International Business
Strategy
International Business in an Accelerated VUCA World: Trends, Disruptions, and Coping Strategies
It is clear that the current business environment has changed fundamentally over the past several years. Major transformations were well underway prior to the...
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Entrepreneurship
Rising on the Storm: A Comparison of the Characteristics of Entrepreneurs and New Ventures During and Before the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study examines unique characteristics of newly-minted businesses and outlines emerging challenges for starting a new business during a pandemic.
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Strategy
Management
Innovation
Proactive Growth Management: A Bottleneck Approach in Strategic Practice
Today’s market environment puts constant pressure on managers to achieve and maintain continuous business growth in terms of new clients, revenue, market share...
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Supply Chain Management
Manufacturing
Why is Managing Capacity So Difficult? Main Challenges and Solutions
In today’s supply chains, there are a lot of uncertainty. The proliferation of products, build-to-order, shorter order-to-delivery cycles, and increased...
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Strategy
Management
Leadership
Business is War: Military Literature and Strategic Management’s Future
Orthodox theorists often unwittingly invoke military language when writing about business-related phenomena. This paper has two objectives. First, it...
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Management
Leadership
Human Resources
Managers, Don’t Be Afraid to Trust!
Many companies monitor employee behavior in order to boost productivity, and this practice has become increasingly prevalent during the pandemic. However...
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Marketing
Consumer Behavior
Rationality Is Overrated: Brand Choice Is Largely Intuitive
Brand choice is not strictly rational, yet brands keep pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into rational, attribute-based advertising. This research paper...
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Marketing
Consumer Behavior
Imagine That! Stimulating Consumers’ Imagination for Scented Product Omnichannel Success
Distribution channels for scented products rarely interact. Consumers either smell and buy scented products in store or purchase them online without smelling...
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Culture
Partnerships
Culture Clash and the Failure of the AT&T/Time Warner Merger
This paper uses the failed AT&T/Time Warner merger as a case study to show that mergers between companies with markedly different cultures are likely to fail.
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Case
Strategy
Marketing
The Little Rice Recipe for Continuous Business Growth in an Emerging Economy
Achieving "continuous business growth" amidst high competition is challenging for a young company. However, Xiaomi India did it with the philosophy of...
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AI
Executive Insights: An Interview with Brian Goehring, Associate Partner, AI Research Lead at the IBM Institute for Business Value
An interview with Brian Goehring, Associate Partner, AI Research Lead at IBM Institute for Business Value. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become all pervasive...
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