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innovation

Value Impedance and Dynamic Capabilities: The Case of MedTech Incumbent-Born Digital Healthcare Platforms

MedTech companies have invested in digital healthcare platforms to maintain t...

Article 01 Aug 2022

innovation

Unlocking Innovation in Healthcare: The Case of the Patient Innovation Platform

The development of innovative medical solutions can often come from patients ...

Article 01 Aug 2022

innovation

Managing Multi-Sided Platforms: Platform Origins and Go-to-Market Strategy

Multi-sided platforms (MSPs) are becoming increasingly important in contempor...

Article 01 Aug 2022

innovation

How to Build Network Effects on Online Platforms for Mental Health

The traditional mental health industry has struggled to match reliable demand...

Article 01 Aug 2022

innovation

Electric Vehicles Are a Platform Business: What Firms Need to Know

Electric vehicles (EVs) are platform goods because value comes from the vehic...

Article 01 Aug 2022

innovation

“Digital Colonization” of Highly Regulated Industries: An Analysis of Big Tech Platforms’ Entry into Health Care and Education

Digital platforms have disrupted many sectors but have not yet visibly transf...

Article Video 01 Aug 2022

innovation

The Forces of Ecosystem Evolution

Ecosystems depend on a delicate balance between forces that push activity tow...

Article Video 01 May 2022

governance

The Boon and Bane of Blockchain: Getting the Governance Right

Countless enterprise blockchains fail to live up to high expectations, often ...

Article 01 May 2022

governance

Linking Executive Compensation to Climate Performance

This article examines the different ways that climate-linked incentive pay is...

Article 01 May 2022

innovation

How to Compete When Industries Digitize and Collide: An Ecosystem Development Framework

How should firms best understand, engage in, and build business ecosystems?

Article Video Interview 01 May 2022

innovation

How to Appropriate Value from General-Purpose Technology by Applying Open Innovation

An overly closed approach can prevent firms from deriving the benefits of gen...

Article 01 May 2022

innovation

How Can Large Manufacturers Digitalize Their Business Models? A Framework for Orchestrating Industrial Ecosystems

Data is the new oil. For manufacturers, remaining competitive depends on thei...

Article 01 May 2022

innovation

Harnessing Exaptation and Ecosystem Strategy for Accelerated Innovation: Lessons from the VentilatorChallengeUK

The VentilatorChallengeUK consortium moved quickly to speed up the design, re...

Article 01 May 2022

international business

The Future of Global Supply Chains in a Post-COVID-19 World

Automation and digitalization are likely to play a key role in the transforma...

Article Video 14 Feb 2022

international business

Supplier-Selection Practices for Robust Global Supply Chain Networks: A Simulation of the Global Auto Industry

Regionalization can improve the robustness of supply chain networks.

Article 14 Feb 2022

international business

Resilience Decoded: The Role of Firms, Global Value Chains, and the State in COVID-19 Medical Supplies

Lessons from case studies of four medical supply products—rubber gloves, face...

Article 14 Feb 2022

international business

Global Value Chain Resilience: Understanding the Impact of Managerial Governance Adaptations

As GVCs recover from the initial shock, managers will make GVC restructuring ...

Article 14 Feb 2022

international business

Global Value Chain Reconfiguration and COVID-19: Investigating the Case for More Resilient Redistributed Models of Production

Firms can enhance resilience by pursuing GVC reconfiguration through the adop...

Article 14 Feb 2022

international business

Global Value Chain Governance in the MNE: A Dynamic Hierarchy Perspective

A dynamic hierarchy managerial response can eliminate global supply crises wh...

Article 14 Feb 2022

international business

Tools and Technologies of Transparency in Sustainable Global Supply Chains

Transparency is vital in the creation of sustainable and resilient supply cha...

Article 10 Nov 2021

strategy

SMEs’ Open Innovation: Applying A Barrier Approach

Unlike large firms, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) encounter more ...

Article 10 Nov 2021

strategy

Share and Share Alike: How Inner Source Can Help Create New Digital Platforms

The growing trend of “Inner Source” (adopting internal open-source/crowdsourc...

Article 10 Nov 2021

management

No Team Is an Island: How Leaders Shape Networked Ecosystems For Team Success

Today’s organizations rely on networks of dynamic systems of “agile” teams to...

Article Video 10 Nov 2021

international business

Incentivizing Environmental Improvements in Supply Chains through Data-Driven Governance

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition’s Facility Environmental Module (FEM) is on...

Article 10 Nov 2021

management

Choose Your Enemies Well: Mapping, Managing, and Leveraging Rivalry

Deeply felt rivalries between competing organizations (such as Apple and IBM ...

Article 10 Nov 2021

management

The Blinkered Boss: How Has Managerial Behavior Changed with the Shift to Virtual Working?

Virtual working became the norm for most organizations in March 2020. How has...

Article Video 12 Aug 2021

strategy

Preparing Organizations for Greater Turbulence

Vigilant organizations excel at seeing threats and opportunities sooner than ...

Article 12 Aug 2021

strategy

Partnering with Startups Globally: Distinct Strategies for Different Locations

Partnering with startups is an important way by which large multinational cor...

Article 12 Aug 2021

management

Four Ways to Improve Risk Reporting

Companies have improved their risk reporting by strengthening the vertical an...

Article 12 Aug 2021

strategy

Causal Mapping for Strategy Execution: Pitfalls and Applications

Organizations can attempt to improve strategy implementation by developing st...

Article 12 Aug 2021

management

Agility as the Discovery of Slowness

How can companies avoid the agility acceleration trap and align their level o...

Article 12 Aug 2021

technology

Technological Leadership and 5G Patent Portfolios: Guiding Strategic Policy and Licensing Decisions

The value of competing 5G technology standards shouldn't be judged by number ...

Article 20 May 2021

leadership

Perfectly Confident Leadership

Overconfident leaders put themselves, their teams, and their organizations at...

Article Video 20 May 2021

startups

Innovation Outposts in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: How to Make Them More Successful

Many multinationals find it necessary to connect themselves to the vitality o...

Article 20 May 2021

startups

Even a Small Conductor Can Lead a Large Orchestra: How Startups Orchestrate Ecosystems

Startups combine the speed and innovativeness of a small company with the pow...

Article 20 May 2021

technology

Designing a Future-Ready Enterprise: The Digital Transformation of DBS Bank

Future-ready enterprises must incorporate the duality of exploitation and exp...

Article 20 May 2021

startups

Acquisitions of Startups by Incumbents: The 3 Cs of Co-Specialization from Startup Inception to Post-Merger Integration

What does a successful startup acquisition entail?

Article 20 May 2021

innovation

Tackling Societal Challenges with Open Innovation

The ultimate objective of innovation should be to create value - and in this ...

Article 01 Feb 2021

innovation

Open Innovation for Wicked Problems: Using Proximity to Overcome Barriers

Open innovation is a viable strategy to solve wicked problems, but their comp...

Article Video 01 Feb 2021

communication

Ten Things Every Manager Should Know About Nonverbal Behavior

Whether they're aware of it or not, managers influence the people they work w...

Article 01 Feb 2021

innovation

Evolving a Value Chain to an Open Innovation Ecosystem: Cognitive Engagement of Stakeholders in Customizing Medical Implants

Optimal innovation strategies now involve a large variety of internal and ext...

Article 01 Feb 2021

management

Ready or Not: Managers’ and Employees’ Different Perceptions of Digital Readiness

Digital transformation is now an essential requirement in the financial secto...

Article 01 Feb 2021

innovation

Open Innovation’s “Multiunit Back-End Problem”: How Corporations Can Overcome Business Unit Rivalry

In the banking industry, collaboration with startups can rapidly accelerate d...

Article 01 Feb 2021

management

Using Bayesian Updating to Improve Decisions under Uncertainty

Decision making requires managers to constantly estimate the probability of u...

Article 20 Oct 2020

technology

Blurring the Lines between Physical and Digital Spaces: Business Model Innovation in Retailing

Alternative physical retail spaces can be designed to meet new omnichannel de...

Article Video 20 Oct 2020

marketing

Navigating the New Era of Influencer Marketing: How to be Successful on Instagram, TikTok, & Co.

Firms need to find the right influencers for the right markets.

Article 20 Oct 2020

technology

New Product Development in an Omnichannel World

Firms need to adapt their new product development capabilities rapidly to kee...

Article 20 Oct 2020

innovation

Changing the Work of Innovation: A Systems Approach

The Work System Approach can help leaders foster innovation for long-term org...

Article 20 Oct 2020

innovation

When Agile Harms Learning and Innovation: (and What Can Be Done About It)

Agile approaches inherited from software development can promote flexibility,...

Article 20 Oct 2020

Technology

Digital Artifacts in Industrial Co-creation: How to Use VR Technology to Bridge the Provider-Customer Boundary

Developments in the VR space provide new opportunities for industrial co-creators collaborating o...

Article Volume 62 Issue 4 | Summer 2020

Technology

Digital Mindsets: Recognizing and Leveraging Individual Beliefs for Digital Transformation

Cultivating a mindset that favors collaboration and agility can help employees who feel threatene...

Article Volume 62 Issue 4 | Summer 2020

Technology

Digital Transformation and Organization Design: An Integrated Approach

Organizational systems should be optimized for effective collaboration on digital transformation ...

Article Volume 62 Issue 4 | Summer 2020

Technology

Mastering the Digital Transformation of Sales

The latest advances in digital technology hold the potential to revolutionize the sales process.

Article Volume 62 Issue 4 | Summer 2020

Technology

Managing Digital Transformation: Scope of Transformation and Modalities of Value Co-Generation and Delivery

The proliferation of new digital technologies is extending the horizon of firm activity. Digital ...

Article Volume 62 Issue 4 | Summer 2020

Technology

Implementing a Digital Strategy: Learning from the Experience of Three Digital Transformation Projects

Most attempts at digital transformation fail because of poor strategy execution.

Article Volume 62 Issue 4 | Summer 2020

Technology

Strategies for Digitalization in Manufacturing Firms

Many manufacturing firms have seen digitalization as a means of increasing efficiency. But too fe...

Article Volume 62 Issue 4 | Summer 2020

Design

Data-Driven, Data-Informed, Data-Augmented: How Ubisoft's Ghost Recon Wildlands Live Unit Uses Data for Continuous Product Innovation

To stay ahead of the competition, firms must continuously learn from their customers and swiftly ...

Article Volume 62 Issue 3 | Spring 2020

Innovation

Startup Supplier Programs: A New Model for Managing Corporate-Startup Partnerships

Outside-in programs allow larger firms to harness the entrepreneurial vitality of smaller startups.

Article Volume 62 Issue 3 | Spring 2020

Innovation

The Risk of De-Risking Innovation: Optimal R&D Strategies in Ambiguous Environments

How can firms promote innovation under highly ambiguous conditions? Over recent decades, the majo...

Article Volume 62 Issue 3 | Spring 2020

Leadership

Friedman at 50: Is It Still the Social Responsibility of Business to Increase Profits?

Fifty years ago Milton Friedman famously argued that the social responsibility of business is to ...

Article Volume 62 Issue 3 | Spring 2020

Leadership

Transformational Leader or Narcissist? How Grandiose Narcissists Can Create and Destroy Organizations and Institutions

The same features that can make a strong leader - like confidence, charisma, and the willingness ...

Article Video Volume 62 Issue 3 | Spring 2020

Design

Design Thinking Inspired Crowdsourcing: Toward a Generative Model of Complex Problem Solving

Some models of design thinking used in modern organizations fall short because they're too detach...

Article Volume 62 Issue 3 | Spring 2020

Design