emerging market companies create new management practices for an environment ...
Innovation
Design Roadmapping in an Uncertain World: Implementing a Customer-Experience-Focused Strategy
Technology is rapidly changing, and customers are seeking not just products a...
Strategy
Responding to a Potentially Disruptive Technology: How Big Pharma Embraced Biotechnology
How do incumbent firms respond over time to a potentially disruptive technolo...
Organizational Culture
ESOP Plus Benefit Corporation: Ownership Culture with Benefit Accountability
Stakeholder capitalism seeks to benefit multiple stakeholders, rather than pr...
Social Issues
Engaging Employees as Social Innovators
This article explores a variety of ways employees are being engaged as social...
Ethics
CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics
Corporate sustainability has gone mainstream, and many companies have taken m...
Strategy
New-Technology Startups Seeking Pilot Customers: Crafting a Pair of Value Propositions
A corporation that employs an "outside-in" startup program needs to screen a ...
Sustainability
Orchestrating Circularity within Industrial Ecosystems: Lessons from Iconic Cases in Three Different Countries
This article explores how to get companies engaged in value-creating cooperat...
Sustainability
Disruptive Technology as an Enabler of the Circular Economy: What Potential Does 3D Printing Hold?
Three-dimensional (3D) printing has been widely identified as an emerging dis...
Sustainability
Circular Economy, 3D Printing, and the Biosphere Rules
This article applies the Biosphere Rules--a biomimicry-inspired management fr...
Sustainability
Managing a Complex Global Circular Economy Business Model: Opportunities and Challenges
This article presents an in-depth case study detailing the history, experienc...
Sustainability
Stakeholder Views on Extended Producer Responsibility and the Circular Economy
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations require that producers org...
Sustainability
How Do Intelligent Goods Shape Closed-Loop Systems?
Disruptive technologies can increase the intelligence of goods and revitalize...
Sustainability
Introducing a Circular Economy: New Thinking with New Managerial and Policy Implications
Since the industrial revolution, we have been living in a linear economy. Our...
Sustainability
Moving to a Circular Economy in China: Transforming Industrial Parks into Eco-industrial Parks
China’s moves to introduce a Circular Economy have attracted wide attention a...
Strategy
Searching for Partners in Open Innovation Settings: How to Overcome the Constraints of Local Search
The search for partners in open innovation settings often consumes substantia...
Customer Service
Returning Customers: The Hidden Strategic Opportunity of Returns Management
Product returns are both a challenge and an opportunity for most retailers, s...
Finance
Internet-Based Entrepreneurial Finance: Lessons from Germany
The Internet-based crowdinvesting market in Europe has developed significantl...
Information Technology
How to Manage Crowdsourcing Platforms Effectively?
To profit from crowdsourcing, organizations can engage in four different appr...
Strategy
Burying the Hatchet for Catch-Up: Open Innovation among Industry Laggards in the Automotive Industry
What happens when firms in an oligopolistic industry find themselves lagging ...
Innovation
Open Innovation: Research, Practices, and Policies
Open innovation is now a widely used concept in academia, business, and polic...
Information Technology
How to Scale Crowdsourcing Platforms
Innovative companies are building their business upon the participation of cr...
Strategy
Crowd Equity Investors: An Underutilized Asset for Open Innovation in Startups
Collaborating with investor networks generated in the course of equity-based ...
Sustainability
Patagonia: Driving Sustainable Innovation by Embracing Tensions
This article examines the tensions that arise when Patagonia simultaneously p...
Personnel Policies
Who’s Really Doing the Work? The Impact of Group Size on Over-Claiming of Responsibility
People often believe that they do more than their fair share of work. This te...
Negotiation
Changing the Narrative: Women as Negotiators--and Leaders
The reasons for women’s relatively slow ascension in the workplace have been ...
Organizational Culture
Language as a Window into Culture
Culture is assumed to play a pivotal role in organizational success and failu...
Innovation
Creating Incentives for Innovation
In an era of fast-paced technological change, innovation has become a busines...
Management
How to Improve the Accuracy and Reduce the Cost of Personnel Selection
One of the clearest lessons to emerge from decades of research on personnel s...
Leadership
Haas Research on Leadership: An Introduction
Once each decade, California Management Review (CMR) publishes a special issu...
Career Planning
The Multisector Career Arc: The Importance of Cross-Sector Affiliations
This article examines the extent to which current leaders from each of the th...
Organizational Structure
Managing Co-opetition for Shared Stakeholder Utility in Dynamic Environments
The U.S. health care industry, like many industries, continues to face the ne...
Product Development
In Pursuit of Product Modularity: Impediments and Stimulants
This article develops a framework, including a 2 × 2 matrix, to help guide fi...
Disruptive Innovation
Value Propositions for Disruptive Technologies: Reconfiguration Tactics in the Case of Electric Vehicles
Disruptive technologies tend to underperform on attributes that are considere...