Supply Chain Management
Finance
Procurement
Supply Chain Financing and Pandemic: Managing Cash Flows to Keep Firms and Their Value Networks Healthy
The COVID-19 crisis has interrupted firms and their value networks. The lockdown measures taken by governments around the globe have triggered a massive supply...
Management
Strategy
Strategic Optionality: Managing Assets Portfolio for Achieving Growth and Longevity in Turbulent Environments
The current paper proposes a practice-oriented framework of corporate strategic optionality (a realization of the antifragility principle), allowing the...
Management
Strategy
Leadership
Competitive Irrationality: When Being Better Is a Bad Strategy
Some situations allow managers to forfeit absolute profit in exchange for a favorable standing as compared to competitors. In this article, the author explains...
Marketing
Social Media
Fashion
How Social Media Micro-Influencers Are Disrupting the Business of Youth Fashion
Recent years have seen a veritable surge in the popularity of social media micro-influencers among the younger generations like Millennials and Generation-Z...
Marketing
Consumer Behavior
Digital
Do Wish Lists Work?
Wish lists and other purchase delay devices have benefits for consumers and online retailers alike, but they also have some potential drawbacks. We show that...
Supply Chain Management
Procurement
Measuring Performance Beyond the Company Boundaries: More a Need Than a Challenge
This paper reviews and addresses the main challenges connected to supplier performance management activities, and proposes a framework – the Strategy...
Marketing
Consumer Behavior
Digital
How to Enhance the Effectiveness of Online Review Platforms
In this article, we elaborate on the practical implications of our findings for designing more effective online review platforms.
Innovation
Management
Finance
Learning from the Failure of the EU Payment Services Directive (PSD2): When Imposed Innovation Does Not Change the Status Quo
By studying the implication of PSD2 and its effect on the EU banking industry, for the first time, we provide practical suggestions for how to improve the...
Marketing
Manufacturing
Supply Chain Management
Managing the Product Recall Process
This article develops a six-part strategy for planning and implementing a product recall.
Accounting
Finance
Interest Costs, Taxes, and Value Creation
This article uses earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) as a proxy for ATI to examines how this bill will have an asymmetric impact on taxes, earnings, and...
Economy
Entrepreneurship
Vertical Farming Economics in 10 Minutes
This paper seeks to provide an in depth understanding of pursuing vertical farming as a business practice in an approximately ten minute read.